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A Dazed And Beaten Boehner Admits the GOP Was Forced to Do The Right Thing
Republicans are writing the 2012 election ads for Democrats.
A beaten and dazed John Boehner responding to questions from reporters today said, “We have fought the good fight…. Why not do the right thing for the American people even though it’s not exactly what we want.”
This little tidbit came after the spin that Republicans were fighting for the right things, fighting to give us all tax cuts for a year (funded by spending cuts rather than a small tax increase on the 1% and loaded with poison pills), and that they have finally come to an agreement. We are to assume that they wanted the long-term extension (but only on their terms) but for some reason, suddenly changed their mind.
Of course, Boehner had already agreed to the Senate-passed short-term agreement and only when the Tea Party caucus balked did he back out of his agreement. The truth is that Boehner was forced to do the right thing for the American people.
Watch the video of the press questions after Boehner’s statement from NBC News here:
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Tea Party Republicans didn’t want to extend the payroll tax extension, unemployment benefits, and Medicare. They had been arguing that payroll tax extensions were not an economic stimulant as “job creators” would not hire more people just because of the payroll tax cuts.
The Tea Party caucus was ignoring the fact that $40.00 a week less for working Americans would definitely cause a problem both for them and for the economy, as economists warned the Republicans to no avail. They also ignored the political fall out of raising taxes on the middle class while they staunchly refuse to raise taxes on the 1%.
Boehner and the House were forced to cave on the payroll tax cut extensions due to political pressure from within their own party. They tried to take political cover under claiming to want the year long extension, but of course, Boehner had already agreed to the two month extension.
Speaker Boehner’s future career has careened wildly in the last few days as conservatives blamed him for re-electing Obama in 2012 with his refusal to vote on the payroll tax extension, allowing Obama to run as a tax cutter and position Republicans as the tax cutters for the 1% who refused to cut taxes for the middle class.
Boehner’s leadership has even been called into question by his own party over the last week.
It’s simply not accurate that House Republicans, specifically the Tea Party caucus, wanted to extend the payroll tax cuts. They first argued that they were not a stimulant, and then when that went over like a ton of lead, they stabbed the Senate in the back by going back on their agreement to sign the two month extension, claiming they wanted a full year extension (loaded with hostage taking poison pills for the Democrats). The Democrats wouldn’t budge and the Senate Republicans refused to play Tea Party hostage over their Christmas vacation.
So, today John Boehner caved to the mounting backlash. His response to reporters will haunt him for the next year:
“Why not do the right thing for the American people even though it’s not exactly what we want.”
Remember those words, because I suspect they will be playing in a commercial near you very soon.
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50 Responses to A Dazed And Beaten Boehner Admits the GOP Was Forced to Do The Right Thing
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Conservative Heart
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:36 am
Obama did not win…
He is a thug, plain and simple. Here’s a man who refused to compromise on this issue. He simply said no.
ONLY F’N THUGS SAY NO AND CALL IT COMPROMISE!!!!!
newmeximan
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 3:08 am
The House and Senate began work on am inexpensive fix to the credit default swap time bomb in 2007, and Bush told them not to bother, since he would veto it, and the Democrats didn’t have the votes to over ride the veto. A year later, he called on Congress to hand him $700 billion to hand out to banks so that the value of the dollar would remain over .50 cents on the dollar. You remember, when your 401K lost 30$ of it’s value in a week?
Who was the thug then?
AVoiceAmongstMany
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Why are we arguing about this. ALL of our politicians are thugs. Plain and simple. NONE of them care about the ‘common’ American. Our political system is the running joke here on planet Earth, and we-the-people need to do something about it. Yesterday isn’t fast enough for these changes.
Sally
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 6:13 am
Obama said NO because the GOP wanted to tie it to the Pipeline to Hell. Had the GOP simply said, “Yes, we will do the right thing for working Americans and extend this for another year to keep the economy moving” of course the President would sign it. You are listening to the Fox spin on this…the GOP screwed it up, and will do so again next month. This ‘committee’ is a rehash of the Super Committee…and Boehner even put “never met a tax cut I couldn’t support unless it’s for the middle class Norquist kisser” Dave Camp on it again. There is no way in heck they will come up with a year long extension that doesn’t include poison for the country. The thugs are the GOP, and people are now paying attention. Expect more tears from Boehner, and more lying from the right.
