TagsTagsThe President hasn't even given his State of the Union speech yet, but Republicans are already spewing hatred at him. Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday forcefully denounced the Democrats' campaign theme that they are for the middle class and Republicans are for the wealthy – saying the ...
State of the Union, President Obama, John Boehner, Hate Speech, Republican Party
House Republicans finally caved in to reality today and extended the payroll tax holiday -- but only for two months, to give themselves time to try to figure out how to obstruct it without looking heartless and suffering in the polls. The spin should be interesting to watch, but this is ...
This is excellent - so many of the things Charles and other LGF members have been saying for two years, and backed up by boots-on-the-ground investigative journalism: Heads in the Sand. The entire piece is so good, I had a hard time choosing which sections to excerpt: But it's rare to ...
Bob Inglis, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Climate Science, Fossil-fuel Industry, GOP Science Denial, Koch Industries, Republican Party, Tea Party, Americans For Prosperity, Tim Phillips, AGW, Global Warming, Climate Change Deniers, John Boehner, Eric Cantor
The Tea Party contingent in the House of Representatives gave John Boehner another public spanking today: Vote shows Boehner's lack of control. House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill. The result was an embarrassing setback. Wednesday night’s rank-and-file rebuke of GOP leadership — with ...
John Boehner, Republican Party, Tea Party, House of Representatives
In today's news of the Boehner, the Speaker of the House has just broken off debt ceiling talks with President Obama. And in return, Obama is now speaking; he just announced: I will sign an extension of the debt limit through 2013, if that's the best Congress can do... ...
Well, that didn't take long at all. After signaling yesterday that he would focus on producing a smaller debt reduction, today John Boehner is retreating to the hard-line Tea Party position again: Boehner says 'no' to ambitious debt-reduction deal. This shows us two things: 1) the real power in today's ...
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner just blinked: Statement by Speaker Boehner on Debt Limit Discussions. "Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes. I believe the best approach may be to focus on producing a ...
[See update below -- removing the link because the article was out of date.] UPDATE at 6/7/11 4:12:55 pm Correction: this article is from last year. That'll teach me to double-check when I get email tips. Sorry for the false alarm.
The Tea Party honeymoon is over for John Boehner. “You look like a fool,” Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips wrote in a post on the group’s website, directing his message at the Ohio Republican. “Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner.” Boehner “did not get the ...
Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Judson Phillips
On Meet the Press, David Gregory pushed GOP House Speaker John Boehner pretty hard to repudiate the moronic, essentially racist Birther conspiracy theory, but Boehner refused to do it. Let's face it -- the Republican Party will never risk alienating these people, because an ignorant, rage-filled base of reactionary voters ...
Republican Party, Right Wing, Far Right, Elections, Birthers, Nirthers, Conspiracy Theories, John Boehner, Meet the Press
For one of their first acts, Republicans are going to read the entire Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. Now, I have nothing but respect for the US Constitution, as anyone who's read my blog surely knows. But come on. This is a cheap stunt for the Tea ...
Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Republican Party, House of Representatives, US Constitution
To no one's surprise, John Boehner has been elected Speaker of the House by the incoming Tea Party GOP, and he's fighting back tears as he makes his way to the podium for his first speech... Will he break down sobbing? Developing...
Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Weeping
The most influential conservative in America has come out on the side of John Boehner. Rush Limbaugh used his hit radio show Monday to defend House Republican Leader John Boehner against hits from the press and the White House. Limbaugh's backing came as a comfort to Boehner allies... ... because the ...
I’m starting to wonder if the CIA is conducting a secret experiment on the effects of powerful hallucinogenic substances on highly placed Republican politicians. How else can we explain GOP leader John Boehner’s call for a one-year moratorium on all Federal regulations? That’s the kind of idea you get when the ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Obstructionism, Lobbies, Moratorium, John Boehner, LSD
Man, this is brutal. And I mean that in the best possible way. Rachel Maddow uses John Boehner’s own words to demonstrate what a clueless buffoon he is. Video
Rachel Maddow, Video, John Boehner, Oil Spill, Moratorium, Bad Idiocy
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that there is no difference in beliefs between the GOP and tea partiers. “There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in,” Boehner said during an appearance on the conservative Mike Gallagher’s radio ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Boehner, GOP, Republican Party