It used to be that the GOP thought of themselves as the law and order party.
My, how things change. Two items today:
1. In violation of House rules, John Boehner uses a url that isn't tied to his own name. And when the House administrative officer tells him to fix it, Boehner tells him to bugger off. If the House administrative officer had any cojones, he'd shut Boehner's site down.
2. John McCain told he can't exit the FEC. McCain says, to heck with the rules, I'm opting out anyway.
I humbly suggest a new slogan.
The Republican Party: Rules are for the other guys.
Showing posts with label Boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boehner. Show all posts
Monday, February 25, 2008
Law and Order Republicans
Friday, February 22, 2008
Boehner's Greens Fees Paid by Lobbyists
Can't believe I missed this.
Ken Silverstein at Harper's reported this week that John Boehner's PAC, "Freedom Project", declared some odd expenses, including $60,000 at a single country club.
A lot of that money comes from lobbyists.
I'm starting to understand why Boehner and McCain get along so well.
The Freedom Project's Feb. 2008 filing is here. Lots of donors from the insurance sector, and from these guys.
Worth watching. And just another reason why Boehner needs a serious Democratic opponent. Because he is uncontested, Boehner can raise enormous amounts of money and give it away to other candidates.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Boehner's boner
And by boner I mean verbal gaff.
The Ohio blogosphere has been all over this story, so I don't have much to add, but in case you wanted to contact His Royal Smokiness John Boner (I always forget where that extra "eh?" goes) about what exactly constitutes a "large" price (not over 3,700 American lives and countless thousands of Iraqi lives, and half a trillion dollars from the American people, apparently) I thought I would perform a public service and remind everyone that His Royal Smokiness can be found here, or you can call and politely discuss it with his staff at the following number:
(202) 225-6205
And if anyone out there knows or has worked for congressman and would like to talk to me about it, or knows someone who knows someone, or even has heard some juicy gossip, please drop me a line at comments@ohdave.net.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Boehner reveals classified info (Updated)
UPDATE: Think Progress weighs in.
Josh Marshall is reporting that John Boehner gave away classified information when he revealed on Fox last night that the FISA court had declared key pieces of the TSP illegal.
Doesn't Josh know it's OK for Republicans to give away classified info, just not Democrats?
I don't really care that Boehner told what he shouldn't have (except that it's always fun to see him squirm). To me, the more the public knows about the Bush administration's data mining, the better.
But it also raises the larger point, why are the Democrats helping Bush out by making the parts of the program that are illegal, legal? This legislation needs to be stopped in its tracks.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Message for John Boehner, Hypocrite
I left a couple of messages today at John Boehner's office regarding his comments on Pelosi's and Hobson's visit to Syria.
Boehner and fellow member of the Ohio Republican congressional delegation David Hobson got into a verbal joust over the Speaker's trip to Syria, which Mr. Hobson joined.
Boehner was quoted as saying:
"It's one thing for other members to go," Boehner said, "but you have to ask yourself, 'Why is Pelosi going?' She's going for one reason and that is to embarrass the president. She is the speaker of the House. She's giving (the Syrian) government more credit than they deserve. They sponsor terrorism. They have not been at all helpful. I wish she wasn't there."
Now, I realize I see everything involving Syria through the lens of Maher Arar. But why not? His case proves that the Bush administration has no qualms about contacting Syria when it has someone it wants to torture, but has a huge problem with anyone criticizing their foreign policy.
Here's a bit of Arar's story:
Early the next morning Arar is taken upstairs for intense interrogation. He is beaten on his palms, wrists, lower back and hips with a shredded black electrical cable which is about two inches in diameter. He is threatened with the metal chair, electric shocks, and with the tire, into which prisoners are stuffed, immobilized and beaten.
The next day Arar is interrogated and beaten on and off for eighteen hours. Arar begs them to stop. He is asked if he received military training in Afghanistan, and he falsely confesses and says yes. This is the first time Arar is ever questioned about Afghanistan. They ask at which camp, and provide him with a list, and he picks one of the camps listed.
Arar urinated on himself twice during the interrogation.
Throughout this period of intense interrogation Arar was not taken back to his cell, but to a waiting room where he could hear other prisoners being tortured and screaming. One time, he heard them repeatedly slam a man’s head on a desk really hard.
Now who would be interested in Afghan training camps? The Americans?
I asked the nice people at Mr. Boehner's office why he was critical of Speaker Pelosi's trip to Syria to work for peace, but he has never, to my knowledge, been critical of the government's contact with Syria regarding the use of torture to attempt to get information from terror suspects.
And if Sryia is a sponsor of terror--and I'm not saying I doubt that fact--why are they, the Syrians, trying to get information about terrorist camps in Afghanistan? Does that make sense? And why isn't the Minority Leader concerned when our own CIA takes Canadian nationals from American soil and flies them to Jordan so that they can be tortured until they confess to involvement in terrorism?
Anyway, I don't expect an answer from Mr. Boehner, but you might have better luck. Call his office at (202) 225-6205 or (202) 225-0704 (fax). Good luck.
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