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Zorro

(15,690 posts)
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:19 PM Apr 2012

Boehner Claims Obama Made Presidency 'Smaller'

Source: ABC News

House Speaker John Boehner accused President Obama of diminishing the traditional role of the presidency by inventing "fake fights" over the student loan rate extension and parading around the country on campaign trips aboard Air Force One disguised as official business at taxpayers' expense.

"This is the biggest job in the world and I've never seen a president make it smaller," Boehner, R-Ohio, said during his weekly news conference. "The president keeps attempting to invent these fake fights because he doesn't have a record of success or a positive agenda for our country. It's as simple as this: The emperor has no clothes. They can't talk about their record on jobs because their policies have made the economy worse. They can't talk about their record on spending because the president's policies have added $5 trillion to the national debt and they can't talk about their record on gas prices because gas prices have more than doubled on the president's watch."

Boehner called on President Obama's campaign to reimburse the federal Treasury for his trips to Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina over the past week during which he made the student loan rate extension the focal point of his stump speech.

"The White House it seems is also entirely devoted to this type of petty politics. This week the president traveled across the country on taxpayers' dime at a cost of $179,000 an hour insisting that Congress fix a problem that we were already working on," he said. "This is beneath the dignity of the White House. Democrats and Republicans knew that this was going to take effect. Democrats and Republicans fully expected this would be taken care of and for the president to make a campaign issue out of this and then to travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try to make this a political issue is pathetic and his campaign ought to be reimbursing the Treasury for the cost of this trip."

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Boehner Claims Obama Made Presidency 'Smaller' (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2012 OP
Hey pissy pants bawlbags orange man! Your bawling every fart that someone releases is an lonestarnot Apr 2012 #1
LOL. What a fool. bemildred Apr 2012 #2
Hey if you know did orangish cry when Mr. President took out Osama Bin Laden? lonestarnot Apr 2012 #3
Boners are always afraid of becoming smaller. It's a projection. cosmicone Apr 2012 #4
Are this cry baby's tears orange? liberal N proud Apr 2012 #5
Is it just me or have Boehner's attacks been incredibly impotent in the last few hours? Tiggeroshii Apr 2012 #6
The Republicans have done everything they could possibly do to diminish his Presidency and they libinnyandia Apr 2012 #7
I thought he wanted smaller government? Blue_Tires Apr 2012 #8
Classic Republican projection. CJCRANE Apr 2012 #9
Exactly. polichick Apr 2012 #24
All I can say is Andy823 Apr 2012 #10
Hey Rusty, any idea what made your BRAIN smaller? Scuba Apr 2012 #11
Smaller? Is this the Subliminal reverse of Max Gentleman spam? bucolic_frolic Apr 2012 #12
Just goes to show the republican mindset.. wandy Apr 2012 #13
This is pathetic beyond words mazzarro Apr 2012 #14
and Boehner made Congress approval rating teeny Enrique Apr 2012 #15
It was also done by GWB, only much worse LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2012 #16
how much money did Bush waste in convincing congress about weapons of mass destructions? PatrynXX Apr 2012 #17
johnnie...if you are going to cry you can go to your room madrchsod Apr 2012 #18
Hey Boehner, usrname Apr 2012 #19
Let's see, what was George W doing on 9-11? eyewall Apr 2012 #20
Boehner is mad because Obama's Stick is bigger. n/t Grassy Knoll Apr 2012 #21
"Fake fights?" Better than fake national security threats like Iraq. muntrv Apr 2012 #22
so Bush-the-idiot made it "bigger"?? DCBob Apr 2012 #23
Obama created more jobs in 3 years than bush created in 8, and that's an actual fact. truthisfreedom Apr 2012 #25
"This is the biggest job in the world and I've never seen a president make it smaller," unkachuck Apr 2012 #26
i think what boehner is really saying iemitsu Apr 2012 #27
Or loyalsister Apr 2012 #30
obama walks easily. iemitsu Apr 2012 #32
I think all of the above loyalsister Apr 2012 #34
yes, i see your point. iemitsu Apr 2012 #35
How does this qua;ify as "news"? pfitz59 Apr 2012 #28
Fuck you, BONER. Zoeisright Apr 2012 #29
i agree. iemitsu Apr 2012 #33
Boehner needs to lay off the sauce. freshwest Apr 2012 #31
I bet he went through an entire box of Kleenex during that rant. JoePhilly Apr 2012 #36
Small is a mind set that fits the GOP very well sky imager Apr 2012 #37
 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
1. Hey pissy pants bawlbags orange man! Your bawling every fart that someone releases is an
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:22 PM
Apr 2012

