Watch out! Your (liberal) slip is showing!

Posted on 12 July 2011

Imagine starting your day on a train heading to work and someone sits down in the seat across the aisle from you. Not five minutes into the ride he was speaking to the person across from him and began to rant about John Boehner. Now I am a political follower but 7 in the morning is just too early for me to talk politics and even if I did, I think the Speaker would be well down the list of topics for discussion.

His point was that ever since Boehner has taken office, there has been absolutely nothing done in the House of Representatives. He then went on to call him a big mouth, trash talker and an idiot. And from there his discourse went downhill.

But is he right? There is no doubt that we have seen less legislation become law in the 112th congress and that would be expected in a time of divided government. There have been 24 pieces of legislation that have become law in the 112th so far. For those of you like my fellow train traveller, that means the House passed it, the Senate passed it and the President signed it. Of those bills, 14 were initiated in the House. That means that at the very least, that over 60 percent of legislation in this congress that has become law was initiated by the House under Boehner.

If you look at votes, the LA Times just last week tallied 112 Yea votes in the House of Representatives and 84 in the senate. That equates to 57 percent of all legislation in the mill has passed the house. So no matter how you look at it, you cannot badmouth the Speaker without at least badmouthing his counterpart in the Senate who is far less prolific in terms of legislation.

But think about another measure. It has been 804 days since he Senate has passed a budget. This started just before the route of the 2010 elections when Democrats were afraid to pass a budget because it might show the public how out of touch they have become. That situation continues to this day.

So my fellow train traveller, who is really the ignorant one? Perhaps it’s you.


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