Re: House GOP Leadership Elections

regardless of the political consequences.
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HAHA LMFAO ROFL WTF OMFG.

Doing what he thought was right...regardless.

What he thought was right was wrong. Very wrong. We should be so lucky that the consequences would be limited to politics. The human, financial, moral, cultural, real consequences far outweigh mere politics. Bush should be jailed. In any other country, he would be, but he is protected by the very prestige of the United States which he has diminished.

Maybe if he just keeps repeating "This is a center-right country" over and over again, he delude himself to have the will to go on.

SMALL AND BOEHNER LOCKED AT THE HIP

The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to prosecute a reporter on charges that she removed documents from the Education and the Workforce Committee, according to a letter from the United States Capitol Police to the former chairman of the panel.
The Capitol Police had agreed to investigate the incident after Boehner and ranking member Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) requested they look into a “potential criminal incident” in which Bloomberg News reporter JAY NEWTON-SMALL allegedly removed a confidential document from the minority offices.
The agency is prohibited by law from releasing the pension-plan information contained in the document obtained by Bloomberg. Both Boehner and Miller had to abide by strict confidentiality agreements in order to view the information.
The letter noted that Bloomberg immediately returned the documents through its counsel and did not publish an article based on the materials that were acquired.

WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!
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COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) - House Republican leader John Boehner has used a vulgar expression to refer to Democrat Barack Obama and his voting record in the Illinois legislature.
While campaigning for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday, Boehner told a small crowd at a bar in the college town of Oxford that failing to vote "yes" or "no" on an issue meant a lawmaker was a "chickens---."

HMMM... could they be dating?

I don't think legacy means what John Boehner thinks it means.

Proof positive that the Republican will lose MORE seats in 2010...
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John Boehner's assertion that Congress is center right.
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There probably has never been a statement so couched in fantasy made by a leader of either party EVER!

Doing what he thought was right for America, regardless of the political consequences.

Oddly enough, if you happen to be wrong, then doing what you think is right is an undesirable trait. Everybody google "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy". It speaks volumes.

Here it is:

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/snd/waistdeep.html

In dealing with this economic crisis do you think that tax cuts should be the Republicans' overarching response?
Boehner: Absolutely
Wow. I can smell the denial from MA. Amazing you didn't pass out from the stench, JNS.

TIME: The Blue Dog Democrats are also fiscal conservatives; have you done any outreach to them on banding together on fiscal issues?
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Boehner: America is a center right country.
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TIME: Still?
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Boehner: Yes, no question about it. When you look at all the exit polling, Americans don't want bigger government, they don't want higher taxes. And frankly, I think the Congress is still a center-right Congress.

"I believe that our party believes in a smaller, more accountable government."
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... despite all evidence to the contrary. As a matter of fact the evidence is so compelling that the Republican Party doesn't hold those beliefs, it is the Democratic Party that holds those values by default.
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When 'drill baby drill' is held up as a major accomplishment and the claim to have stopped spending is easily shown to be false, it is clear that Boehner's idea cupboard is empty. (Tangential thought: why not aspire to be the party of good ideas? That thought never crossed Boehner's mind.)
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Obama will have no problem making Boehner looks small. We will have to just wait and see about the outcomes after that.

"Doing what he thought was right for America, regardless of the political consequences." and here are some of those consequences. Bush at the G20:

Boehner: "... whether it was in terms of stopping spending, the expansion of government-run health insurance, ..."
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A RedState commenter made a great point: the Republicans have never reduced spending overall; they just reduce spending on people they don't care about. They apparently think no one is aware of their philosophies and actions. Boehner ought to consult a geographer about demographic trends. That would be a new idea.
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(It appears that the original comment has been deleted from RedState. The link above reproduces the comment. The liberation paragraph at the bottom is from somewhere else.)

Well, when you listen to FOX every day...

You know what I still haven't noticed, even after all this time? For years and years, the disciples of Grover Norquist have expressed the goal that the government must be driven into such massive debt that it won't be able to support both military spending (preferably involving a ewar) and the "entitlement" programs. This will inevitably lead to the final end of the viscerally hated New Deal social programs (particularly Social Security). Oddly enough, when they gained power sufficient to get any Republican plans through, with a beaten and submissive Democratic opposition, the country has ended up in 2 wars and horrendously in debt. Strangely, the attempt to crush Social Security still failed, and now all we have is the predictable fallout from this idealogical idiocy. With all that, there has been next to nothing written anywhere that I've seen about Norquist's aims and how they fit into the Bush administration's accomplishments. To quote a famous role, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" Am I imagining this? Did Grover Norquist actually exist? Is this all some sort of bizarre coincidence, like deregulation and financial crookery or religious fundamentalism and bizarre rules on human behavior?

Thanks for the post.
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It's very disappointing to see that Boehner and the GOP aren't retreating from their disproven theology of tax cuts uber alles. That's simply not how you stimulate the economy. Every grown-up knows that. But they resolutely stick their heads in the ground.