I share your wariness of GOP leaders just mouthing the right things, but never taking action. It reminds me of the Dem politicians in the South, during my youth. They’d come down to their districts, talking all conservative for the crowds, and then go back up to DC and vote lockstep with their Dem leaders for every hairbrained liberal bill that came their way. It’s one of the reasons I strongly gravitated to the GOP, because even though their conservatism might vary, at least they voted the way they spoke. Nowadays, though, the GOP politicians have become just as duplicitous as those Southern Dems used to be.
I’ve grown to intensely distrust them all. Seeing the GOP so pathetically fold on issues like amnesty and homo-marriage, is the last straw for me. If all they do is mouth a lot of (insincere) disapproval, and then do absolutely nothing to stop it, then there is no longer a single, solitary reason for me to ever vote GOP again.
One of tricks being practiced right now is using the holiday season right after the election as the backdrop to push through a spending plan before the new session of Congress begins.
Boehner cut what he called an “imperfect deal” with Obama in the session that closed around New Year’s Day 2013 before the current one.
Now about two years later we get a new deal of some kind that is on the move in the House Budget Committee.