Speaker Boehner won't try to repeal Obamacare, holding

and this is a BIG but, he's abandoning the dysfunctional supply-side feed-the-rich economic plan Romney was running on. You know, the one from the Reagan and W eras that cost most of us bitterly while making a few very happy?

Boehner also says he's willing to raise taxes and broaden the tax base (remember the no-tax-increase pledge almost all pubs had to sign?), so this is another good sign that we'll be able to pay some bills and speed up that economic recovery. 

Speaker Boehner's pretty middle of the road and sensible, but the Tea Party has hamstrung his ability to act reasonably, or to act at all. Now the Tea Party's control is much diminished by this election, and he must be one of the happier, if most challenged, pubs around right now.

Unfortunately Boehner's speakership expires soon and he has to worry about being reelected.  So we can expect to hear a lot of tough talk from him, but nevertheless both he and President Obama are both in a much better position to tackle our problems and get some important things done than they were before the election.

Note that although Boehner says they'll accommodate on other stuff but go to the wall to protect tax cuts for the wealthy (that must be SOME leash), this fiscal cliff everyone's fussing about on the talk shows would hurt the people on the other end of that leash really badly too.

The guy who could conceivably let us "go over the cliff" (we do have some parachutes) and benefit? President Obama. Revenue would pour into the national coffers that could be be put to really good use, including balancing the budget. So President Obama has some really good leverage, just in case the GOP backpedals on its cooperation noise (count on it), and overall things are already looking promising.