John Boehner

House Republicans Screw The American People By Canceling Jobs Votes and Leaving Until November

House Republicans Screw The American People By Canceling Jobs Votes and Leaving Until November

After a nearly a year of having done nothing, House Republicans have rewarded themselves by canceling all of their remaining…

10 years ago

Ahead of Vote To Fund The Government John Boehner Calls House Republicans Knuckleheads

Speaker of the House John Boehner took Republican dysfunction to a new high when he called his own House Republicans…

10 years ago

House Republicans STILL Have No Strategy To Avoid a Government Shutdown

John Boehner continues to say that House Republicans will pass a CR that avoids a government shutdown, but behind close…

10 years ago

House Republicans Conspire With War Criminal Dick Cheney to Plot Iraq Strategy

House Republicans met with war criminal Dick Cheney for counsel on dealing with IS, and likely to promote a new…

10 years ago

None Of The 40 Jobs Bills That John Boehner Claims House Republicans Passed Create Jobs

Speaker of the House John Boehner is claiming that the House Republicans have passed 40 jobs bills that Harry Reid…

10 years ago

Instead of Doing His Job John Boehner Plans To Spend September Shaming Democrats

Instead of doing his job, Speaker of the House John Boehner is planning on using the month of September shame…

10 years ago

John Boehner’s Lawsuit Against Obama Will Cost Taxpayers $500/Hour In Attorney Fees

Taxpayers should be outraged. It was revealed today that John Boehner's lawsuit against President Obama will cost the American people…

10 years ago

House Republicans Self-Destruct and Set The Stage For Another Government Shutdown

Another government shutdown is brewing as House Republicans are ready to go back on a previous agreement to fund the…

10 years ago

Thanks To John Boehner and Sarah Palin Democrats Are Crushing Republicans In Fundraising

Thanks to John Boehner's lawsuit and Sarah Palin beating of the impeachment drums, Democrats had their July in history and…

10 years ago

John Boehner Makes A Fool Out of Himself Trying To Use ACA Subsidy Ruling To Push His Lawsuit

After the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that Obamacare subsidies were illegal for the federal marketplace, Speaker…

10 years ago

John Boehner Runs Away From His Unpopular Lawsuit Against Obama by Blaming Democrats

Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to distance himself from his unpopular lawsuit against President Obama by blaming Democrats…

10 years ago

John Boehner Coldly Shoots Down Sarah Palin’s Call For Obama To Be Impeached

When Speaker of the House John Boehner was asked about Sarah Palin's call for President Obama to be impeached, he…

10 years ago

Boehner’s Sleazy Lawsuit Is About Blaming The Black Man In White House For GOP Laziness

Boehner's reason for suing the President is another example of Republicans projecting their gross malfeasance on the African American in…

10 years ago

John Boehner Can’t Name One Example Of Obama Breaking The Law In 12 Paragraph CNN Op-Ed

Speaker of the House John Boehner spent twelve paragraphs writing about why he must sue President Obama, but what was…

10 years ago

Darrell Issa Tells Obama To Forget About Immigration Reform And Deport DREAMers

On Wednesday, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), released a letter to the press that he…

10 years ago

GOP Mouthpiece Nicolle Wallace Claims Obama Thinks He’s A Victim And Is Not A Leader

During a panel discussion on Wednesday's broadcast of Morning Joe, conservative pundit Nicolle Wallace made the claim that President Obama…

10 years ago

Warmongering Neocon Bill Kristol Gets Raked Over The Coals Regarding His Iraq Stance

During Sunday's broadcast of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol was absolutely destroyed over his opinion that the…

10 years ago

Boehner’s Frivolous Law Suit Is A Shiny Object For His Intellectually Challenged Base

Sanity has definitely left the building when the Party of Unitary Executive President George W. Bush tries to make the…

10 years ago

The Reality Is That There Is No Difference Between Republican and Tea Party Candidates

One would be hard-pressed to find any difference whatsoever between Republicans and their teabagger cohort except their willingness to openly…

10 years ago

Sen. Chuck Grassley Blames Obama For a Scandal Caused By His Own Former Staffer

It is a travesty, and a mystery, why any American would vote for Republicans who not only do nothing for…

10 years ago

Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama’s New EPA Rules

Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered…

10 years ago

House Republicans Refuse to Discuss Climate Change Because They Aren’t Scientists

In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of…

10 years ago

John Boehner Uses Shinseki Resignation To Blame President Obama For the VA Scandal

John Boehner is already using the Shinseki resignation to blame President Obama for the VA scandal while still not offering…

10 years ago

The Republican Party Has Become a Haven For All Forms of Right Wing Extremism

The Pew survey should disabuse Americans of the notion that the teabagger or Republican movements are not havens for right…

10 years ago

John Boehner Wants To Harm Veterans Even More By Privatizing The VA

John Boehner's plan to fix the VA is throw veterans under the bus with a privatization scheme that won't work.

