Boehner: "I'm still trying to find the first American who's in favor of the public option"

[sabra]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/01/2086635.aspx

House Minority Leader John Boehner went off on a whole array of issues today, here are some of the highlights:

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PUBLIC OPTION: "I'm still trying to find the first American who's in favor of the public option other than a member of Congress or the Administration."

"This is about as unpopular as a garlic milkshake."

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/25/swineflu-boehner-constituent/

Uninsured 22-Year-Old Boehner Constituent Dies From Swine Flu



A 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured:

Young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn’t seek care initially because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost, according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate. <…>

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Young’s condition suddenly worsened and her roommate drove her to McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford, where she was flown in critical condition to University Hospital in Cincinnati.

“That’s the most tragic part about it. If she had insurance, she would have gone to the doctor,” Mowery said.

[marmar]

1. Proof that Boehner has few human friends.......

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Then he needs to stop interviewing himself in the mirror.

[thunder rising]

3. He didn't ask me. Go fig'ur

[14thColony]

53. You don't count as an American to him

Since I'm assuming you're not both rich and Republican.

[C_U_L8R]

4. boehner apparently can't see beyond his own (you know)

what a dick

[Fire1]

23. "DICK" the word you're looking for?? Precisely. n/t

[global1]

5. Just Proves That This Guy Is Totally Out Of Touch.........

or is just lying through his teeth. Either way - he's an ass!!!!!!

[NEOhiodemocrat]

6. He is my sister's representative

And I know for a fact that both she and her husband have called his office repeatedly saying they were for the public option. Guess that message did not get to him? He is such a jerk.

[Kansas Wyatt]

20. Get your sister to write to the media or a letter to one of the newspapers

Have her quote what he said, then relay what she and her husband said to his office.

Who knows... Maybe it will compel others to say they let him know that he has heard from them wanting the public option too.

[ThomCat]

37. That would be a great way to publicly shame him.

I like it. Call him out as a liar who ignores his own constituents!

[BadgerKid]

7. He needs a flood of postcards. n/t

[bobbolink]

8. Let me be the first to comment on the needless death.

I'm sorry, Kimberly Young, that your nation and your congressional representatives let you down.

You didn't deserve to die.

We will work harder for others like you!

RIP. :cry:

[blueworld]

9. He would have to pull his head out of his ass & open his eyes n/t

[Segami]

10. TOO MUCH HAIRSPRAY affecting his mind.

[csziggy]

46. Probably an interaction between the hairspray and the spray on tanning product

[Sherman A1]

11. You just have to shake your head at

the rhetoric and wonder if these Esteemed Members of Congress actually believe their own words?:banghead:

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Lying for Corporate $$$. Nothing more.

[flakey_foont]

12. Don't get out much, eh?

Geez...go to the mall and ask a few folks...

[gratuitous]

13. Is anyone calling for an apology from Boehner?

Prolly not. But how insensitive is that comment in a country where two-thirds of the population, many of them dying because they can't afford to go to a doctor, are in favor of a public option (if not single payer). How offensive is that?

[chelsea0011]

14. He he's a lying SOS, or he just doesn't get out much. I think the latter.

[Parker CA]

15. Does anyone have his phone number so we can call that asshole and tell him WE support the PO??

[Arkana]

16. Then stop polling just the Republican cloakroom, Boner.

[kenny blankenship]

17. That sounds like an INVITATION for a sit-in and get acquainted meeting

[timeforpeace]

18. We're all right here, dude, take a look.

[benld74]

19. YO BONEHEAD! RA HERE? YO! YO!

[Joe Chi Minh]

21. We had a blind NuLab(c) minister in our parliament, too, and he was just as hopeless as

Boehner.

He was nifty enough with his guide-dog and white stick, but I don't think Boehner would be sharp enough to picks up the clues the dog would be giving him. If only he had ONE eye in that place, he'd be king.

[Joe Chi Minh]

34. I should have said, "... on that side of the chamber, he'd be king."

[BlueIdaho]

22. Do you think he knows how truly stupid he sounds when he says shit like this?

I mean really - walk in to any business in America that employs a dozen or so people and chances are more than half of them are FOR a public option. This too tan sot is busy bowing to his corporate masters and looking completely out of touch with America. His brand of patriotism went out with celluloid collars and spats.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. He's searched high and low in his tanning salon where he spends 10 hours a day

I guess that seals it then.

