Boehner To GOP: "Get Off Of Your Dead Asses And Raise Some $$$"

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Boehner tells GOP to get off 'dead asses'

The Politico
By: Patrick O'Connor
Feb 27, 2008 05:51 AM EST


Members and aides present said the Republican
leader was clearly frustrated.

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) challenged Republicans on Tuesday to get off their “dead asses” and start raising money for the National Republican Congressional Committee. And the Republican leader wasn’t the only lawmaker berating his GOP colleagues to raise more money for the committee’s March 12 fundraising dinner.

According to sources in the room, NRCC Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) also used a closed-door session at the Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday to challenge Republicans to raise more campaign cash. The normally upbeat Cole told Republicans that if they don’t start raising more money for the committee, they should get used to life in the minority.

Blunt told his colleagues that Sen. John McCain’s spot atop the ballot should give Republicans the opening they need to regain their majority. California Rep. Darrell Issa, who has been tapped as chairman of the annual fundraising dinner, set a goal of raising $7.5 million for the event. He even pledged some of his own campaign cash if members failed to clear a recent hurdle. But House Republicans are falling well short in that goal.

According to numbers read during the Tuesday morning meeting, only 15 Republicans have met their pledged fundraising goal for the dinner. Among them are Texas Reps. Mike Conaway and Pete Sessions and South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, a source familiar with the fundraising totals said. Another 42 have set a pledged target but failed to contribute the bulk of that money. And an astonishing 142 members — almost three-fourths of the Republicans in the House — have failed even to set a fundraising target.

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- Repukes are having money problems??? As I live and breathe, I never thought I'd lived to see the day when any Repuke couldn't weasle enough bribes and extorted funds from their slimey fat cat corporatist asshats in support of God's Own Party. Jesus Halliburton Christ!!! Armageddon can't be too far off now, I betcha....
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1. nothing worse than a "dead ass"

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:dem: :kick:

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3. Like booking passage on the Titantic....

...the day after it sank.

[rucky]

2. Boehner Stands Tall Among Dead Asses

hows that for a headline?

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4. Yeah well....

...they're such small asses to begin with.

[aquart]

5. Music to mine ears.

Nobody wants to give money to sure losers.

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6. Yeah but....

...Boehner sure could use the extra money for a better toupee.

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7. Repuke Bores II : The Boehner Strikes Back!

[Orsino]

8. The Republican majority didn't sign on to *work*.

The conservative sense of entitlement, however, drove many of them to suck at the public teat while rubber-stamping Cheney's wish list. Most of the Rs dropping out now are doing so because being in the minority takes dedication.