Pathetic: Boehner Cries Over Nancy Pelosi

 

"John Boehner crying as he paid tribute to Nancy Pelosi is the perfect symbol of uniparty pathology." - Monica Crowley, Twitter, 12/14/22.

 

"Stockholm." - David Limbaugh, Twitter, 12/14/22. 

 

"Former Speaker John Boehner -- the crybaby Speaker, remember him? -- cried Wednesday as he delivered a tribute to outgoing Speaker Pelosi. 

This is why America is going down: The party that's supposed to rescue us from our savage oppressors worships our savage oppressors." - Michael J. Hurd, Twitter, 12/14/22.

Debt Ceiling: Another Capitulation In The Works?

Question of the day:

Will House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell bend over and spread their cheeks and give into Obama's demand for another trillion dollars?

Hugh Hewitt: McClellan Republicans

Above, Gen. George B. McClellan.

As soon as I read the title of this article, I immediately knew what Hugh Hewitt was talking about.

You see, I took Civil War history in college and learned a great deal about President Abraham Lincoln's exasperation over Gen. George McClellan's inaction at the start of the Civil War. At one point, the frustrated Lincoln remarked, "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time."

As Hewitt put it:

George McClellan was the dashing commander of the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War, whom the troops loved but whom Abraham Lincoln scorned as timid and quick to retreat.

Perhaps now even Steelers fans will understand why I have taken to calling the House Republican the McClellan Republicans –always preparing to fight but never quite getting to the political battlefield that is the great spending debate.

Why does Hewitt refer to the Republican leadership as "McClellan Republicans"? Here's part of the reason:

Speaker John Boehner, GOP Leader Eric Cantor and GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy have been in their saddles since November 2, and even though their formal power only arrived in January, they have had more than four months to prepare the debate over the CR, the debt ceiling and the FY 2012 budget.

If they prepared at all they prepared poorly, concentrating on symbolic gestures and focusing on procedural niceties like “open rules” rather than closing with the Democrats and forcing the first of the many showdowns ahead on spending. The phony cuts assembled thus far –the GOP talking points say $8 billion has been sawed from the federal budget—have not resulted in a single lay-off or program closure. One could look for months and see no effect from these paper cuts.

These Republican "leaders" don't seem to want to wage a battle with the Democrats. They were put into their leadership positions because the voters had enough of Obama and the socialism of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

So far, although the Democrats' numbers have been greatly diminished in the aftermath of last year's elections, they are still bringing artillery to the battle while the GOP leadership seemed to have shown up to the fight with fly-swatters.

By the way, George McClellan went on to become Lincoln's Democrat opponent in the 1864 elections.

To read Hewitt's full article, go here.

Democrats' Healthcare "Web of Bureaucracy"

(Click to see larger.)

House Minority Leader John Boehner unveiled a flow chart (above) of the Democrats' healthcare proposal.

"If anybody thinks that all of this bureaucracy is needed to fix our health care system, I plainly disagree," says Boehner. "What this is going to do is ration care, limit the choices that patients and doctors have and really decrease the quality of our health care system."

According to FoxNews:

[The chart above] shows the president and Congress at the top, with dozens of agencies and officials responsible for various slices of the health care program underneath.

The suggestion inherent in the chart is that the health care system would grind to a near-halt under the Democrats' plan.

Now is the time for everyone who opposes this fraudulent "healthcare reform" to contact their Representatives and U.S. Senators. This essentially amounts to the government taking over roughly 19% of the U.S. economy. It will cost $1.5 trillion and it will kill the economy if passed.

A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats' Massive Spending Bill

Yesterday, Minority Leader John Boehner sent out an email on the House Democrats' ridiculous $825 billion "stimulus" bill. It is worth reproducing in its entirety:

A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats' Massive Spending Bill

1. The House Democrats' bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

2. The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

3. President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save three million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $50,000 a year.

4. The House Democrats' bill provides enough spending - $825 billion - to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

5. $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the U.S. $22,000.

6. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.

7. Although the House Democrats' proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill - or three percent - is for road and highway spending. A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office said that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion for infrastructure.

8. Much of the funding within the House Democrats' proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already have $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used.

9. In 1993, the unemployment rate was virtually the same as the rate today (around seven percent). Yet, then-President Clinton's proposed stimulus legislation ONLY contained $16 billion in spending.

10. Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the House Democrats' proposal:

$650 million for digital TV coupons.
$6 billion for colleges/universities - many which have billion dollar endowments.
$166 billion in direct aid to states - many of which have failed to budget wisely.
$50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
$44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.
$200 million for the National Mall, including grass planting.
$400 million for "National Treasures."

11. Almost one-third of the so called tax relief in the House Democrats' bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package - not the 40 percent that President-elect Obama had requested.

12. $825 billion is just the beginning - many Capitol Hill Democrats want to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their "stimulus" plan.