deja vu', all over again

Nearly four years ago, I posted a short opinion that the party on the left should consider someone besides Nancy Pelosi as the next Speaker of the House.

To anyone who may have read and remembers that missive, I told you so.

Today, three years and eleven months later, the party out-of-power is on the verge of an orgasm of self-adoration and a potentially hazardous exercise in patting themselves on the back for exactly the same reasons that party soon (very possibly) to be relieved-of-power did four years ago.

For the same reasons, they are mistaken.

The GOP appears to be about to anoint Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as Speaker, (assuming enough of a turnover in seats in the midterm elections). From what I have read in the news, he has already begun his victory strut, and has even outlined his legislative agenda, (which has no goals save to obstruct the other party). In other words, the same shit we have now, with a baritone voice. If the party on the right assumes power in the House, it will not be a statement of confidence in them, per se, it will be vote for the lesser of several lousy choices.

And so, I respectfully offer this advice to the GOP:

We need leaders, even if they are not 100% right, more than we need another damned ideologue.