J Hall
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 6:28 am
Conservative Heart…isn’t that an oxymoron? BTW which party has been threatening to shut down the gov’t every time they don’t get their way? So who’s the thug again?
goddess
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 8:33 am
You’re so cute! Yet another thug who can’t get nearly as good as he gives. Merry Christmas.
prddem
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 8:45 am
Whoa, buddy. You’re just mad ’cause ya lost. Have a drink and chill – you’ll get used to being on the receiving end. It just takes a while.
dragonpuff
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 8:53 am
Boo effing hoo!
Really there is no need to render an intelligent treatise
to you on why the house republicans are the dictionary
definition of thugs. They are always talking about
compromise–but never on their part. It’s embarrassing
and has rendered your party ignorant and dangerous in the eyes
of the American public.
And as you said “ONLY F’N THUGS SAY NO AND CALL IT COMPROMISE!!!!!”
This is called the modern day GOP. Live with what you all have become.
Debt ceiling anyone?
Robert Chapman
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 11:27 am
Conservative Heart is off base in this comment. There comes a point when haggling has to stop and an agreement has to be reached.
The time clearly has not arrived. The Senate and Obama both demonstrated their recognition of the need for further refinement of the bill extending UIB, pay roll tax cuts and maintaining medicare reimbursemnt by offering a two month extension of these measures days before they were due to expire.
The House will now have two months to make their case and to present constructive amendments to these measures.
There was no thuggery involved in this issue, merely the recognition among four of the five negotiators that the time had come to extend the benefits in a way that allowed the hold-outs a chance to express their reservactions and offer amendments.
If sentiments such as those Conservative Heart expressed continue to hold sway among the House Republicans we will be faced with the same sort of stand-off in two months and will again probably resolve it through another continuing resolution.
If on the other hand, the House Republicans find it within themselves to negotiate in good faith, for the good of the country, we could very well come out of this with a better benefit plan for the unemployed and be a step closer toward a tax reform initiative that is fair to the lower income brackets as well as to the rich and powerful.
A Walkaway
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Uh… if this is the same “Conservative Heart” I remember from previous postings, it doesn’t sound like you’re joshing or making a point by using excess. I would hope that you ARE trying to imitate the conservatives and aren’t actually speaking what you believe – if you are, then I misunderstood your previous posts and the saying about not being able to tell if it’s a joke or the reality of the conservatives is made more valid.
Cha
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Your stupid brainwashed babbling is ugly. Shut up.
Mike Stone Sr
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Never, never, ever give any credit to the opposition , that’s the way our unamerican “left wing” press handles everything. Getting a majority or getting the “hammer” on individual disagreements on legislation is one thing, but the “deranged” liberal media either doesn’t care or doesn’t realize their obsessed support of “radical progressives” is destroying the system. To really have representative freedom, you must have a choice in issues and the “leftist” media dominates and distorts every issue to the extent our system is not working!
Damian
Dec. 24th, 2011 at 1:25 am
You should not compromise just for the sake of compromise. Compromise is for when both sides have good ideas not when one side has lost it’s f’ing mind. So only F’n thugs say no. Ok lets pose this hypothetical one side says that children are a huge burden on the economy and their solution is to kill all children, the other side thinks children are precious and we should not kill any of them, so you are saying that it would be wrong for party 2 to say no and to only agree to a resolution that killed no children but instead should compromise for the sake of compromise and agree to kill half the children. You may think this is a preposterous example but when you look at the number of children that starve to death in this country every year if you vote for anything that takes money out of the hands of working families you are killing children.
Porkulous!
Dec. 24th, 2011 at 5:13 am
You sir, are a master troll.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:47 am
Boner got caught with his poison pill! YeeHaw.
The Keystone pipeline. 60 days is not enough to evaluate.
The idiots realized too late.
This was ONE instance the poison pill worked!
I have called my Senate to not accept poison pill Legislation!
They are killing the wolves on it and slaughtering horses, but it is all blamed on OBAMA and not the HOUSE where it belongs!
