2012 refuses to die, thanks to the House GOP.

As I sat here getting ready to write my political wish list for 2013, what should I find out but that 2012 hasn't really dies, thanks to Speaker Boehner and the House GOP members.

Late last night, the Senate finally agreed to deal to put off the fiscal cliff for 2 months while locking in current tax rates for over 98% of Americans. And while this bill wasn't accepted to several Democrats or Tea Party members ( The GOP), 89 Senators finally agreed to the bill, knowing that the need  for this bill was so great. But Boehner and the House GOP members have decided that bill isn't acceptable to them. And so they want to add spending cuts now to the bill. But this isn't the whole truth, either. A House GOP member has admitted that at a minimum, 40 to 50 of the GOP would hold their nose and vote for the bill if it came up for a vote. And if every Democrat in the House would agree that the bill is needed, then the bill could easily pass if it were to come to the floor. But Boehner won't do that, as to him, no bill that doesn't have enough GOP votes to pass without any Democrats voting for it and it could still pass can come up for a vote for the full House. This literally means that now, a minority group in the majority can stop bills from coming for a vote. And, of course, it makes it even worse that Speaker Boehner, before Christmas, threw his hands up in frustration and told the Senate to figure something out. So now that they have, he's said that their work isn't good enough. Is this what the American people really wanted when they voted for President Obama, Democrats added to their majority in the Senate, and the GOP, while keeping their majority in the House, lost seats and  nationally had fewer votes for them than the Democrats?

Speaker John Boehner and the GOP members in the House refuse to let 2012 die. It's either that, or 2013 has gotten a message from 2012 and is going to continue its work. I'd rather think that 2012 is a vampire that won't die for a while rather than 2013 is going to be just like 2012. At least that way, sometime soon, the country can start working on other things that need to be looked at, like Immigration and Gun Safety.