John Boehner Worried He's Going to Walk Into a "Setup" if He Comes to Health Care Summit
Here's your potential bipartisan cooperation, Mr. President. John Boehner's still claiming that the "Democrat" stimulus bill didn't work, even though (as Media Matters noted) he actually admitted back in June that the bill would create some "much needed jobs" in Ohio. And he's not too hip on the potentially upcoming "jobs bill" either, since he apparently just doesn't like the word "stimulus" if it means the Democrats get to take credit for anything like stimulating the economy or, in other words, creating jobs. Crying Boehner is apparently more worried about playing politics than if we get anything coming close to our economy recovering.
And Boehner is worried that if they meet with the President, he's potentially going to be walking into a "trap" or a "political event" and claims he wants a "real conversation" about how to "make our current system work better". Yeah, right. The only things the GOP cares about is what they can make political hay out of, what works for their campaign donors and saying no to anything the Democrats want to get passed.
One of Boehner's questions is whether the lobbyists are going to be invited to the summit. I think that's a really good question and I'd like to know if he means just the ones lining the ConservaDems' pockets, or the Republicans on his side of the aisle as well? I say, bring them all in if it means he and his cohorts can't use it as an excuse not to show up. Somehow, I doubt Boehner actually wants something besides artificial sunshine shown on him or his buddies in the GOP.
And then following Boehner on Greta's show we have Eric "I didn't realize my wife made all of that money from the TARP program" Cantor doing GOP redux that we've been listening to for the last year from these clowns. If the President thinks shaming them again as he did at their retreat is going to make any difference, he's seriously deluding himself. If he gets the better of them, the press will never put it on the proper context just as they have the thumping he just gave them on why all of their ideas are completely wrong or don't exist.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
repugluKKKans are unarmed.
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common sense matters as much as truth
Yes, if only their side had the wit to come up with 'repugluKKans'.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
"Rushthugliklans"?
I still like Re-Pig-Lickens.guess i'm simple
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
when you have no ideas- no proposals--no bills..Of course he will be unprepared The REPUBS HAVE NOTHING!!!
Unfortunately, that seems to be a winning formula with about half of the american people.
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.
diebold
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common sense matters as much as truth
It over loads the circuits doesn't it ? That being a fact is why I see the shituation as pretty much hopeless .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
on your lower case scales.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
why you always yell? Or is your keyboard stuck in first gear?
you know where to find ignorance.
Some stuff you can't make up!
that of a moron among normal to superior intelligence. Oh, yeah...a person of unnatural color among normally pigmented people.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Yep.
A real setup.
Do tell... They've got nothing, they're retarded thugs.
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Boner should take his security blanket, an extra set of Pampers, and have Mommy Palin hold his winky for him.
Obama says a lot he doesn't mean.
He knew he was walking into a setup - and he made it backfire into their faces. If Boehner was a real man, he'd take it in stride.
Indeed, Boehner worried about walking into a set-up?? I'm sure the Repubs have written the book on that one...talk about the pot calling the kettle..um...you know!
Orange
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
and mottled. The guy looks just like his sandwiches.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Or has single payer been put back on the table?
Doubtful. This is only a debate between an industry written bill and ways to make it even more industry friendly.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
zactly
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common sense matters as much as truth
He'll call Frank Luntz for another one.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Mike Dorning and Julianna Goldman @ Bloomberg here
Obama:
snip
The Health Insurance Industry loves their windfall health insurance reform (barf) bill.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
yeah, that's what we need, fewer taxes on corporations and the rich? WTF?
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.
Hey Boehner - it's a Republican health care bill too, ya JAck ASS
About walking into a tanning booth despite the fact that it gives him orange skin and makes him look far worse than anything Obama is likely to say.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
I wonder what color your skin turns if you are wearing orange makeup and then you blush from embarrassment.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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The only thing these Republiclowns are afraid of
is that they MIGHT be called out for their BS.
They KNOW that that's the "setup". Being exposed for the lying thieves that they know themselves to be. It's cookie jar time and they're trapped in the kitchen.
Don't forget criminally incompetent. the republican is criminally incompetent.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
You mean like a 'sting' - something law enforcement uses to nab criminals?
The President invited you to a meeting to discuss healthcare. He didn't promise you season tickets to the Cleveland Indians.
And to borrow from the old 'if you're not doing anything wrong' trope, if you have legitimate ideas for improving healthcare, why wouldn't you attend?
Or are you afraid Obama will unleash his secret Socislamofascicommie Mind Control Ray on you and you will be turned into a loyal, obedient servant of the Evil One, forced to recant your love of Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh?
to the toe tapping member of the Singing Senator Sisters.
