Speaker of the House John Boehner is facing a major crisis within his House membership, the fact that most of the freshmen Republicans are much more extreme to the right of center than he is, and are demanding unreasonable budget cuts for the present fiscal year, and preventing a final agreement to avoid a government shutdown!
The Democrats have gone more than half way on compromise, but refuse to make concessions on funding programs that Barack Obama had fought for over the past two years.
But the Tea Party element in the GOP is demanding total surrender, even though the GOP controls only one half of one third of the federal government!
This is a sign of the disaster waiting us if the GOP somehow gains control of both houses of Congress and the White House in the 2012 election cycle!
It is a warning to all Americans to be vigilant, pay attention, learn the issues, stop reacting emotionally to social questions such as gay rights and abortion, and vote your own economic interests, which unless you are wealthy, means you should be voting for the Democratic Party, the party of the people, rather than property and wealth which the GOP represents!
If one cannot see that fact as truth, then the American republic is doomed in the long run as the wealthy plutocracy ends all semblance of democracy in America!