Occupy vote! 2012 vote out the do nothing ————->CONGRESS~
msbpodcast
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Repubes or democraps, our politicians are equipped with the morals of gutter cats.
The problem with republics is the same as with monarchies. After a while, the noble intentions at the start are as dead as the noble individuals which founded the kingdom or the republic. (The methods of creation for either are equally bloody.)
If we want a representative government, we’ll have to RE-create it. (There were no parties in 1776.)
If we want smaller government, we’ll have to take out the incentives for its growth too.
We’ve become a government
• OF the thousandaires (the 99%, that would be me and thee,)
• BY the millionaires (the 1%, that would be the extremely insular privileged overlords and bosses,)
• FOR the billionaires (the 12,400 individuals identified by the IRS as the people who count (though they don’t really count as they hire some thousandaires to run machines to do that.)
The first thing we do is change from an ELECTED to a SELECTED form of government.
Pick names at random out an eligible citizen pool and they’re stuck with doing the job for one, and only one, four year term.
There could/should/would be no such thing as a career in politics. (The only thing worse than getting stuck with somebody who didn’t want the job is getting stuck with some idiot who did, figuring it was going to lift him a few rungs up the social/economic ladder.)
Eligibility requirements are:
• were you born here or are you a naturalized citizen?
• are you a permanent resident in a village, town or city within our borders?
• are you above the age of 25?
• are you healthy enough? (you don’t suffer from any clinical health issue(s) or mental impairment(s) which would prevent you from fulfilling your duties?)
• have you NEVER served on the government before?
• have you NEVER been found guilty of a violent crime?
• have you NEVER been found to be clinically insane?
Answer yes to all of these questions, you’re eligible for selection.
Don’t want to be bothered?
Go live elsewhere!
That would get rid of all PACs, K Street lobbyists, a lot of graft, waste and expense that WE’RE all paying for.
Cha
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Another turd in the punchbowl that’s only there to spoil the celebration..they don’t offer any insight.
Too bad for them they’re so obvious that no one’s drinking their crap.
eddhino
Dec. 26th, 2011 at 11:12 am
ys never mention grover norquist and his band of merry men who are stealing from the middle class to enrich there billionare masters on wall street red china russia and india south east asia and india and there bosses the master of the tgop party the koch brothers boner recieves his mk,arching orders from the koch boys who own the american legislative executive council you can put lip stick onthe gopig but tis still owned by the THE KOCH SUCKERS
majii
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:50 am
This might seem like a revelation to those in the GOP who didn’t know it, but I, and many on the left, have been saying for years that when it comes to the American people, the GOP doesn’t give a fig, and that the party only uses the ill/un/under-informed to win elections to better serve their corporate masters. I certainly hope the dems have in mind to run this clip over and over in 2012 since I believe there’s nothing better than hearing something from the horse’s mouth.
msbpodcast
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Your thinking in terms of right and left. You couldn’t be more wrong. The United States of America doesn’t know what a left is. Politics in this country are right-wing and really right-wing.
This is a fascist republic/oligarchy, and there’s NOTHING WONG WITH THAT as long as its properly organized. We’ve just let the 1%ers (the millionaires politicians and bosses) tilt the table to far towards the 12,400 (the billionaires) so that the assets of the remaining 99% (the thousandaires) are all rolling that way.
Lets examine the three systems of economic organization:
• Free Enterprise, where capital goods are owned by private owners and controlled by private owners,
• Fascism, where capital goods are owned by private owners and controlled by the state,
• Socialism, where capital goods are owned by the state and controlled by the state.
Clearly, the economy is set up for the few % who own almost everything.
To put in terms you can understand at a glance:
180,000,000 poor Americans own/control as much wealth as
…………400 rich Americans
120,000,000 lower middle class Americans own/control as much wealth
………12,000 upper middle class americans.
…3,000,000 middle class Americans own/control as much wealth as is left.
These 3 systems are separate constructs from the four forms of government:
• Anarchy (rule by no one,)
• Dictatorship or Monarchy (rule by one person,)
• Oligarchy (rule by a few persons, like we currently have here,)
• Democracy (rule by the majority, aka “tyranny of the masses”)
None of these socio-economic systems are mutually exclusive in the larger context of a political systems.
