Stupidest, Most Cynical and Pettiest Partisan Republican of the Day: Boehner says pay China first

by: Zappatero

Sun May 12, 2013 at 15:10:23 PM MST

They hold themselves in such high regard that the rest of us barely rate a thoughts.

This leads to the kind of cynical and petty partisan garbage that House Speaker John Boehner is becoming infamous for:

John Boehner On Debt Ceiling: Let's Pay China First, Then U.S. Troops

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday essentially agreed with Democrats' arguments that a Republican bill to prioritize debt payments would put China before U.S. troops -- except he suggested that would be a good thing.

During an interview with Bloomberg TV, Boehner was asked about this week's vote on the Full Faith and Credit Act, which, in the event that the U.S hits its debt ceiling, would direct the treasury secretary to pay only the principal and interest owed to bondholders before making any other payments. Money for other payments, such as those for veterans, Medicare and national security, would have to be divvied up from what remained of the scarce federal funds.

Republican supporters of the bill maintain that the most important thing is that the nation won't default on its credit as as long as those interest payments are made on time.

"Our goal here is to get ourselves on a sustainable path from a fiscal standpoint," Boehner said. "I think doing a debt prioritization bill makes it clear to our bondholders that we're going to meet our obligations."

When show host Peter Cook asked if Boehner's comments mean that, as Democrats have suggested, Republicans are basically choosing to pay China before paying U.S. troops, Boehner didn't disagree.

That's your ideal, responsible, support the troops, economically conservative, modern-day Republican - An Unrepentant Asshole to the end (that's just my stupid blogger self, saying what oh-so-reasonable Op-Editors can't or won't -z), who, in order to pay down our nation's debt, mostly generated under Republican rule, would pay off Chinese bondholders before our Brave and Loyal Troops.

SOTU: President Obama appeals to the better nature of his Republican Foes

by: Zappatero

Tue Feb 12, 2013 at 20:16:31 PM MST

Who's the Patriot now?

by: Zappatero

Mon Jan 21, 2013 at 09:45:46 AM MST

John Boehner is not wearing an American flag lapel pin. Using Republican logic, he must be a Trotskyite Traitor or somethin' and is quite obviously a far lesser American that Barack Obama.

In two days Congress will prepare to pass the Obama Tax Cuts

by: Zappatero

Sun Dec 30, 2012 at 12:00:53 PM MST

He had moved off his initial demands for revenue (once $1.6 trillion, now $1.2 trillion), agreed to entitlement reforms (reduced Social Security benefits) and already signed hefty spending cuts ($1 trillion as part of the Budget Control Act in 2011). For all that, he added, he was still waiting for Republicans to come closer to halfway.

Republicans don't want Billionaires to pay more taxes on anything over $250,000, even though they'll get that same cut on anything under $250,000, as though a Billionaire gives one hoot about that kind of chump change.

And that's the principle that Doug Lamborn, Scott Tipton, Cory Gardner and Mike "My health care works" Coffman are standing for.

Do-Nothing Republican House will continue doing Nothing

by: Zappatero

Wed Dec 26, 2012 at 13:05:57 PM MST

According to House Republican leadership aides, House GOP leaders have not yet called their members back to Washington D.C., and WILL NOT be in session tomorrow for legislative business. According to one GOP aide, "It's up to Senate Democrats to act right now."

During the House Republican conference meeting late Thursday night, leadership told the conference that they would be given 48 hours before being called back to D.C. after Christmas. According to aides, leadership has not given that notice yet.

Actually, Senate Dems have passed tax cuts for 99%+ of Americans that the House under the direction of Speaker Boehner has sat on.

By their inaction House Republicans are also sending millions of unemployed Americans over a true fiscal cliff, not a phony one hyped up by Millionaires and Billionaires for their own good.

This is how your Republican represenatives do their job and "earn" their very nice salaries: by doing nothing and inflicting as much pain on the Middle Class as possible.  

