Republican John Boehner Backpedaling On Stimulus Lies
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 2:00pm
(h/t Jamie)
Last Sunday on Fox News, Ohio Republican John Boehner raised a few eyebrows when he told host Chris Wallace that there hasn't been a single stimulus job started in his state:
In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago -- there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge. And the fact is -- is I don’t believe it will create jobs.
John Boehner is either a liar or he's clueless:
When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.
Boehner released a statement to "clarify:"
"The entire process has been absurdly slow moving just as Republicans warned it would be when we called for an economic recovery bill based on fast-acting tax relief for small businesses and working families," Boehner said in a statement. Read on...
Well, he was close, right? He said zero, but the number was actually 52. I really hate liars. It's par for the course with today's GOP. Just make sh*t up as you go and hope that something sticks to the wall.
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lying face! He needs a good lesson in STFU!
the look on boehner's face is priceless,
it looks like he just pulled his entire
head out of the gop's elephant's gaping
asshole. could be where he gets that
dark brown glow.
That Obama is going to keep his campaign promises..
Just how many has he refuse to keep now.
Stop the Iraq war.
Stop the illegal spying.
Have trials for the prisoners and free the innocent.
Renegotiate the free trade bill.
Create 3.5 million jobs for Americans.
Obama in following down the same path Bush took , except he is using diplomacy instead of the cowboy playbook..
That's a pretty huge except.
...there is a big sign on my daily route home that says...
"project funded by the restore America act...or something like that but...
work has not begun...yet...but at least someone got paid to put up a sign.
(the sign probly cost at least thousand bucks to put up.)
Ouch
Around here they are fixing roads and bridges but with the skeleton crews that remained after the mass layoffs started.
If my business isn't making any money why would I need a tax cut? If I'm laid off from my job why would I need a tax cut? The repugnacan tax cut mantra rings really hollow, especially now.
It's the only play in their playbook.
Is Boehner sick? He isn't looking as orange as he usually does.
or he was forced to cut back and hire an out-of-work mortician as his personal assistant.
for infrastructure moneys to be spent is almost a year. The Stimulus bill was passed in February and moneys were being spent in June. That's actually an incredibly fast turnaround time -- nothing "absurdly slow" about it.
and lubed.
whaaaa....
admit. Especially in small to medium size start ups.
The bronzer fumes are going to Representative Orangeman's head.
Boner should really have his head checked. Whadda limp dick!
He's wearing the same outfit he wore when he weeped for war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGoYOSomKLw
Does Orangeman have anything in his closet besides grey suits, white shirts, pink ties, orange bronzer and cases of Kleenex?
No. ...he most likely has transferred all of its contents into Dick Cheney's "man sized safe"
a case of Trojan finger puppets
for the anally unfortunate.
Boener!!!and wants more! more! more!
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should consider drafting a second stimulus package focusing on infrastructure projects because the $787 billion approved in February was “a bit too small,” said Laura Tyson, an outside adviser to President Barack Obama.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206010...
Too small of a stimulus package would simply cause a slower jobless "recovery".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/paul...
were bursting an artery a couple of months ago because the original stimulus was too big. So now they are for increasing spending? Uh?
What kind of tax relief would have worked that quickly? It wouldn't even be in effect yet. They might have sent out some more checks by this time if they'd gone that way again but it was such a failure last time what would've been the point?
Every time I see his name, its pronounced "Boner". I always have to catch myself to pronounce it properly.
Boner works for me. I don't even try to correct myself.
When speaking German, if two vowels are together, only the second one is pronounced. Therefore, his name should be pronounced "Beaner."I find this somewhat ironic.
You are correct about the second vowel being the one pronounced. But of course the "e" would be pronounced as a German "e", or like English speakers would say the letter "a"...
But I personally still prefer leaving that e silent and going with Boner, cause that's basically what he is. Big Orange Boner. Grossorangenständer?
The German letter [ö], because of the way it's pronounced, is often transcribed into English as [oe] (its pronounciation is sort of halfway between those two English sounds). The closest way of representing the proper pronounciation of Böhner with English spelling is to render it as "Bayner".
