It is enough to make a grown man weep to see how tepid the House Republicans are under Speaker John Boehner. It isn't just that their pathetic excuse for federal budget cuts betrays the 2010 electoral mandate of the American people, which it does. It is that their tepid response to the massively destructive federal budget signals to the American people that the Republican Party still cannot be trusted with the reins of government. We live in a time of crisis, and the people are seeking substantive solutions to life-threatening problems. That means they want the politicians to stop their inane chatter about "getting along" and "compromising" with one another, while the nation continues going to Hell in a hand basket. The faux media limelight in which Washington politicians bathe from sunup to sundown casts long shadows, to be sure, but those shadows are not real. They are but suggestions of reality. A hard reality besets the American people, while our politicians...(Read Full Post)