All the right notes, and I think he means them. What he's stressing is not the details of governance but the central assumption of it -- democracy, where the people rule.Video at the link.
Roger L. Simon:
Like much of the world that doesn’t live Inside the Beltway, I was only marginally aware of John Boehner until some months ago when it was becoming clear he might be the next speaker. And even then I wasn’t impressed. The man-tan look made me assume he was just another shallow pol.Compare and Contrast. Or, you might prefer to Compare and Contrast.
I was wrong. As of now, I have done a total about-face. In his speech today, John Boehner showed himself to be among the most impressive figures on our political landscape, and he did it by being that rarest of things in politics: a humble human being.
Boehner's big gavel kind of reminds me of Nancy's horrible "victory walk", (which she staged in order to accuse the Tea Party of being racist and/or violent) but I guess Boehner has a different meaning in mind.
Hope the new Congress can rein in some of the excesses of the 111th Congress. The great Thomas Sowell:
Runaway "stimulus" spending, high unemployment and ObamaCare are all legitimate and important issues. It is just that freedom and survival are more important.
For all its sweeping and scary provisions, ObamaCare is not nearly as important as the way it was passed. If legislation can become laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is completely undermined.
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