Posted on 10/23/2009 1:51:06 PM PDT by thisisthetime
Link takes you to Video of John Boehner calling White House Attack Tactics "Chicago Style Politcs" Below is a partial transcript:
"The White House and congressional Democrats know that their liberal special-interest agenda is not very popular,'' Boehner (R-Ohio) said at his weekly press briefing on Thursday ."And now they are following a familiar pattern: when you can't win an argument based on the facts, launch vicious political attacks.
"This Chicago-style politics is shutting the American people out and demonizing their opponents,'' Boehner asserted.
"They are writing the health care bill in secret, even though the president called for all of this to be out on an open table and have C-SPAN cameras in the room,'' he said. "Instead, Democrats are targeting those who don't fall immediately in line - the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, doctors, Fox News.
"The administration promised during the campaign that they were going to usher in an era of 'post-partisanship' in here in Washington,'' the House Republican leader said, "but what they are doing is flat-out despicable."
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
“The administration promised during the campaign that they were going to usher in an era of ‘post-partisanship’ in here in Washington,’’ the House Republican leader said, “but what they are doing is flat-out despicable.”
sorry, Chump, but if you had any, you’d have taken a sledge hammer to one of those “locked meetings” and opened it up...
Mike Pence seriously needs to take over from him asap!
Agree. The whole GOP leadership needs to go.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right
H. L. Mencken
“Chicago-style Politics” is a epithet that will stick.
Even before I knew anything about Obama, once I heard he came from Chicago, I shivered in my boots...just because of that....
He’s certainly proved that fear was not off the wall...
John Boehner endorsed Scuzzy. He has lost all credibility in the Conservative movement that is sweeping the nation. Some actually thought he might be on the ticket for 2012...not now. This will come back to haunt him.
Very disappointed in his decision to support a super-lib over a real Conservative.
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