Yes, yes, yes….

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds up the gavel during the first session of the 112th Congress

She was so bad that 19 democrats would not vote for her as minority leader

Time will tell where we go from here, I hope the 112th is not a disappointment, and honestly, even a disappointment will be nothing like as bad as the 111th, we are swamped with debt, facing the need to raise the debt ceiling or default.

I can hear the moaning and groining now when they are forced to vote on increasing the debt ceiling.  Well I would like you to remember what was said by a first term senator from Illinois when it was increased while GW Bush was president.

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

President Obama, eat those words…….

I am hopeful today, a new feeling, hard times are ahead, remembering the words of JFK, “We choose to go to the moon… in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”

I urge the 112th to do the right thing, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard”

Today is a beautiful day.