Weaker The House Of Cards

When John Boehner was the Minority Leader in the House, from the moment President Obama was inaugurated, his refrain has been "Where are the jobs?"
Now that he is the Speaker of the House, the most powerful so-called "Republican" in the United States, and, (perhaps most unsettling of all) the third in line (second-runner-up) in the Presidential Line of Succession, right behind Vice President Biden, His response to the fact that his party's draconian and malicious drastic slashing of the Sociological Infrastructure of a nation he purportedly claims to care about WILL cost many tens of thousands of those REAL people, with those REAL jobs, their livelihoods, is, and I quote: "So Be It." [5]

John Boehner, October 2010: "Mister President, Where Are The Jobs?" [6]
John Boehner, February 2011: "If some of those jobs are lost, So Be It." [7]

The Republican campaign slogan, including the one used by Congressman John Boehner of Ohio's campaign to unseat the only person left in the country who knows how to be a good and effective Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of the Great State of California, was, rather unimaginatively I would have to say, and I quote: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Jobs." [8] That was the line of the quote-end-quote "Tea Party" So-called "Republican" GOP barely more than three months ago. [7] Now the most powerful so-called "Republican" the country has had for over more than a Decade, (since the Faux "News" Channel Network's Newt Gingrich in the House in the 1990's) responds to job the inevitability of truly massive job losses resulting from his agenda with the words: "So Be It." [2] My point is that Government jobs are still jobs; REAL jobs [9] and people with government jobs are still people, REAL people. [6]

Boehner was also exhibiting some rather blatant hypocrisy. [4]

The So-Called "Republican" Quote-En-Quote "Tea Party" GOP Campaigned successfully for a Majority in Congress on a platform of "shrinking the size of Government" [4] and "Reducing Government Spending". [2] The so-called "Republican" Party's Majority presently ruling the House of Representatives campaigned for the offices that they ultimately won by promising and "pledging" that their first and foremost priority would be job creation [11], second being diminishing the Federal Government's annual yearly budget deficit. [2]

Yet, even so, in spite of this, the first thing that the newly-installed so-called "Republican" Majority in the House of Representatives did was to introduce not one, not two, but THREE bills of legislation aimed at eliminating the legal civil rights of every single last woman in the United State of America to choose and decide for herself whether or not she want to have children, and whether or not to have children that she does not want. Thus far, the bills that have been introduced by the so-called "Republicans" include not one, not two, but THREE separate pieces of legislation aimed at defunding the federal government's funding for legal medical pregnancy terminations, something that is already not allowed and strictly prohibited under previously-existing federal law: (SEE: The "Hyde Amendment" of 1976; as well as the REPUBLICAN Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act of March 24, 2010; one of those "hand-out" "give-away" concessions made by President Obama in order to get the Health Care Insurance Reform Legislation through Congress that the so-called "Tea Party" loves so very much to complain about on their Public Relations subsidiary, the Faux "News" channel network).

In other words, the aimed goal and ambition of the so-called "Republican's FIRST THREE bills of Legislation was for the United States Congress to pass laws mandating that every woman who becomes pregnant MUST have a baby or to put it another way, to mandate that United States Federal Government personally closely monitor every single pregnancy that ever occurs in the United States of America, to ensure that every single last pregnancy concludes with a live birth. These bills, and actions like them, (such as last weeks vote to defund the HIV/AIDS prevention services provided by the nonprofit [not-for-profit] community organization Planned Parenthood) comprise the vast majority of the Legislative activities undertaken by the so-called "Republican Party's newly-instituted majority in the United States House of Representatives. They are, in most cases (like with federal abortion funding) wholly and entirely redundant and unnecessary and in all cases they are nothing more than purely symbolic gestures to the Radicalized Right-Wing Socially-NeoConservative Fringe that is the base of the so-called "Tea Party" and are therefore very nearly entirely meaningless wastes of the paper that they are printed on. They serve no practical legislative purpose, as, even if by some divine miracle any of them actually managed to pass the House of Representatives (last week alone, three bills of legislation were struck down and defeated in the space of 24 hours) they would fail to get the required majority needed to pass the Senate (as even the so-called "Tea Party" fiscal conservatives have now recognized the "Republican Party's agenda for what it is, and have started to begin and side with Congressional Democrats in opposition in order to defeat Boehners majority) and even if the Senate Democratic Majority abruptly became completely unhinged, disconcerted and incompetent, President Obama is intelligent enough to recognize these symbols as being just that, and nothing more, and smart enough not to permit them to get past the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

