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Boehner offered a metaphor. You should look that up. It was not about making a comparison about the economic crisis being of no consequence. The body of his comments on the subject are very instructive.
He has said repeatedly that this is a very serious crisis and he has used the word “Crisis”. One cannot call something a crisis and then turn around and suggest it is insignificant.
However democrats (Chiefly Obama the liar) can come along and take truth and spin it into a balled faced lie for their own political gain. THAT is what Obama did.
Boehner’s POINT was that the law in question is massive overkill. It does not address the issues concerned, it just creates new forms of spending and taxation without fixing anything that is broken. His POINT is that the new rules, while not dealing directly with the one issue at hand will have ripple effects thru the whole economy causing untold damage… kind of like using a nuclear bomb to kill an ant also kills all the bees and deer and people that are near the problem you seek to solve.
Boehner is RIGHT and Obama is a liar.
But that wont convince a single liberal on this forum or anywhere else. Because the politics is vastly more important than the truth. Alinsky always wins with liberals.
"It really was a ridiculous metaphor. The financial reform package is actually more like killing a mastodon with a small spear. Could work, but not the sort of weapon you’d want to count on for every occasion.
"Boehner also called for means-testing Social Security so that retirees with “substantial non-Social Security income” don’t get payments. This should be popular with upper-middle-class Republican voters, whose great complaint has always been that the government insists on giving them too much money.
"Perhaps most interesting was his attack on the Obama administration’s attempts to impose a moratorium on deep-sea drilling. “The deep-water drilling — maybe there’s a reason there to pause till we know what happened and we can make sure we can prevent it from happening again,” Boehner said. “But all of this other drilling that’s going on down there in the more shallow waters — there’s no reason to have a moratorium."
"This is actually a perfect description of the Obama policy."
"Defending his boss to Politico.com, a Boehner spokesman said that the Republican leader has spent all his spare time raising money for the party. “Thus far this year, he’s headlined more than 230 events and raised about $27 million. And that’s just the beginning.”
"Think about that. The year is only half over, so that means Boehner is averaging about 1.25 fund-raising events per day. No wonder he looks tired. No wonder he doesn’t know that the deep-water drilling moratorium only involves deep-water drilling."
The result of all the Republican money raising is we may wind up with the best government money can buy. Maybe we deserve it.
The best government 'money can buy'. Isn't that the truth?
I guess those who have the most and spend the most (corporations that are now equivalent to people; lobbyest and their ilk) will have the 'best government'. To heck with the rest of us serfs.
However much things seem to change they remain the same.
"Defending his boss to Politico.com, a Boehner spokesman said that the Republican leader has spent all his spare time raising money for the party. “Thus far this year, he’s headlined more than 230 events and raised about $27 million. And that’s just the beginning.”
"Think about that. The year is only half over, so that means Boehner is averaging about 1.25 fund-raising events per day. No wonder he looks tired. No wonder he doesn’t know that the deep-water drilling moratorium only involves deep-water drilling."
^ Times editorial above
There was interesting commentary regarding fundraisers and Boehner from Joe Scarborough the other day....
There was interesting commentary regarding fundraisers and Boehner from Joe Scarborough the other day....
Didnt include as too diversionary
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hmm...
