Boehner says W. Va. chemical spill is no cause for new regulations
THIS should come as no surprise: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) doesn’t believe the GOP should reconsider its deregulation agenda after a massive, coal-linked chemical spill left hundreds of...
View ArticleRegarding Boehner’s warning that Obama’s executive orders will hit a brick wall
For the past few years, the Republican noise machine has been spewing tons of nonsense about the executive orders issued by Obama — both in terms of the number of them and their constitutionality....
View ArticleHow John Boehner saved the Democrats from having their own civil war
For once, House Speaker John Boehner has a good reason to shed a few tears. Alex Seitz-Wald EXPLAINS: While there are plenty of forces working against Democrats heading into this year’s election, one...
View ArticleBoehner and his staff have no evidence to support their lies about Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner is fully aware that the best way to appease his party’s right-wing base, which often expresses distrust of him, is to feed them the kinds of nonsense they want to hear. As...
View ArticleJust for spite, Nancy Pelosi should propose another House vote on repeal of...
Now that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, it would be sweet to watch the Republican obstructionists in the U.S. House go through another foolish and meaningless effort to repeal the measure....
View ArticleBoehner’s threat of a lawsuit against Obama is foolish on several counts
Barack Obama has issued far fewer executive orders than most of his predecessors of the past 80 years, but most right-wingers are unaware of that fact. Some of these people seem to think that Obama...
View ArticleRepublican lawmakers have not been talking about impeachment, right? Wrong!
House Speaker John Boehner says all the talk about impeaching President Obama has been coming from the Democrats. This video puts the lie to Boehner’s claim:
View ArticleA second national poll shows that most Americans oppose Boehner’s lawsuit...
It probably won’t matter to congressional Republicans that Americans generally disagree with THIS FOOLISH STRATEGY: A majority of Americans disapprove of the House Republican lawsuit against President...
View ArticleBoehner resurrects widely debunked nonsense about Obama’s so-called apology tour
Poor John Boehner! In a pathetic effort to curry favor among the far-right elements of his own Republican House caucus, he’s trotting out an oldie-but-a-baddy — the claim that Barack Obama traveled...
View ArticleJohn Boehner seems never to have learned anything about the Great Depression
House Speaker John Boehner is seven years younger than I, which means that memories of the Great Depression were not as fresh among his elders as they were among mine when I was a child. Some of the...
View ArticleBoehner’s warning to Obama on immigration issue is ridiculous on its face
In effect, House Speaker John Boehner is telling President Obama that he doesn’t favor reform of America’s immigration laws under any circumstances. Boehner says Obama better not try any of that fancy...
View ArticleTheory: Obama leaked a scoop to Fox News just to mess with John Boehner’s mind
Everyone loves a story about how someone they don’t like is cleverly outmaneuvered by someone they do like. THIS is just such a story, but it’s too complicated to excerpt here. Read the whole thing.
View ArticleBad bipartisanship: Obama and Boehner team-up to push a terrible piece of...
At long last, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have found common ground. Unfortunately, however, it’s not good news. Arm-twisting by Obama and Boehner resulted last night in House...
View ArticleWhy would Democrats want to replace Boehner with an even worse speaker of the...
The answer to the question in the headline above is simple: Democrats would not want to replace John Boehner as speaker of the house — at least not until they take control of the body in some future...
View ArticleStop the presses! For once, John Boehner speaks the truth!
The first thing you need to know here is that right-wing talk radio has a finite audience. There are only so many beady-eyed weirdos available to listen to that crap. Consequently, the competition...
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