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Is Boehner a leader, or a follower?

Is it time to consider “Bailing Boehner” (who bails out of an agreement at the last moment) as a follower and not a leader? I have sympathy for him. It seems like every time he makes an agreement, he then turns around and walks out of the agreement including this most recent two month compromise on the payroll tax cut. Do the tea party people (as in “let us drink our tea while the average American gets little or nothing from this Congress”) dictate every position that he and the Republican majority will take? Do we really have to wait until after the next election before Congress can make substantive steps to help the economy and the American people?

By the way, these repetitive deadline fights directly cost the taxpayer now. Those citizens working for the government and those in industry must spend the final weeks of a dispute preparing for both outcomes of a Congressional disagreement (think of the people writing the computer programs to pay the employees) so that those citizens are ready whichever way the decision is to be made. Thus they must expend time doing extra work caused by Congressional delay rather than those citizens accomplishing their basic work duties that could be generating profits and new jobs. Congress would be helping this economy if they would make decisions with adequate lead time and then keep their agreements.

Ralph Buncher



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