Posted on 09/12/2010 7:58:34 AM PDT by La Lydia
Here’s a preview of how the Midterm media battles will be waged. The New York Times is running a front page feature on House Minority leader John Boehner (“a 60-year-old, perpetually tanned, sharply tailored, chain-smoking golfer”) the man recently cast as President Obama’s main foe in the Republican party, and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has taken to Twitter to tell you how much he really wants you to read it.
The article details Boehner’s “especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS” and speculates on how these ties influence his political decisions in dubious ways.
From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Boehner flew at least 45 times, often with his wife, Debbie, on corporate jets provided by companies including R. J. Reynolds. (As required, Mr. Boehner reimbursed part of the costs.) In addition, over the last decade he has taken 41 other trips paid for by corporate sponsors or industry groups, often to popular golf spots. That makes him one of the top House beneficiaries of such travel, which has recently been curbed as a result of changes in ethics rules.
It goes on, but you get the picture, and the NYT has provided a handy little chart of ‘Boehner’s K-Street Cabinet.’ Robert Gibbs, meanwhile, is very keen you read it. In a case of what might be called overplaying your Twitter, Gibbs has tweeted about the story no less than four times in the last hour, including expressing concern that the black and white chart doesn’t give proper due to Boehner’s tan. Feels like a bit too much of a good thing on Gibbs’ part, but perhaps he’s been inspired by the recent success of Sarah Palin and is hoping to wield his Twitter account in a similar manner. Maybe cluster twitters are the new negative campaign ad.
(Includes screen shot of Gibbs' tweets at link)
So does this provide enough evidence that the Red Media is an undeniable official campaign resource for the DNC?
Its a relationship that while not admitting to being an official appendage, they are ONLY there to only support the Socialist ends of a single political party.
In a way, the Red Media is becoming for the DNC what “Hamas” is to the Iranian Government (albeit in a non-lethal manner).
They do the heavy lifting and the DNC simply says “hey its not our propaganda, but make sure you go and read it”.
Should this change their tax status or the way official campaign funding is looked at for the DNC?
Gibbs, Axelrod, Rahm, Barry have colluded with the corrupt New York Times to go all out in ginning up red herrings to distract the public from the fact that Barry has signed thousands of pages of legislation that he has not read and which budgets more of the taxpayers money than probably all of the previous Presidents combined. The incompetence of this WH and Congress is unprecedented. The only real story here is about Pork Barrel Barry and the damage to the U.S. Economy.
Of course obumma and his staff have absolutely no ties to Goldman Sachs et cetera...
They are, after all the champions of the “little guy”. And under their sterling leadership, that’s all ANY of us (excepting the government, of course) will ever be.
Flip-flop Boehneridiot....
PressSec @stephenfhayes To keep our econ going we must keep taxes low for middle class, not give tax breaks to millionaires when we can’t afford it
9 days ago
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Millionaires (it is their money, not yours)who create JOBS!
Yeah, Gibbs, the economy is doing so damn well under Obama. We just can’t understand why anyone would want CHANGE! /s
Too bad you didn’t think we couldn’t afford to spend trillions on crap projects to benefit unions/liberals. If you weren’t such a arrogant butt kissing fool you would be funny.
Is Boehner a shoe in for speaker? There might be 100 new republican members. They don’t owe Boehner a thing. Some present members would probably favor new, more conservative blood.
I’m talking about a neocon power elite in this state that has nothing to do with conservative values and everything to do with throwing contracts to their rich buddies. In OH, with all of its job loss, the Republicans should be screaming the loudest to stop the invasion and get the invaders back to their countries and manufacturing back to the empty factories. Not a word from these neocons.
Pay no attention to the crimes of the Congressional BLACK Caucus......
No! grania is only pointing out those OH republicans are nothing but moderate/rino opportunist who care ONLY about wealth and power, not the ideals the country was founded on.
Across From White House, Coffee With Lobbyists
White House officials have met hundreds of times over the last 18 months with prominent K Street lobbyists — members of the same industry that President Obama has derided for what he calls its “outsized influence” in the capital.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/politics/25caribou.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=caribou&st=cse
This hysterical attempt to make a dastardly villain out of a man probably 80 percent of Americans have never even heard of speaks volumes about the present state of the Democrats.
The Republicans have no single tall “lightning rod”, and the Democrats are obviously and desperately trying to build one for them, after failing with Rush and Palin, who are not active politicians.
With Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Waxman, et al, Democrats have plenty of lightning rods, and there is plenty of lightning.
Boehner should be voted down as majority leader. He’s a RINO and will screw us..
If the only option I have is to vote for those at 250 and below, of course I’m going to do that. But I’m going to do everything I can to fight to make sure that we extend the current tax rates for all Americans,” Boehner told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“Bobby Boy” doesn’t realize what the TEA Party means, as this pathetically out of touch article demonstrates.
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