10 years ago

Darrell Issa Declares War on John Boehner as Benghazi Investigation Turns Into a Circus

The big House Benghazi investigation has turned into a full blown circus, as John Boehner has lost control over Darrell…

10 years ago

The Republican Effort To Rollback Workplace Safety Regulations is Literally Killing Americans

The fact that not adhering to regulations kills workers never seems to bother Republicans, or their business sector supporters which…

10 years ago

Keep An Immigration Eye On The House Rules Committee. The Hispanic Vote’s At Stake!

Come Tuesday, May 27, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor and his merry band of bigots will have ceded all Hispanic/Latino…

10 years ago

John Boehner Gets Caught In a Lie and Busted While Fundraising Off Of Benghazi

One day after John Boehner claimed that he had nothing to do with fundraising off of Benghazi, the NRCC sent…

10 years ago

John Boehner Goes Orange, Dark, and Gloomy By Saying He’s Living on Borrowed Time

At a luncheon in Texas today, Speaker of the House John Boehner refused to pledge that he will serve another…

10 years ago

Benghazi Committee Backfires as Boehner Refuses to Answer Fundraising Email Questions

A sign that the latest House Republican Benghazi show investigation is backfiring grew when John Boehner refused to answer questions…

10 years ago

John Boehner Joins The Impeachment Crowd By Claiming Obama is Lying About Benghazi and the IRS

At a press conference that supposedly about jobs, Speaker of the House John Boehner joined the impeachment Obama crowd by…

10 years ago

John Boehner Takes His Orders Directly From Fox News When It Comes to Benghazi

Speaker Boehner allowed Fox News to "establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and…

10 years ago

Pay Us Back: House Republicans Owe Taxpayers $14 Million For Benghazi Investigations

House Republicans have already wasted 14 million taxpayer dollars on Benghazi investigations. Instead of appointing a Select House Committee on…

10 years ago

John Boehner Humiliates Himself In Factory With Claim Repealing Obamacare Creates Jobs

John Boehner humiliated himself again today by standing in a factory and claiming that repealing Obamacare will create jobs.

10 years ago

Congress and Backroom Trade Pacts Grease Skids for FedEx at the Expense of the USPS

If I have a cause as a contributing writer to PoliticusUSA, it is to expose the ongoing and relentless attempts…

10 years ago

John Boehner Would Rather Commit Suicide Than Raise The Minimum Wage

For Speaker of the House John Boehner, it is the prospect of the government attempting to improve the economic situation…

10 years ago

President Obama Has The Middle Class’ Back As He Drops Chained CPI From His Budget

The White House announced that the President will be releasing his budget very soon. One thing that will not be…

10 years ago

Republican VW Union Busting Victory Turns Into a Major Defeat For The GOP

By blocking the workforce's efforts at creating a works council at the Chattanooga plant, Republicans also blocked VW expansion for…

10 years ago

Do Nothing Republicans Announce They Will Not Be Passing Any Legislation This Year

House Republicans have taken doing nothing to a whole new level by announcing that they won't be passing any notable…

10 years ago

Republicans Says Climate Change is In God’s Hands as Taxpayers Foot The Bill for Dirty Coal

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory knows the dirty coal industry is polluting the environment in North Carolina because his state's…

10 years ago

Obamacare Is A Massive Success As 1.1 Million People Signed Up In The Month Of January

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the January enrollment numbers for the ACA and it…

10 years ago

John Boehner Admits That He Can’t Pass Anything Without Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats

John Boehner has admitted that House Republicans have been paralyzed by their own infighting, and the only way that he…

10 years ago

Debt Ceiling Fallout: Boehner Pays The Price For Climbing In Bed With Tea Party Imbeciles

Boehner may face serious repercussions from "true conservatives" in the tea party movement, but that is the price he pays…

10 years ago

Sandy Levin Blasts Republicans For Not Passing Clean Debt Ceiling Vote the Last Time

Democrat Sandy Levin wasn't quite ready to let Republicans forget what they cost the country the last time they refused…

10 years ago

Obama Stares Down Republicans and Wins as House Passes Clean Debt Limit Bill, 221-201

President Obama has officially broken the backs of the Republican hostage takers as the House passed a clean suspension of…

