He jokingly quipped in a room full of reporters that they, the GOP, had shut government down because Clinton made him and Dole sit in the back of the plane on their way to Yitzak Rabin's funeral...it was light hearted, but the media ran with it...as if it were the reason.
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He jokingly quipped in a room full of reporters that they, the GOP, had shut government down because Clinton made him and Dole sit in the back of the plane on their way to Yitzak Rabin's funeral...it was light hearted, but the media ran with it...as if it were the reason.
cawacko
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leaningright, we read a lot of stuff that partisans b*tch about but most people roll their eyes at. As I look around the various news sites today and don't really see anything about this story being reported on maybe it was just a bunch of partisans I was reading last night who were complaining about it. Maybe after doing what they did in Washington yesterday during the day last night was all about the President so there was no need for Boehner to be there.
I still question going to the fundraiser but that's just me.
Boehner turn the stage over to Obama, ahahahahahaha, thanks for the chuckle!
This won't look good, especially since he went to a fund raiser, if he had gone to an orphans home or a military hospital, but a fundraiser, that looks REAL bad.
That is so true cawacko. I absolutely don't question his not going. If he didn't go so he could attend a fundraiser he deserves a strike. That is just the way I feel if that was his reasoning. As I indicated, the jury is still out on that one. I haven't seen anything yet about it that isn't from some lefty site....which I won't take as gospel. That is just the type of "gotcha" moments that I have come to despise from both sides. Take this molehill and make a mountain. I see the Sarah Palin thing as exactly the same thing. I see the birth certificate as exactly the same thing. This type of stuff needs to stop. So if all I have is some lefty site "reporting" the fundrasier as the reason he didn't go he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt from me. But I am really too easily duped or too dumb to comment on this.
You really don't think He and Obama could/would work together at a time like this. If it is true that they can't/won't, especially now, then our country is really in trouble.
CNN: Boehner: Bipartisan prayer service can be 'source of solace'
Congress has responded to the Saturday shootings of 19 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, with a "collective embrace" rather than a "torrent of accusations," House Speaker John Boehner said at a bipartisan congressional prayer service Wednesday. "Our nation mourns for the victims. It yearns for peace. And it thirsts for answers," the Ohio representative said in his welcome statement at the service, according to a transcript of his remarks. The service, held for members of Congress, their spouses and some staffers, was not open to the public.
Yeah, he led a private non-dog and pony show earlier Wed.
Congress has responded to the Saturday shootings of 19 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, with a "collective embrace" rather than a "torrent of accusations," House Speaker John Boehner said at a bipartisan congressional prayer service Wednesday. "Our nation mourns for the victims. It yearns for peace. And it thirsts for answers," the Ohio representative said in his welcome statement at the service, according to a transcript of his remarks. The service, held for members of Congress, their spouses and some staffers, was not open to the public.
Yeah, he led a private non-dog and pony show earlier Wed.
zappasguitar
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Obama probably told Boener to stay home figuring the country didn't want to watch anymore of Boener's maudlin blubbering every time he tries to speak.
cawacko
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He wasn't scheduled to speak.
Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
true.... but he still would have been blubbering... which means cameras would have turned to him instead of the One.
I could not find any rule against it and I am sure if there was a rule, the administration would not have asked him to fly. They are claiming it was because he wanted to be in DC with the rest of the House and could not be two places at once, and that is legit, but for gawd sakes, use your head, it doesn't look good that you then attend a fundraiser! These guys just blow my mind! Right or wrong, it looks BAD!
Neither were a couple of others, but they changed the schedule for them! If I read the article correctly.
Cancel 2018. 3
<-- sched 2, MJ sched 1
did obama go to work after the memorial?
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<-- sched 2, MJ sched 1
so its a bad thing if someone gets emotional at times and sheds a few tears? wow....i guess the left only wants men to tough unfeeling lug heads....i thought the left was the party of compassion and acceptance of people's feelings...
DamnYankee
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Evil capitalists that insist on working to pay their own bills!
Fundraising isn't work, in my opinion, good try, no cigar Monica.
so its a bad thing if someone gets emotional at times and sheds a few tears? wow....i guess the left only wants men to tough unfeeling lug heads....i thought the left was the party of compassion and acceptance of people's feelings...
Key words, he over does it, make him look too soft, in my opinion. I love a sensitive man, but a cry baby, that is another thing all together! It seems contrived.