In fact, it is necessary to combine the three because there are features of each which complement and fill in the bid spots in each.
A successful country is one where the systems are successfully blended.
An unsuccessful country is one where there is an unnecessary bias towards one or another.
For example, that is why we have a unified power grid but each utility/corporation cooperates in maintaining the unified power grid while trying to minimize the costs, possibly to maximize their profitability.
This cooperative feature is arrived at regardless of the economic system or political system.
Our economic problems arise from a misunderstanding of what a politicians jobs were by our oligarchies (the people some, not all but merely some of us, held our noses and elected.)
We will probably give the 1%ers a well deserved beating after we have given the 12,400 really rich the shaft. (Why not? We, the 99%ers, have been giving them everything else since the 1970s.)
Mike Stone Sr
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 9:51 pm
@majii—If you really believe the repubs are the bad guys and the demos are your saviour, I’ve got to figure you’re so dumb you had to have this post written for you. These bastards are all progressives, hoping to continually enlarge government until there is no more private property or tax money to steal, then , even you should be able to see what will happen then!
tim
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:55 am
You were easier on Boehner than Reuters was. They quoted him without the context, so yeah, he’s going to be eating these words for a long time. Tough crowd:-) They just quoted him as saying “we tried- Why not do the right thing for the American people even though it’s not exactly what we want.”
He stumbled and fumbled around never giving a reason why suddenly they changed their minds, admitting that he was forced to do the right thing. How pathetic.
john R
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 1:08 am
i think the Repubs are right on this one..in one incident they have 1 pretty much insured BHO will be re-elected 2 raised the possibilities of a Democratic House to a distinct possibilities 3 assured the probability that the Senate would remain Democratic..
this next year we need not only to be smart politically, (we actually have stolen the tax issue) along with such things as the death of Bin Laden, and the end of the Iraq, we have the national security card too.. the only way we can loose is gross stupidity, and not paying attention to the voter disenfranchisment, polling fruad and other dirty tricks
newmeximan
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 3:15 am
The issue began in December of 2009, when Sen. Brown prevented an extension of unemployment benefits unless the Cheney tax cuts were renewed. I call them the Cheney cuts since he had to breal the tie in the Senate.
If Sen. Reid had allowed the cuts to expire at the cost of the unemployment benefits, the Democrats might not have been shellacked. We have now learned that when the conservatives have the bully pulpit, they will back down.
Sen. Brown would not have been able to return to Mass. if he had allowed the unemployment benefits to expire. Sure, in the short term the GOP might have blamed the Democrats, but since the GOP only really wants to keep their master’s happy they would have given more than unemployment in the deal. Maybe even labor organizing, that has been dead since Teddy passed away.
Sally
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 6:15 am
And the irony? Had Sen Brown done the right thing, the economy would be recovering at a faster clip, and Brown may have been aboe to keep the seat he will now lose to Liz Warren, who will ALWAYS do what is right for the people.
Christopher Lines
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 9:46 am
exactly. i’m tired of the msm calling him a centrist. it’s been pissing me off to no end. if he’s a centrist, then sen. sanders is a rwnj repub. brown is only spouting this rhetoric because he knows he’s down in the polls against elizabeth warren.
Dan Skinner
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 4:55 am
the only good republican is an unemployed republican.
Anne
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 7:36 am
The public humiliation of Boehner and the GOP-led House is a case of the chickens coming home to roost. It was a long time coming, but it was made inevitable by the stubborn refusal of Republicans to work with the president on the grounds that they wanted his presidency to fail. They didn’t care about the many Americans who have been hurt by their strategy of obstruction, and anyone who thinks the president didn’t bend over backward many times to compromise is immersed in self-deception. I hope he continues to hold their feet to the fire, because it’s obvious that he’s been working to help everyday Americans in spite of them.
motorfingaz
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 8:33 am
These traitors admit they have to be FORCED to do the right thing??? WTF?
