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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (788749)	6/10/2014 12:09:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575424

This is about as effective as R pols get: Boehner on Bergdahl deal: 'We're going to pay for this' By Russell Berman Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday harshly criticized the swap of five Taliban detainees for one U.S. soldier, saying the U.S. would “pay” for President Obama’s decision to negotiate with terrorists. At a Capitol press conference, Boehner spoke publicly for the first time about the exchange that brought Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl back to his family five years after he disappeared in Afghanistan. Read the story here.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (788749)	6/10/2014 12:13:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

Here's another oldie but goodie.........so inept, so walter mittyish, so amusing: Indiana’s Mourdock sees U.S., Nazi parallels 06/09/14 10:00 AM—Updated 06/09/14 07:45 PM By Steve Benen Remember Richard Mourdock? The right-wing Indiana Republican defeated Sen. Richard Lugar (R) in a 2012 primary, condemned bipartisan policymaking, announced that pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended,” and then lost to Joe Donnelly (D) by six points. The right-wing Hoosier did not, however, go away entirely. On the contrary, Mourdock returned to his day job: Treasurer for the state of Indiana. And it was in this capacity that Mourdock decided to share his thoughts on current events at his party’s state convention over the weekend. Reaction ranged from anger to shock to befuddlement after Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock compared the nation’s direction to Hitler’s Nazi Germany during a farewell speech at the Indiana Republican Convention on Saturday. “The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi Party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute. And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt,” he said. Mourdock, who has stoked outrage with incendiary comments in the past, then alluded to the 70th anniversary last week of the D-Day invasion during World War II, saying, “The truth is, 70 years later, we are drifting on the tides toward another beachhead and it is the bankruptcy of the United States of America.” The Indiana Republican Convention’s attendees gave Mourdock a standing ovation following his offensive remarks, *though the Indianapolis Star’s report added that party officials were “distancing” themselves from the Treasurer’s comments later in the day.* Mourdock, who is prevented from seeking another term due to term limits, added in his speech, “Now I know some of you, especially some of the guests in the room, are thinking, there’s a wild-eyed Republican speaking craziness.” Yep, the thought did occur to me. There’s generally not much of a point in fact-checking “craziness,” to borrow Mourdock’s word, but it’s worth noting that anyone who sees the United States on the path to Nazi Germany knows very little about the United States and Nazi Germany. Indeed, the Indiana Treasurer, who presumably has to know something about finances, should probably realize that the U.S. is not, and will never be, “bankrupt.” What’s more, while I realize Nazis and Hitler can serve as an occasional reference point for historical comparisons, the far-right’s preoccupation with this just isn’t healthy. The Affordable Care Act? It’s like the Nazi Holocaust. Concerned about growing economic inequality? “If you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany.” Pursue a foreign policy the right disapproves of? Expect Neville Chamberlain comparisons. American society in general? It’s “ very much like Nazi Germany.” There are other historical points of comparison. Perhaps the far-right should consider them.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (788749)	6/10/2014 12:21:30 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575424

Here's more.......standing ineptly, holding their hands, looking at the ground........have you ever seen a bigger bunch of do nothings. And this is the 'cream' of the crop. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Republican leaders, finishes a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 1...J. Scott Applewhite House returns to a narrow to-do list 06/10/14 10:54 AM—Updated 06/10/14 10:56 AM By Steve Benen The House of Representatives returns to work today for something the public has not yet seen in 2014: the chamber will work for three whole weeks without an official break. According to the House calendar, this will be one of only two instances this entire year in which members of the lower chamber will work for three weeks in a row without some time off. The question then becomes what House lawmakers intend to do with all this time at work. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) spoke to Virginia Republicans late last week and talked about what he and his colleagues are up to. “I’m part of the IRS investigation,” he said. “We’ve got the Benghazi investigation, the Veterans Affairs investigation, and we’re going to do an investigation about this troop transfer with the Taliban. So we’ve got a lot on our plate.” Notice, Ryan didn’t actually refer to any real legislating on the House Republicans’ plate. That wasn’t an oversight. While Republican goals on the legislative front are modest, they’ve set their sights high on oversight, with a series of hearings aimed at holding the White House to account on everything from the Veterans Affairs scandal to the IRS, and Benghazi and the recent Guantánamo Bay prisoner swap. The trade of five Taliban combatants from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been imprisoned in Afghanistan for the past five years, has Republicans, and even a few Democrats, demanding answers from the administration. House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office said yesterday that in the coming months, the public will “see again and again that the American people’s priorities are our priorities.” I don’t think that’s quite right. In general, Americans’ top priorities relate to jobs, the economy, health care, education, and to a lesser extent, deficit reduction. While there’s ample evidence that the public isn’t satisfied with Washington ineptitude, it’s a real stretch to think there’s a sizable constituency out there hoping to see Congress give up on substantive policy work to pursue assorted controversies, most of which have already been discredited. In fairness, I should note that House Republicans do intend to pry themselves away from Scandal Mania long enough to vote on some tax cuts, which they don’t intend to pay for, and which they intend to finance through a larger federal budget deficit. (Remember when GOP lawmakers pretended to worry about a “debt crisis”? They don’t remember that at all.) What’s especially striking, though, is coming to terms with the message House Republicans intend to take into the midterms. With one government shutdown under the belt and an attempted debt-ceiling crisis having come and gone, GOP lawmakers will have killed immigration reform, ignored calls for a higher minimum wage, rejected unemployment aid, scuttled their own tax-reform plan, and created the least productive Congress – by a large margin – since the clerk’s office started keeping track several generations ago. These are the same House Republicans who approved a right-wing budget plan that, among other things, sought to scrap Medicare out of existence, all while voting several dozen times to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act. After four years in the majority, the House GOP’s list of major legislative accomplishments is still blank. And yet, as the elections draw closer, the Republican majority in the lower chamber still intends to invest the bulk of its time on a discredited IRS story, asking Benghazi questions that have already been answered, complaining about the circumstances surrounding the release of an American POW, and exploring a VA scandal that’s existed for many years that the party just recently decided could pay political dividends. It’s a good thing for incumbents that so many congressional district lines have been drawn to prevent competitive races.