Republican Candidates for . . . ?

 What are these guys campaigning for?  Are they trying to be elected Speaker of the House?  That’s where the tax bills originate.  Surely they know that don’t they?  That’s in the US Constitution.  Article I, Section 7.1 reads “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”   And, of course I “assume” that both Perry and Cain have asked the permission of Boehner and Cantor and DeMint . . . right?  If either of those two get elected president, and the House of Representatives stays republican and the Senate goes republican too,  will they just do whatever the new president wants them to do?  For the first time in history?  Or do Perry and Cain know – or care – anything about the constitution?  Maybe they are running for Dictator of the United States?

And Cain was talking about an amendment to the constitution.  He said, eloquently I thought, that if the House and Senate and the states of the union passed a constitutional amendment that he liked, he would sign it.  Like maybe if he didn’t sign it, it wouldn’t become a part of the constitution?  Surely he knows that the president doesn’t even get to sign an amendment.  Of course he must?  Doesn’t he?  Ahhhhhh,  but of course!  Dictators would!  

Or maybe, just maybe, the republicans need smoke and mirrors to detract from President Obama’s constant reminders that the House and Senate need to get busy raising taxes on the richest people in the world so America can start hiring teachers to teach our kids, and policemen to protect us and firemen to come to our homes when we call them, and also hire some new workers who can go out and work jobs.  
The republicans have nothing to say about this, don't even want to talk about these things so they talk about Flat Taxes and 999s and so on.