ProChoiceGrandma
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 9:47 am
That smarmy sneering Eric Cantor has been lusting over Speaker Boehner’s huge wooden mallet, er, gavel. Most likely he’s the culprit that stabbed Boehner in the back.
Anne
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 10:38 am
I noticed that Cantor’s “smarmy sneering” expression was wiped from his face, and now he has a whopping amount of egg he has to wipe from it, just like Boehner and the other bone-headed GOP/TP representatives who adopted an indefensible position and were abandoned by most GOP senators. There are folks who claim the GOP House members wanted the year-long extension, but what they fail to realize is that they wanted it on their terms, which included injecting “poison pills” into the mix. These included significantly decreasing the time period that the unemployed could receive their unemployment benefits and firing 200,000 federal workers. So, no, they do NOT deserve credit for finally bowing to reality. Just a few days ago, Boehner was trying to give orders to the president and other Democrats, but he has learned that he wrote a check with his mouth that his posterior couldn’t cash.
ProChoiceGrandma
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I agree, Anne. It has annoyed me immensely that the Republicans were all too often allowed to spew the lie that THEY wanted the 1 year payroll tax cut all along, and few challenged that lie! They initially did NOT want the payroll tax cut for the middle class, THEN they added the poison pills in an attempt to kill it entirely.
Acebass
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 am
Does the speaker appear to have aged somewhat in the past months. I wonder if he’s using herbal remedies or if he’s just taking his estrogen…
Robert Chapman
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 11:38 am
When President Obama was elected in 2008, he had run on a platform of change and bipartisanship in Washington, DC. The passage of health care reform, green energy alternatives and middle class tax relief are some of the changes that the President has accomplished.
During Obama’s administration, the economy has been greatly changed by the passage of Dodd-Franks, the effective administration of TARP and the auto industry bail-out.
The US has gone from a foreign policy based on bullying and promiscuous military engagements to one that fosters human rights and forcefully opposes tyranny.
Yet the cornerstone of the President’s program, bipartisanship, has remained elusive and difficult. The passage of the tax relief extension and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s role in shaping and passing it have provided a success in bi-partisanship that we can build on.
The President has shown firmness and strength, the Minority House leader has been a faithful and constructive interlocutor in crafting this legislation, the Senate Majority leader has shown both firmness and creativity in his approach to getting this work done.
Instead of beating Speaker Boehner about the head and shoulders and gloating, we should offer him the outstretched hand of magnaminity and recruit his help in negotiating a good program of economic growth and tax reform.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 11:49 am
Your kidding…right?
“Instead of beating Speaker Boehner about the head and shoulders and gloating, we should offer him the outstretched hand of magnaminity and recruit his help in negotiating a good program of economic growth and tax reform.”
NO!
PO should veto all their poison pills and use his ex power and bang boner over the head!
1voice1vote
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Mr. Chapman, I agree, and to my eye, President Obama executes the duties of his office with honor and dignity; quietly doing the people’s business.
“Yet the cornerstone of the President’s program, bipartisanship, has remained elusive and difficult.” The GOP has clearly stated that their only objective is to make sure that President Obama “fails.” They have proven that they will sink to new levels of absurdity to accomplish their one mission. The Republican leaders pander to the lowest of their base by fanning the flames of anger and fear at every opportunity. [I've been politically active for >40 years, and I've not witnessed anything that compares to this current bunch of Republicans.]
I have no doubt that my President will extend his hand because he does so for the good of the American people. The Republicans will refuse to unclench their fists to their peril.
Obama 2012
Occupy the vote
dfunkd
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 11:51 am
They were only forced to do part of the right thing. For them to have really done the right thing, the GOP, in it’s entirety, would have quit so that real politicians could get the damn job done. I say arrest everyone who aligns themselves with the GOP / Tea Party as they are all treasonous ass clowns.
Taxpayer
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:10 pm
You mean the Democrats are going to solve America’s economic problems? How much marijuana do you smoke in a day on average?
Both parties broke trade, broke immigration, deregulated the financial sector, engaged in massive deficit spending driving up the national debt, inflated public employee unions, etc… etc… etc…
I have the voting records right here proving it. That’s quite a pink cloud you’re living on to think just one party is responsible and the other party will fix it. A drugged out pink cloud is all it is friend.
dfunkd
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I am not saying that all Repubs are bad, just the corporate loving assholes like Boner.
