When Bush had the Presidency and the GOP had the majority in the Senate and the house the conservatives got nothing. Nada.
Boehner is not an astute conservative, he is a dyed in the wool establishment corporatist. He is also a treacherous liar. Don’t try to sugar coat him. He is a poison pill.
Well, we definitely have your "take" on this issue, P-Marlowe!
And you know all this — how???
Do you want to bet the farm on it?
Time will tell, dear brother!
Well I guess that tells us everything we need to know about "where you're coming from" on this long-festering problem, dear brother in Christ.
You assume the posture of judge and jury on the Speaker of the House — the foremost spokesperson of the "People's House." I detect more animosity than evidence at this juncture.
FWIW, I gather that you are a lawyer by profession. Lawyers must be "people of the book" in order to executive their mission.
The problem that I see here, is that "people of the book" are people who are totally married to "doctrine," whatever the doctrine may be. It could be civil law, or even the doctrine made manifest in Holy Scripture.
It seems to me that the Holy Scriptures were intended by God to illuminate human experience, in a specifically God-to-Man communication. That Man might know from whence he came, and where he is ultimately going.
Rules of human positive law cannot possibly reach to such a sublime summit of divine–human understanding.
Any "court of law" that falls short of such an understanding is ultimately false in the end; for it would be, by definition, "all too human."
Go figure!
Thanks so much for weighing in!!!