John Boehner's Reformer History--And Future

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I find liberal’s laws apply to others not them. We have example Teddy for wind winds unless he could see them from his house with high power binoculars. A Democrat Congressman parks his boat in another State to save money. Boat bought outside the USA.
Bill Clinton is poster boy for liberals because of Newt and the boys. Liberals do not understand recession has its roots in Bill Clinton’s deeds. Liberals believe recession is overnight occurrence. Unrealistic is their forte. Along with selective remembrances. Above all else insult.

Bill Hedges of MO 6:58AM October 06, 2010

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/pelosi-caught-in-major-lie-says-bush-didnt-warn-congress-about-financial-crisis-records-show-he-warned-congress-17-in-2008-alone/
... pretty much tells all.
This very much narrows the current Democratic political premise to what end? Could it truly be "Marxism", "Obama, The Black U.S. President", "Muslum Rule"?
How about, "I don't have any while you rich people have it all ... mostly because I'm a lazy good for s--t liberal W/O ambition who will always want something for nothing and if I can get it with only a vote, then that's what I'll do"?
The latter sounds most reasonable!

Apropo of CA 5:04PM October 05, 2010

What charges was John Boehner convicted of ? How long was he in jail ? Was he sanctioned or booted out of office ?
Your link said handing out "tobacco lobbyist contribution" was legal then. Where is the "corruption" .
Bill Clinton signed the bills and obama hired people who helped develop the bills:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/economy/nominee-for-treasurys-number-two-helped-draft-legislation-deregulating-banks/
Bush tried to stop recession with regulations that failed by all Democrat vote:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/pelosi-caught-in-major-lie-says-bush-didnt-warn-congress-about-financial-crisis-records-show-he-warned-congress-17-in-2008-alone/

Bill Hedges of MO 12:09PM October 05, 2010

John Boehner is the poster boy for what is wrong with the Congress.
Rude, crude, mean and small minded. Wall Street puppet. God forbid he moves up the trough to Speaker. Disgusting.

T. Bean of PA 12:09PM October 05, 2010

First of all ...the New York Times?? A left of center media consort with many years of politcal history as such:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
Your comments would be deemed much more credible if your "unbias" source were even as simple as Wikipedia, which, pretty much tells all W/O bias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner
..in other words, to you too, Henry Blankett; take a political hike!

Apropo of CA 11:49AM October 05, 2010

Amazing piece of Garbage.
The only "reform" John Boehner envisions is giving lobbyists for corporate interests even more power in Congress. Boehner was the man who handed out checks from Tobacco to buy votes on the floor of the House in 1995. That particular practice has now been made illegal but Boehner hasn't changed one bit. He is the one who is selling the Will of the People to the highest bidder.
That's not the kind of "reform" America needs.

Polder Jongetje 11:42AM October 05, 2010

For the past 15 years. This was a guy who actually handed out tobacco lobbyist contribution checks to fellow House members on the House floor during business: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Boehner was also Phil Gramm's point-man in the House when getting the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the Commodities Futures Modernization bills passed -- the two acts which led to the total financial collapse of two years ago and the subsequent wiping-out of trillions of dollars of middle class wealth, not to mention the forking over of a few trillions of dollars of taxpayer dollars to Boehner's buddies on Wall Street.
The think tank flunky who wrote this opinion piece obviously got his marching orders.

Henry Blankett of NJ 11:19AM October 05, 2010