Boehner backpedals on stimulus comments - Cleveland.com »
Posted By fsev41 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Boehner makes false claims about stimulus spending in his own home state, Ohio.
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fsev414 months, 3 weeks ago
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One would think that by now Mr Boehner would have learned to have factual information before he makes public statements. Makes me wonder if endo and Boehner aren't one in the same.
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When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million. -
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flyonthewallzz4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I have to admit Boehner "bugs" me.
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I try to catch Chris Wallace's show on Sunday mornings (too cheap for cable). I figure I am seeing stuff from a relatively conservative viewpoint there, and the conservative commentators on his show usually carry a bit more weight than the liberal ones.
It was kind of interesting last Sunday Boehner and a Democrat where on and debating stuff. Wallace did not give Boehner equal time, and kept cutting him off. Frankly: it appeared to me that, Boehner was ranting and Wallace was doing him a favor.
I remember him waving a few pages and stating that they contained the Republican budget alternative..but when I read them they contained no numbers.
And then when they finally came out with something with numbers it was apparent that it was written by the Heritage Foundation and contained no significant spending reductions.
And it was loaded with all those trick words..it was a political hit piece. And I was disappointed..(going by memory I think it represented about $1.8 billion less in spending for liberal hot button issues, and an increase in deficits for the right wing Ideals. It was to much of a joke to even try to put into a database and Analise.
For now: my opinion of Beohner is pretty low, I do not think Jack Kemp would like him, I do not think Chris Wallace likes him. I think he is a Norquist "Starve the beaster" on a mission to shrink the role of government by governing badly.
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antibrainwasher4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Good observation Fly, personally, I can't get past the fake tan. Guys from Ohio, and has this pancake make up like plays golf every day in florida, which is what he should be doing rather than making up misinformation to sell to his ignorant bible thumping joe the plumber base.
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As a matter of fact, joe the plumber is from Boners district. Related?
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tchef4 months, 3 weeks ago
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I love how these guys think that Obama should be able to wave a magic wand and make all our economic trouble go away. What would McCain have done? As far as where we are with the economy I don't think we would have been any better off. I love the idea that tax cuts are going to make an immediate difference. If you don't have a job what good is a tax cut going to do you? And I received a tax cut and it didn't amount to enough to make any difference in my spending.
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chevydog4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Interesting point. I really don't think we'd be anywhere any different with McC; except we probably wouldn't have the "thank you for existing" stimulus package. I don't really think that govt is incompetent, as some seem to; but govt is not as fast as the economy. As with several other stimulus bills over the years, the money is arriving to an economy considerably different than it was when the stimulus was conceived. And there's always the question whether to "attach strings or not". Nothing new there-- local officials will always prefer the "not' and the Feds like the conditions. It's been an issue since the Feds started giving local/state assistance. One could substitute a collection of names from the 1960's and 1970's and the stories would be the same.
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IMHO the govt is most able to influence and be effective when it deals with long term stuff. Asking it to do day to day is kind of like asking an elephant to do ballet.
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