Outstanding post- perfectly summed up.
Please repost this often.
How has this been allowed to happen??!!
Boner needs to be removed ASAP. F-ing crybaby. Give us a man with real balls- not someone who looks like he is allowed to hold the jar they are in every now and then.
“How has this been allowed to happen??!!”
It has happened in my view because Bohener has been in cahoots with Obama and the democrats all along. They all despise conservatives and have done whatever they could to undermine them. It was clear to me when the House was about to vote for Cut, Cap and Balance and immediately, Mitch McConnell came up with his silly automatic debt ceiing plan, and then Boehner went along and undercut the conservatives. The didn’t want the House to act because they didn’t want to force the Senate to act. So they all met together to circumvent the regular legislative process.
They can still blame conservatives (as they always will) but at least the conservatives stood firm on principle and the speaker’s power and influence are gone. If the House cannot be convinced to pass plan B, nothing Obama would propose would pass either, for the conservatives have not been frightend by the latest scare tactic. First it was Tarp, then it was the government shutdown, then it was the debt ceiling, now it’s the fiscal cliff and tomorrow there will be yet another crisis where bills must be passed immediatley without going through committee, deliberation, debate or multiple votes or amendments. The game is getting old and extremly transparent, to everybody but the republican leadership, who are on the other side of us and the people.