I haven't written in a while because my Mother passed away 3 weeks ago. For many years I was her sole caretaker and I have been through Cancer with her, then a stroke and a broken hip and now she is gone at the age of 82. I guess I defined my self worth by caring for my Mom and for the last few weeks I have been feeling that I no longer had a purpose in life. I didn't write my rants in this blog, I was going to get involved in a house race and I didn't, so now I'm feeling like I need to get back in the saddle and open a can of whip-ass on John Boehner.
If the late Senator Edward Kennedy was the "Lion of the Senate" then it is clear that John Boehner IS the cowardly Lyin' of the House
As soon as he got a whiff of the idea that he might have to comment on or even vote, heaven forbid, on the Use of Military Force against ISIS, he closed down the house and all his little rats skedaddled out of town.
The constitution makes a huge assumption in its premise and that is that Men and Women of good faith can fulfill the tenants of that document. That assumption is no longer valid. One half of the legislative branch, the House of Representatives, led by John Boehner no longer functions in good faith, they refuse to govern.
We have no functional government. I am not going to dump on the President because he has no choice but to act unilaterally. It may well be that starting a war in Syria is unconstitutional but would we rather he just ignored the threats to us, our allies and the peoples of the world?
If this was a parliamentary state we would probably just dissolve the government and form a new one but being supposedly a representative Democracy we do not have that option...
So I ask again "Is America a failed state"? Is Thomas Jefferson's great experiment in Democracy a failure?