This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Showing posts with label John Boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Boehner. Show all posts
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Friday, April 05, 2013
Is a half-truth a lie?
I think so.
From Daily Kos...
It was four score and seven years ago on Thursday that Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner once again proved what a dishonest puke he really is, this time when quoting Abraham Lincoln on the danger of government debt:
"[Government debt] is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute," Lincoln warns his countrymen in Congressman Lincoln. "An individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from -- so must it be with a government."
... but somehow Boehner managed to leave this part out:
By this means a new national debt has been created, and is still growing on us with a rapidity fearful to contemplate -- a rapidity only reasonably to be expected in time of war. This state of things has been produced by a prevailing unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation. But the one or the other must come.
From Daily Kos...
It was four score and seven years ago on Thursday that Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner once again proved what a dishonest puke he really is, this time when quoting Abraham Lincoln on the danger of government debt:
"[Government debt] is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute," Lincoln warns his countrymen in Congressman Lincoln. "An individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from -- so must it be with a government."
... but somehow Boehner managed to leave this part out:
By this means a new national debt has been created, and is still growing on us with a rapidity fearful to contemplate -- a rapidity only reasonably to be expected in time of war. This state of things has been produced by a prevailing unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation. But the one or the other must come.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Getting the facts right
This is from a couple of Sundays ago, but is still relevant...
From Daily Kos
David Gregory almost got it right
During Speaker of the House John Boehner's Sunday appearance on Meet the Press, host David Gregory did a fairly good job of holding Boehner's feet to the fire and challenging some of his more obvious misstatements ... but Gregory did miss the boat on this one:
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Now listen, we've known about this for 16 months. And yet even today, there's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester. And over the last 10 months, House Republicans have acted twice to replace the sequester. There are smarter ways to cut spending than these automatic across the board...
DAVID GREGORY: But Mr. Speaker that's just not true. They've made it very clearly, as the president just did, that he has a plan that he's put forward that involves entitlement cuts, that involves spending cuts, that you've made a choice as have Republicans to leave tax loopholes in place. And you'd rather have those and live with all these arbitrary cuts...
(OVERTALK)
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Well, David that's just nonsense. If he had a plan, why wouldn't Senate Democrats go ahead and pass it?
Gregory pivoted to tax revenues at that point, missing the very obvious response: Senate Democrats did vote for a plan. But Senate Republicans filibustered it. Just as they've filibustered every major piece of legislation that's come down the pike over the past four years.
So close, Mr. Gregory, so close.
From Daily Kos
David Gregory almost got it right
During Speaker of the House John Boehner's Sunday appearance on Meet the Press, host David Gregory did a fairly good job of holding Boehner's feet to the fire and challenging some of his more obvious misstatements ... but Gregory did miss the boat on this one:
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Now listen, we've known about this for 16 months. And yet even today, there's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester. And over the last 10 months, House Republicans have acted twice to replace the sequester. There are smarter ways to cut spending than these automatic across the board...
DAVID GREGORY: But Mr. Speaker that's just not true. They've made it very clearly, as the president just did, that he has a plan that he's put forward that involves entitlement cuts, that involves spending cuts, that you've made a choice as have Republicans to leave tax loopholes in place. And you'd rather have those and live with all these arbitrary cuts...
(OVERTALK)
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Well, David that's just nonsense. If he had a plan, why wouldn't Senate Democrats go ahead and pass it?
Gregory pivoted to tax revenues at that point, missing the very obvious response: Senate Democrats did vote for a plan. But Senate Republicans filibustered it. Just as they've filibustered every major piece of legislation that's come down the pike over the past four years.
So close, Mr. Gregory, so close.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
Political joke
When my wife recently said to me that she heard there were winds of 125 mph with gusts up to 140 mph, I thought she was talking about another storm roaring up the east coast, but no, she was talking about John Boehner's last speech.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Qutoable quote
"Speaker of the House John Boehner, appearing alongside Rep. Ryan, offered these words of praise for the Wisconsin congressman: 'Preachers like Harold Camping go around predicting the end of the world, but it’s guys like Paul Ryan who do the hard work of making it happen.'”
-- from today's Borowitz Report
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
The Gavel - a funny video
This "edited" video caught me off guard when I first watched it - and it speaks volumes about the way in which the Republicans think they should govern...
Friday, January 07, 2011
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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