As a fellow Ohioan, but not one in his district, I will be the first to admit that Boehner is a dinosaur, in fact a dinosaur living in a fantasy land.
BIG BRObama and Company are not "practical politicians" who will compromise in good faith about anything.
They are Bad Faith Fanatics, who
N E V E R compromise!
Churchill once wrote that the biggest mistake European politicians made in dealing with Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, was that the leaders treated these dictators as if they were fellow practical politicians who worried about elections and would deal in good faith about issues.
As a result the dictators won every negotiation because they had no intention of keeping their side of the bargain.
Stalin passed his legacy onward to later Soviet leaders, who won every negotiation about nuclear arms reductions. Months after every almost treaty or agreement was signed, there would be a head-scratching admission from the State Department that the "Soviets are cheating" on the latest arms agreement!
Of course they are cheating...they're COMMUNISTS!
The Russians learned such duplicitous diplomacy from the Byzantine Greeks, since the Byzantines survived for as long as they did (a thousand years roughly, 400-1453 A.D. although the last 150 years were dreadful) by employing such deceitful tactics for a strategy of survival, because they were surrounded by Slavs, Arabs, and Turks, not to mention Venetians.
If only American politicians had paid better attention in History class....
