The Election Is Over: Now What? Or... Boehner, It’s Your Move.

Finally, it’s over!  No more “Robo-Calls”!

Enough of party volunteers knocking at our doors, enough of hearing misleading ads, enough of fact-checks and righteous indignation to the contrary.  Enough of ‘my way is better than yours.’  Or so we wish!

John Boehner and Barak Obama are already at it.

Both say that they want to reach across the aisle.  Both say that they are working for the American people, not just one party, one side.   And, both are already setting themselves up for gridlock, impasse, stalemate, or an out-and-out, head-to-head fight.

In other words, in this immediate post-election season, nothing seems to have changed.

However, math is math: Two plus two is four (2 + 2 = 4), and ten is greater than nine (10 > 9).  That is to say: Numbers do not lie.

Boehner please take note.  You need to give credit where credit is due.  Obama won with a clear and unquestionable margin.  And Obama’s economic campaign message was clear: we need to raise revenue as well as cut spending.  That means, among other things, that the very wealthy need to pay more taxes.  They can afford it.

Boehner, stop defending the super wealthy and start accepting the fact that we all must pitch-in what we can.  And, the super wealthy are certainly in a position to pitch-in much more than they have, of late.

Boehner, stop treating the president as if he’s America’s second choice and a third rate president.  Mitt Romney did NOT win the presidency.  That means that Romney’s proposed economic policies were not acceptable to the majority of the American people.  Hence, Obama’s economic policy proposals are.  And remember: this particular presidential race was and is very much about the economy!

Yes, Boehner, it’s true that both sides can be guilty of digging in their heels and becoming obstinate and recalcitrant.  But when Obama first came into office four years ago, Boehner, it was your side of the aisle that dug in its heels more tenaciously and more obstinately than Obama’s side ever did.

Boehner, with respect to economic policy, it is your turn to move toward the middle and work with and not against Obama and his side of the aisle.