Say Anything Blog

Until guys like Mike Pence, Jeff Flake, and John Shadegg are in leadership positions the GOP will not be in the majority, and will likely continue to loose seats.

Boehner came from the leadership line of Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - it’s a line of leadship that must be overthrown.

Keep it up, Rep Boehner, and you’ll be leading a minority party in the House for quite a bit longer.

Then again, maybe he won’t (homage to Stripes)

Boehner came from the leadership line of Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - it’s a line of leadship that must be overthrown.

Some of these things are not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong.

Ok children can you tell me which one was a US Senator and not a member of the House of Representative?

TANSTAAFL

Ok children can you tell me which one was a US Senator and not a member of the House of Representative?

I didn’t say Senate or House, I said Leadership Line - i.e. the culture of ________.

You said a line of leadership which I read as being in the same chamber.

Maybe a poor choice of words or maybe I’m being too picky.

I report you decide.

TANSTAAFL

I didn’t say Senate or House, I said Leadership Line - i.e. the culture of ________.

the culture of passing out checks on the floor of the house?

In June 1995, Boehner provoked contentions of unethical conduct when he distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies.[6] Boehner stopped handing out the checks only “after being questioned about the practice by two freshmen who’d heard about the handoff on the House floor”. Rep. Linda Smith (R-WA) said of Boehner’s actions, “[I]f it is not illegal, it should be."[7]. This pressure from within his own party forced him to apologize for handing out the checks.[8] He later led the effort to change House rules and prohibit campaign contributions from being distributed on the House floor.[9]
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oehner was the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. In October 2004, Rose DiNapoli, a lobbyist for student loan giant Sallie Mae, held a fundraiser in her Arlington, Va., home for Boehner. At the dinner, 34 Sallie Mae executives—including more than half the senior management team—wrote checks, most for $1,000 apiece, for Boehner’s political action committee.[11] In December 2005, Boehner told lenders that he thought they would be happy with the final results of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. “Know that I have all of you in my two trusted hands,” he said, “I’ve got enough rabbits up my sleeve to be able to get where we need to.” Boehner championed a bill that would “soften [proposed] cuts to lenders” and “deal a serious blow to the competing direct-loan program."[12] The direct-loan program gives students access to loans directly through their school, instead of through private lenders and banks. The bill also sought to prevent students from consolidating their loans.[13] “Several GAO and CBO studies have found that the direct-lending program costs taxpayers much less than extending loans through lenders like Sallie Mae. Government watchdogs have estimated that every dollar loaned through these middlemen costs the federal government at least 9 cents."[14]

nothing says conservatism like blatantly attempting to buy votes in order to keep government subsidies in the book.