embarrassment to the Speaker of the House duty that you've yet to do for the American people!

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
4. Boners are always afraid of becoming smaller. It's a projection.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:27 PM
Apr 2012

(I know he pronounces it Bay-ner)

 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
6. Is it just me or have Boehner's attacks been incredibly impotent in the last few hours?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:29 PM
Apr 2012

"Made the presidency smaller." That's an attack?

libinnyandia

(1,374 posts)
7. The Republicans have done everything they could possibly do to diminish his Presidency and they
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:31 PM
Apr 2012

have made a better man. Historians will have nothing positive to say about Boehner and McConnell.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
9. Classic Republican projection.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:32 PM
Apr 2012

Boehner takes a criticism leveled at Republicans and switches the names.

Just replace "President" with "Speaker"and "they" with "we" and you'll get closer to the truth.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
10. All I can say is
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:33 PM
Apr 2012

Boehner is a pathetic excuse for a human being, and this piece of crap seems to forget George W. Bush did the same thing during the elections. Who they can defend Bush when he did it, and now try and make a huge issue out of it when Obama does it, simply shows how little they have to attack the president on. I will be glad when Boehner is on the unemployed, next year!

bucolic_frolic

(42,478 posts)
12. Smaller? Is this the Subliminal reverse of Max Gentleman spam?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:37 PM
Apr 2012

John, I think it's called projection.

You're trying to diminish the President because you're small - small minded, small in the brain department, just plain small.

He never stops dribbling out these petty ideas to make himself look better.

Neurotic!

wandy

(3,539 posts)
13. Just goes to show the republican mindset..
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:52 PM
Apr 2012

No, bohnerhead, the president is just a public servant. Not a king, not the ruler. Not much different than than the county dog collector.
You're just showing that the republican mind set would hold a president as something of an 'anointed one' given free range to RULE as they wish.
Not the way it works.

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
14. This is pathetic beyond words
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:07 PM
Apr 2012

Boehner did not see anything smallish is Bush-the minor's performance as a president with is perpetual lies, shameful caricature and demeaning handling of the duties of the presidency. Yet he has the gall and knack to cast aspersion on Obama as lowering the presidency? If anyone is lowering their offices, it has to be Boehner and the rePIGs and of cause , their conveniently tucked away former leader, Bush-the minor.

16. It was also done by GWB, only much worse
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:13 PM
Apr 2012

Bush would fly somewhere in Air Force One to give some award to a teacher or announce a program which sounded good but wasn't, then he'd scamper off to his real reason for being there -- a GOP fund-raiser. You know the kind, those with his people, "the haves and the haves more."

Because of the award or announcement -- something which might take a half hour -- the taxpayer picked up the tab for the trip. The only part the Republicans had to reimburse the government for was the cost of comparable airline tickets -- a couple of thousand dollars for a fund raiser. Nice scam.

I'd also question Boehner's $179,000 an hour figure. I imagine he's adding everything he can to make that figure as high as possible, even those fixed expenses which would exist if the aircraft (there are two 747s and a host of other planes and helicopters available -- Air Force One is only the call sign of the one the President is on) just sat on the ramp at Andrews: salaries for the military pilots and maintenance men who take care of the airplane, proficiency flights, keeping the airplane stocked, fueled and ready to go at a moment's notice, the actual maintenance of the aircraft, especially the engines, the Secret Service, etc.

