Think of this scenario: Your party has been swept into office with the biggest majority in generations. The majority of Americans think the country is on the verge of emergency and want things fixed pronto. And you are poised to become the next Speaker of the House. So what do you do? A). Steel your party for the hard and fast work to come, or B). Announce you are handing power over to the losing side, the one responsible for most of the recent destruction of the country the voters are upset about?
Well, if you are the Republican's John Boehner, presumptive Speaker of the House, apparently it's "B" because John Boehner is announcing that he intends to hand unprecedented power to the left with new House rules as soon as he takes the speaker's gavel. Have Republicans learned nothing?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Boehner intends to implement a power-sharing policy that will give the minority party more power than its ever had in the House. Why would he do this? God only knows.
Boehner refused the Journal's request to comment on this plan, but whatever reason he has for kowtowing to Democrats before he's even banged that gavel for the first time it is troubling. Sure, he's for weeks been saying that he wants to be a more sensible, more fair House Speaker, we know. But to capitulate before the first shot is fired? It is idiotic.
