Boehner: Now and Then

[babylonsister]

Can you say hypocrite? I knew you could.

http://mediamattersaction.org/video/200905140006

Rep. Boehner: Now and Then
2 hours and 19 minutes ago


Today, May 14, 2009, Rep. John Boehner criticized Speaker Pelosi's press conference by saying, "it's hard for me to imagine that our intelligence area would ever mislead a member of Congress." Yet in 2007, Rep. Boehner criticized our nation's intelligence community by saying, "either I don't have confidence in what they told me several months ago or I don't have confidence in what they're telling me today." Once again, rather than finding the truth, Rep. Boehner is playing politics.

John Boehner Now

John Boehner: "I've dealt with our intelligence professionals for the last three-and-a-half years on an almost daily basis, and it's hard for me to imagine that our intelligence area would ever mislead a member of Congress. {Boehner Press Availability via The Hill, 5/14/2009}


John Boehner Then:

December 9, 2007:

Wolf Blitzer: "Are you suggesting, as I think you are, that you don't necessarily have confidence in this new NIE?"

Rep. John Boehner: "Either I don't have confidence in what they told me several months ago or I don't have confidence in what they're telling me today." (CNN, Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, 12/9/2007; emphasis added)

February 11, 2007:

Rep. John Boehner: "It's clear to all of us, Democrats and Republicans, that we have flawed intelligence. The CIA have bad intelligence, the Pentagon had bad intelligence and, for that matter, all of our allies around the world had the same bad intelligence. And so that's why Republicans voted to set up the National Intelligence Directorate to reform our intelligence activities." {NBC, Meet the Press, 2/11/07}
–Media Matters Action Network

[Solly Mack]

1. Boehner: Full of shit - then and now

[ejpoeta]

6. maybe THAT's why he is so odd colored....

he's so full of shit it's affecting his skin color.

[CBR]

2. I thought you were going to post pics of his skin "transformation"

LOL!

[tabbycat31]

3. same

[underpants]

4. Great post. Bush blamed the war AND 9/11 on "bad intelligence"

I know I know Bush.... bad intelligence--the joke writes itself

[AndyA]

5. Ah, Boehner. Such high ethics.

Anyone remember when he handed out checks from the tobacco companies on the House floor right before a critical tobacco vote? Ah, yes...it was 1995, and Boehner handed out a stack of campaign checks from the tobacco industry to members right on the House floor at a time when lawmakers were considering eliminating a tobacco subsidy.

Boehner should have his sorry ass kicked all the way out of the country.


And people wonder what's wrong with our government today... :shrug:

[babylonsister]

10. No way!

Boehner really did that? :wow:

[butterfly77]

7. I was thinking about this yesterday..

we need to post lists daily showing all of the hypocritical bullshit that these republicons used on Dems for these past eight years and before that. I want some of the newbies to see what they really are have been doing people like Sennsenbrenner,Hastert,Delay,McConnell,Sessions,Armey,Cantor,Lieberman,Graham,and on and on and on..Some of these people are playing to the uninformed and they need to be shown for who they really are and all of their policies. They are trying to reinvent themselves as though there is no video tape and lots of memories that we all have of them and the games they played. I have invited a lot of people here and many things that I can't remember I am sure that many here can.

[pansypoo53219]

8. butbutbut

teevee gnews don't have the way back power the daily show has!

[butterfly77]

11. these lying hypocritical bastards...

dontcha know they are living in the 1950's..

[Bucky]

9. He's full of shit AND his pants are on fire. It's like he stomped a flaming bag in his own diapers.

Maybe I over mixed that metaphor

[11 Bravo]

12. Whew! A before and after "Boner" picture was not pretty to contemplate.

[ProgressiveFool]

13. disappointed - thought this thread would show proof he was once actually human /nt