John Boehner Is A Bad Guest

I am using “Bad Guest” metaphorically. What I mean is that John Boehner is acting like a guest who shows up at a potluck dinner empty handed, demands to know where all the food is, and then criticizes everything on the table. The constitution states that all budget matters must originate in the House of Representatives. This would include legislation regarding the spending cuts specified by the sequester. Yet here we have John Boehner, the speaker of the house, demanding that the President propose a bill to replace the spending cuts specified by the sequester. Mr. Boehner is also lambasting the Senate for not passing a bill to replace the cuts specified by the sequester. He seems to be defying all logic as he tries to convince us that everyone except the Republican controlled House Of Representatives is responsible for the consequences of letting the cuts in the sequester take place.

So why would John Boehner ignore the constitution and his responsibilities as the speaker of the House of Representatives? I am afraid the answer to that question is that when the Republican Party decided to become the party of “deny, obstruct and lie” it made the legislative branch of the government dysfunctional. In doing so, it also unleashed the nihilistic right wing dogs that have an irrational hatred of all government and authority anyhow. To state it succinctly, John Boehner rose to a position of leadership at a time when his party has become too dysfunctional to follow any responsible leader. He simply cannot get any reasonable legislation through the house without risking his position as the Speaker of the House. Sadly, this once proud party has strapped an economic bomb to its body and is threatening great harm to the country as it commits suicide.

Kick Harry Reid!

Kick Harry Reid hard! Kick Harry Reid where it really hurts! Kick him now! Kick him each and every time the Republicans filibuster anything! Most of the people of this nation expect and deserve a U.S. Senate that functions. The Republicans have made the Senate dysfunctional by abusing the filibuster. Harry Reid had the opportunity to reform the filibuster. What he obviously lacked was the wisdom and/or the courage to do the job. His foolishness makes him as politically impotent as John Boehner. It does not matter what Mitch Mc Connell says, as long as Barak Obama is President, the Republicans will not let the Senate do the work we need to have done. Furthermore, it is downright delusional to think that the filibuster will be available in the future when the Democrats might want to prevent the Republicans from doing something outrageous. The Republicans have no qualms about changing any rule that seems inconvenient to them. They have already threatened to do away with the filibuster once, and the Democrats caved into the Republicans on that occasion. That is a large part of why we now have the worst U.S. Supreme Court in modern history. It is time for the Democrats to carry through with the threat the Republicans made back then. It is time to end the gridlock the GOP is imposing on us. It is time to acknowledge that the Republicans have destroyed the viability of the filibuster by turning it into a threat to majority rule rather than a safeguard of minority rights, and it is time to act in accordance with that acknowledgment. Get rid of the damn filibuster!