Speaker Boehner can't get his Do-Nothing Republican House to do Anything

by: Zappatero

Thu Dec 20, 2012 at 18:03:41 PM MST

And they should be treated as such.

Democrats' goal should be no more Mr. Speaker Boehner of the House of Representatives

by: Zappatero

Wed Dec 12, 2012 at 11:40:56 AM MST

Democrats are openly wondering if House Speaker John Boehner is actually leading right now. His hold on his job has been called into question in the past few days by conservatives, so Democrats are joining in.

Here's Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, on the talk he's heard around town.

"We've heard about all the infighting going on with the House leadership. I don't know how valid it is. I just got a message here that there's a battle going on between McCarthy and Ryan and the Majority Leader in the House and Boehner."

"Boehner's having trouble finding help from his leadership as to what they're to do," Reid added.

House Democratic budget chief Chris Van Hollen piles on:

"I'm getting increasingly concerned that one of the reasons the speaker is trying to string out these discussions is he wants to wait until Jan. 3 until the elections for speaker take place. I hope he wouldn't avoid the tough decisions simply to take us into January after his swearing in, but I'm becoming increasingly worried that that's exactly what's going on."

I sure hope so.  

A Political Joke for the times....

by: Zappatero

Fri Nov 30, 2012 at 14:57:30 PM MST

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Filibuster Reform: If House Republican Boehner is Against Reform, we should all be for It

by: Zappatero

Fri Nov 30, 2012 at 12:28:06 PM MST

John Boehner, who is not now nor has ever been a Senator, has nonetheless decided to insert himself into the debate over Senate rules reform. Boehner threatened to ignore all bills coming from the Senate passed with the help of a reformed filibuster, which is really all bills, since ending the filibuster on the motion to proceed would apply to all legislation.

Boehner said that Reid's threat "is clearly designed to marginalize Senate Republicans and their constituents while greasing the skids for controversial, partisan measures."

He added, "Any bill that reaches a Republican-led House based on Senate Democrats' heavy-handed power play would be dead on arrival."

(Insert playing of World's Smallest Violin here. - z)

Though the rules change would not occur until next year, Boehner suggested that it might poison the atmosphere even sooner, "at a time when cooperation on Capitol Hill is critical."

The Do-Nothing Republican Congress

by: Zappatero

Sat Sep 15, 2012 at 08:30:02 AM MST

While on vacation, Scott Tipton, Cory Gardner, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn, Do Nothings all, will be ignoring the following bills:

1. Violence Against Women Act re-authorization.
2. The American Jobs Act.
3. Tax cuts for working families.
4. Veterans Job Corps Act. Who could oppose hiring more veterans as cops, firefighters and national-parks workers? Who could be against helping veterans apply their military training to earn civilian occupational licenses? Republicans, that's who.
5. Sequestration. Frankly, I say let the damned Bush tax cuts expire and let the Pentagon budget be subject to cuts that are long overdue. We do not need and can't afford our current Military-Industrial complex. And let the Bowles-Simpson B.S. be banned to the ash heap of history.
6. Farm Bill.
7. Wind energy tax credit. Do we need any more proof that Republicans hate workers and hate the Middle Class? Colorado's farmers are true entrepreneurs, are the backbone of rural small business, yet are being ignored, punished, driven to destruction by continued Republican inaction.

Republicans going off deep end after Affordable Care Act ruling

by: Zappatero

Sun Jul 01, 2012 at 19:26:20 PM MST

Here's hoping Republicans try to repeal this with all the zest and legislative skills their little brains can generate. Maybe Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn can write the "replace it" law since, contrary to Republican leaders' lies from the time the ACA passed, Republican Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE) admitted there is no "replace it" law ready.

Here's hoping all those undecided voters find some information out there that finally makes them decide. Can they really be so daft?

Here's hoping the press reports extensively on Republican's hallucinatory histrionics that have followed the Court's ruling.

