And Johnny (Boehner) Can’t Add, Either »

Posted By mesodude 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political News
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For all the complaints about the size and cost of the current Democratic piece of legislation in healthcare (and also despite his claim to having ‘8 or 9 better ideas’), he doesn’t appear to have a clue as to how much the much vaunted Republican plan (all 230 pages of it) costs or what it actually does. Please see CBO Trashes Republican Plan

When asked this morning about the cost of the program, Boehner said:

“Uh, I would think that we have one,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said of the amount of spending in the bill. “I would think that the numbers probably, well there is no net number.”

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    pokydoke1 month, 3 weeks ago

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    Boehner has shown time and time again that he does not have a good grasp of reality. Unfortunately that appears to be endemic with the conservatives as a whole.

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      Charlson1 month, 3 weeks ago

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      Well, he does look like he's had too much sun. It's roasted his brain besides making him look like a sleazier George Hamilton.

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        wsorrian1 month, 2 weeks ago

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        How many times are you going to link to blogs and op-ed articles. Again this is another "story" on a site that uses itself as a reference, not to mention it tries to insult Boenher by printing a bogus "letter".

        It then sources a Politico hit piece to try to nail Boehner on "not knowing the cost" less than 18 hours after the CBO finishes scoring it. Democrats didn't know the true cost of any of their bills even weeks after the fact(As evidenced by the lies they told about the cost of H.R. 3200). That didn't stop themn from throwing out arbitrary numbers though.

        Hack journalism.

        @pokydoke
        Stereotyping large groups of people is known as prejudice and Boehner is a moderate. But thanks for your lesson on grasping reality...

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