Showing posts with label john boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john boehner. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Another John . . .



 (from http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/49470)
". . . Most of those who hold public office are drunk with the intoxication of power.

Republicans, we are learning more and more, are led by a Speaker of the House who is not only drunk from power but also, based on his actions and the smell that accompanies him, is blasted from the effects of too much booze.

Speaker John Boehner‘s severely affected mental state comes from his drinking and increases his inability to deal with his failures as leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives and as the man that Americans blame most often for the government shutdown that is dragging his party into political oblivion.

Bob Ney, Boehner’s one time Ohio GOP colleague who went to prison for his part in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, is one of the few Republicans willing to publicly discusses Boehner’s drinking.

Ney calls Boehner “a chain-smoking, relentless wine drinker more interested in the high-life — women, cigarettes, fun and alcohol.”  The Speaker, Ney says, “golfed, drank constantly, and took the easy way legislatively.”

Ney’s criticism might be excused as the bitter ramblings of a politician caught in his own vices, but other Republicans also say publicly and privately that Boehner is a lightweight who drinks too much.

Former Florida GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough, now a talk show host, says “so many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world.  After 5 o’clock, 6 o’cock at night, he is disengaged at best.  You can see him around town…you can see him at bars.”

Boehner is a regular at The Capitol Hill Club, a GOP club where members of Congress often get drunk in the basement bar.

“Is John Boehner a drunk?  Of course he is,” a House GOP aide says his boss grumbled to him recently. “He’s a boozer.”

When Boehner became Speaker of the House in 2011, more than a few Republicans shook their head and wondered why.  Some speculated on just how long it would be before their new Speaker got caught drunk in public.

Ney, in his book: “Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill,” wrote that Boehner broke promises to him, including one to take care of his Ohio colleague if he would resign from Congress during the Abramoff affair.

In 2006, Boehner, then House Majority Leader, called Ney to his office and said to the embattled Congressman:

If you resign the next day, I will personally guarantee you a job comparable to what you are making, and raise legal defense money for you that should bury all this Justice Department problem for you.

Ney says he took the advice and quit and Boehner walked away from him and did nothing.

Unlike Boehner, Ney admits being a drunk. In his book, Ney writes:

After a night of drinking, I concluded that it was better for my children financially if I were to die before going broke.  My problem with alcohol became an alcohol problem on steroids from 2005 to 2006, escalating into blackouts, anger, depression, extreme sadness.  You name it. I experienced it.

Ney says he took his last drink on Sept. 13, 2006.  Like many in recovery, he deals with his dependance on alcohol by being honest about himself and others around him.

As a fellow recovering alcoholic who has been sober since June 7, 1994, I can recognize what Ney is going through and also believe his stories about Boehner and the drinking problem of the Speaker of the House.

My friends and contacts on Capitol Hill from my days as a Congressional staff member (press secretary, chief of staff and committee staffer) from 1981-87 and a later stint from 1987-1992 as Vice President of Political Programs for the National Association of Realtors, tell me that Boehner’s bouts with alcohol abuse are well known around Capitol Hill and the subject of much concern.

On December 20th of last year, Boehner stood before Congress, after his Republican colleagues defeated his “Plan B” for avoiding a fiscal cliff and said: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

More than a few of the House members in the chamber know the words that Boehner spoke.  They comprise  the Serenity Prayer of Alcoholics Anonymous.

A week later, after voting for a bill that brought even more criticism from the conservative wing of the GOP, Boehner spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby, walked up and jabbed a finger at the Democratic Leader, and said “go fuck yourself!”

Republicans with Boehner said he reeked of alcohol at the time.

It’s one thing to be drunk with power.  It’s even worse to be a drunk who abuses power. . ."






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Monday, September 19, 2011

Come again. . .

. . . House Speaker John Boehner says, "This administration's insistence on raising taxes on job creators and its reluctance to take the steps necessary to strengthen our entitlement programs are the reasons the president and I were not able to reach an agreement previously, and it is evident today that these barriers remain."

So why the f*#k aren't Boehner's "job creators" creating jobs RIGHT NOW while there are no additional taxes imposed upon them??? WHY???

Sorry. These people just PISS ME OFF!!!!!




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Friday, August 5, 2011

"Fair and Balanced"????

Steve Benen's
Political Animal
Blog Reported

There was a private White House party in honor of President Obama’s 50th birthday. Here’s how Politico described the event.

[Shortly after 5 p.m.], the party started with dinner in the Rose Garden, accompanied by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Then the First Lady and his daughters presented POTUS with a cake, and everyone moved into the East Room for performances that included R&B singer Ledisi, and Herbie Hancock. Stevie Wonder came up at the end and sang a medley ending in “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.” DJ Cassidy played Motown, hip hop, and ’70s and ’80s R&B.

Folks from the cabinet were there (Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Tim Geithner), as were members of Congress (Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz), Obama’s team (Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett), the private sector (UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf), and the entertainment industry (Jay-Z, Chris Rock, Charles Barkley, Tom Hanks). That’s by no means a comprehensive list, but these are some of the notable names in attendance.

And here’s how Fox Nation told its audience about the event.
“Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs.”

Mr. Benen was fascinated (as we all should be) "...by the claim that a birthday party “didn’t create jobs.” Maybe I should have run a post this morning that said, “John Boehner had breakfast this morning, didn’t create jobs.” Or maybe, “Eric Cantor watched some TV, didn’t create jobs.”"

Steve Benen is a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly, joining the publication in August, 2008 as chief blogger for the Washington Monthly blog, Political Animal.



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Monday, July 11, 2011

Will somebody. . .

. . . please bitchslap house speaker John Boehner and explain to him the theory behind the term 'balance'?

From Carla Fried
The Daily Money July 6th. . .
"When the Joe Biden-led negotiations broke down. . . it was reportedly due in part to the Republicans’ refusal to accept a deficit reduction plan that generated about 80 percent of savings through spending cuts and 20 percent through increased tax revenue. That’s 80-20, not 50-50.

if you tax capital gains at ordinary income tax rates, higher-income folks will probably think twice about realizing gains. But at a time when the rhetoric and politics are flying over how to deal with the deficit, it’s important to recognize that federal spending isn’t simply a function of what we appropriate to various programs. It’s also what is spent on all the tax breaks embedded in the tax code. Without raising income tax rates, trimming some tax expenditures is one more way we could address the deficit."





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