Why the current situation prevents the House from being legislative.

[no_hypocrisy]

The Tea Party is a minority voice in the Republican Party. The leadership of the Republican Party does not represent the Tea Party. This is a collision course as the Leadership and minority group want different goals and can't compromise. And Leadership cannot control the Tea Party representatives and tell them how to vote. Back in The Day, Leadership could either bribe votes by offering money to that representative's district or threaten to withhold money. Those tactics won't work with money dried up. Or Leadership could threaten to take away committee posts from errant Members. That won't do it either now.

Therefore, as much as Boehner thinks he's the Leader of the House, he really isn't. The Tea Party is telling him what the policy is going to be, not the other way around. And this makes the legislative process in a stalemate. The republicans may doggedly compromise, but the Tea Party won't. They're calling the shots. They really shouldn't be recognized as republicans as much as independents.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Edit after time allotment

The minority within the republican party is generally religious to the point of fundamentalism or fanaticism. They are not afraid of Doomsday, End of Times, disaster. It's part of prophecy to them. So they are not exactly predisposed to prevent the expected crises to be generated well before August 2. Matter of fact, they kind of welcome as in their thinking, it might hasten the Second Coming.

[ladjf]

3. I agree with your theory about the minority within the Republican Party. nt

[ladjf]

2. The current political stalemate in Congress demonstrates the

basic vulnerable state of our Democratic system. We are a Democratic Country trying to survive in a highly competitive World with virtually no functional legislative body.