John Boehner: Republican House Temper Tantrum Leader

Without John Boehner’s & other Republican pigeon poop on your windshield the overwhelming legislative victory yesterday for the Democratic-sponsored Economic Recovery & Stimulus_Plan was impressive.

One news report said: “Twenty-four days into his presidency, Barack Obama recorded last night a legislative achievement of the sort that few of his predecessors achieved at any point in their tenure

In size and scope, there is almost nothing in history to rival the economic stimulus legislation that Obama shepherded through Congress in just over three week.”

President Obama truly did offer an open-hand to Republicans and said: “Let’s play ball,” but the Republican response has been to take their ball and go home.“

No problem. They’re not the only one with balls.

Boehner’s final pathetic complaint was that the bill was too long to read. A YouTube of this profound moment is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnwOjDjnH4

Boehner also complained about not being invited to every meeting about the bill and the difficult of finding details, although the Obama Administration started a new program of historic transparency by making such bills and the budget available online.

Stimulus details: http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1694

Congressional Budget Office analysis of final bill: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9989/hr1conference.pd

And the complete text of the up-to-the-minute latest version can be found at: http://www.readthestimulus.org/

Compared to how such legislation was handled in the Bush Dark Ages this is light-years in improvement.

John Boehner’s complain is more than worthless, it’s is two-faced. All Congress bills are like this, or worse. It’s like saying you don’t like the day because there is weather outside.

Maybe Boehner needs new glasses to help him read; or better yet, maybe during a school tour some 3rd-graders will show him how to search through online documents with the Find-command and that will help his specific complaint.

It appears clear the Republicans are going to hold their face till they turn blue. Turning their backs on the Stimulus Plan is going to hurt their Congressional representation from Michigan, Florida and Californian, for sure. We can look forward to more victories against Republicans in 2010.

Boehner is going down with the ship: He’s helping it sink.