John Boehner: Iraq war may be the best gift we leave our children.

[spanone]

On MTP. This is one sick motherf*cker. This man lies better than Tom DeLay.

[msongs]

1. john boner is a stiffy sicko nt

[liveoaktx]

32. VIDEO

I can see the money getting counted now

[tecelote]

2. If you're anxiously awaiting the Apocalypse that is.

[pinkpops]

3. This is a new kind of war

[tsuki]

4. I cannot believe any sane individual could say this.

[spanone]

5. He's not sane he's a politician.

[spanone]

6. Russert just busted him on his 'golf travel'.

He's just giving speeches....he's working on these trips...he's number 10 out of ALL the congressional whores to take travel money.

[leftchick]

7. another christian fundy freak for war

is he sending his kids? :puke:

[spanone]

10. No, but I'm sure he'd be proud to send ours.

[stray cat]

8. just like the wonderful deficit they are gifting to our children

[patricia92243]

9. Link??

[spanone]

11. It's live.

[leftchick]

12. Did timmy's jaw drop when he said this?

and did timmy ask him why he would make a statement that sounds quite frankly, insane?

I didn't think so.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. I can tell you that my jaw dropped. I was sure that I had heard

wrong. Then a few minutes later he repeated it! Unbelievable!

[Captain Hilts]

13. What an idiot. I guess his kids aren't in the military. nt

[AndyA]

14. Dear John: Your children don't want war for a gift!

They also don't want to foot the bill(s) for that war, either.

Don't you want your children to have a better life than you have? Why leave them saddled with horrendous debt and an America that is split in two?

As a caring father, you should not want to leave "gifts" :eyes: like this to your children. They are not gifts, they are burdens.

[tsuki]

17. His children are part of the Condescending Conservatives. War

is not for them. Quick trip to the selective service board, grease the palms, et voila.

[tanyev]

15. Well, except those whose children have already died fighting the war.

Guess those families just need to learn to laugh.

Pentagon to families: Go ahead, laugh
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
When the stress of the war in Iraq becomes too severe, the Pentagon has a suggestion for military families: Learn how to laugh.
With help from the Pentagon's chief laughter instructor, families of National Guard members are learning to walk like a penguin, laugh like a lion and blurt "ha, ha, hee, hee and ho, ho."

No joke.

"I laugh every chance I get," says the instructor, retired Army colonel James "Scotty" Scott. "That's why I'm blessed to be at the Pentagon, where we definitely need a lot of laughter in our lives."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-12-pentagon-laughter_x.htm

[kittenpants]

21. That article is insane.

[spanone]

16. 17 meetings with Abramoff / one personally

Boehner...never met the man...only my underlings....like I said..lying motherf*cker.

This guy is SLICKER THAN TOM DELAY.

[Wheezy]

19. Oh my.

Now he's on Faux.

Geez, where are the Dems today??

[spanone]

20. They are nowhere to be found. Leahy is on CBS otherwise nada.

[Wheezy]

23. *sigh*

That's just wrong in so many ways.

[burythehatchet]

22. ACtually he doesn't lie well at all

His little HUmphry Bogart facial tick is a beautiful tip off.

[salin]

25. Did you see it? What did he say to justify

viewing this as a "gift" to our children? Sounds so illogical and so over the line that I can not even imagine the logic offered to go along with such a statement.

[spanone]

28. His reasoning was 'democracy in the Middle East'

His logic was that following this war there will be democracy flourishing in the MId East. Guess he's not aware of the Palestinian / Israeli conflict.

[salin]

37. what a tool. No one believes that anymore.

And to think the public would think that this "gift" to the children outweighs the debt put on children due to these policies is just... well... fantasy. Perhaps it will be real fun with this guy as leader - as he is also out of touch per the sentiments of the public and will not do much to change the public perception that the GOP in congress is the problem before the midterm elections.

[burythehatchet]

30. I did not catch that gem

I was watching his response to the Abramoff question. He was lying through his fangs. He is a tool and he is truly a boner.

[OzarkDem]

34. He's spent his career making decisions behind closed doors

He's a power broker who is not accustomed to explaining anything he does. Sort of like taking a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation and trying to turn them into a politician.

People like him truly think government is just a big corporation and they're executives that run it. He sees citizens as employees, not owners.

[burythehatchet]

38. The fact that he comes from Ohio

the most corrupt state government in memory, should be telling.

[leeroysphitz]

24. This may be a prelude to, or a trial balloon for

the admin finally admiting that the war is and always was about OIL. We may see the talking points prior to the 2006 elections include things like peak oil and how the U.S. will need a garaunteed secure source of oil to survive and compete with China in years to come.

We will have yet ANOTHER in a long line of excuses for starting the war and you can just bet the the repuke base will JUMP willingly on board. It could become an election issue: "These tree hugging peace-nik liberals hate murka so much they want to give all the oil to chinese comies etc..."

Boner's statement along with shrubs ridiculous "addiction" (ridiculous in a fox gaurding the hen house sense.) comments during the SOTU adress are kind of pointing in this direction.

They knew that they could never keep thier true intentions regarding the war secret forever so here comes another layer of the onion but don't you believe it. This wasn't about survival, it's about PROFIT and big oil's recently posted (record HUGE, vast...VAST) profits prove it.

[MADem]

26. This guy has made friends with Kool Aid, clearly

He's coming across like a poorly programmed robot, frankly.



