Deem and Pass

Back when he was the leader of the House minority, John Boehner's salty tears were shed over the many indignities he had to suffer, just because his party was oriented toward pointless obstruction, which forces the Democrats to use every procedural weapon in their arsenal to simply pass the legislation they were elected to deliver. Boehner promised to reform the "cycle of gridlock" and restore "a functioning civil society in the House" by "focusing on our collective responsibility to govern." As it turns out, nobody should have taken Boehner seriously.

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Quimbley D. Democrat is looking over his shoulder. This makes doing his job rather more difficult than it ought to be.

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After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might...