What's taking so long with the Speaker of the House job?

[aflachawk]

John Boehner will finish out the year, because nobody
else wants the job. The Freedom Forty have actually
weakened their position with Boehner as Speaker by
default. In the meantime Paul Ryan is sleeping well
at nights and has no headaches.

Boehner ended earmarks( a good thing) but it also made it much harder to get votes. It was easier to get some ones vote when you could offer an earmark in exchange for a vote. It's a much less corrupt system but quite a bit harder to manage. If Queen Nancy ever assends the throne again, you can bet earmarks will be back in. Dems are much less worried about corruption than Republicans.

 

[naturalmwa]

Boehner ended earmarks( a good thing) but it also made it much harder to get votes. It was easier to get some ones vote when you could offer an earmark in exchange for a vote. It's a much less corrupt system but quite a bit harder to manage. If Queen Nancy ever assends the throne again, you can bet earmarks will be back in. Dems are much less worried about corruption than Republicans.

That's because we're more practical, results oriented and less ideological.

 

[MitchL]

The Democrats had complete control of the Senate for 4 months, of which the Senate was in session for 72 days. Remember that Franken wasn't seated until late that year because Republicans wouldn't give up the ghost. Kennedy was basically unavailable to be the 60th vote because of brain cancer. It wasn't until a replacement for Kennedy was named and Franken was seated did they get that 60th vote.

In that time frame they were able to pass some pretty sweeping legislation.

Stop with the facts... it'll completely implode the GOP commentary.