Mr.Senator Right and Mr.Representative Boehner

Before I go to the story I blogged but Did Not Post until now(it’s below) about Mr. Right and Congress I had to ad Mr.Wrong because of events or non event in Washington the evening of Wednesday. I need to post what’s happened by the time you read this at the earliest on Thursday morning.

First there is a piece of a story that TIME wrote and they have story right on the developments:

"In another era, for a different leader, it would have been a stunning rebuke. For John Boehner, it was just another embarrassing stumble in a speakership studded with them."

"House Republican leaders canceled a planned Tuesday night vote on a Boehner-backed proposal to resolve the debt and budget crises hanging over the U.S., but the dramatic news was met with shrugs and snorts. Facing a critical test, having brought the nation to the brink of default, the nation’s top Republican failed to rustle up the votes once again—and the humiliation took nobody by surprise."

"In fact there have been plenty of others, like the time the House Speaker couldn’t whip his caucus on the fiscal cliff deal that fell apart last Christmas. Or the embarrassment of the scuttled Sandy relief bill. Or the Violence Against Women Act vote. Or the farm bill. Time and again, Boehner has been stymied by his fractious backbenchers."

And yet, in the perverse ways of modern Washington, the Tuesday night defeat may soon be marked in the history books as a step forward.

"Only once Boehner has placated his base can he step aside and allow Senate leaders to take over do the work of governing. Within an hour of the news, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell resumed negotiations that had been held up for the House vote. Spokespeople for both men told reporters that the two leaders were optimistic that an agreement could be reached before the Oct. 17 debt-limit deadline."

"This was the outcome President Barack Obama, who has sat across the table from Boehner, has come to expect. “There have been repeated situations where we have agreements, then he goes back, and it turns out that he can’t control his caucus,” Obama said Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. “So, the challenge here is, ‘Can you deliver on agreements that are made? Are you able to come up with sensible bipartisan compromises and deliver on them?’”

"The harbingers of Tuesday’s rebuke were there from the start. In the morning, House Republican backbenchers trickled out of a closed-door conference meeting in the bowels of the Capitol with tepid reviews of the Boehner proposal. Almost as soon as the details had emerged, they were changing. When the markets closed, a ratings agency warned the brinkmanship put the nation’s credit rating at risk."

"Late in the afternoon came the last nail in the coffin: Heritage Action for America, an arch-conservative group that holds outsize impact with the House Tea Party faction, issued a statement warning that it would “score” the vote, and urged members to oppose it. “The proposed deal will do nothing to stop Obamacare’s massive new entitlements from taking root,” the organization wrote. The subtext was a thinly veiled threat: a vote for the bill now would invite a primary next November."

By then, however, the bill was already “cooked,” said a House GOP leadership aide.  ”They tried all day to change to appease folks, but it never worked,” another told TIME.

{~~~~~MrRight~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 It looks like the House of Representatives might agree with the most of the Democratic Senate Proposal.  Things looked on tuesday like today Wednesday an agreement will be reached and this will be over until January 15th. Only until the 15th? Yes,  because the Republican’s want to maintain a choke hold on the money to run the country  is only a 3 month reprieve.   As a matter of fact this is the price americans will pay until the next elections in which they might like the government run this way and just blow the Democrats out of the water and have the the country run not just a la republican but a la tea party with a republican flavor. 

This how we get at these impasses is which the loosing party in the previous elections decides to govern alone and because there are not enough on the winning party to overrule the others at an impasse and move forward. Instead you get gridlock. May be older voters have not gotten the message that things have changed in Washington same as in the world. Time to start voting as such. 

Americans never liked giving one party all the power because when it has there is been no pay off for it. Therefore you get a divided government therefore the voters would leave it to the politicians to do their job and get something done ‘together'. There is no ‘together' any more. A party that is control by fringes at this point in history cannot be put in power to govern. Let the Republicans learn that governing for a few is not going to be allowed. 

Now referring to the crisis at hand and how it began to unravel we most look at one individual.

Throughout this crisis there was a steady hand that kept things together. I will call him “Mr. Right” until the last paragraph. (I have used CNN as sourcing for this report).

  Mr.Right's upbringing in tiny Searchlight, Nev., where he grew up in a shack, is never far from his mind, even when he is speaking from his mahogany desk in the Senate chamber.

“He is unique in this city,” said Jim Margolis, a longtime adviser. “And you see it in so many different ways. Is he the best TV talking head? No. He’d be the first to tell you that. Should he smile more? Yes. Should he say goodbye on the phone when he’s done talking to you? Probably. But those are things you’d assume are part and parcel of a polished figure in Washington. That is not Right.”

Though he has faced seven years of Republican attempts to frustrate his agenda at every turn, this latest fight, which he believes could have been stopped if the party’s leaders had only stood up to their more junior members, has convinced him that he has no viable Republican partners on either side of the Capitol.

Mr.Right’s passion and pique come from his conclusion that this fight is about something more fundamental than spending resolutions.

“He is not going to let this crisis make us give away something that is part of what we believe in,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and a member of Mr. Right’s leadership team. “He feels passionately that if we allow our country to be run by hostage-taking — ‘I feel passionately about an issue, and I’m going to shut down the government unless I get my way’ — it is bad for today, it’s bad for tomorrow, it’s bad for democracy.”

Mr. Right’s (Sen.Reid)tendency to speak without inhibition or filter has created no shortage of complications and may have so alienated Republicans that they see no incentive to work with him. On Wednesday, Republican press offices, including Mr. Boehner’s, and Tea Party groups circulated remarks from Mr. Reid in which he appeared to be dismissive of cancer-stricken children. (In fact, he was ineloquently making a point about the need to fund the entire government, not just parts that Republicans have selected for special appropriations bills as a way to ameliorate the effects of the shutdown.)

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher