Scorpions in a Bottle

Eric Cantor and John Boehner hate each other's guts. Cantor, who burns to be speaker, and wants to be dictator, too, is using the debt show to knife his boss. Cantor, like Tom DeLay before him, is the real power at #2, but unlike DeLay, he is not satisfied with that. Oh, and Cantor is perhaps the most vicious perpetual-war-in-the-Middle East guy in Congress, a title for which there is much competition.