House Republicans Demonstrate Once More They are Only To Serve The 1%
For once I agreed with House Speaker John Boehner when he said that the two month extension to a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits bill passed by the Senate by a sweeping bipartisan 89-10 vote was a joke (my word not his). What he meant was the extension should have been for a full year. Absolutely. Boehner was right on money on that. And on Tuesday the House rejected the bill by 229-193 vote sending it back to Senate, fully knowing that the Senate has left town for Christmas and are not due to return before late January. The House action means that 160 million will see their tax rising unless congress reverses its measure. What a waste of taxpayer money playing stupid ideological game!
Don’t you love it all? The Republicans were hell bent preventing a tiny-biny rise on the rich, nonetheless when it came to the middle class they had no qualm seeing their tax rise just before the holidays!
The problem is Boehner was for the proposal before he was against it. Earlier, John Boehner had signed off on the Senate measure and agreed with his Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Indeed Boehner praised the Senate's bill during a private conference call with Republicans on Saturday. He had also said that the House should pass the bill. By Monday Boehner was singing a different tune, proclaiming that House was going to reject this bill since it was only a measure to ‘kick the can down’ and in two months they have to start this circus all over again.
So why is this sudden change of heart? Is it because Boehner is as spineless
as President Obama, and the true leader of the House is Eric Cantor? The House had passed a separate plan last week that would have extended the payroll tax cut for one year, but Senate did not agree with it. So what is the purpose of this spectacle? Do the House Republicans think they are smarter than their Senate counterpart, and they are going to force their senior partners into submission?
Well, no one thinks highly about the quality of the current congress. Their popularity is in single digit—at a historic low. The House Republicans are naysayers, just like children, who put their foot down and set up a tantrum, not bothering to see what the implications of their action are.
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