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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 06:47 PM
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Smoking gun! Boehner admits to fomenting economic chaos
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/speaker-boehner-admits-many-of-his-members-want-to-create-economic-chaos-audi

Today Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) unwittingly admitted that many member of his caucus wish to create economic chaos in order to pass their agenda through Congress. In a radio interview on the talk show of conservative Laura Ingraham Boehner stated that “a lot of them believe that if we get past August the second and we have enough chaos, we could force the Senate and White House to accept a balanced budget amendment.” Boehner was attempting to explain why he is coninuing to press for his debt ceiling bill even though it has no chance of passing through the Senate.

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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 06:50 PM
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1. Just the fact he has to kiss the asses
of the right wing blabbermouths tells me what a complete puppet he is.

Screw him and the elephant he rode in on.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 06:51 PM
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2. Come on! Let's default. It'll be fun!" nt
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 07:03 PM
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3. The basic premise behind The Shock Doctrine
Jakarta is coming!
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 07:04 PM
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4. It's TOTALLY transparent. So by admitting he hope to avoid blame nt
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-11 09:42 PM
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5. He's in too deep for that. nt
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