Does anybody or anyone actually have any idea what such a massive government initiative would COST? [3] Having Government Agents at every single hospital delivery room, and maternity ward in the United States, enough to personally and closely monitor every single pregnancy that occurs? (Literally tens of thousands of women become impregnated every single day, of every single week, of every single month, of every single year; and in every single municipality, of every single county, of every single state in this country). This would explode a gaping chasm in our nation monetary supply so massive that it would take several generation just for the Federal Reserve to print enough dollar bills to make up for it, for us to even break even. [1]

So, You tell me. How are these first three bills of legislation proposed by the so-called "Republicans in the United States House of Representatives, (none of which do even a single thing that is even in the remotest direction of creating any sort of kind of job for anyone anywhere at any time in the even remotely foreseeable future) [11] could any of them possibly be considered, under any rational or reasonable definition of the terms, to be at all, in any way, "Fiscally Conservative"? [10]

OH yeah, and did I mention that not one thing that the so-called "Republicans" in Congress have done in the past two months they have had the Majority in the House has, or rather would have, created or saved one single American job? [11]

My point, in so many words, is that we desperately, now more than ever before, need someone running the table in the United States Congress who: 1. Has a clue how on god's green earth to actually "Govern" (at this point, I for one would be ready and willing to settle for somebody who even cares about governing at all). 2. Gives a good god damn about solving the problems our nation faces (once again, I would accept someone who cared enough to acknowledge what those problems even are in the first place). Needless to say, John Boehner meets neither of those qualifications. [1] We need someone who knows what it that they are doing and someone who knows how to get things done. (Right now, with the so-called "Republican" Party Majority ruling the House, if you were paying attention to the national news from Washington, you would know that NOTHING is getting done). [3] We need a Majority leader, (and a majority) who cares enough about getting things done and solving problems that they DO things that actually really SOLVE problems.

1. Chinn, Menzie. "Speaker Boehner's Math". Econbrowser. February 17, 2011. http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2011/02/boehner_math.html
2. Khan, Alyah. "PolitiFact: Boehner "Cherry-Picking" in Estimate of Workforce Increase". 1105 Government Information Group. February 17, 2011. http://fcw.com/blogs/workforce-wonk/2011/02/boehner-workforce-comments-rated-false.aspx
3. Klein, Ezra. "John Boehner's Funny Numbers". The Washington Post. February 16, 2011. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/02/john_boehners_funny_numbers.html
4. Knickerbocker, Brad. "John Boehner Takes on Government-Funded Jobs – Unless They're in Ohio". The Christian Science Monitor. February 17, 2011.  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0217/John-Boehner-takes-on-government-funded-jobs-unless-they-re-in-Ohio
5. O'Keefe, Ed. "Boehner's 'So be it' Line Revives Debate on How to Tally Federal Workers". The Washington Post. February 16, 2011. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2011/02/boehners_so_be_it_line_revives.html
6. O'Keefe, Ed. "How Many Federal Workers Are There?". The Washington Post. September 20, 2010. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/09/how_many_federal_workers_are_t.html
7. O'Keefe, Ed and Yoder, Eric. "Boehner's Comments Revive Debate on How to Tally Federal Workers". The Washington Post. Thursday February 17, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021606846.html
8. Parkinson, John. "So Be It? Pelosi Rips Boehner’s Dismissal of Potential Job Loss". ABC News. February 15, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/02/so-be-it-pelosi-rips-boehners-dismissal-of-potential-job-loss/
9. Shear, Michael. "In Push for More Jobs, Do Federal Workers Count?". The New York Times. February 16, 2011. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/in-push-for-more-jobs-do-federal-workers-count/?_r=0
10. Ungar, Rick. "Boehner Happy To Sacrifice Jobs To Win Spending Cuts". Forbes. February 15, 2011. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/02/15/boehner-happy-to-sacrifice-jobs-to-win-spending-cuts/ 
11. Warren, Jay. "Fact Check: Boehner's Jobs Claim". NBC. February 16, 2011. http://www.wsls.com/story/20835423/fact-check-boehners-jobs-claim