Boehner Has Always Had Serious Ethics Problems-- They're About To Get Worse

[Donnachaidh]

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/11/boehner-has-always-had-serious-ethics.html

Boehner led the House GOP to an overwhelming victory. At least their, mandateless, shallow victory looks that way superficially-- and, more importantly, on the scorecard that will determine House vote outcomes for the next two years. With the concession of Chamber of Commerce/Wall Street shill Melissa Bean Wednesday, the Republicans have picked up 61 seats held by Democrats since 2008. They are also ahead in counts for three undecided outcomes, two in New York (Dan Maffei and Tim Bishop) and one in Texas (Solomon Ortiz). But the Republicans' good fortune had more to do with voter dissatisfaction with the Democrats-- and especially with disappointment in Obama's failure to fulfill his amorphous, up-for-interpretation campaign themes of Hope and Change-- than with anything the GOP was offering. Virtually every poll shows most voters disliking and not trusting the Republicans-- and most show voters dislike and mistrust them even more than they dislike and mistrust Democrats.

Just the way a runaway extreme right partisan Supreme Court stole the 2000 election for Bush by stopping the Florida recount that showed Al Gore the clear winner, this year the same hackish, partisan Supreme Court judges pulled it out for the GOP and their Big Business patrons by allowing an unregulated flood of foreign and corporate cash into the electoral system-- billions of dollars in murky funds whose only goal was to twist and distort Democrats' positions and to flood the airwaves with messages meant to depress the Democratic vote. It worked. Across the nation-- in red districts and blue-- Republicans turned out in normal numbers and Democrats stayed home. In some districts as many as half the Democrats and left-leaning independents who voted in 2008 chose to not vote this year while GOP and right-leaning independents came out in full force. And yet even under those circumstances, about half the Republican wins were by less than 5%, the signal that a seat is unsafe and will probably get a well-funded challenge. We'll see about that in 2012. Boehner and his cronies know one thing for sure-- they will have a horrifyingly myopic and frighteningly incompetent DCCC to contend with.

I'm guessing that if there was an overriding message the Republicans used as their theme-- other than the vicious and ruthless demonization of Nancy Pelosi-- it was "Where are the jobs?" The orange hued, drunken golfer who is now Speaker-designate-- and who voted for every single outsourcing and job killing "free" trade pact brought before Congress in the past two decades-- never tired of demanding to know where are the jobs. And yet... and yet... his first two initiatives after the election were for more tax breaks for the richest one percent of Americans-- in other words, to continue the middle-class destroying concentration of national wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer families-- and to lead the House Republicans back into their good old days of the Culture of Corruption by destroying the Office of Congressional Ethics.

I'll allow this awesome video of a floor speech yesterday by an unbowed and far from dispirited Alan Grayson to speak to Boehner's wish to bankrupt the federal government with more tax cuts for the rich, and get right to the ethics question below:

Videos and more at the link --

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[UTUSN]

2. K&R #8 for, can't wait n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Boehner is a despicable man.

I loathe him.

Recommended.

[veganlush]

4. K&R n/t.