"This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration." - Some Conservative Moran*

Here's hoping Mike Rosen, bless his little heart, completely loses his beans over this and David Sirota becomes the primary local host at 850KOA. Rosen's head almost exploded, and many of his listeners' did, last week while discussing The Dread Justice Roberts and his traitorous act.

Here's hoping Democrats see, once again and forever, that bipartisanship is a cruel joke perpetrated by Republican elected officials, like Senator Tom Coburn, who only use it to incrementally screw those with whom they are being bi and their worthy constituents.

The Tea Party Tax Assessment

by: Zappatero

Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 08:09:40 AM MST

The resulting S&P downgrade of our credit rating has caused stock markets around the world to lose value and start invoking panic rules.

Your personal finances, your home values, your pensions and 401k's and IRAs have just been assessed those losses and you will most likely never make that money back.

You can thank reactionaries of The Tea Party, including local Geniuses like Doug Lamborn, almost entirely for this loss of wealth.

The Greatest Tax hike in human History

by: Zappatero

Fri Jul 29, 2011 at 11:06:58 AM MST

Republican refusal to lift the debt ceiling and their continuing threat to default on our obligations could cause the largest loss of capital, increase in interest rates, and loss of home values in history.

Therefore, Republican failure to raise the debt ceiling, and their threats to cause America to default on its debts, could lead to the greatest tax hike in Human History, and they will have done this all in the name of "cutting spending". This is just one more way Republicans' hypocrisy will hurt the average American they always claim to support.  

It's all Republicans' Fault

by: Zappatero

Sun Jun 05, 2011 at 13:49:30 PM MST

Nancy Pelosi speaks the simple truth about our Do-Nothing Republican Congress:

Schieffer: The fact is, the Congress has been in session since January and it's done basically nothing.

PELOSI: Well you can talk to Mr. Boehner about that.

SCHEIFFER: So it's all their fault. It's not your fault?

PELOSI: They set the agenda. We have said every day that they're there another day goes by and there's no jobs agenda or jobs bill that has come to the floor. But again, it's about how we can work together to go forward. These issues are bigger than politics, they're bigger than elections. They're about the country that we will live in. And what we will see as we go forward is one vision of America that's encompassed in the Republican budget plan that abolishes Medicare, that makes college unaffordable for nearly ten million young people in our country, that takes us deeper into debt and does not create jobs, or you can talk about an agenda that talks about making it in America, investing in American education, innovation and that's what campaigns are about.

Doug Lamborn's contribution to a jobs agenda? Cut NPR. Never mind the miniscule amount of money that goes to public broadcasting. Talk about oil company subsidies and Lamborn says we should cut NREL instead. For a dim bulb he sure knows which side his bread is greased on.

Mike Coffman's contribution? Not enough "In god we trust" for him.

And on and on with the trite and tivial. Republicans say government doesn't work and are doing everything possible to make it true.

They don't care if you or I are working, productive or contributing to society. They have one goal right now: get that Black Man out of the White House. That is Republicans' Job 1. They couldn't care less who has a job as their tactics to achieve that bald-faced goal are turned into policy.

Stenographers Loves Them Some Right-Wing Talking Points

by: WeatherDem

Thu Jun 02, 2011 at 14:43:31 PM MST

First, a note about the Salazar article.  You can read the sub-lede and not even need to read the article, really: "GOP welcomes Salazar's backtrack".  Kenny-boy never was one to be interested in disappointing the GOP, no matter how destructive or psychotic they got.  Nope, just months after defending his wild lands policy (to set aside large areas of federal land as having wilderness characteristics, thereby precluding their desecration at the hands of the dirtiest corporations in the name of next-quarter profits) to Congress, Salazar is now completely reversing the plan.  Does anyone think that might be a little counter-productive to Interior employees?  Who cares?!  The Teabaggers wanted it scrapped, so scrapped it is!  By the way, congratulations, Ken.