He noted that the GOP will pay a price at the polls IF the war goes poorly...IF?????? Wake up, nitwit!!!

[BrainRants]

27. Time to sic the recruiters on his kids.

Courtesy of their dad.

[nickyt]

29. Never served, no sons to send over -

Born in Cincinnati in November 1949 as one of 12 brothers and sisters, John has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. He and his wife Debbie have been married for 32 years. They have two daughters – Lindsay and Tricia – and live in the northern Cincinnati suburb of West Chester. After graduating from Cincinnati’s Moeller High School, in 1968, John earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Xavier University in Cincinnati in 1977.

Upon his graduation, he accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry, and eventually became president of the firm. While working in the private sector, John entered the political arena – first serving as Union Township trustee from 1982 to 1984 and then as a representative to the Ohio state legislature from 1984 to 1990.

http://johnboehner.house.gov/bio.asp

[OzarkDem]

31. Why no Dems on Meet the Ho today?

Dems should have someone there to counter the BS Boehner is spewing.

I'm losing track of his lies. This is a guy who has never been held accountable for anything he's ever done. Never.

[spanone]

33. What, have a balanced conversation on politics??? C'mon.

Yet, Russert is grilling Arlen Spector pretty good over the Wiretap hearings starting tomorrow. It would be NICE to have a bit of Democratic INPUT.

[jazzjunkysue]

35. Russert quoted 2 repubs who said we're in shit's creek. Nice start.

This boner is already looking green around the gills, in minute 12. They're so unprepared.

I know Tim has screwed up a bit, but he's sure doing his job today.

[spanone]

36. liveoaktx has video.....!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x327698

[immoderate]

39. "This man lies better than Tom DeLay."

Perhaps. But neither is very good. They are so transparent. Their success depend on the gullibility of their followers and the disarray of their opponents. On MTP he looked very "weaselly."

--IMM

[jazzjunkysue]

40. Tim's nailing him on indian $$. "I don't like Abramoff. "

"I never met him. The money didn't come through him. Blah blah blah.

I have nothing to do with Abramoff."


I doubt anyone believes his pissant.

Now he's getting testy with "Tim!"

More disclosure of how lobbists buy their votes. That's the answer to corruption. Or it will reduce it.

Proves everything we thought about the ho.

[jazzjunkysue]

41. Tim's on fire! He's blasting Spector with the Delay hospital visit!

Go Tim! Spector's sweating like a cornered bull.

He's asking if they'll subpeona the guys who told the story of the hospital arm twisting to allow the chimp to wiretap w/o a warrant.

Go, Tim! Get this guy on the record! Feet to the fire!


Keep the pressure on!

[theHandpuppet]

42. Told you guys -- he's much worse than Blount

As bad as Blount is, he was a known quantity. Boehner has been festering beneath the radar for years. The GOP knew what they were doing by picking Boehner, another warmongering, Bible-thumping fascist from SW Ohio (Jean Schmidt/Ken Blackwell/Taft country). Ohio is the state they need to hold on to by hook or by crook, and the GOP machine believes Boehner's position will help them achieve that goal even if the GOP loses the statehouse. The Cincinnati area will serve as the neocon base of operations not only statewide but nationally as well. That's another reason Paul Hackett scared the bejeebus out of them.

[dogday]

43. How can we leave anything to our children when they will be dead?

All these wars you chicken hawks want to fight? Who do you think will fight them? Can't leave anything to your kids if your kids have been killed in your wars. What a Boner!!!

[gizmo1979]

44. Let him talk.

Wow.He's going to win us the election all by himself.What a maroon.

[mitchum]

45. What a disgusting piece of shit...

Here's hoping his "golfer's tan" turns into "something else"

[Nutmegger]

46. Oh how the children will love Iraq

Sick, degenerate, filthily, evil, creepy people.

I really do hope that they will face retribution. They must answer to this destruction! Bush and the whole cabal!

Indict, Impeach, Imprison

[rucky]

47. Here's Boner in a 1995 radio address:

...Fifty years ago, Americans were called to face a crisis abroad. Today, we face another crisis, and this one is right here at home. For more than a generation, our federal government hasn't been able to balance its books.

For nearly 30 years, Congress has refused to deal responsibly with this problem. The result -- a debt that means that every child born today will have to spend $187,000 over their lifetime just to pay their share of interest on the national debt.

We've saddled our children with $5 trillion worth of debt, and frankly, that's unconscionable. Government has grown too big and too expensive, and we can no longer stand by and spend our children into bankruptcy.

Now is the time not to play golf as the president did yesterday, but now is the time to act. The president has talked about balancing the budget. In fact, he's even promised to balance the budget. But so far, the President has offered no leadership and he's offered no plan.

So Congress has had to go it alone. We've written a plan that is certified to balance the budget in seven years, not through harmful or random cuts, but by slowing the increases in government spending.

This is serious business, and we're serious about balancing the budget. But I'll be honest with you. I've got some very personal reasons for seeing this through. My two daughters, Lindsey and Tricia, are both in high school.

This debate isn't just about numbers and Washington gimmicks. It's about the kind of nation we want to leave for our children and theirs. Balancing the budget is the right thing to do for our children's future. But it's also hard work, and this week, we're sending the president legislation to make a downpayment on that balanced budget -- a 15-day spending bill to keep the government running until he can sign a balanced budget....

http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-11/clinton_radio/gop_trans.html