Looking for the dark side—and finding it within

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How John Boehner knows he's doing SOMETHING wrong

When you secretly invite a foreign leader to address Congress and even FOX News thinks it's a lousy idea, you done messed up!

Hey GOP—Apply Cold Water to Burned Area

John Boehner: Orange Liar, Black Lungs

“There are less people today with health insurance than there were before this law went into effect.”

—House Speaker John Boehner, March 13, 2014  

Actually, the percentage of people without health insurance has declined 30% from 2013 to 2014. Oh, and in the year since Obamacare launched, unemployment is well under 6% and the U.S. economy has added nearly 3 million jobs—the best such performance since 1999.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker

"What an asshole."

—House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), speaking of Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

John Boehner... *facepalm*

This guy pulls down a couple of hundred thousand votes in Ohio, and somehow John Boehner is the third most powerful person in the nation?

Oy.

A few lowlights.
1:47 Stephanoupolis question, Boehner evasion.
3:04 Boehner is confronted with accepting an offer than reneging on it...and then he runs like a motherfucker.
4:15 His hypocrisy revealed for the third time, Boehner just looks like an clown.

So, which is it?

“This isn't some damn game!”
—House Speaker John Boehner 

“We’re going to win this.”
—Senator Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky), talking to Mitch McConnell on a hit mike. (Of course, we know who's losing—this eight-year-old cancer patient who can't get treatment with the FDA shutdown.)

And to think I trusted him...

The Date: November 8, 2012

The Question: whether he would still try to repeal President Obama's health care law.

The Answer: "Well I think the election changes that. It's pretty clear that the President was reelected. Obamacare is the law of the land."

Ted Yoho is the Small Mind of the Day

The other day, Representative Ted Yoho (Republican, Florida) brought up an Affordable Healthcare provision that allegedly imposes a 10% tax on tanning bed use. Yoho maintained that this is a “racist tax” that discriminates “because of the color of my skin.”

Over here is Yoho’s account (with audio), during which he’s chatting with John Boehner:

[Boehner] goes, “I didn’t know [the tax] was in there,” and I said, “Yes, it’s a ten percent tax.” He goes, “Well, that’s not that big of a deal.” I said, “It’s a racist tax.” He goes, “You know what, it is.” I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin, with two non-dark skin people, and I asked this to him, I said, “Have you ever been to a tanning booth?” and he goes, “No, no need.” So therefore it’s a racist tax and I thought I might need to get to a sun tanning booth so I can come out and say I’ve been disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin.”

BTW, you may be wondering just how white Ted is. Oh, he's just sort of white.

Hmm. I guess he's actually fairly white.

Oh, who am I kidding? Ted Yoho's whiter than a motherfucker.

Tom Toles explains John Boehner's attitude to Obamacare

"We're going to do everything we can to make sure [Obamacare] never happens." 

—House Speaker John Boehner (Republican, Ohio). Comic via.

Quote of the Day

Gee, if only the Republicans would devote half as much energy to solving this nation's health care crisis as they do to repealing Obamacare... Via.

John Boehner on the idea that this is the most unproductive Congress ever: "That's just total nonsense... I reject the premise of the question."