10 years ago

Republicans Lose It and Try to Overthrow John Boehner Over the Clean Debt Limit Bill

Conservatives are so outraged at John Boehner for bringing a clean debt limit increase bill to the House floor that…

10 years ago

Huge Victory For Obama As John Boehner Will Bring Clean Debt Ceiling Bill To House Floor

Apparently, realizing he was in a no-win situation, Boehner finally conceded on Tuesday morning and told his caucus that he…

10 years ago

Say What? Now House Republicans Won’t Raise Debt Ceiling Unless Spending Is Increased

It appears that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has a new plan for Republicans to apparently get a…

10 years ago

Impending Terror As Americans Are Forced To Depend On Republicans To Do Something

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised no later than February…

10 years ago

House Republican Blasts His Own Party, ‘Jesus himself couldn’t be the speaker’

A Republican John Boehner ally tries to justify why the Speaker can't do his job by saying that even Jesus…

10 years ago

Worst Speaker Ever: Republicans Ignore Boehner and Refuse To Pass Clean Debt Limit Hike

A day after John Boehner told them to pass a clean debt ceiling increase, House Republicans ignored him and can't…

10 years ago

In a Private Meeting John Boehner Says Helping The Unemployed Would Be a Bad Thing

In a private meeting, John Boehner explained to his fellow Republicans why they should cave on the debt ceiling. Boehner…

10 years ago

Republicans Self Destruct as Conservative Group Tries to Overthrow Boehner and McConnell

With months to go until the 2014 election, Republicans are already attacking each other as a conservative group is running…

10 years ago

Democrats Hang Tough and Warn John Boehner Don’t Play Games With the Debt Ceiling

A letter from the House Way and Means Democrats is one of the first official warnings to John Boehner that…

10 years ago

Farm Bill Screws The Poor In Order to Provide More Corporate Welfare

Republicans will never pass up an opportunity to cut spending on a program like food stamps to enrich corporations and…

10 years ago

John Boehner Threatens President Obama With Impeachment Over Use Of Executive Orders

On Tuesday morning, at a breakfast discussing the State of the Union address later in the evening, Speaker of the…

10 years ago

Coke Snorting GOP Congressman Trey Radel Will Finally Resign On Monday

Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) has stated that he will resign from Congress effective 6:30 PM ET on Monday. The embattled…

10 years ago

Doubts About the Safety of West Virginia Drinking Water As Republicans Push Deregulation

As doubts remain about the safety of West Virginia drinking water, Republicans were so certain there are sufficient regulations to…

10 years ago

House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills

On Saturday morning, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was chosen by the Republicans to make their weekly address. He claimed that…

10 years ago

John Boehner Comes Alive and Calls Tea Party Racist Rep. Steve King an ‘Asshole’

According to Democratic Rep.Joaquin Castro's diary of his first year in Congress, Speaker of the House John Boehner not only…

10 years ago

The Republican Assault on Clean Water Laws Caused West Virginia Chemical Spill

The recent West Virginia chemical spill should be a stark reminder that Republicans' greatest assault of all is on Americans'…

10 years ago

John Boehner Lies and Blames President Obama for West Virginia Chemical Spill

At a press conference today Speaker Boehner lied and blamed President Obama for the West Virginia chemical spill by accusing…

10 years ago

Republicans Will Kill 240,000 Jobs In 2014 By Not Extending Unemployment Benefits

Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that…

10 years ago

John Boehner Tells His Biggest Lie Yet By Claiming Obama Obstructed House Jobs Bills

Republicans are riding a three-year job-killing frenzy and still, Boehner has the temerity to claim House Republicans passed several job…

10 years ago

Speaker Boehner Admits That He Won’t Lift a Finger to Help Unemployed Americans

On Tuesday, after the Senate passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed, and President Obama held…

10 years ago

Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days

House Republican leadership unveiled the new House work calendar and it shows that the House will only be in session…

10 years ago

Obama Turns Up the Heat and Pressures Boehner to Restore Unemployment Benefits

On New Year's Day, the White House released a statement saying in no uncertain terms that the President will push…

10 years ago

John Boehner Blames President Obama For Three Years of Republican Incompetence

After spending three years killing jobs, sending Americans into poverty, and damaging the economy, Boehner is doing damage control and…

10 years ago

Media Finally Pivots Away from Repetitive Deficit Scare Tactics and Notices Surging Populism

The movement away from "serious" economic butchering that only serves to enrich the wealthy and kick the troubled when they're…

10 years ago

Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent

The media is not about to damage Republicans' electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in…

10 years ago

Obama’s New DOJ Voting Rights Advocate has Texas and North Carolina In Her Crosshairs

The Republicans and the Tea Party thought they had it made when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.…

10 years ago

When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…

10 years ago

Poll: Who is the biggest Republican tool in the box?

