Tag: John Boehner
Paul Ryan Postures On His Reaction To The Budget Deal
House leadership has come to an agreement with the White House over the federal budget. Apparently this deal, brokered by House Speaker John Boehner, was worked on in ‘secret’ with the Obama administration. As a result Speaker-in-waiting, Paul Ryan feigns outrage on how this budget agreement was achieved. U.S. Rep….
Paul Ryan Is In For Speaker of the House?
Tonight Madison.com is saying: Ryan to seek speakership if House GOP unites behind him. It seems like nearly everyone who has been an ally of Rep. Ryan has suggested he stay out of this fight…but sometimes ambitions and egos get in the way of common sense. OTOH: I don’t really…
Elect Donald Trump Speaker of the House
The GOP could kill two birds with one stone…elect Donald Trump Speaker of the House…tea party would love it…they’ll have an irrational shoot from the hip self described smartest toughest guy in the room…and they get him off the campaign trail. What do you say? background on the Speaker of…
Peter King: Boehner resignation signals “the crazies have taken over the party”
It looks the House Republican Party might turn into a circus now that Speaker John Boehner has announced he’ll be leaving Congress at the end of October. House Speaker John Boehner’s sudden resignation Friday “signals that the crazies have taken over the party,” New York Republican Peter King said Friday….
Speaker John Boehner to resign from Congress at end of October
Wow…..this is unexpected. Speaker John Boehner announced to House Republicans that he is retiring from Congress at the end of October, according to multiple sources in a closed party meeting. No doubt what comes next for Republicans in the house is a whole lot of crazy, because this move by…
House Republicans cut Amtrak funding the day after fatal Amtrak crash
Well isn’t this something?!?!? House Republicans voted Wednesday to chop about a fifth of Amtrak’s budget, less than a day after a deadly train crash that Democrats pointed to as a prime example of the dangers of shortchanging the nation’s transportation needs. They also rebuffed Democrats’ attempts to provide money…
Republicans in Congress forget Constitution, think they’re responsible for foreign policy
Republicans may be good at winning elections, but they’re awful at actually governing. Case in point? Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner recently invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, despite the fact that Congress isn’t empowered to conduct foreign policy; that responsibility actually falls to…
GOP continues to support #3 House Republican who spoke at white supremacist event
Well isn’t this awkward?!? House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the #3 Republican in the U.S. House, has Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) “full confidence as our Whip,” according to a statement put out by Boehner’s office. That’s despite the fact that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event in 2002….
Do Corporations Who Benefit From Tax Inversions Give Up Political Free Speech?
The Obama administration is starting to implement methods to deter US corporations from participating in tax inversions. Essentially buying foreign companies and moving their world headquarters off shore to avoid paying US taxes. You can read about it here! It will be interesting to see how this plays out financially…
Congress Passes ISIS Bill and Evacuates Washington!
In probably one of the worst decisions to come out of Washington since the decision to invade Iraq under President George W Bush, the Senate piled on and passed the bill to ‘train moderate Syrian rebels to fight ISIS’ that easily passed the House yesterday. What an incredible waste of…
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