Taxpayer
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Until the U.S. fixes trade to end the offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs, capital investment, and innovation enmasse to foreign countries and workers; E-verifies the nation so low income Americans can get off social services and go to work again; stops insourcing large numbers of foreign workers on visa to further displace American labor; and stops selling seats in U.S. colleges to foreign students who then displace American students here in the U.S. labor market or go home and form businesses to compete against U.S. ones; etc… there will be no real U.S. jobful recovery where American workers are working at the same real dollar wages as before and at the same percentages as before.
A Walkaway
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Well, if they’d make it possible for people to earn a living wage in their own countries, then they might not migrate here.
Don’t knock immigrants, unless you can claim to have ancestors who met Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Virginia Company (and the others) when they arrived. Beware bigotry, as Mexican Americans (and Latino immigrants) are becoming the newest “hated minority” (and since most Mexicans have Native American ancestors, anyone who discriminates against them are attacking my people).
The problem is not Republican/Democrat, although most of the blame lies with the Republican party because they bought neoliberalism and neoconservativism hook, line, and sinker. It is the thinking behind neoliberalism, that the market fixes everything. No, the “marketplace” is the PROBLEM. Neoliberalism has infected the Democratic party too, but the good news is that not all Democrats buy into that failed ideology.
Neoconservativism… of which the Republican party is severely (if not terminally) infected, is just pure greed and selfishness. I can argue that it developed out of neoliberalism, and flows from the same roots.
Nick Ruark
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Memo to Congress: Thanks for everything you’ve done for we the people this past year. We look forward to next November to justly reward you for all your hard work on our behalf. Till then, here’s a little something to keep in the back of your minds. Wishing you Seasons Greetings and best wishes for the New Year. www.facebook.com/photo.ph...
cricket
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 1:47 pm
How can it be hard to do the right thing? How can it be hard politacly to do the right thing? I would think doing the right thing would be easy.
Mike Stone Sr
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 pm
It is easy, it’s just not always the most profitable thing. Politicians, nearly all of them came to Congress to serve themselves, not our people.
clay chambers
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 5:02 pm
lets face it, as long as we the people allow our “representatives” to push legislation that has attached to it laws that have nothing to do with each other(ie: attaching a piline deal to tax cuts), we the people are never going to be properly represented. our politicians and representatives are in the pockets of big industry whos only concern is profit margin, if the pipeline gets approved, not only will we be once again selling all our resources to other countries instead of our own, i bet most of the labor will be subbed out to illegal immigrants.
rj
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 10:20 pm
bitch slapped by the president & his own party of criminals. go cry some oramge tears.
Bob
Dec. 23rd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Tea Party/GOP Bought, owned and Operated by ALEC,the ACC and the Koch Brothers are holding the middle class hostage to the Koch Agenda of No Taxes for the Rich and No environmental or Wall Street Regulations. The Simple minded Tea Bagging consituents Duped by lies of Fox News, Rush Pigbaugh and Corporate Media only spread this filth. America need to educate the Baggers and show them the truth through websites like Alecexposed kochbrothersexposed and movetoamend. Then we need to impeach Thomas and Scalia in the Supreme court for allowing our democracy to be turned into a plutocracy and Vote Out all of the Koch-Whores in Congress and State Government. “Take back our Democracy” should be our rally call for 2012!
BigRealtor
Dec. 24th, 2011 at 2:04 am
Coming from your neighbour (we spell it with u) north of the border, your political system is weakening your country’s position everyday as a ‘super power’…
Our continuing of sending oil to you to maintain your #1 status will only continue if you get your house in order. China, Russia and India have placed their orders and they look like the better buyers in this market. Their credit is good and they seem to have their ducks in a row.
I love you guys, but you are becoming that uncle no one wants to talk about…
Josh thompson
Dec. 25th, 2011 at 12:26 am
Why dont you quote his whole statment. Then the people would really understand what he ment.
eddhino
Dec. 26th, 2011 at 11:04 am
read up on the dude he even has ties to islamic terrorists and is married to amuslim woman