Speaker Boehner Goes Down the Rabbit Hole

Just now Speaker Boehner pointed his finger at President Obama for the Congress' lack of legislative action:

"We see more and more that the President has no interest in doing the big things he was elected to do…"

This is a sad and pathetic attempt to shift the blame from House Republicans for nothing getting done in Congress.

California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes recently told The Washington Post House Republicans have no intention of legislative action:

"We don't have 218 votes in the House for the big issues, so what else are we going to do?"

And Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp explained to the National Journal, Republican leaders told the GOP conference they were finished after they passed the debt ceiling bill:

"That's what our leadership said—if we get past this one, we're done until the election."

Here's how Congressional scholars describe the GOP-led House:

Norm Ornstein:

"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor early in the year scheduled a pitifully small number of days in session before the November elections, now amounting to about 80, and many of those will be pro forma or abbreviated sessions. The early strategy, reflected in the majority leader's memo to his troops, was to keep the focus on the failures of Obamacare and avoid distractions that would come with actually pushing to enact laws—which, after all, could be signed by the president and presented as evidence that things were working."

Ross Baker, Rutgers University:

"It's going to be all finger food and no main course…We're seeing a new, hibernating Congress. It sounds like they're going into their dens for the winter. It's really kind of interesting, because I think from the point of view of the Republicans in the House, their approach is to ‘do no harm,' which of course is hardly a rallying cry."