Goverment Shut Down Looms, Time To End The GOP Hostage Habit

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Tue Apr 05, 2011 at 06:08:28 AM MST

There are many ways to fall into bad habits, but the easiest is when one tries a vice and then is rewarded for having done so. This is where the nation is with the Congressional Republicans. Their vice has been economic hostage taking, and like all successful hostage takers, when they want something they look around of the nearest economic crisis to grab a hold of and insist that they get their way.

Which is exactly where we are with the impending, and probably inevitable, government shut down; their least reasonable members, newly elected (thanks midterm voters) have been signaling for months that if they did not get every little mean spirited and economically moronic thing they wanted, they would shutter the Federal Government.

Now with Speaker Boehner (Putz-OH) reneging on his privately agreed to cuts, there is little chance that there will be an agreement and a vote. In fact there would have to be a bill published today in order to be able to follow the new House rule of 72 hours before a vote, for there to be anything to vote on by the deadline on Friday.

It is not like the Republicans think that the public is going to be kind to them on this issue. Their leadership remembers how it played out in 1995 and they don't want to go into another presidential election with weak candidates and a sour taste for their party in the mouths of the electorate.

Which is why they are trying to do everything they can to pin this on the Democrats. Too bad the facts are all against them. Today they are going to introduce another Continuing Resolution that would extend spending for another week. Sounds good until you hear what the price tag is.  

Speaker Boehner Stop Lying, Broke Nations Can't Borrow

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 07:29:03 AM MST

We're flat broke. What do you think of when you read that? Having been busted more than a few times in my life it means no money and no prospect of getting any. Pretty simple and straight forward, unless, of course, you are the Speaker of the House; then "broke" can be parsed and spun and twisted.

We have all seen the great orange Speaker saying "We're broke" over and over again as he tries to sell a justification for what his masters (the Freshmen Republican "Tea Partiers") insist on him doing with the budget. It is really an effective statement, powerful, short and direct. It would be perfect if it were not for the fact that it is flatly a lie.

The United States has a deficit. That is true. The United States also has a lot of debt, but to say that we are "broke" is ridiculous. It is just another half truth scare tactic from the party that has made a performance art-form of the practice.  

Seriously Republicans, When Are You Going To Work On Jobs?

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 07:35:45 AM MST

They've called everything "Job Killing" from the ACA to the trying to assure the safety of deep water drilling rigs before we had even started to clean up the Gulf of Mexico. It was all about how regulation of any kind was killing jobs. It was all about how if we did not make sure that millionaires and billionaires keep their undeserved Bush era tax cuts that there could not be "certainty" in the market and jobs could not be created.  

Tears for Fears: Speaker Boehner skips Chinese State Dinner, disses Constitution

by: Zappatero

Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 14:31:37 PM MST

On the heels of renewed calls for bipartisanship and toned-down political rhetoric, Boehner is saying "thanks, but no thanks" to another offer to appear at an event with the president - Wednesday's White House state dinner honoring the Chinese President Hu Jintao.

So I am glad The Speaker isn't going to be at the dinner. It (should) show all the Bipartisan freaks in DC that the Republicans want none of this New Bipartisanship™.

It definitely shows me that John Boehner is not ready for prime time and is not ready to fulfill his Constitutional Duties, something the Chinese president has probably known for a very long time.

Time To Tell Republicans; Let's You And Him Fight

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Wed Nov 10, 2010 at 07:11:59 AM MST

As fractious a the Democratic Party can be with its liberals, moderates, and FSM help us all, conservative members right now we are not the party with the most fissures in our coalition. The Republican Party has multiple clear divides within itself right now. There are the Establishment Republicans like Senate Minority Leader McConnell and soon to be Majority Leader Boehner (Hey John! Where are all those jobs?) then you have the Tea Party fueled whack jobs like Rep. Michele Bachman and Rand Paul. There are folks who even try to straddle the divide, purely for reasons of power, like Sen. DeMint.