[Cha]

26. If he'd get his head out of his orange

ass he would see that the majority of Americans are for a strong Public Option.

[Barack_America]

27. Boner's begging for a pie in the face. nt

[ashling]

28. " . . . if I could jst get this bag off my head."

:rofl:



Dumbshit!

[Odin2005]

29. YOU LIE, Boner!

[Altoid_Cyclist]

30. There's a song by Bruce Cockburn called "Bone in my Ear".

I get the feeling that Rep. "Boner" has idiocy in his ears. We already know that he's incapable of human thought or emotions.

[euphoria12leo]

31. Well BoneHead Boehner

That's because people who want and need a strong public option are not hanging out in tanning salons. We've got work to do. I guess he hasn't talk with any Doctors either.


orange :freak:

[Hansel]

32. That is because he doesn't consider anyone who disagrees with him

to be an American.

[Bobbie Jo]

33. Does this jackass have anything that resembles a CONSCIENCE?

:puke:

[Orsino]

35. Therefore, he isn't. n/t

[eShirl]

36. HAS HE TRIED USING A FLASHLIGHT AND BOTH HANDS? n/t

[AngryOldDem]

38. That's because John has his head up his ass...as usual. n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

39. Over here, Spraytan.

American as I can be you lying ass.

[Cass]

40. Is this guy a moron or what?

Somewhere in the neigborhood of 75% of Americans favor a public option. He is so full of it his eyes are brown.

[ljm2002]

41. This needs to be made into an ad...

...we need the video clip of Boehner saying "I'm still trying to find the first American who's in favor of the public option", and then a voiceover: "Oh, really?" Then it goes to a chart showing % support for the public option, and then to real people saying "I support a public option", several people and then fade out...

Since polls show that a majority of the population supports a public option, having an ad like this out there would tend to remind people who is listening to them, vs. who is not.

[glowing]

42. He needs to walk out of the country club.. pehaps then he'd find someone. idiot

[Stevenmarc]

43. He doesn't have to leave the country club, just walk into the kitchen

[glowing]

50. That would mean he'd have to get his head out of the scotch long enough.

[TheKentuckian]

44. I called that miserable SOB

The guy that answered the phone was disinterested at best.

[Jack Rabbit]

45. Obviously, Boehner doesn't get much

He needs to stop spending so much time with artificial persons and more time with real people.

Oh, Mr. Boehner, by the way -- I am in favor of a public option. I would be in favor of a single payor system that would put those private health insurance rackets out of business if it were offered.

[budkin]

47. Boner was born through a sphincter I swear

Laughably worthless

[ThoughtCriminal]

48. Boehner's definition of an "American"

probably excludes anybody who would favor a public option for health insurance, so in his mind, the statement is automatically true.

[laughingliberal]

49. All his constituents need to fax him & or show up at his office with signs

Send your transmittal confirmations to the media.

[OnionPatch]

51. I have an "I've never met...." story, too.

And I mix with all sorts of people, unlike Mr. Boehner, who I'm betting stays securely inside his little right-wing bubble. I work in a company with a lot of international employees, interns, and guests who come to seminars, etc. I meet people from all over the world on a regular basis. I always make it a point to ask any Europeans I meet about their healthcare if there's an appropriate opening in the conversation. Can you guess how many of them I've met who hate their health care system? Zilch. Not a one. In fact, when I bring up the health care issue, the main reaction I get from them is pity (as in "too bad you have such a sucky health care system".) The second most popular reaction is amusement and disbelief that we have non-rich, non-elite citizens, who actually fight against universal health care.

[Javaman]

52. Here's how it works...

this scumbag gets thousands of letters each week.

More than likely 70% of them want the public option. That would mean repukes in his district also want it.

But then in steps his staff members.

They filter through the pile and only pull out the right wing nuts who worship the ground bonejob walks on.

of those, they discount the radical wingnuts who talk about rapture, killing this person or that, marching in the recent klan rally, etc. And whittle it down to about 5 letters that 1) have a minimum amount of spelling and grammatical errors, 2) have a reasonable understanding of sentence structure and 3) appear to have a grasp of reality. (they don't see imaginary people, well at least on a daily basis), then these letters are forwarded for bonejob to read.

Thus him proclaiming,"I'm still trying to find the first American who's in favor of the public option".

See?