Enter
passing a ton of laws. That’s not
what the GOP base expects from its
lawmakers. But the speaker can’t
sit there on teevee and say that his
metric for success is how many
consecutive hours they spend twiggling their fudge tunnels with their
thumbs, either, so Boehner reached
for a different measurement:
BOEHNER: Well, Bob, we should
not be judged on how many
new laws we create. We ought
to be judged on how many laws
we repeal. We’ve got more laws
than the administration could
ever enforce.
All well and good, except that
Boehner’s even worse at repealing
laws than he is at enacting them, as
Jason Sattler points out:
Based on this metric, Boehner’s
tenure is even more of a failure
than judging him by the paltry
number of bills the House has
passed that have become laws.
Though House Republicans
have voted to repeal the whole
of Obamacare nearly 40 times
and the law’s employer and individual mandates once, those
repeals will never be law.
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
08.04.13
They’ve never even been voted
on by the Senate — and likely
never will.
Of course, despite all this, I actually think that if John Boehner
had his druthers, his House of
Representatives would be a lot
more productive. The problem is
that his House colleagues would
take Boehner’s druthers out to the
loading dock and set them on fire.
It