Forty-eight hours in, and I am feeling all of the potential for this Congress circling the drain. Realistically, nothing was going to get done anyway, what with Obama and his .50 cal veto pen locked and loaded. Now we are seeing what is probably the tip of the iceberg of Republican "yeah, but(s).
I desperately want to be wrong. I really do, because we need "Change We Can Believe In" (rim shot, thank you!) For anyone that is actually paying attention, and especially for those of us that have in desperation pinned all of our immediate hopes for the future on this House, failure of this House is going to be devastating. When I say 'failure' I do not mean failure to produce, because nothing will come from this session of Congress, I mean failure to keep promises. So far, they have done nothing but break promises and flub. Transparency? Fail. Budget cuts? Moderate fail. (They did vote successfully to cut the Congressional budget by 5%). Simply reading the document that our entire way of government is supposed to be based on? Flub. Voting without being sworn in? Super fail.
I think that the Speaker should hold a whip and not a gavel. After all, he is the face of this Session, the voice of the Republican party, and the 'champion' (if you will) of the People. To see his party fall flat on its face out of the gate has to be disheartening to him as it is to us.
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