Screw You, Mr. Boehner

Posted on 01/27/2009 at 12:05 pm by JumpyPants

Politico is reporting:

President Barack Obama is coming to the Capitol this afternoon to curry favor with congressional Republicans. But it appears GOP leaders have already made up their minds to oppose his $825 billion stimulus plan. [...] House Republican Leader John A. Boehner and his No. 2, Whip Eric Cantor, told their rank-and-file members Tuesday morning during a closed-door meeting to oppose the bill when it comes to the floor Wednesday…

The Republicans are acting like they still control Congress. And the cable news people are treating them that way.

Here’s to hoping the president goes to the Hill and tells Boehner and Cantor two things: 1) Eff you both — the concessions made to the Republicans in the current versions of the bill are going to be violently yanked out and replaced with infrastructure projects, and 2) If you keep banging on your pots, you won’t have any pots left!

Actually, that’s two ways of saying the same thing, but there you go.

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  • Lyle

    I’d rather not see Cantor whimpering and Boehner crying for the cameras again, but sometimes tough love is required.

  • camel54

    “Boehner already said he wouldn’t vote for it, so why are they bothering to meet with the President if they’ve already decided they will oppose?” [a Democratic aide] wondered. “Will they even say what they want now or just constantly moving the goalposts?”Exactly. I wish the President would just meet with them to tell them they were spanked by the public in two elections. Everyone believes they are fuck-ups. Their friends are people like Ken Lay, Thaine, Citigroup and Americans are sick of them so we’re putting the contraceptives back in, reducing the tax breaks, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, who’s next?

  • Mike H.

    Remember, he said himself that he can deliver a crushing counterpunch.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I really, really, reeeeeeeeeealy hope President Obama doesn’t cave in to these obstructionist motherfuckers. They have to be taught that throwing a temper tantrum isn’t going to get them anywhere and that if they want to be included, they have to behave like adults. Until then, Boehner can cry in his bourbon, Vitter and shit his diapers and Cantor and whip up a delithiouth merengue and therve it to the retht of the theething right.

  • steve

    I had to fly to Texas last week (with a stop in Atlanta), and it was jarring to see all the headlines in Southern newspapers proclaiming how the heroic GOP congresspeople are bravely standing up to that meanie Obama. And every time I passed a TV in an airport concourse, Boehner’s pasty face was on the screen.I don’t get it. The inauguration was barely a week ago, and the media is already acting like it never happened and the GOP is still in charge.

  • J M Ashby

    Maybe Boner is still butt-hurt by Pelosi’s speech back in September.Wow that sounded bad…..on purpose haha.

  • SillyGit

    I hope that President Obama can bring a new meaning to ‘Drill Baby, Drill!’

  • avkodoll

    Right before I came to this site, I went to the White House site and left a comment saying just what’s in this posting. (Only in a sanitized version!) Maybe it would be helpful if everyone did the same thing?

  • Ady/Leigh

    Time for Republicans to sit down and STFU. Did President Obama ALREADY lose his spine and fold like a cheap lawn chair for the Republican idiots who made most of this mess in the first place? WTF? Steve, you should see the local coverage here in SC. I think my blood pressure has just gone throught the roof.Dear Mr. Obama: If I had wanted another Republican in the Oval Office, I would have fucking VOTED for one!

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Just what we need…Action Figure Obama

  • Packy

    I agree completely, Bob.

  • brutlyhonest

    Three things I want to see:

    1) Someone call that dickhead Boner instead of Baner.

    2) Someone ask him why he’s suddenly decided to be a spendthrift when he helped bush throw billions away while driving the country into the ground.

    3) Someone ask if that tan is painted on or if he uses a tanning bed.

  • Curly Lasagna

    >>3) Someone ask if that tan is painted on or if he uses a tanning bed.Looks to me like it’s applied with a spatula.

  • ElMystico

    Oh noes! Not House Republicans!?!? Anyone else read Nate Silvers thing a while back about how screwed they are? We’ve got 140 seats that either are uncontested (about 40) or that we hold by 40 or more % (that’d be the other 100). House republicans are an endangered species, and the Orange Spotted Boehner should be relocated to the zoo.