John Boehner's floor speech on the so-called "stimulus" bill

John Boehner, House Republican leader, speaks on the floor shortly before the House was set to vote on a bill that not a single member of the House had read. This is no stimulus bill. House Republicans were right to vote against this bill and Senate Republicans, with the exceptions of Collins, Snowe and Specter got it right also. Collins, Specter and Snowe.....time for you to go. Conservatives need to run against these 3 the next primary they are involved in. This bill is so unconstitutional....I can't even believe it was even voted on in the first place. Change? Yeah....from capitalism to marxism.

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[ratty88]

if you call yourself a conservative after 30 years of lies and failure, you're ____ing stupid

[elpmikecmd]

Forget about taxes. With or without incremental tax changes the major brake on the economy is in two parts. First the regulatory atmosphere is withering and secound the istability and uncertainty is crippling. Economics is all about what is between the ears. Our future is dependent on our perception. Please would someone please lead.

[guywalker29]

kirotorg, we now know: tax cuts are not good growth. Republicans cut taxes during wartime which put us completely behind the 8 ball, and Republicans give tax cuts to the rich which stimulates growth for a short period of time, but now we know tax cuts for the rich and for the banks and big investment firms is BAD GROWTH. Republicans continue to operate within the Reagan Trickle Down Theory which we know doesn't work. All it does is give those in power more power and impoverishes the poor.

[guywalker29]

December 9, 2008 Paulson convinced Bush to create the stimulus. Like all half baked ideas Bush got conned into (see: Cheney/Iraq) the Republicans spun the Paulson and Bush stimulus on it's head, creating a tone that it wasn't Bush and Paulson's fault. But it was Bush and Paulson's idea, right or wrong. Boehner would sell his mother's false teeth to keep his job. He lies like a rug.

[guywalker29]

You think that we here in NYC were not told by Bush and his administration that he would personally see to it that we spit in the eye of the terrorists by building the Freedom Tower? Bush and the Republicans dragged us into a war over WMD that were not there, killed scores of civilians and American soldiers, installed social programs for rebuilding roads and schools and water and buildings destroyed during the invasion and then tell me Bush isn't a real estate developer? You are correct.

[guywalker29]

You want to make it out that Republicans didn't promise us Bin Laden. You want to make it out that Bush didn't create the stimulus package with Paulson. You want to pretend that Republicans called Martin Luther King Jr. a communist. You want to make it out that Nixon didn't hang around with known gangster Bebe Reboso. You are more comfortable calling me names as a child in a sandbox does. You simply would like to ignore the fact that Republicans only care about money trickling from the rich.

[klrdotorg]

The Freedom Tower hasn't been built because of bureaucratic red tape. It's a bi-product of liberalism. Presidents are not real estate developers. The people holding up the project are liberals like you, only they are slightly more sane than you.

Some people will be coming for you soon - Guy. They'll be wearing white coats. Don't resist them, they are your friends. Just calm down and wait.

[klrdotorg]

I didn't say there was no connection between cutting taxes, and our debt to China. The tax cuts were to stimulate the economy - we were in a recession. And we didn't "spend our surplus" on Iraq. The surplus was due to a ridiculous stock surge & the sudden wealth it created. The internet bubble burst when Bush came into office & so did the surplus. It was a false surplus - based on unsustainable projections. Anyone with a memory & common sense knows this. You are not a serious person - Guy.

[klrdotorg]

You're just not a serious person Guy.

The war should have been paid for, but that had nothing to do with our dire economy. It was a housing bubble, it popped. It was caused by irresponsible lenders, buyers and, politicians - like democrats - B Frank & M Waters - & many more from both parties.

"We went broke."? We've been broke, we're just going more broke & getting worse faster. Your rhetoric is as tired & hypocritical as listening to some union "fat cat" try to stir up the troops.

[guywalker29]

What I want to know is: what is "conservative"? What is it Republicans are trying to conserve? Energy? not. When I build a house of bricks, I don't want to be conservative about how much cement I use between the bricks. I want to make sure to have enough glue to keep the thing together or else the whole thing falls down. Conservatives are only trying to conserve one thing and that's a WHITE house. Don't try and fool me. Conserve what? Ideas for a rainy day? Just say no? Conserve what?