It looks like our current Congress is operating as a three party system. We have the Democrats, the Republicans and the Tea Party Wackos.
In the budget deal the Republicans and the Democrats worked together leaving the Tea Party out in the cold. The attempt Bohener made at an earlier compromised failed because both the Tea Party Wackos and the Democrats failed to work with the Republicans.
The Republicans did away with the Hastert Rule to ensure that this could happen. The Hastert Rule is a rule developed in the House of Representatives attempting to prevent the fracture of the Republican party, agreed to refuse to call a vote on anything unless it had a majority Republican support. That kept the TPW's in cooalition with the R's. As you can see when it comes to important issues relating to the future of our nation's economic health... the Republicans knew the Hastert Rule is bad for true Democracy.
Do we have the start of a cooalition forming in the house where the Republicans and the Democrats will work together to get some things accomplished. That would leave the TPW's as the opposition. I belive this may be the healthy start of a new era of political structure in our country.
In the budget deal the Republicans and the Democrats worked together leaving the Tea Party out in the cold. The attempt Bohener made at an earlier compromised failed because both the Tea Party Wackos and the Democrats failed to work with the Republicans.
The Republicans did away with the Hastert Rule to ensure that this could happen. The Hastert Rule is a rule developed in the House of Representatives attempting to prevent the fracture of the Republican party, agreed to refuse to call a vote on anything unless it had a majority Republican support. That kept the TPW's in cooalition with the R's. As you can see when it comes to important issues relating to the future of our nation's economic health... the Republicans knew the Hastert Rule is bad for true Democracy.
Do we have the start of a cooalition forming in the house where the Republicans and the Democrats will work together to get some things accomplished. That would leave the TPW's as the opposition. I belive this may be the healthy start of a new era of political structure in our country.