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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) seemed to show relaxed optimism this morning as he met with voters here. His prediction for Tuesday night: “I think we’re going to have a big win.”
Boehner, the potential next Speaker of the House, and congressional candidate Steve Stivers shook hands with people at a restaurant down the street from the Ohio State University and dropped by a call center in Ohio’s 15th District. This district is the scene of a rematch between Stivers, a businessman, and incumbent Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D). Kilroy won her race in 2008 by the narrowest of margins and underperformed President Obama by more than any Democrat in the country. NBC rates the race Lean Republican.
Talking with a patron about working non-stop for nine months, Boehner joked, “I’ll have a baby Tuesday night…a big one.” (Rep. John Boccieri, a Democrat from Ohio, had to leave a rally with Bill Clinton yesterday because Boccieri's wife went into labor.)
Boehner told another woman, when asked if he was looking forward to this “next wave in Congress, “I sure am.” The group around him laughed.
He didn’t answer questions about the president’s visit to Ohio today or the thwarted possible attempted terrorist attack from Friday.
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From the sound of him... Agent Orange is hitting the sauce earlier than USUAL for his standards!
Was he still in hugging the NAZI sympathizer running for Congress in OH when he made this comment?
This same Boehner below is what the tea party and nearly half of the country want?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a64ZIkmVPv_w
SHAME. BECAUSE IT TOOK LONGER THAN MANY EXPECTED AND ARE STILL STRUGGLING TO DIG OUT OF AN ECONOMY PARTIALLY OVERSEEN BY THE SAME BOEHNER - PART OF THE MORONS WHO TURNED A SURPLUS TO DEFICIT AND GAVE AWAY THE WHOLE KITCHEN TO THE TOP FEW IN THE COUNTRY. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO DIG OUT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION? WE WANT INSTANT SOLUTIONS OR THE NEW ADMIN IS TO BLAME. OR ELSE WE GO RIGHT BACK TO THE POLICIES CLEARLY IN PLACE AS THE DEBACLE UNWOUND. GOSH WE ARE THE ENEMY OF OUR OWN SELVES IF BOEHNER IS SPEAKER BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. SHAME.
Not to worry red...you'll still get your welfare check after the 'pubs sweep the election...it will just be smaller...maybe smoke your crack 2 times a day instead of 3...tighten your belt so to speak...:p
It may be a big win for the GOP but it will be a loss for the American people!!!!!!!!!!
I want to see a balance of power but I want them to be able to work together for our country. Is that too much to ask for? I am an indep but will be voting Democrate this time around. The thought of nothing being able to get done with the GOP controlling either the Senate or House, is heartbreaking. I see people on different sites on craigslist ask for food. Come on, this is America.
You see people ask for food, which is a horrible thing, but how is that the party that's not in power fault? Democrats controlled the House and Senate for close to 4 years and Obama had 2. How I see it, we continue down this path it's going to get much worse.
Do me a favor, when you get your first paycheck in January let me know how you feel towards the party that's in power now.
Democrats under Bush had the same power Republicans will have under Obama for the next 2,,,,,NONE, Democrats came into "power" in 2006 and immediately started trying to get things on track, They had been warning us of an economic meltdown and FINALLY so we thought had the power to do something to steer us away from it,,,,,,,,,WRONG, Bush VETO'd virtually every attempt they made to fix what he had caused with his reckless spending, deregulation of the economic protections, 2 wars with NO reason (we went after Al-Q NOT the Taliban or Iraq) costing twice what Obama's HCR and WSR cost add'd together
Yes it too much to ask because of scum lilke Limbaugh and Hannity who send out their marching orders to their foot soldiers. Hannity and limbaugh now own the republican party.
All they do is preach hate all day, the republican party has become nothing more than a cesspool of Naz!s thanks to hate talk am radio.
LOL, little angry there toonces? Do you listen to them? I don't, not worth my time to be honest.
Good Afternoon Feisty
Relax, a Washington Post has a different take--the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll showing likely voters favoring the Republican candidate in their Congressional district over the Democrat by a four point margin (49% to 45%).
What the Washington Post readers may miss, however, is the subtext of two important words in the headlines: "edge" and "slight."
A four-point Republican margin on what is known among pollsters as the "generic" House ballot, is closer than what most other recent national polls have been showing (at least as of this writing), particularly those from Gallup, Rasmussen Reports, Fox News and others showing outsized Republican leads. Another new CNN poll released just this morning shows Republicans leading by seven (52% to 45%). Of course, the Post/ABC poll is just one estimate with a margin of error -- random change alone might have produced a wider or narrower Republican lead had they conducted multiple polls using the same methods.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/31/do-generic-polls-show-gop_n_776602.html
Hiya Bev!
Hope you had a good time at the rally last night! Nothing like OUR President to energize the voters! ;0)
I also saw over on HuffPo that the Steeleyman is already back tracking on his blood bath prediction! lmao!
HELL YEAH... I'm FIRED UP and READY to GO!
Winners NEVER quit and Quitters NEVER WIN!
