Thus spoke John Boehner:
[T]he issue now is will the president engage with the Senate Democrats and bring them to the table so we can resolve this and give to the president what he has asked us to give him: a one-year extension of these expiring programs.
Oh we get it. Speaker Boehner and pals were trying to be helpful.
Ah, screw it. When one is contemplating contemporary GOP politics, ridicule remedies nothing and reason is futile. Excepting maybe Sen. Scott Brown, who's been terrified into reasonableness, all the usual partisan, pseudoconservative yahoos will line up before the cable cameras and yap away with identically insufferable propaganda; see above.
Their dishonor is bottomless, their shame nonexistent, and their arrogance awesome. That much is known; hell, how couldn't it be, since they flaunt each like a tinhorn dictator does his unearned medals. So all reasonable eyes shift to the president and Harry Reid, urging, Hang tough.
And of course the pusillanimous media will leave their mendacious blatherings unchallenged.
Posted by: janicket | December 20, 2011 at 08:34 PM
I see that it did no good for the republicans to read the Constitution at the beginning of the 112th Congress. Or, maybe it's that they skipped the part in Article I which places the responsibility for handling matters concerning spending on Congress and the mandate that bills of this sort must begin in the House of Representatives. I'm extremely glad that PBO didn't help bail Boehner and Cantor out of their mess this time. Enough is enough. A Speaker is supposed to be able to corral the disparate sections of his caucus, something Boehner is clearly unable to do, hence, this letter to PBO.
Posted by: majii | December 21, 2011 at 01:29 PM