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Here we go again. Another stupid, unnecessary fumbling of the issue by the GOP, a last-minute cave and nice win for what I'm sure is a smirking Obama. Like everyone else, I'm sick and tired of the Republican party always, always, always caving into whatever the Democrats want. John 'crybaby' Boehner is useless, another go-along-get-along Washington 'pro' with what he thinks is a lifetime job as a congressman. At least when Gingrich was Speaker, he did manage to wring some actual concessions out of the Democrats. Boehner just talks tough for awhile - nobody listens anymore - then caves, right on schedule.

I'm a registered Republican and I'll vote in my states primary election but after that my wife, adult son and I are changing our voter registration to 'independent' because the Republican party left me a long time ago, it just took awhile for me to realize it. I started to suspect that something was wrong when Clinton skated past impeachment when the evidence was there to convict him but the Republican congress refused to act. I decided that the GOP simply feared Clinton's popularity and the media onslaught to defend him and demonize Republicans for daring to accuse him of an impeachable crime so I let it go. Then G.W. Bush seemed to always be expanding government and the federal debt but I gave him a pass because he was strong on national defense and cut taxes.

Now, we have Boehner and McConnell caving on this latest deal, which the GOP allowed the Democrats to characterize as a tax cut that Republicans wanted to deny poor, starving Americans, or some such rubbish. The usual PR blunders by the GOP. Nothing new, here. Then, Boehner predictably caves. I'm sick of this. The Republican party can go pound sand. They no longer represent me.