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GOP Leader Boehner: Republicans 'Took It in the Shorts With Bush-Cheney'

Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress at 11:02 AM on June 12, 2009.


House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) pins the blame for his party's current failures on the Bush presidency.

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In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) pinned the blame for his party’s current failures on the Bush presidency:

“We’re digging ourselves out of a deep hole,” he admitted. “We took it in the shorts with Bush-Cheney, the Iraq War, and by sacrificing fiscal responsibility to hold power.”

Boehner has only to blame to himself. He voted to authorize use of military force against Iraq, and voted against a House-approved Iraq withdrawal in 2007. He also voted for the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, which were largely responsible for turning our nation’s surplus into a massive deficit. As Boehner himself said in 2006, “I think that Republicans ought to stand up and support George W. Bush for the job that he’s done.” (HT: Political Wire)

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Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.


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Paying the price for personality cult politics....
Posted by: CatDad on Jun 12, 2009 12:25 PM   
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Conservatives wrapped their movement entirely around the massively self-entitled slacker George W. and they are paying the price for it

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» RE: No, we are paying for it Posted by: Sister_Lauren
Lucidity
Posted by: lightwing1 on Jun 12, 2009 1:30 PM   
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Actually one of the more lucid comments by a Republican in a long while (outside of Ron Paul). Government spending cannot solve every problem a society has. If it could, then the last 40 years of massive deficit spending should have solved all of our societal ills. There has to be someone representing us that countenances boundaries on government spending and Republicans have abdicated that role - taxpayers are groaning under the weight of government right now. Unfortunately, we now have two parties - one gives my tax money to the poor (socialism) and one to the rich (crony capitalism) and they keep asking for more. Just can't win.

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» RE: Lucidity Posted by: SalB
» Yeah, and Posted by: lamac66
MMMMMAAAAAH HAHAHAHAAAAHAAA WHAWHAWHEEEEEEEEHAHAHA...
Posted by: Longdream on Jun 12, 2009 3:44 PM   
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*catches breath*

You've got to be...*sputter* AAAAH HAHAHAHAHAAAAA, OH, HOHOHOHEEEEEE HAHAHAHAHAAH, OMIGOD, BITE ME YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS FUCKWIT!

Oh, me, that was funny. "In the shorts..."! Mmmmphsnort Mmmmph. Mmmmmhaaaahahahahahaa!

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too late to spit now, Jon
Posted by: hurricane hugo on Jun 12, 2009 4:39 PM   
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swallow it like a man.

#@!

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» RE: too late to spit now, Jon Posted by: Longdream
"Took It In The Shorts"?
Posted by: Razional Thinker on Jun 12, 2009 4:57 PM   
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oh, that is one big way to get erectile dysfunction.....and they did.

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They just haven't had the meeting yet in which they
Posted by: Quannah on Jun 12, 2009 5:18 PM   
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find a way to pin it on the Democrats. But I'm sure they're working on it.

