Is this supposed to be a joke? Are you switching to stand up comedy, Mr. Boehner? Because this statement makes me want to laugh out loud. You’re focused on jobs? Name one single jobs bill you’ve passed? While you’re thinking about it, maybe I should remind you of how the Republicans killed a veteran’s job bill that was fully paid for and would have given vets priority in job placement as first responders.
You’re focused on the economy? By trying to push through a budget that was so flawed and based in fantasy that even a research student was able to debunk it? Or do you mean the way you’re trying to siphon even more money away from the struggling middle class and into the pockets of your wealthy cronies through corporate tax loopholes? Want to tell us again how trickledown really works when corporations are posting record profits at the same time they’re cutting labor, wages and benefits? Perhaps you’re talking about putting an even greater burden on already struggling families by cutting the SNAP program? You see, when you combine lower wages, less hours, less benefits with cutting funding for food programs you end up with a lot of hungry people on the streets. They have no money and they can’t buy food. How exactly does that help the economy?
Oh, the IRS scandal, yes of course you’re focused on that. In a time when the only thing you can use against Obama is manufactured scandal and outrage, then you’ve got to play the cards you’ve got. And as for national security leaks, you and your party are the ones who set that dynamic in motion in the first place with the permanent passage of the Patriot Act. You built that, yes you did.
But please, go on about how much work you’re getting done for us. I can hear the cash register bells while you’re wasting the Congressional session on repeated failures to repeal the Affordable Care Act . What are we up to now? 37? 38 times you’ve voted to repeal? I don’t know, I’ve lost count. But I figured it out Speaker Boehner, and it costs approximately $600,000 every time you vote to repeal that bill. Since I know how bad you Republicans are at math, I’ll help you with that. That’s almost $23million. Doesn’t sound very fiscally responsible if you ask me. And tell us again how drug tests for people applying for social services benefits is going to save so much money. Just be sure not to use Florida as an example since only 2% of applicants actually failed the test and reimbursement ended up costing more than it saved. (Be sure to carefully avoid how the Florida governor owns stock in the company providing the drug tests.) Or how about that bit of theatrics yesterday when you passed a wholly unconstitutional law banning abortion after 20 weeks effectively turning women into second class citizens without right or consent over what happens to their bodies? And pretending that it somehow protects women while putting a female face on all the presenters of the bill; now that’s a stroke of genius! This same bill will never make it through the Senate and would never get a bit of Presidential ink even if it did. 70% of Americans want abortion to remain safe and legal, but it must get boring up there in Congress doing absolutely nothing but wasting our time and our money. Please, by all means, make another idiotic comment about rape and pregnancy and abortions, I’m sure that can only help your side.
It wouldn’t take much for you to be a better comedian than you are a Congressman because you really suck at being a Congressman. You could probably get a few good laughs just making fun of that bad complexion alone. I’ll catch your show post 2014 elections so long as it isn’t on CSPAN.
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