Bohner caught handing out lobbyist checks on floor

[ugonow]

www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3a_1284581246

[privateinvestor]

How much money were these checks for?? BTW...What else is new ?? Lobbyist money buys votes from both parties and with enough money you can get the best legislation that money can buy......Lobbyist get their legislation passed the old fashioned way..they pay for it with megabucks....Big Tobacco is one of the richest and most influential in congress as you know, I think??

[jkapp]

Doesn't he know that is supposed to be handled in back rooms by legislative aids?? Sheesh, you would think this is his first term or something!

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

He never should have been elected speaker. This is the Republican Party's LAST CHANCE to show us they mean business. A good first step would be to remove Bohner as speaker, and elect Michelle Bachman, Jason Chaffetz, or other serious person instead of a lifelong politician.

[workpublic]

Big Tobacco is one of the richest and most influential in congress as you know,

then how did they let the price of smokes get out of control?

$11 a pack where I live. It ain't all tax either.

whenever the tax goes up, the cig companies raise the price also.

[ed1066]

whenever the tax goes up, the cig companies raise the price also.

Try explaining that simple concept to the liberals who want to tax corporations at 30-50%. It's a very simple cause and effect situation. Yet the magical thinking of the liberal brain makes them believe corporations will just "suck it up" and decide that profit really isn't that important after all...

[ChiTownVenture]

Mar 30, 2011 14:01:43 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

He never should have been elected speaker. This is the Republican Party's LAST CHANCE to show us they mean business. A good first step would be to remove Bohner as speaker, and elect Michelle Bachman, Jason Chaffetz, or other serious person instead of a lifelong politician.

Michelle Bachman started off her working career working as an attorney representing the commissioner of the IRS (1988-1993), she took 7 years (1993-2000) off and all the rest of her jobs have been as a politician (2000-2011).

Shes 54, 5 years working for the government, 10 years as a politician, 39 years not working.

How is she not considered a lifelong politician?

[ugonow]

I guess we should be thankful he saved all that money by not mailing them out.

[deziloooooo]

Mar 30, 2011 14:42:00 GMT -5 ugonow said:

I guess we should be thankful he saved all that money by not mailing them out.

Post Office is in serious trouble again financially from what I understand, if he was a good American , really concerned in doing his part to help out all federal departments he would have mailed them , typical pub [politician, just thinking about himself, a little walk to the Post Office box , drop them in, not asking for such a big sacrifice, IMHO.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

10 years on politics, 39 years NOT in politics. Do liberal dupes really have this much trouble with math? I guess it should come as no surprise.

[ugonow]

Quote:whenever the tax goes up, the cig companies raise the price also.



Try explaining that simple concept to the liberals who want to tax corporations at 30-50%. It's a very simple cause and effect situation. Yet the magical thinking of the liberal brain makes them believe corporations will just "suck it up" and decide that profit really isn't that important after all...

We all know that isn't the case with k street contributions to politicianss though.Industry eats those expenses..

[ugonow]

Then theres those pesky wages and benefits,we should all volunteer to work for free so prices will be more affordable. But we will still need money to pay our taxes so business has streets and infastructure.

[floridayankee]

Mar 30, 2011 13:26:22 GMT -5 ugonow said:

www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3a_1284581246

Did you bother looking in to this or did you instantly start foaming at the mouth the instant you heard the name Boehner?

This comes from a 1996 PBS documentary The People and the Power Game. You're jut a tad late on breaking this story.

ETA: It's even listed on wiki.
n June 1995, Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies.[18] In a 1996 documentary by PBS called The People and the Power Game, Boehner said "They asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. And I did it on the House floor, which I regret. I should not have done. It's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that‘s gone on here for a long time that we're trying to stop and I know I'll never do it again."[19] Boehner eventually led the effort to change House rules and prohibit campaign contributions from being distributed on the House floor.[20]

[verrip1]

Mar 30, 2011 14:12:49 GMT -5 ChiTownVenture said:

Mar 30, 2011 14:01:43 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

He never should have been elected speaker. This is the Republican Party's LAST CHANCE to show us they mean business. A good first step would be to remove Bohner as speaker, and elect Michelle Bachman, Jason Chaffetz, or other serious person instead of a lifelong politician.

Michelle Bachman started off her working career working as an attorney representing the commissioner of the IRS (1988-1993), she took 7 years (1993-2000) off and all the rest of her jobs have been as a politician (2000-2011).

Shes 54, 5 years working for the government, 10 years as a politician, 39 years not working.

How is she not considered a lifelong politician?

WTF is that? Progressive math? Age = 54. Yrs as politician = 10.
THAT'S how she is not considered a lifelong politician.

[ugonow]

I just heard it today.Wonder why the lib media did not make much of it.dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/john_boehner_handed_out_checks_from_tobacco_industry_on_the_.htm

[verrip1]

Mar 30, 2011 15:21:42 GMT -5 ugonow said:

I just heard it today.Wonder why the lib media did not make much of it.

They suck?

[ugonow]

durn lame stream media..... btw, wouldn't the main stream media I hear so much about be Fox? I keep hearing how they are the most trusted and most watched news channel. I thought that was main stream.

[floridayankee]

turn off your tubes and biased media outlets and do your own research folks. It's actually quite liberating.

[EVT1]

Mar 30, 2011 14:12:49 GMT -5 ChiTownVenture said:

Michelle Bachman started off her working career working as an attorney representing the commissioner of the IRS (1988-1993), she took 7 years (1993-2000) off and all the rest of her jobs have been as a politician (2000-2011).

Holy crap! That loon has a law degree? Better see if it came from Acme.

[workpublic]

she is a life long SAHWhatever, who went into politics ten years ago