Demand That John Boehner Be Expelled
Or Resign For Keystone XL Scandal
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On Sunday, Boehner told Fox News Sunday that Republicans may tie approval of the Keystone XL pipeline to the next payroll tax cut extension to force President Obama to give his backing to the project. Boehner said, Were going to do everything we can to make sure this Keystone pipeline project is approved, and as Republicans have shown with the debt ceiling, holding the payroll tax cut hostage is not out of the realm of possibilities. The only beneficiaries of the Keystone pipeline are Canadas tar sands companies, the oil industry, and John Boehner.
Boehners 2010 financial disclosure form reveals his investment of $15,001 to $50,000 in Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, and they are in the business of tar sands oil and are just one of seven companies Boehner bought stocks in. His 2009 disclosure shows no stocks in Canadian Natural Resources Ltd leading any semi-intelligent American to believe Boehner bought stock in Canadas tar sands just in time to reap financial benefits if and when the pipeline was completed and carrying Canadian oil to Texas for refinement and sale on the foreign market. Boehners push, as Speaker of the House, to build the pipeline is beyond simple conflict of interest; he is performing official acts for favors (campaign contributions) and money in the form of dividends from his oil sands stocks. Boehners gifts in exchange for performing official acts for the oil industry are $144,150 in the form of campaign contributions in 2010 alone. Boehner must resign or face an ethics investigation that may result in his expulsion from the House.
Source: http://www.politicususa.com/en/john-boehner-keystone-scandal
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)the brazenly venal Eric Cantor, no doubt.
Please pass the ipecac. . .
savalez
(3,517 posts)Cantor's probably the one who gave him the stock tip!
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)Wouldn't he prosecuted for it IRL?