It's like the B.S. about the K-Y Jelly Pipeline creating 100,000 (or 200,000 or one million) new jobs. They count every single job which could possibly exist, including pizza delivery people, janitors, etc. The tried the same argument when they wanted to drill in the Artic National Wildlife Reserve, until someone told them to list all the jobs they were claiming would be created by the project.

Does it cost a lot to move the President from place to place? Yes. But he is the president of all the people, and that means he has to get out of Washington to see and be seen.

Boner's just an orange wine.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
17. how much money did Bush waste in convincing congress about weapons of mass destructions?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:15 PM
Apr 2012

and lives. John Boner is basically accusing obama of doing his job.

 

usrname

(398 posts)
19. Hey Boehner,
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:57 PM
Apr 2012

a fake fight is starting a war against a country who did us no harm, under false pretenses. A fake fight is pitting fellow citizens against each other, so that they're distracted from the rich looting the fighting participants.

Please learn to differentiate.

eyewall

(674 posts)
20. Let's see, what was George W doing on 9-11?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:08 PM
Apr 2012

Oh yeah, he'd flown on Air Force One to Florida where he was doing a photo op in a grade school to pitch his No-child-left-behind program. He even brought a huge entourage that included a large number of reporters.

Since he flew to Offut AFB, HQ for Strategic Air Command, as you would expect a president to do, would Boehner have felt better if Bush was flying on a commercial airliner?

truthisfreedom

(23,108 posts)
25. Obama created more jobs in 3 years than bush created in 8, and that's an actual fact.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 09:28 PM
Apr 2012

Boehner would have a really tough time in a debate with the President over these so-called facts. "The Emperor has no Clothes" argument is a perfect description of the entire Republican party, not the guy who killed Osama bin Laden and saved GM. If Mittens had been President, the reverse would be true. He diminished the importance of bin Laden and wouldn't have saved GM.

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
26. "This is the biggest job in the world and I've never seen a president make it smaller,"
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 09:42 PM
Apr 2012

....that's because slick willard, the rich wall-street Mormon, has never been elected president....

....hey 'fake fight' boner, where are all those jobs you promised?....never mind, I bet the God-pukes and baggers are wondering too....do you really think those God-pukes and baggers are going to vote for a rich, wall-street, tarp-bailout, romney-care, 1%er Mormon?....

.....they don't hate blacks that much....stop trying so hard....

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
27. i think what boehner is really saying
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 09:53 PM
Apr 2012

is that president obama has made the office smaller by being black.
i could be wrong but that's what it sounds like to me.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
30. Or
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 12:56 AM
Apr 2012

He's physically intimidated by Obama because of his height and desperately trying to wish Obama shorter.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
32. obama walks easily.
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 01:34 AM
Apr 2012

he is imposing and graceful but not intimidating. statuesque. a man who has earned the right to hold his head high.
i can see why any politician (especially one who habitually hides in a bottle) would envy mr obama this attribute.
yet, i still sense a tone in boehner's statement that suggests he thinks the office of the presidency has been "made smaller" by the occupant.
i've heard the same tone from "old guys" grumbling about having to admit new blood (brown skinned people) to fraternal clubs.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
34. I think all of the above
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 01:54 AM
Apr 2012

I'm thinking that to a guy like Boener when a young black man he wishes he could or thinks he should call boy (what would dad\grandpa think knowing I can't put this --- in his place?) is much physically stronger, taller, and much much smarter than him, the continual dissonance is intimidating. Obama's height is just a stark reminder and his word choice (smaller.. diminish) is his wishful thinking coming through.

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
29. Fuck you, BONER.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 11:42 PM
Apr 2012

You are a disgusting piece of shit, you orange day-glo crybaby. YOU have denigrated the office of Speaker of the House and you belong in the Hague.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
33. i agree.
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 01:37 AM
Apr 2012

the nerve of such a failure-of-a-man to make such comments about mr obama.
boehner assumes a lot about his own qualifications when he targets the president.

sky imager

(36 posts)
37. Small is a mind set that fits the GOP very well
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 09:24 AM
Apr 2012

This prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has no interest or imagination for this country, his continued predilection of irrelevancy demonstrates.

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