FISCAL CRISIS LEGISLATION WILL PASS: I HOPE!

I sure hope the President and the Democrats are right about the vote count in the House of Representatives. Because both parties are involved and because of the season in which they are taking the vote the speaker’s vote count is not certain. My senses tell me that the fiscal crisis vote will be bi partisan, be close, and be in favor of the negotiated settlement reached in the Senate by Biden and McConnell. Ryan and his small “hate the government group” have lost the power to force Boehner to wait until he had a majority of his party before he called the vote. The President Obama grasped the complexity of the situation and set the stage.

Expect the big money people will, as predicted in previous posts, to call out the Democrat and Republican vote in their favor. The reason I say this is that there is no way going over the fiscal cliff will help them make money. The crazy Tea party ideologues funded by other crazies were not be able to control the majority vote as they did by demanding that Boehner require a majority among just the Republican house membership to allow all member to vote on any legislation. In turn, this means that Boehner may be able to retain his Speakership because he did not have to alienate even a few Republican votes to call for the vote. We call this win: win.

  

I would have loved to see Boehner stand on the floor of the house and give a “give me liberty or give me death” type of speech by saying I will call for a vote on this fiscal cliff legislation ‘even if it costs me my job’ but he did not do that, he wimped out. Still, I hope he wins the speakership back. The specter of Eric Cantor, an Ayn Rand radical, as speaker of the house would be daunting. Having a weak speaker is better than that.