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01-12-2011, 9:48pm | #1 | ||||||
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Weeper of the House Bohner attends RNC Fundraiser instead of Tuscon Memorial
John Boehner turns down Air Force One ride to Tucson
Just In John Boehner turns down Air Force One ride to Tucson - John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the victims of Saturday’s shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats. Boehner is instead scheduled to attend a reception on Wednesday night on behalf of Maria Cino, a former top House GOP aide who is seeking the Republican National Committee chairmanship. Boehner is backing Cino’s challenge to current RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Boehner’s reception for Cino was first reported on Wednesday morning by POLITICO. Senior Democrats - who to date had been impressed with Boehner’s response to the Arizona tragedy - expressed surprise at what they saw as an unmistakable misstep by the new speaker: appearing at a partisan political event on the same night as the the president, first lady Michelle Obama, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Arizona congressional delegation come together at the memorial service for the victims of an attack that nearly took the life of a member of the House. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was critically wounded in Saturday’s attack, while six other people died and a dozen more were wounded. “It is disrespectful for Speaker Boehner to skip joining the President’s and bipartisan congressional delegation to the Tucson Memorial so he could host a Washington D.C. cocktail party for RNC members,” said a Democratic leadership aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Boehner’s aides noted that the speaker will complete his remarks on Cino’s candidacy before Obama’s speech at the University of Arizona-sponsored memorial event. The Boehner staffers also insisted that, as speaker, Boehner’s place is on Capitol Hill, not in Tucson. They noted that Boehner had opened an hours-long tribute on the House floor Wednesday to Giffords and the other shooting victims and attended a bipartisan prayer service afterward. Because Air Force One left at 1 p.m., Boehner couldn’t have flown to Arizona and also attended the Capitol prayer service. Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, said: “Today, Rep. Giffords’ colleagues on both sides of the aisle honored her and mourned those who were lost. The speaker felt his place was here in the House, with them.” A senior GOP aide called it a “very misleading claim” to suggest that Boehner was somehow slighting Giffords or the other shooting victims by remaining in the Capitol, even as Obama and Pelosi made the trip to Arizona. No prob Bohner ... you did your crying for the Tuscon victims on the House floor today ... have some fun ... you earned it ... |
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I suspect the ride offer was too late and Mr. Speekah was already committed .....and so he took the advice of someone....
thing IS, the memorial came off like a football rally, anyway.... |
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Well c'mon ... this is how this *younger* generation swings ... you probably don't know what this means though ...
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What do you thing he's drunk on by now, sheerly Temple's with little pink umbrellas?
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Yea I heard how the crowd clapped and cheered when the victims families entered. Yep I can see how that would piss you off.
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Nothing but self-aggrandizing, insincere crocodile tears from the rest. Pitiful it was. |
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No, not envy. Not bitter either. Disappointed most of all.
If he had just said a few sentences to recognize those that helped subdue the shooter and respectfully memorialized those that died, and left it at that, I would have been impressed. Or, just BE there to support the families, and let the governor run the show, THAT would have been appropriate too. But no. He couldn't let it go. Had to drone on and on about how the "discourse" has become so poisoned (of which he is partly responsible), and we need to "use words that heal", blah blah blah. He should take his own f'king advice. He comes off as insincere and an elitist prick. Can't even stand to hear him speak anymore. Then, he seemed to revel in the whooping and hollering in the place. Suddenly he was back in campaign mode, and my level of disgust rose even higher. Rather than ask them to maintain decorum and show some respect, he fed on it. |
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The families liked it, so who cares what you think?
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Where was Harry Reid, he was also MIA
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Maybe Boehner should commission some Air Force planes to fly he and his staff and other "family members" to Arizona on the people's dime like the former speaker?
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if it was "you lie!" Joe in that bed he would be standing their bawling his eyes out.
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HOW do you know?? think for one second they got the balls to show DISapproval, much less figger out HOW at a time like that on a public stage??
in their upset, I suspect they never noticed....maybe the mothers did.... |
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Idiot missed out on a free t-shirt.
Shirts sit on the back of chairs before a memorial service for ... - Yahoo! News Photos |
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if Obama had brought the little girl back from the dead,you people would still piss on him. the hate you harbor in your hearts is what has brought us this terrible tragedy & Palin just proved it by escalating it even more when she could have brought it down a notch.
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the desperate hard Reich Wing bloodsuckers are grasping at straws because Obama left them nothing to criticize. the "sane" Right is praising his self penned speech & it chaps their asses to no end.
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Let's not be too harsh ... when you look at Palins' face on her *blood libel* video ... she's only talking to her most *fringe* base ... the locked & loaded psychos ... so although Palinites talk kinds of shit ... they're mostly cowards and hope another Loughner does a rampage for them ... yes they'd rather stay at home and bash on T-Shirts ...
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Jealousy is an amusing thing to watch
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