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Not to defend Bush HERE!
Posted by: weslen1 on Jun 13, 2009 12:55 PM   
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But the Republican PARTY, beginning with the LUSH Boehner, cannot BLAME George Bush, Dick Cheney, or anyone ELSE for their plight NOW. The truth IS that THEY, and THEY ALONE, CHOSE to stand for everything WRONG! When illegal wire tapping of Americans was found out, THEY INSISTED on IMMUNITY for law breakers, whining about "regular people" maybe MAKING A FEW LAWYERS RICH suing those companies who did the spying, even as the two-faced LUSH Boehner was collecting HIS 1 1/2 MILLION dollar settlement AND enriching HIS lawyer over one of HIS eavesdropped conversations being released to the public.
When the BUSH PEOPLE LIED REPEATEDLY, ADMITTED THEY'D LIED then repeated those lies AGAIN, the Republican Party COVERED UP FOR THOSE LIES, DEFENDED THE LIARS AND REPEATED THE SAME LIES UNABASHED.
When it became public knowledge Bush and Cheney and sleezy Rice and all the rest not ONLY AUTHORIZED TORTURE, but actually ORDERED it, MADE A LIST OF "METHODS?" that grew increasingly SADISTIC as they went along because they weren't getting the "confessions" they wanted about Iraq and Iran. It's kind of hard to make a "confession" when you don't KNOW THE CRIME, so the "crime" was dictated to the PRISONERS and then they were TORTURED UNTIL THEY CONFESSED. And the GOP PRAISED THEIR LEADERS TO THE HEAVENS for their PATRIOTISM AND COURAGE, WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DENOUNCING anti-American ACTS and spitting on the CONSTITUTION, calling it "Just a GodDamned Piece of paper."
When George Bush flipped off the American People ON CAMERA "jokingly" calling it the "One Finger Salute" did the GOP call him on it? HELL NO!! THEY LOVED HIM FOR IT!
When it became KNOWN the CIA was involved in torture, did they CALL THEM ON THAT? Did they HOLD ANYONE TO ACCOUNT? HELL NO! They DEMANDED NO HEARINGS BE HELD.
I don't have to bring up the rest. WE ALL KNOW the whole sordid story. We may lack specific DETAILS thanks to GOP obstruction. BUT WE KNOW JUST THE SAME.
They DISMISS the deaths of more than 5000 troops with "Eh! They volunteered! They KNEW what they were getting into!" They lie and cover up for "contractors" who steal supplies from the troops, they make fake laws to protect contractors who electrocute TROOPS with shoddy work and build and rebuild and rebuild shoddy uninhabitable "barracks" for the troops and/or murder, rape and steal from troops AND innocent civilians.
They LIE, they COVER UP, they pretend to CARE about waste, fraud, abuse and yet that's exactly what THEY are GUILTY OF.
The CIA says "We NEVER waterboarded ANYONE!" But, well MAYBE WE DID!" We ONLY waterboarded 3 times" but it turned out to be 266 TIMES to only 2 men and they ONLY had 1 video that they illegally DESTROYED that turned out to be HUNDREDS of video tapes illegally DESTROYED yet the GOP LIES, COVERS UP AND PERSECUTES NANCY PELOSI for DARING to say she was "misled" and then SHE and all her fellow DEMOCRATS ALLOW that abuse to go on and REPEAT THE LIES AGAIN!
Unless Boehner and the rest of his lying, cheating, trashy buds get some INTEGRITY, they will spend what's left or their LIVES under the rock they crawled out from. Even the UNEDUCATED can LEARN more than the "talking points". EVENTUALLY MOST PEOPLE DO LEARN WHO THEY CAN TRUST and even the most NAIVE, eventually LEARN that a person who can ONLY tell lie after lie CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
And even the hardiest WARRIER soon tires of the battle when it is UNENDING.
IF YOU TORTURE THE WHOLE WORLD YOU STILL CANNOT CONVERT ALL TO YOUR BELIEFS. They seem to not CARE that the GOD THEY SAY THEY BELIEVE IN was a CREATOR, NOT A DESTROYER.
But when he sent the flood to CLEANSE the earth of EVIL, it was THEIR KIND he drowned and OUR kind he taught to build the ARK to save his BEST PEOPLE AND ALL THE ANIMALS that the GOP would DESTROY!

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But But But - Mr Boner...
Posted by: MYungbluth on Jun 13, 2009 1:17 PM   
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Gee, Mr Boner - wasn't it youse guys - you know, all you lock- step Republicronies - who rubber stamped EVERYTHING that Howdy Doody and Darth Vader wanted. How is that working out for you NOW??

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" ...shorts, becauseTheir Excellance took it in the snorts, ...
Posted by: godsbreath64 on Jun 13, 2009 6:26 PM   
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while our finest parished without otherwise fail- hour by hour."

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That Was Then, This is Now
Posted by: jmmartin on Jun 15, 2009 4:34 PM   
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How strange that Senator Bonehead had nothing but good to say about Bush and Cheney when they were in office as prez and veep (it rhymes with creep), respectively. He never refused to take any of the money given out to his state by a chief executive who never saw a spending bill he didn't like. Typical GOP hypocrisy. The more things change....

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