You remember, the one they sent back to the potato fields?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Well, given that Senate Majority Towel Boy Harry Reid will be attending, it makes sense.
nja.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
So, if he looks really bad, he'll have a readymade excuse.
ex: "Gee Senator Boner, you really looked like a corrupt, evasive scumbag today."
Boner: "Well, didn't I say before that it was a 'set up?'"
Then go on to attack the process and avoid the issue.
Well, you overgrown Oompa Loompa, just bring along your sidekick Cantor Boy, and you two can lie through your teeth like you always do, you fucking asshat. One thing that I've wondered. Since you keep opining about things military there, John. How is it you only spent eight weeks in the Navy? What the fuck happened?
"Allergic to water."
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
... GOPity Goo.
I've got a perfect setup for you.
Oompa Loompa, Baggers of Tea
If you are wise, you'll listen to me.
What do you get when your news comes from FOX?
A mind-numbing headache 'cause you're dumber than rocks?
Glenn Beck is clearly in need of a shrink
Or could you simply not bear ... to ... think?
Oh my gods the horror!
Oompa Loompa GOPpity Go
Follow the crazies like Beck and Bill-O
You will live in ignorance, whee!
Until Palin kicks off WORLD WAR III!
And to think we wasted all that talent on the railroads, Cletus.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
you da man!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
He knows there is an excellent chance he is going to get his orange butt verbally kicked. If he doesn't go he looks like a coward and if he does, well he will be shown to be exactly what he is. I just hope his orange paint is waterproof because he may cry.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sounds like he's chickening out of a fight to me. He probably has some really important laundry to get done on that day. Yea, republicans are real national security tough guys bla bla bla. Until it's time for them to do their own fighting. Boner is such a fraidy cat.....Obama will keep reschedualing until 2012 though in hopes the republicans will agree to show up.
Wouldn't want to trip over Al Gore's book left in a drift by FOX.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Wasn't that just the most clever idea by fox. I wonder if the idea came from Sarah or maybe Beck.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
but nobody from the newsroom called him about it on the red phone.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Okay let's cut him some slack. He's busy trying to save the world from the radical progressvise Kenyan in the white house and at the same time re-writing history like a bat out of hell.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJqkpgwvLv4
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I really liked that. I left the computer to comb Martini's hair and came back to hear that song. Thank you!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
ain't bad neither.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
This is their chance for that mush desired transparency and everyone should remind them of that. They were so despondent when they felt they had missed something on c-span. Now they have their chance for their own healthcare reality teevee show.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
They prefer FOX.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Good point. If this meeting ever does come to pass, I wonder how much of it Fox will carry. Probably just up to the point where we see can no longer see the President's shoe and there's a sudden pained expression on Boehner's face.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Rep. Boehner (R-Tennessalon).
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Don't anymore have control over the content. It's all programmed by news personell...usually the producer, and if they have a chyron op, it's only a plaback person. Responsible chyron people have been shoved out in favor of idiots in the newsroom, who don't believe they need any proofing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NcVmLYVpY
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
you still prove my point. While Chyron ops make mistakes, they have been taken out of the equation, eswpecially during elections....it's all NEWS people doing it.
Case in point: Columbia Explodes
very good. Einstein deserved that...
me-oww!
burst in the housing bubble like everything else.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
U're just afraid of getting pwned.
The President takes time out of his busy life to talk to these tools. What do they do? Cry about looking stupid.
Was the President ambushed? Was he setup? No: he was prepared.
So I suggest you get prepared and go do the job you were sent to do, help the Citizens of Our Great Nation.
Secret message to President: Forget these morons and get the job done
If you want to describe calling your bluff as a "set up" then so be it!
Tricking the Republican into genuine debate is indeed a "set up". They have nothing. nothing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"I'd prefer to look like an impossible idiot on my own terms".
Why are so many of these republicans either "Dicks" or "Boners?"
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.
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C*nts and well, I'm not sure....Moisties? Help me out straight men. I'm not familiar with the proper term.
vacant eyed idiots will do
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
why Mark Sanford lost his way.
Brought to you by FOX News auditions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
means. But "moistie?"
Must think there is a gene for a jelly dispenser.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
is that Boehner's skin coloration is due either to an artificial or natural tan. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is, in fact, due the continuous application of weasel oil.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Any way to find out how big a bonus Cantor's wife got? From her employer, I mean.
husband. I'll bet she even files her taxes separately. I wonder what else she keeps from him? Oh, wait. You said bonUS. Sorry I misread that. Forget the last little innuendo.
I don't think it matters.
