Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, blah blah blah.  Now, having gotten that obligatory sentence out of the way, if Denny Hastert is guilty of molesting a young boy, that's simply terrible.  But why do Mitch McConnell and John Boehner seem to be acting as though they might also be blackmailed?

Consider how Boehner and McConnell have given in to Obama on all of the following:

1) 100% of his budget requests.

2) Fully funding Obamacare without any restraints.

3) Fully funding Obama's illegal amnesty without any restraints.

4) Raising the debt ceiling repeatedly without any restraints.

5) Effectively giving away their treaty-deciding powers.

6) Refusing to set up select committees to investigate the abuse of powers of this administration.

Their actions are not the ones of leaders of an opposing political party, unless those leaders are somehow under the thumb of Obama.  Which leads to thoughts of blackmail.

Matt Drudge thinks Boehner is being blackmailed based on NSA data about an alleged affair.  Furthermore, Mark Levin implied that the reason Boehner is not investigating Benghazi is because he, Mark Levin, also believes that Boehner is being blackmailed.

What do you think?  Do you think their behavior might be explained by blackmail?  After all, it's not as though Boehner and McConnell have exactly been fighting Obama's policies all they can...or in any substantial degree, for that matter.

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