However you pronounce his name, though, he's still a dickhead.
They announced the 52 construction projects while he was in the tanning booth. All 52 times.
Everytime I hear the Bone-Headed lies from him it's reminds me just how damn dumb Reslugs have to be to elect idiots like him. I could never support any corrupt, hate-filled, liar like them.
Well, he was close, right? He said zero, but the number was actually 52. I really hate liars. It's par for the course with today's GOP. Just make sh*t up as you go and hope that something sticks to the wall.
Careful. Don't get all tin-foil-hatty. Some people might call you a conspiracy theorist. (snark)(from earlier thread)
Here's more proof they lie through their teeth, routinely, It's second nature. How can we believe anything they say? These guys make it up as they go, for whatever is on the agenda.
Logan I dislike, and DISTRUST, liars too.
Say something extreme to incite your base. Backpedal if the brain-dead media catch you in a lie. Your crazy base has internalized your lie, and you are not scarred. It's a classic Rove maneuver that the GOP mainstream have refined to a science. It assumes that your supporters and the media are both intellectually lazy. Not a bad assumption these days...
...Bill O'Lies.
Wouldn't it be nice if more Rethuglicans followed Sara Barracuda's example !!!!!!!!
Just think, we might have been spared the agony of the last eight years of the Cheney administration. John Boehner could open up a Man Tan franchise. Boy George could spend all his time pursuing his natural talents, like clearing brush and bike riding. Cheney could spend his days drinking the blood of puppies, while dreaming of cornering the world oil market and boiling liberals in said oil. Governor Sanford could be living on a beach in Argentina,writing poetry and chasing women. Larry Craig could be hanging around airport mens rooms Tapping his toes and Senator Vitter could be screwing his way through the ladies of the night in some other town besides Washington. Mitch McConnel and Lindsey Graham could come out of the closet and open a clothing design studio for closeted, repressed Rethuglicans! So I'm glad at least one Rethug can understand that she's just not ready for prime time and choose to live by the sea in hip waders, earning an honest living for a change, with her nets, while she waits for the indictments to come down.
Open the franchise, John. We just hate you.
A Liberal Veteran
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seems like you blend in with so many other irritating things...
I called his office today to ask why he's been reduced to lying about the stimulus and the lady there said and I quote, "Obviously, you are an extreme liberal." I said, "What? Hey just because I questioned why he lied, or was he just clueless, I'm an extreme liberal?"
Then she told me from where I was calling and that I should call my state rep and leave them alone. Ha ha, they must be tired of fielding the phone calls for the ORANGE colored man from Ohio.
It would be interesting to find out if any liberal congressman's staffers have ever been as rude to a caller in a similar situation as Boehner's staffer was to you.
I think "rude" must be a requirement for being a Republican staffer.
Well I will call that stupid bastard's office tomorrow. I AM from Ohio and I am sick of this fucktard and his bs. And btw I live in Stark County and between here and up to Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, there is more road and bridge construction than usual during most summers in the recent past. When the stimulus money started rolling in there were already shovel ready projects that had been put on hold and were ready to go. Boner is a moron who is just spewing the talking points. The spray tan fumes have eaten most of the two brain cells he had left.
Well, what the hell do you expect from this used-car salesman? Just another GOP lying sack of shit.
I finally figured out where his orange color comes from. They used too much glue to hold down that ugly-ass skull rug.
That's our Boner!
Boss Limpballs can't get it up.
Glad to see the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran this story. Boner gets a free pass from his local press. Including the fact that some of these projects are actually happening in his district.
Imagine some kind of a similar situation, where Pelosi had "misspoke"...the wingnut media would be all over it.
john boehner is nothing more than Sarah Palin with a set of rasin-sized nuts.
He is one of the more ignorant politicians I've ever seen.
But I hope he keeps flapping his gums. He is is a walking, talking ad for why people should not vote -R.
But he is from southern Ohio - ya know ALMOST Kentucky, and his district borders Indiana. That's why he gets elected. Too many good winger xtians down there who think he is working for the little guy. Yeah......right.
"I really hate liars."
Yeah me too.Crooks as well.
Crooks and Liars...
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