So what happened to John Boehner? To answer this you need to read Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in the Federalist Papers. They argued that while disagreement on policy was not dangerous, an unwillingness to cooperate for the common good was. The real question is whether the Freedom Caucus Republicans, who drove Boehner out of his House of Representatives speaker’s chair, will actually shut down the U.S. government because they haven’t sufficient votes to enact their legislation through democratic means.
There is more at stake for all of us than the name and ideology of the next speaker. We are deciding whether a group of Republican House members can do to the Constitution what civil war and economic collapse was never able to do — undo the basic understanding of how we govern ourselves.
Let’s move on to Alabama where driver licenses or special photo IDs are required for voting. Now the Heart of Dixie Republicans are closing 31 DMV offices, most located in eight Alabama counties with the highest population of Democratic Party voters. Conservative political activist, Paul Weyrich, told his flock “I don’t want everyone to vote.”
Like Hamilton and Madison, the Republican Party cherishes freedom. But unlike our Founding Fathers, they find our democratic process problematic.
