Conservatives should fear the last 30 days in power by a speaker of the U.S. House who has nothing to lose.

“I don’t want to leave my successor a dirty barn,” John Boehner said in an interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I want to clean the barn up a little bit before the next person gets there.”

Boehner, who resigned Friday effective Oct. 30, no longer fears a coup d’etat from conservatives — having staged it himself. He is now poised to use his dwindling days in office by undercutting conservatives while fixing up the “farm” for his likely successor, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

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Boehner will still control the agenda and rules of the House through the end of October. And, with the possible use of Democratic votes, he could override conservatives in his caucus on at least four major issues during the course of the next month.

Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization
The multinational corporations that benefit from the crony capitalism cash of the Export-Import Bank of the United State are already moving to capitalize on Boehner’s announcement.

“With the speaker’s announcement, this increases the chances that we could get this done with the government funding bill,” Fincher said.

“I think it’s inevitable,” Boeing Chairman Jim McNerney said Thursday of the Ex-Im reauthorization. New activities of the bank — a quasi-government agency that lends huge sums of taxpayer money to large corporations at artificial rates — expired on June 30, but the organization continues to operate on existing accounts.

Allies of the big business special-interest crowd took little time to express optimism Boehner would use his newfound freedom from conservative accountability to push through a reauthorization.

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On Friday, the same day as Boehner’s resignation announcement, Tennessee Republican Rep. Stephen Fincher introduced legislation to reauthorize Ex-Im.

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“With the speaker’s announcement, this increases the chances that we could get this done with the government funding bill,” Fincher said just one hour after Boehner’s news conference.

Planned Parenthood Funding/Budget Resolution
Boehner is already on the record for his intention to partner with Democrats this week to avert a government shutdown by surrendering the opportunity to hold the Left accountable for the recently exposed atrocities of abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

“We have got groups here in town, members of the House and Senate here in town, who whip people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they know, they know are never going to happen,” Boehner said in his Sunday “Face the Nation” interview, in which he laid out his intention to avoid a shutdown by joining with the Democrats.

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Pro-life members of Congress see the budget resolution debate as the time to force a look at the horrors of abortion in America, which was recently brought to the forefront by more than 10 undercover videos of Planned Parenthood’s role in the trafficking of fetal body parts.

But rather than force Democrats to defend their vote for the inhuman butchery and trafficking of organs, Boehner will slip a knife into the back of conservatives on the issue, and allow government funding to Planned Parenthood to continue unabated.

Debt Ceiling Increase
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned that the national debt limit will run out at the end of October, meaning an increase will be needed to continue paying the government’s obligations.

Boehner will likely roll a debt ceiling increase, with no structural spending reforms, into the agenda of his final days.

In his bargain with Democrats to reopen the government after the 2013 government shutdown, Speaker Boehner included an increase to the national debt limit — with no concessions on spending reform — to avoid a second showdown.

Many conservatives are adamant that increases to the federal debt limit should be accompanied by spending reforms to trim annual deficits, cut the growth of the monolithic federal government, and slow down and reverse the growth of the national debt.

That position resulted in the 2011 passage of sequestration. Though imperfect, the forced cuts constituted the first meaningful reduction of federal spending in decades.

Boehner, however, is loath to agree, and will likely roll a debt ceiling increase, with no structural spending reforms, into the agenda of his final days.

Long-term Highway Funding Bill
GOP leadership botched an attempt to shepherd a long-term highway funding bill through Congress in July, punting with a short-term extension that will run out in October. Long-term legislation passed by the Senate in July partially stalled because House conservatives highlighted the fact that the measure used inadequate offsets, meaning the six-year plan would wind up contributing to the national debt and putting pressure on Congress to raise taxes in the future.

“I’m confident as we get into this fall, we’re going to have pretty smooth sailing.”

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the plan, after counting gas tax revenues, would cost some $100 billion. The Senate legislation only included $47 billion worth of offsets.

“(McConnell and I) both want to get to a long-term highway bill,” Boehner said after the summer impasse sparked a funding punt. “I’m confident as we get into this fall, we’re going to have pretty smooth sailing.”

Speaker’s Revenge
Boehner may very well believe that hammering conservatives on these issues before he departs would clear the deck for McCarthy, allowing him to take the helm of the House unburdened by looming fights. But if Boehner indeed does intend to trample conservatives to this degree, his handpicked successor will be badly marred by his association with this deep betrayal of many in the Republican caucus — and the Americans who elected them disenchanted with Washington.

The only winners from each of these betrayals would be the special interests of large, multinational corporations, Democrats, the pro-abortion lobby, and the advocates of a bigger federal government.

Boehner always portrays himself as a bipartisan deal maker. The outgoing speaker feels conservatives ruined his ambitions to cut historic deals with the Left and with President Obama — and Boehner’s final days in office could see his revenge wrought.