Saturday, December 14, 2013

Boehner pushed back on tea party

After being blasted last fall of inept leadership Speaker John Boehner pushed back on the tea party and was determined to pass a budget bill to avert a government shutdown.  Its good to have principle but at the end of the day we need to govern.  This requires hard choices and compromises. The tea party has successfully elected candidates to office.  Now they must learn how to develop a coalition that can pass policy reform and fiscal responsibilty  We must also gain the White House or the US Senate if we want to have more leverage.. 

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