Posts tagged “John Boehner”
Obama goes to Ohio
President Obama has decided to foray onto House Speaker John Boehner’s home turf in order to bring his jobs proposal directly to the American people. The Obama Administration isn’t being shy about it either: President Barack Obama is marketing his massive jobs proposal from an outdated bridge that links the home states of his two [...]
The Do-Nothing Congress
(1) This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that zero new jobs were added to the U.S. labor market in August. And once again, the national crisis that is the lack of leadership in our government comes back into focus. Should we be surprised that the situation becomes grimmer right after John Boehner decides [...]
Gender, Sexuality and the Debt Ceiling Debate
In this post, I would like to explore the sexual underpinnings that have framed the debt-ceiling debate. I think it’s fairly evident that sexuality, although always present in politics, has been largely suppressed and underreported on by the media in their discourse during the past few weeks. In an attempt to understand what this debate [...]
The “Public Service” Model Of Politics
Yesterday, another conservative commentator tore into John Boehner‘s comically inept and intellectually bankrupt Pledge to America: I understand that House caucuses are not traditionally hotbeds of policy innovation, and I give the Republican leadership credit for actually making an effort on this front, instead of just coasting toward the midterms. But I also refuse to [...]
Boehner Blinks Again
When John “Pretty Boy” Boehner — the creature who so badly wants to be the first T-and-A Speaker of the House — rolled out the “Pledge To America” last week, it was billed as the solution to America’s problems. It was billed as offering not just solutions, but ambitious solutions: We recognize that these solutions [...]
If Size Matters, How Big Is Small?
For months and months (and months), everyone in the Republican Party claimed that if the Bush tax cuts — expiring by Republican design (that is to say, as a result of legislative games played by Bush, et al) — were not extended for the top tax brackets, economic recovery would be jeopardized because small businesses [...]
Depends On The Definition Of “Hit Hardest”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday, on the possibility (brought up by House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday) of giving up on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans: We can’t let the people who’ve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get [...]
Boehner’s Inexplicably Sane Statement on Tax Cuts
Yesterday morning, John Boehner unexpectedly declared on “Face the Nation” that if push came to shove, he would be willing to drop the demand that Republicans have been holding firm on: that they would allow the expiring Bush tax cuts to be extended for middle class Americans only if they were also extended for the [...]
Bitch-slapping Boehner
One of the standard-bearers of the asshole contingent of the Republican Party is John Boehner. On his best days, he looks like a pathetic little hack. On his worst days, he really has them rolling on the floor laughing their asses off. This was Boehner yesterday, pretending to be a grown-up among politicians, attacking stimulus [...]
The CBO Stimulus Report: The Bad News
The bad news is that, looking forward, the stimulus is going to be more and more of a spent force: The effect of the stimulus, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will be smaller in coming quarters, as much of the money has already been spent, CBO said. “The effects of [...]