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What’s with the House Republicans and their inability to listen to the American people or live up to their promises?

Yesterday, I posted here about the Tea Party Caucus throwing its promise not to abuse House rules to advance its anti-everything agenda into the harbor. Just a few weeks after campaigning against what they called abusive and unfair tactics, members of the caucus are now trying to employ the very same tactics in an effort to circumvent House rules.

Now the Republicans are falling down on their promise to “listen to the American people.” Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) once said, "The people's priorities will be our priorities. The people's agenda will be our agenda. This is our pledge to America; this is our pledge to you!"

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