Adult leadership comes from the House, not Obama

The Washington Examiner ^ | October 15, 2011 | Michael Barone

[skinkinthegrass]

Let's take our eyes off the Republican presidential race for a minute and ask the question, where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year?

The answer, I think, is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders.

The Founders expected the House, with all its members elected directly by the people every two years, to be the flightiest branch of government, most susceptible to momentary enthusiasms and nostrums, in need of restraint from a Senate full of old-timers and a president gifted, they hoped, with the gravity of a George Washington.

But that's not exactly what we see in Washington today. In calendar year 2011 we have seen Speaker John Boehner and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan taking on tough issues and providing adult guidance when others seem to be doing the opposite.

[skinkinthegrass]

Good Read....

[dadfly]

that's laughable. feckless boehner and his party first cronies have accomplished *nothing.* he has caved and cowered under obama all year since a landslide tea party victory that should have set him and the republican collective up for defunding obamacare and outing corruption in every corner of the obama regime. my answer to the obama/boehner establishment team is to contribute to David Lewis , boehner's opponent in the next election.

[skinkinthegrass]

...let the Flood begin!that's laughable. feckless boehner and his party first cronies have accomplished *nothing.*
..my answer to the obama/boehner establishment team is to contribute to David Lewis , boehner's opponent in the next election.

and of course, Ol' Mitch "Get / Go Along" McConnell (RINO-DC)....
should also be Primary-ed, too.
he's (m) already said (basically), "To Hell w/ the TEA Party"

[dadfly]

yeah. i try not to think about the senate too much. way too depressing.