[TheRealThing]

Republicans don't have anything resembling a spine either...They have disgusted me.

They look weak right now to be sure. Republican leadership has been too timid to take up for themselves, allowing the Dems to define them in a negative light. I understand their reluctance to meet fire with fire, though I do not agree with them for laying back. The media lays it on thick too when they speak of those despicable Republicans, giving ever more credence to the DNC party line. Republicans fear that to challenge the Dems daily distortions at the level necessary, would make them look like willing participants in a high school cafeteria food fight. And they would therefore be lowered to the level of dirty politics the Dems are so good at. So, Republicans have taken what they believe to be the more dignified route. Which is laughable, because the folks putting the Dems in office are low info voters and they believe the Dems because what they are saying, is out there every day on the news.

The Romney campaign should have proven to Republicans, and the voters for that matter, that they are going to have to respond to the ridiculous charges being made by the left. And not merely during an election, daily if necessary. Another example would be the so-called government shut down. Boehner was terrified and he's still terrified the masses of low voter types will be manipulated by the Dems. LOL, he might as well get over it and let the dogs out.

Boehner does have a point where it comes to Harry Reid. Reid runs the Senate Dems with an iron hand and, since they have the majority in the "upper house", and since he doesn't mind stretching legal limits one little bit, the Senate is controlling the entire congress right now. Again, Republicans should have been calling this tactic out since Reid started doing it, not just the last few months when they have finally started to bring attention to the problem.

In short, we seem to have forfeited the legislative envy of the world for one man's pen and a cell phone.