I would really laugh if even if the Republicans do win, that they decide they want another person for the Majority Leader instead of Boehner. He's already talking like he is the one. Maybe they have other ideas, because, he's been in the Congress for a long time, and that is what the TP are fighting about. I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch Boehner. I don't think they like you anymore than anyone else in Congress, for one thing you're a loud mouth. Hell No Boehner.
"Talking with a patron about working non-stop for nine months, Boehner joked, “I’ll have a baby Tuesday night…a big one.”
Working non-stop? He's the 1st guy to happy hour every night, according to Morning Joe, his good buddy.
How bout Boehner has a cow Tuesday night, and a huge hangover Wed morning...
VOTE!!!!!!
Feisty
Yes we did. We didn't get as close as we liked to see the President. I loved it when Alexi said the Republicans want us to think there is an enthusiasm gap; all they want us to do is stay home (paraphrased). Hip-hop artist Common wooed us. At first we thought why Midway Plaisance Park? Then it made sense; students at the University of Chicago could just walk across the street.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/2850490,barack-obama-rally-midway-chicago-103010.article
Click on the photos.
The President is Moving America Forward.
Alexi helped the workers of Hartmarx, the 137-year-old, Illinois-based suit maker, and Wells Fargo reach an agreement that saved 1000 jobs.
When Wells Fargo threatened to shut Hartmarx down, Alexi and other leaders stood up and helped to save hundreds of Illinois jobs.
http://www.alexiforillinois.com/issues/economy
What has Mark Kirk done he went back on promises to help small businesses. So obviously, Kirk is for Wall Street instead of Main Street.
Tidbit:
Mark Kirk Bumbles Again: Exaggerates Role in Berman Bill
Rep. Mark Kirk claims credit for being a driving force behind a bill signed into law this year that requires the president to crack down on companies doing business with Iran.
"We didn’t even look at his legislation at the time," Berman said. "Our bill did so much more and went so far beyond his bill, I would have to put it in the context of an exaggeration.
Illinois, you need to get it. Mark Kirk is not your man.
Alexi Giannoulias is the only coherent vote for United States Senate.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/blogentries/index.html?bbPostId=B6lOoAei0N82B6aYiYehfY6HCzCslK1Uu5G16Cz5W5Q6Jr3afW&bbParentWidgetId=B8k88rWwXopuz5STgLeVwBLu
And so is Pat Quinn rather than Republican Bill Brady.
Have a nice evening; Feisty.
PS: The democratic in Alaska is leading. All that's good.
Your too... my soul mate! ;0) See ya in the morning!
I welcome the new do-nothing congress. We've tried to starve the beast that is government of its funding, expecting politicians to follow it up with cuts to pay for the tax cuts. They did not cut anything and deficits ballooned.
My guess is the Republicans are going to doubledown on starve the beast fiscal policy again, talk a big game on cutting spending and not actually cut much of anything, since they will lose a lot of voters if they cut any of the popular programs (Public education, SS, Medicaid, Medicare, Defense, etc.) , and deficits will continue to get worse.
Im starting to think we would be better off if we had 50 independent nations instead of one United States of America, since half the country wants to rob the treasury dry of its funding.
These bottom feeder republican skank surely will drag the country back down into the cesspool of RepublicCorp filth and re sell the us government to corproate american and it's sleazy lobbyists, leaving american citizens slaves to big business again.
All the more reason for all liberals to vote to prevent these scum from taking over the house.
Aren't the people of Ohio embarrassed by constantly re-electing this clown? No one is more beholden to lobbyists in Washington than the Orange whore Boehner. He has to be one of the dumbest people in government today. He fought student loan reform as the politician who took the most amount of money from the Banks that made student loans. He has logged more miles on one of Sallie Mae's corporate jets (they have three) - to go, of course, golfing with their CEO. He is a whore who sells his votes. The people of Ohio should be embarrassed; or, happy they are reinforcing stereotypes of middle America.
Time to fumigate the Speakers office and try to get the smell out. Sell that airplane of Nancy's. Get the investigations started into this administrations crooked crap they have been pulling for the last 2 years starting with ACORN, Sestak job offer, Black Panther voter intimidation, Obama's participation in the Blago scandal. Nancy's claim that the CIA lied to her. That definitely needs to be investigated and the evil witch needs to be put under oath.
I just don't understand all these people that keep voting for these same old White-Hateful-Bitter-(and now we're finding out in most cases)Racist-Greedy bunch of GOPs that want to go right back to doing what got us in this mess we are finding so hard to get back out of.Of course all these same people (GOP) voting against everything,or blocking every attempt to right the ship makes it a lot more understandable why we are having so little success ! And now they want to turn back what has been accomplished...They say,We Want Our Country Back.Go ahead and finish the sentence-From This Black President ! ! We all know what they mean anyway.What really troubles me is to see that so many people seem to still be just like them.....VERY VERY SAD
Do you think for one minute that being House Speaker is going to mess up or slow down my golf game?? HELL NO IT'S NOT....quiz:Who am I??
