C&Ler Dan sent in this clip to us. I know we wrote about Boehner's tobacco ties when he fought to become minority leader ... In this 1996 documentary by PBS called "The People and the Power Game," John Boehner is caught red-handed in an amazing act of corruption, and his biggest critics are fellow Republicans.
Boehner: Mine asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. I did it on the House floor which I regret and I should not have done, it's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that's gone on here for a long time.
Were the checks from tobacco companies?
Boehner: Ahh, I think if my memory serves me correctly, I think it was a tobacco company, yes.
Q)....but in this case tobacco's well timed contributions helped save its subsidy. The people that were passing out the checks won.
So how did he become their leader in the HOUSE? Oh right, being corrupt is just fine for Republicans, but they put a hold on the Solis nomination for something her husband is involved in and she had nothing to do with.
And yet the media uses John Boehner as a spokesman bashing the stimulus package as if he's been a clean member of the Republican party.
If this stinkbomb of a republican stimulus bill goes through and Obama signs it, this country is finished. This bill is a freaking joke, written by two republican's (yes, you Ben Nelson), and it is horribly inadequate, and has everything the American people voted FOR stripped out of it; while a bunch of useless fucking tax cuts, TAX CUTS, are put in.
You have totally screwed the pooch Mr. President. You picked those psychopath's from the GOP up from the floor - where the American people had just stomped the shit out of them again, and you dusted them off and handed them a loaded shotgun. Now the nutfucks are holding the entire country hostage! Way to go. Nice freakin' move.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Hope Obama wakes up from his Kumbaya moment soon. I had faith in his intelligence, but did not realize he was politically naive.
this is not news , its old news! we knew this long ago! thoes of us that cared to listen!
Yea, this is so 1996. The 24/7 media doesn't care about old corruption unless the person has a (D) after their last name.
This story of corruption pales in comparison to being sold down the river by a man we trusted was decent and had morality.
Hell, pass out all the checks you want, boys and girls. Nice big fat ones so we can wait for the trickle down once again as our government gives us the finger.
I don't care anymore. I am numb with anger.
I am so enraged I can't even think about it for more than a minute at a time.
I saw that lisping idiot Susan Collins on t.v. yesterday for about five seconds, and she said "the american people don't want an overbloated stimulus bill." WTF?
These asshole republicans got butchered two elections in a row, and now this stupid bitch rebublican is telling the american people who voted overwhelmingly against her party - what we really wanted? More tax cuts! Less jobs, fewer investment $$$ in education and technology. These fuckers are so arrogant, I don't think they would get it even if we had a French style guillotine revolution.
And I am about to dump the democrats. After the biggest landslide in decades, an election that screamed for a New Deal II, these useless spineless democrats let the repuke idiots walk all over them. The god damned republican's who are left, should be walking around in disguise to avoid being stoned in public. Instead, they are bigger arrogant assholes than ever. Thanks Obama (Mr. Bipartisan) and you worthless POS Harry Reid!
80+ House Seats
59 Senate seats (oh yeah, where the hell is Al?)
A landslide electoral victory
And Ben Nelson (r) and Susan Collins (R) write our "change we can believe in" 21st century tax cut, I mean stimulus bill!
Unfreakingbelievable!
Yet, Bush was appointed president after losing the popular vote
Repukes lost 5 Senate seats and had to use V.P. Cheney to break a 50-50 tie
House GOPers had whopping 222-213 majority
And yet, Bush got every radical-neocon, loonytoon fucked-up piece of fascist legislation through that he wanted!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
collins said she wants the compromise that was agreed upon this weekend. i don't necessarily like it either but the strategy is to spread the involvement for something they are NOT sure how to "fix". this may be to pacify the (R). i'm disappointed about the deletion of the education funding...it's a mistake but Obama is trying bipartisanship like he said he would do. i guess he will be damned if he does or damned if he doesn't. personally i don't believe it can be "fixed" maybe it can be reduced/lessened. i guess some like to eat their own to strengthen their view/cause. if Obama turns his back on compromise......he will be labeled an authoritarian like BUSH. to me many EARLY critics of Obama are playing right into the (R)'s strategy to establish a new identity.
Go together like peanut butter and jelly. Oh wait, the peanut butter was recalled cuz it kills people. Well, it goes together like ham and eggs. Oh wait, the pork producers are going broke and the genetically modified eggs taste more like powder now....Ummmm.....ta heck with it. Corrupt bastards.
Bagman.
Bagman and Rubbers.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hack...hack...ptooie...
Damn Gauloises...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It's simply because the Press, Journalists, and the American Lawmakers don't hold these people responsible or accountable. The hypocrisy is not called out nearly enough. The subpoenas and investigations aren't carried out nearly enough. And the Journalists take the safe route way too much and travel on the road of muckraking not nearly enough.
And I've had enough. Luckily the new media (blogs/virtual online magazines) doesn't follow in the footsteps of the past.
All I can see is the turds fly out of his eyes and mouth...
What a disgraceful being...
His first words after getting caught in a room full of under aged boys ... would be how we have to stop child abuse.
Filthy animal.
I hate that motherfucker. There, I said it.
You can tell this show is old because you would NEVER catch a Republican talking to a PBS investigative reporter these days.
do that in china and get caught, they march you into a filled sports stadium, tie you to a stake and shoot you in head.. do that a couple of times on the steps of the capitol and all that bribery stuff will disappear.
John Boehner is so disingenious; "if my memory serves me well, I think they were tabacco checks". The press is so Republican beholding that they expose GOP wrong doings without actually significantly pursuing or correctly dipicting the travestry committed. Instead this weak matter a fact blip giving Boehner a pass. It was more of an explanation justifying his behavior for this very last time. Pathetic.
In a time when this country is rid of Bush finally, the Republicans are in the minority; the press continues the work of their masters.
This is no time for the press to let America down like the countless times they did under Bush. It is however continuing.
Boehner is a moral man. He spoke out against chicks taking pills so they don't get knocked up when they don't have jobs so he is a moral guy. Keeping chicks from having sex (unless they are being paid by Republicans to have sex) is the highest moral ground a man can take.
Boehner is despicable in all ways.
He is, also, very vain and we should take advantage of it.
HOW DOES HE GET HIS TAN?
WHEN AND WHERE?
While he is tanning himself and handing out Checks, the people of Ohio are suffering and he just doesn't care.
When boehner refuses to support Healthcare Reform, this video
should be shown so often on the Internet, the MSM will have to run it.
See, the little man may yet serve a good purpose.
Hard to find one single Reslug that isn't a crook and liar to be their top spokesmen.
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