Is this an effective use of election money?

[BurtWorm]

The board sits on I-75 just prior to Towne St Exit (south of Paddock Rd). North Face / Across interstate from Star64 TV Station.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-up-and-boehners-going-to-hate-it.html



I kind of like it. Too bad they couldn't put his salary on there as well.

[EC]

1. It would have been more effective if they could have got him

at the 19th hole drunk on his rear...as rumored he often is...

[Angry Dragon]

2. That is why the republicans are so pissed that Obama golfs

they just want him to take them golfing
they want a sleeve of presidential balls

[BurtWorm]

3. Boehner said he wasn't aware the Bush tax cuts were timed to be dealt with by the next admin.

According to Speaker Pelosi:

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=2417

In a meeting at the White House with President Obama and Congressional leaders from both parties yesterday, House Republican Leader John Boehner reportedly claimed he didn’t know the deficit-exploding Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans were intentionally designed to kick their enormous cost down the road to the next Administration:

Mr. Obama, who did not join the Senate until 2005, reminded Mr. Boehner and the Senate Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, that the tax cuts’ architects purposely left the deficit problem to a future administration, according to aides from both parties.

“I wasn’t there,” Mr. Boehner quickly countered. “I didn’t structure that deal.”

The room briefly went quiet as participants seemed to ponder that statement from a legislator first elected in 1990…


It’s difficult to understand how Mr. Boehner “wasn’t there” as the tax package was crafted with a 10-year sunset to disguise the true cost when he, as Chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, was instrumental in designing the education provisions included in the tax cut package, voted in favor of it and witnessed George W. Bush sign the bill into law at the signing ceremony.

[BurtWorm]

4. Down with Tyranny has an interesting post on Boehner's golf problem

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/08/fore-boehner-is-lying-again-lying-about.html

...

According to a January 12, 2006, report in U.S. News & World Report, Boehner has a very serious handicap that has largely been swept under the carpet: his golf club near DC, Burning Tree, doesn't just bar women members, it doesn't even allow women on the premises! They pointed out he has a "girl problem."

He's a member of one of Washington's few places where women still can't go: The Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md. "I do belong to Burning Tree," he told us unapologetically. And, he kids, "I don't know of a female who would want to go out there with all those old fogies." The country club's rules have sometimes been a problem for the collection of politicians who play there...

Boehner's one of the House's well-known golfers. He claims a 6 handicap. When we first asked his office about the issue, they skipped the spin and put him on the phone in five minutes. During the interview, Boehner explained how he ended up a member of the club some three years ago. First, he was invited to a golf event and then tapped to talk to members when the scheduled speaker backed out. "I guess they liked the job that I did and invited me to become a member," he said. Like other members, Boehner had sponsors, a retired Army general, and the then head of Norfolk & Southern's Washington office. And, he added, "I pay the same fees that everybody else does." That's a $75,000 initiation fee plus monthly dues of $500 a month, according to reports.

Back to the issue at hand. We asked how he'll deal with criticism that he belongs to a sexist club. "I belong to a club in Ohio that is wide open, Wetherington Golf & Country Club, where I play with my neighbors and wife, whatever. My wife doesn't live here, she lives back in Ohio. I don't get out to Burning Tree to play very often. Wish I could, there's just not enough time." So, we ask, "you don't think it's that big of an issue? Boehner: "No, no, no."

...