Boehner Hosting RNC Cocktail Party During Tucson Shooting Memorial Service

[jefferson_dem]

Boehner Hosting RNC Cocktail Party During Tucson Shooting Memorial Service



Tonight, President Obama will deliver a “healing message,” in Tucson, AZ at a memorial service for those who died in the tragic shooting there this weekend. The somber service, which is expected to attract up to 14,000 people, will feature prayers, the playing of the National Anthem, as well as reverent remarks from various officials from both sides of the aisle.

At around the same time, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OK) will be slinging back cocktails with members of the Republican National Committee at a political party he’s hosting at the swanky National Harbor resort in suburban D.C., Roll Call reports:

The Ohio Republican is holding a 7 p.m. cocktail reception Wednesday night for 168 RNC members, who are in the Washington area for an annual meeting. The event is sponsored by Boehner’s political action committee and will take place at Maryland’s National Harbor resort. <...>

A Boehner aide said the Speaker plans to leave the RNC party before Obama begins his remarks.
“Speaker Boehner will attend an organizational meeting with RNC members this evening, but will leave before the president’s speech begins,” Boehner spokesman Cory Fritz said.

Boehner delivered heartfelt remarks on the shooting on the House floor this morning, tearing up on several occasions, but the timing of Boehner’s party tonight is awkward, to say the least. House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) canceled an event today “because it would not be appropriate in light of the tragedy.”

But Boehner enjoys his parties. In July of 2009, Boehner interrupted House proceedings so Republican lawmakers could attend his annual “Boehner Beach Party” fundraiser with corporate lobbyists. “It’s just lobbyists and lawmakers getting drunk” on “Boehner’s ‘famous’ margaritas,” a “spy” told Fishbowl DC at the time.

Former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough, who served with Boehner in the 90s before getting a show on MSNBC, said in July that “very Republican I talk to says John Boehner, by 5 or 6 o’clock at night, you can see him at bars.” “John Boehner is known as a guy that likes to golf, likes to have a good time, and is not known as a hard worker,” Scarborough said the next day, defending his original comments

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/12/boehner-party-memorial-service/

[MrModerate]

1. I swear Boehner's parents must have bought him a lobotomy for his 21st birthday . . .

rather than a car. In terms of the next Congress, it's actually a plus for liberal causes that the opposition is led by a clueless, tone-deaf, lazy, shallow, anticharismatic dickwad.

[Kber]

2. Under the circumstances, I might have rescheduled.

but whatever

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Tone deaf

[El Supremo]

4. They're not going to make me a victim!

It's my cocktail hour.

[PA Democrat]

5. Boehner can't go a single day without booze and dirty money.

Repulsive is inadequate to describe him.

[AspenRose]

6. Stay classy Boehner!

:eyes:

Reminds me of this:



Celebrating in the midst of tragedy

[Fleshdancer]

7. Oh yes. I can totally see how this calls for a cocktail soiree.

I just pray that Bohener doesn't spill his "famous margarita" on his favorite suit. Now THAT would be a tragedy worthy of tears. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

8. Priorities

Boehner suspended business in the House, but his drinky-drinky parties are fucking important.

[mopinko]

9. i think i know why he is orange. see if you follow this-

he has rotted his liver, he is jaundiced, but in order to keep it covered up he uses a technique that is used on newborns with jaundice- ultra violet light treatments. is this what the tanning lights do for him? does that explain the orange hue? tan plus jaundice equals orange?
am i crazy here?

[bullwinkle428]

10. "YOU'LL PRY MY ROB ROY FROM MY COLD, STIFF ORANGE FINGERS!!1!"

[Hubert Flottz]

11. He just wants to eat the worm...

[cilla4progress]

12. He can't go that long without a tall one.

[rbrnmw]

13. How low can you go Johnny?

This is beyond distasteful.

[Urban Prairie]

14. "is not known as a hard worker"

But Boehner certainly knows how and when to bawl his eyes out..doesn't he?

[Blue Owl]

15. Johnny Long Pour is one classy guy

n/t

[Cleita]

16. Maybe he would have attended if the memorial would

have had an open bar. :eyes: At least we know what his priorities are. He plans his day around his drinking.

[WinkyDink]

17. And therein lies the difference.

[malaise]

18. And he's getting a free pass from M$Greedia

They have lined up every excuse in the book and then some.

[gratuitous]

19. What do you expect?

If they take the Leaker of the House to task over this, they risk not being invited to his next party. And just now Boehner's in the best position he's ever been to throw some really swell parties. You don't just throw that away by giving Boehner a hard time about skipping a memorial service. Besides, what with Republican policies and the cheap and easy access to firearms, there will almost certainly be more opportunities for healing and coming together over a bunch of newly-dead bodies, and fervent murmurmings of "never again!"

[malaise]

20. Well said

:hi: