Tampa Bay Times - "This speaker speaks, but no one listens" - Slams Boehner

[Cresent City Kid]

7. The hastert rule is killing him and us

The Speaker of the House is usually the speaker of the whole House. If the opposition party and a handful of your own are enough to pass a bill you want passed, you bring it to the floor and pass the fucker. What's the point of having a House majority leader if this is the way it's going to be?

The notion that cutting taxes for the wealthy helps the economy failed the test of empirical evidence and lost in the election. Still, they will risk their party, their positions and our future fighting to the last minute to keep the cuts in place. They are so boxed in by ideology they can't do anything else.