Ron-374386,are you saying back to the Ken Starr days after the Dirty Rotten Lowlife sneeky shot u n da face crap the W. gang got by with for 8 years?? You see,there's the difference.The President wanted to get to work fixing all that crap,and people like you don't give a damn about fixing our country.You just want to go back to that same ole' try to find something,any thing to get Obama (Last time-Clinton)garbage and blow millions of dollars and take peoples eyes off of what your're really up to.Go wire-tap,or start a war,or leave a city drowned,or, awe hell there's no end to it....SICKENING ! ! ! !
You think the American people know who John Boehner and Mitch McConnell is, but the numbskull's voting republican are going to find out, when they have no health care, no social security, and jobs going over seas. Boehners last words remember, NO compromise, that means no new jobs and more of the same when G.Bush was in office. thats there strategy for America.
Sure, good for the Republicans, bad for the country. Anyone who votes Republican in the hope that things will get better is living in a fool's paradise. These guys will finish the job Bush started of giving away the shop to their wealthy and corporate benefactors. Sad day for America.
Of course we need change, and that is what Pres. Obama and the Dems are trying to do but the GOP and Big Money want to stop them with lies, mistruths and distortions. Pres. Obama's administration has already passed credit card reform, healthcare reform, equal pay for women, and many other accomplishments. He has created more jobs in his first 8 months than the whole 8 years of the Bush administration. This is a fact. He has also lowered taxes for most Americans except the top 2 percent, main stream media will not tell you about that little tidbit!
The reason we Americans have such a high-tax burden is because for years and years, due to tax loopholes, and tax breaks, the wealthy and big business Corporations have had to pay very little or no taxes at all, so average, everyday Americans have to shoudler the tax burden. Is this fair? Let's be clear, Loopholes are just another way to lie, cheat and steal and basically, get over on the American people.
And, why on earth would minority leader Bohener, would stand side-by-side over the weekend with a Nazi sympathizer and dignify that era is beyond belief? If that does not tell you something about their dark mindset. Of course, media did not cover that much either. Along with the GOP, media too have sunk to a new low.
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By Tom Carney: "It is worth noting that the people’s victory in the 2008 election cycle which saw the election of the our first African American President was driven by the energy of Hope. Hope is Cosmic Energy. It is an aspect of the Mother. It is another name for Goodwill. It sustains and nurtures and makes a way for the Good to appear.
That this Cosmic power has been the target of the onslaught of fear and hate generated by the sophists of darkness is understandable. They are terrified by Hope. People who have hope and faith, have courage. They can and do cooperate for the Common good and the General Welfare. They are indefatigable and undefeatable.
So today, the retrogressive forces have managed to create a virtual 100 year storm of fear and hate that has sapped the hope and faith of many of our brothers and sisters. What we need to do is realize that the dominant vision in the national media is a lie, an illusion ginned up to terrorize us and make us doubt our hope and faith.
As I said, this is nothing new either for humanity or for us here in this nation. We started this country because we were yearning for freedom from the control of the super wealthy and powerful “kings” rulers of the nations of Europe. We were faced with a battle to claim our freedom from such control. We called it the American Revolution.
We had the faith, hope and courage that enabled us to triumph over overwhelming odds at that junction of evolution. We triumphed then, but once again we are being faced by an identical challenge. Will we be a free nation or will we be subjects of kings, ruled again by the super wealthy by whatever new names they have tried to hide themselves behind?
I have lately found myself being drawn again and again to these words from one of our ancestors.
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” Tom Paine The Crisis #1"'
Tom Carney, Worldservicegroup.com
what do you consider a big win...All Americans will be able to get a tan,,,,,,,we will all be able to go and play golf......We will all be able to say No. to our wives.....No we didnt win nothing but two more years of the party of no.
So, how long we going to have to wait before the GOP rights the economy and makes millions of jobs?
Are they finally going to reveal their "plans" ? Or are they going to do what they do best - talk incessantly and do nothing for anyone who donated less then six figures to the GOP.
I know - let's divert everyones attention - let's start an unfunded war - you know Iran, North Korea, Canada... or cut taxes for Billionaires and Millionaires, or deregulate any industry we haven't deregulated, or kill health-care reform - and let the surplus population die!
Boehner - is a FRAUD, he's so Corrupt its pathetic, this is the same GOP- NEO-CON Idiot, that stood beside Bush Jr. and backed his War in Iraq effort and this Boehner has never ever once said anything ever about all the Fraud & Corruption thats takin place with any of the contractors over in IRAQ, Halliburton/KBR , Bechetel, Blackwater ETC, HE'D LIKE FOR YOU, THE aMERICAN PEOPLE to think it doesn't excist and doesn't happen,,, what you don't know, won't hurt ya, just multi-billions of US Tax payer money have gone un-accounted for since the war begin in 2003, but you won't hear this Bonehead Boehner say anything about it or be concerned about it,,, wonder how much Boehner is getting under the table, thats yet to be discovered, and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and Bill O'reilley just love this guy,,, can't imagine why,,, their all Fraudsters and corrupteers !!!
How can you trust a man who can't quit smoking? He has a "special exemption" to smoke in his Senate office. That just shows his contempt for the country. Then of course, he is orange.??????????