Posts tagged “John Boehner”
Boehner Won’t Say Whether He Still Believes In The Tax Fairy
Yesterday, on Meet The Press, David Gregory tried to question House Minority Leader John Boehner about this business of wholesale Republican support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans without making any effort to pay for the tax cuts in any way. He kept trying to to ask Boehner whether it’s true [...]
Getting The Media To Show Up Boehner
President Obama met with the House and Senate leadership of both parties last Tuesday. The conversation turned to the Bush tax cuts: At a meeting with Congressional leaders of both parties, Mr. Obama vowed that Democrats would extend current income tax rates except for the wealthiest taxpayers. But Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the [...]
The First T-and-A Speaker Of The House?
Although I don’t expect it to happen — that is to say, I assign to it a probability of significantly less than 0.5 — if Republicans win control of the House in November, and John Boehner becomes Speaker, I believe he will be the first T-and-A speaker in the history of the House of Representatives. [...]
Gratuitous Vilification By ThinkProgress
Even for ThinkProgress — which is intermittently capable of fairly mind-numbing stupidity — this is pretty bizarre: At the same time in March, Boehner himself appeared to be encouraging the anger behind the violence: “Violence and threats are unacceptable. That is not the American way… I know there’s anger, but let’s take that anger and [...]
The Party of No Agenda
Originally, the derisive “Party of No” label the Republican Party earned for itself referred to the spectacularly determined display of no-fucking-way obstructionism they have put on since Obama was elected President. But it’s looking more and more like by the time the midterm elections are over — and the Republicans have gained much fewer seats [...]
Greenspan Throws A Curveball
Over the last week, various Republicans in Congress have distinguished themselves by arguing that the Bush tax cuts desperately need to be extended — without any effort to pay for them — because that’s what the economy oh-so-desperately needs. Forget job creation, forget any form of stimulus; the magic potion is tax cuts. And they [...]
No Sir, Not The Party of No
The Republican Party must be quite tired of being ridiculed as The Party of No. Especially when that isn’t even true at all, since they have always been The Party of “Yes, boss!” All through the time of Bush, and now in the time of whoever-the-heck-it-is-who-should-be-regarded-as-the-leader-of-the-Republican-Party, the one thing they have never wavered on is [...]
Great Moments in Spokesmanship
Here’s the question Brian Beutler of TPM asked Senate Minority Leader John Boehner: Do you agree with Tom Donohue of the Chamber that the government and taxpayers should pitch in to clean up the oil spill? Boehner’s answer: I think the people responsible in the oil spill—BP and the federal government—should take full responsibility for [...]
Idle Thoughts
This morning, we learned that in April, the economy added 290,000 jobs, the largest increase we have seen since March 2006 (when George Bush was president, and still had 33 months left to wreak his unique brand of economic destruction, which thoughtfully spared the have-a-lots while showing no mercy to the have-nots). House Minority Leader [...]
Republicans Pledge To Go On A Diet Till Dinnertime
On Wednesday, House Democrats announced they were declaring a unilateral ban on earmarks for for-profit organizations: House Democratic leaders banned Wednesday the practice of doling out multimillion-dollar, no-bid contracts to private contractors, a move that will shake up the lobbying industry that has come to rely on securing these so-called earmarks for their corporate clients. [...]