It's been a year of epic toolery in the GOP. From Ted Cruz's government shutdown to the GOP's endless ObamaCare…

10 years ago

A Lot of Politically Surprising Things Happened Last Week…But Has Anything Changed?

As we barreled toward the New Year last week, it seemed that each morning brought with it some genuinely surprising…

10 years ago

The Real Tragedy After Newtown Is That There Has Been Nothing Done

The real tragedy of the Newtown massacre was that despite scores of legislators saying it was finally time to move…

10 years ago

Desperate To Save His Job John Boehner Declares War on Tea Party Groups

In a private meeting John Boehner claimed that outside groups aren't real conservatives, as he escalated his war on tea…

10 years ago

Republicans Insult America by Making Paul Ryan the Face of Compassionate Conservatism

To put Ryan's face on the new compassionate conservatism is an affront to any American familiar with his contempt for…

10 years ago

John Boehner’s Outburst at Conservative Groups Was Completely Phony

Boehner's phony indignation targeting conservative groups he bent over backwards serving over the past three years did not have an…

10 years ago

House of Representatives Actually Pass a Budget Deal; Will Senate Follow Suit?

Lo and behold, in this least productive year ever in Congressional history, the House was able to get a two-year…

10 years ago

It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement

it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan's face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising…

10 years ago

HHS Releases ACA Enrollment Numbers for November and it Sends Republicans Reeling

While estimates had already been released prior to today in regards to the number of enrollments through the health insurance…

10 years ago

Republican Candidate Says You Have to Talk to Women on an Emotional Level

The Republicans persist in talking to women with attitudes twenty centuries out of date, and that this presents no obstacle.

10 years ago

John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs

It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job…

10 years ago

John Boehner Won’t Take Responsibility for Least Productive Congress Ever

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was confronted by reporters on Tuesday and asked his thoughts about this being…

10 years ago

Boehner Gets Caught Hyping Another Completely False Obamacare ‘Horror’ Story

On Monday, as Healthcare.gov was being visited by nearly a million people, Speaker of the House John Bohner (R-OH) felt…

10 years ago

Republicans Freak Out as Healthcare.gov Gets Nearly a Million Hits on Monday

At his press conference on Monday afternoon, White House Press Secretary confirmed that over 375,000 people visited the federal health…

10 years ago

John Boehner Lied and Faked Problems With Website While Signing Up for Obamacare

It turns out that Speaker Boehner lied about his struggles to sign up for Obamacare. The Speaker wasn't having trouble…

10 years ago

Boehner Whines About Receiving Excellent Health Insurance the Same Day He Applies

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) decided to blog about his Healthcare.gov experience on Thursday. According to the Speaker's…

10 years ago

Harry Reid Has Dealt a Major Blow to The Senate Republican Agenda

After allowing Republican dictators-by-committee to hold sway over a crucial portion of government for nearly five years, Majority Leader Harry…

10 years ago

Republican Food Stamp Cuts Force 47.7 Million People to Live on Less Than One Meal a Day

A new report reveals that the recent food stamp cuts mean that 47.7 million children, senior citizens, working Americans, and…

10 years ago

John Boehner Is Trying to Emulate Vladimir Putin’s Assault on Homosexuals

John Boehner is doing his best to help the anti-gay movement increase their power in America and learn how to…

10 years ago

At Least One Institution is Thriving Under Our Divided Federal Government – Gangs!!!

Within a few years, there could be one million gang members in the U.S. Gangs are a refuge for children…

10 years ago

It’s Time to Kill the Absurd Notion That Cutting Taxes on the Rich Grows The Economy

Ronald Reagan has been dead for over nine years and it is time to kill his absurd notion that cutting…

10 years ago

Harry Reid Eviscerates John Boehner, ‘Nobody knows what he’s talking about.’

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is fed up with Speaker of the House John Boehner. Reid let loose in an…

10 years ago

They Were Born That Way: Is This John Boehner’s ENDA?

John Boehner's reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.

10 years ago

Heartless John Boehner Goes Cold When Confronted By Child Immigration Activists

Two child immigration activists who have both had their fathers deported or detained confronted John Boehner today, and the Speaker's…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 12: Tim Griffin and Arkansas’s 2nd District

This is the twelfth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions

As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…

10 years ago

Republicans Have Grown To Hate America As Much As They Hate President Obama

If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to…

10 years ago