IF VAN HOLLEND IS CORRECT

I have been blogging that Speaker Boehner will not agree to anything in the fiscal crisis because of fear he will lose his leadership position. I even suggest that he should sacrifice his job as Speaker of the House to make a deal with Obama. Chris Van Hollend Congressional Representative from Maryland agrees in substance but has recently added to that discussion by suggesting Boehner will not make a deal until after January 3. Van Hollend sees thing from the inside thus is more apt to be right in his assessment. In contrast, my sources are people who run around Washington asking questions of insiders like him.

Van  Hollend thinks Boehner will not make a deal until after the House of Representatives hold there election to select a the speaker. This election, inside the government, is a strange twist, add on really, to our constitutional form of government. The speakership is the third most powerful position in government. He or she would be third in line for the presidency if something happened to the president and to the vice president. The majority caucus in House of Representative, which means that just Republicans, not the entire House, elect the speaker. The swing vote in the Republican caucus is controlled by Eric Cantor, the radical Virginia congressman and majority leader in the House. He had enough Tea Party votes to elect him Majority leader. This means that the voters in the radical seventh district of that state are holding the entire U.S. Government hostage in the name of Tea Party ideology. The Tea Party is a very, very small fraction of the United States population.  If van Hollend is correct, and the indications are that he is correct, I am frightened by the prospects.