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Boehner Calls Opponents To TARP "Knuckledraggers"
RealClearPolitics ^ | Tuesday August 14, 2012

Posted on 08/14/2012 5:29:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

VAN SUSTEREN, FOX News: People think of him as hawkish on the budget, on expenses, but he voted for TARP. He voted for the auto bailout, voted for two stimulus in '08, voted against the '09 -- February '09 President Obama stimulus. How does -- I mean, how does he explain those, or I mean, how does -- politically, how does he sell that?

BOEHNER: I mean, I think that he's a practical conservative. He's got a very conservative voting record, but he's not a knuckle-dragger, all right? He understood that TARP, while none of us wanted to do it, if we were going to save -- save our economy, save the world economy, it had to happen. I wish we didn't have to do it, either, but he understood that.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; boehner; knuckledraggers; paulryan; romney; tarp
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1 posted on 08/14/2012 5:29:28 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Let me guess... Boner is a member of the CFR, too?


2 posted on 08/14/2012 5:31:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Do I care if I am being called stupid by a corrupt socialist?

Boehner is almost as evil as Pelosi.


3 posted on 08/14/2012 5:33:11 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Bigtigermike
Headline is misleading.

Boehner made two separate statements, one general, and one specific to TARP.

It's a misreading to conflate the two just for the pleasure of flogging Boehner around the fleet.

4 posted on 08/14/2012 5:35:26 PM PDT by Skulllspitter
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To: Bigtigermike

Wonder how many of those knuckle draggers helped put Boner in office?


5 posted on 08/14/2012 5:37:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Bigtigermike

Boner is a member of the private stock market of Congress.


6 posted on 08/14/2012 5:37:56 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Skulllspitter

You’re so bright, who IS he calling knuckle draggers then?


7 posted on 08/14/2012 5:38:28 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Bigtigermike

He needs to be primaried in the worst way.


8 posted on 08/14/2012 5:41:02 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: DManA

And what economy is this that TARP saved?


9 posted on 08/14/2012 5:42:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Bigtigermike

Boehner is an idiot. Please cite the clause in the US Constitution that empowers the federal government to bail out failing loser companies.


10 posted on 08/14/2012 5:42:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Please tell me how Romney, who is even more liberal than boner, is going to bring fiscal sanity? Because he picked Ryan? You know very well that Ryan will be forced to attend funeral services and fundraisers, rather than going toe-to-toe against the abortionist in real policy matters. Deep down I do hope Ryan-Romney will be Cheney-Bush.


11 posted on 08/14/2012 5:42:54 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Bigtigermike

Boner, we actually understood that prior bank failures were best dealt with through selling off assets, rather than propping up the bad banks and businesses.

Boner, you disgusting pile of cr**, why don’t you go cry in the corner until we can primary your a$*?


12 posted on 08/14/2012 5:45:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He must be a member of the CFR, Bilderbergers and the Illuminati. After all, isn’t Romney and Ryan?


13 posted on 08/14/2012 5:46:59 PM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Bigtigermike

Democrats don’t even need to call conservative Republicans names. Boehner golfs with Obama and attacks Conservative Republicans for him. This is kind of early in the game to alienate the conservative base. At least McCain waitied until a few weeks before the 2008 election to blow it. The Republican Party is finished.


14 posted on 08/14/2012 5:47:47 PM PDT by hiram569 (a.k.a. HiramHawk)
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To: DManA

I get the feeling that a lot of republicans are looking out for themselves first, America second.


15 posted on 08/14/2012 5:48:18 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Jim Robinson

“Please cite the clause in the US Constitution that empowers the federal government to bail out failing loser companies.”

The US Constitution is so passe. How about we get inspiration from the Manifesto instead? Let’s get on with the program.


16 posted on 08/14/2012 5:49:11 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Russ

No, he has contempt for conservatives. Just like you.


17 posted on 08/14/2012 5:50:18 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Bigtigermike

And willards feet are “going to be held to the fire” if he is elected.

By whom you ask?

By john boehner of course!


18 posted on 08/14/2012 5:51:30 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns Save Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: cripplecreek

These RINO Republicans have learned NOTHING.


19 posted on 08/14/2012 5:52:01 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Bigtigermike

anyone else feel like our representatives don’t have much respect for us?


20 posted on 08/14/2012 5:52:19 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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