These lowlifes would sell out the american people for nothing. The sheer joy of knowing they are screwing us again, would probably be enough for the psychotic bastards.
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.
Admiral Ackbar: "It's a TRAP!"
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http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z275/Blood...
I thought I was clever the other day calling Palin the Whore of Babble-On until later in the day, I discovered that FDL beat me by hours. I must try harder.
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVppDpn7Rk
Hasa Diga Eebowai
if you have legitimate republican contributions, why would you be worried about walking into a setup?
You wouldn't. Baoner has nothing. Perhaps a decent golf swing, but that's it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
watching this event. Recording it, even. Hey Boehner: BOO!
Boehner is just just spouting the latest talking point handed out by GOP Boss Limbaugh. Limbaugh was going on about how this is a diabolical trap setup by the President to entrap the GOP.
What the hell kind of world do these idiots live in?
The FOX News world. The Republican watches only POX.
think about that...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
the ninth circle of hell?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
is crying again to me. What a double talking back peddling wuss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGoYOSomKLw
These guys are like you parents when you are trying to learn how to ride a bike.... No, do it this way.....No, do it that way....
No one knows how to do it right....Republican are just good at TELLING everyone else how they are doing it wrong...
If Republicans who controlled Congress for 12-years (1994 -- 2006) and they couldn't get it right with their "tax cuts" and "control spending" -- Why in the world does anyone think they will get it right in 2010?
Isn't the sign of insanity -- doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results?
Doesn't he realize that not showing up is the setup? Those sunlamps are sucking his brain out.
That or the toxic fumes from the bronzer.
only want to come on their FOX and CNN and tons of right wing radio stations and frame everything in their attack dog fashion. They complain it is not on C-SPAN but when it is they cut and run like babies. Messes with their Think Tank attack created messaging. Their hands aren't big enough to remember "their" facts, I mean myths.
Excuse me but weren't the republicans in charge for years and knew health care needed reformed but didn't do a damn thing. I just don't trust anyone that looks orange.
pennlady
The mental midget twins.
I say that the Republicans in the House & Senate should be the ones to introduce legislation on health care reform, & for that matter, cap and trade. After all, the Republicans are more powerful than President Obama & should lead this country now. They are far more popular than the President. I say it is much easier for Republicans to get the necessary crossover votes from Democrats to support their legislation than it is for Democrats to get the necessary crossover votes from Republicans to support their legislation.
Would be if boner and his buddies walked into a saint valentines day.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
you might be worried about being ambushed!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
[Deleted-Sitemonitor] these two talking asses out of their misery. I guess that their dance cards are so full that they have to be invited to a meeting with the President ten weeks in advance. People are dying without healthcare, healthcare is consuming an increasingly larger amount of our money ( or should I say that the insurance and pharmaceutical companies are stealing larger amounts), and we just stand in limbo letting Ugly Greta make nasty insinuations as the two flatliners drone on. Please wake me up. This is a nightmare, right? President Obama, you should have listened to many of us and kicked out the for profits and crammed Medicare for all down their throats. Franklin would have gotten it done by now.
Look I read a lot of political news, and one thing is obvious.
Yell about the Republican's, yell about the Democrats, it doesn't matter. The best imagery I can come up with when I talk about those two groups is two troupes of Chimpanzees flinging poo back and forth at each other. It has to stop! Both parties need to dissolve and a commitment to non-party government be established. All parties do is bend allegiances from the people to allegiance to party agenda. Unfortunately reading responses on most sites, be it this one the LA Times, the Washington Post, or what ever a good majority of the people are so brain washed it's embarrassing. When are you all going to grow up and hold our elected officials responsible for acting according to what best benefits us as a whole, and not acting to best benefit the "Democratic Agenda" or "Republican Agenda". I'm telling you right now both sides have huge flaws, both have a lot of good too, but until you get rid of the labels they slap on each other there's never going to be real progress.
We've all heard the words "A house divided against itself cannot stand," from Lincoln it's true and that's exactly what we have now and what got us into this mess we're in a the moment as a nation.
Yes it's a set up , you won't be able to just rattle off a bunch of lies and go unchallenged .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
If Greta were anything other than a straightman, she would have followed-up on this statement from Boehner...
Would a functioning being not have asked Boehner, as followup, whether Boehner then supported a simple majority vote on health care reform? The only concern over Nelson, Lieberman, et al filibustering is because EVERY Republican is opposed to a simple up-or-down vote on health care reform.
Not a single mention of the word 'filibuster' at any point during the whole interview.
Fox News sure is a tough arena for the Republicans. (not)
If I was as dumb as John Boner I'd be scared too.
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