A long awaited post on John Boehner

It has been the goal since the inception of Leibnizian Ramblings way back in December of 2011 to highlight the movers and shakers of this world. As America remains a prominent player in that milieu we have focused a lot of time and energy on her. Two of the main players we've focused on have been House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama. However, we have been wrapped up in hipster quarrels and the much more serious Urban Outfitters v. IKEA struggle for the control of the world and have been neglecting a calling we feel from you the reader. We apologize that so we come to you with a bevy of Boehner and an omnibus of Obama in this post.

John Boehner has chimed in on the popular SOPA and PIPA debate that we highlighted early. We are certain that we were the only ones covering the Wikipedia blackout so trust only us and what we write. Everyone else is pirating our investigative journalism and opinion spinning. In a logical and wise move Mr. Boehner has decided that there will be no vote on the piracy acts in the near future given today's push back by the public. This measured approach towards building a consensus seems to show that Mr. Boehner is learning a bit. What has he learned from? Well, how about the sloshing that his and other house Republicans' reputations took when they pushed the fight over payroll taxes? In true political fashion Mr. Boehner apologized without apologizing for that whole fiasco. He said that he and his fellow Republicans had picked the "wrong timing" for the mess. Given a second chance I'm sure he would have done it in sunnier times. People would have been paying less attention as there isn't a whole lot going on towards of the end of December...

But alas, he was not all conciliatory and consensus minded this week. He and the House Republicans have decided to take a vote to deny the debt ceiling to be raised. This however, is political theater because the bill that will undoubtedly pass the House will never be debated in the Senate. With all of the theatrics going on in Washington we are beginning to wonder if they are taking an idea out of Disney's playbook. Remake and redo the same things and create sequel upon sequel based on seven minute rides. It's the same thing over and over again. I'm beginning to understand the depths of the perplexed 1955 Doc when Marty came running back to him at the end of Part II and the Beginning of Part III. Great Scott! You just keep coming back with the same thing!

Lastly, President Obama has, through the State Department, blocked the Keystone XL pipeline. There's a whole lot of spin going on around this issue. The biggest ones coming from Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner. Mr. Boehner used scare tactics like the Bogeyman China and the President is vetoing jobs. Nancy Pelosi said that the Republicans were to blame for the project being axed because they gave the President only 60 days to decide the matter (never mind that this project has been talked about for years and that the 60 days were set to expire February 21). I'm not going to offer opinion about who is wrong and who is right. Besides, my opinion will not sway yours, you've made up your mind already based on previous political positioning. I'm sorry, that was condescending and assumptive of me. You could be Canadian and just annoyed with both sides in making shipping your dirty oil another way.

We here at the Leibnizian Ramblings strive for optimism. When that proves to be impossible we try to serve out the harsh criticism equally. In this case there is plenty of scorn to go around.