Boehner: ‘Digging Ourselves Out of a Deep Hole’

If he wasn’t such a sad man I would be laughing! What a ridiculous politician. WHO keeps voting for this guy???

This guy is just clueless is he? Why is he the minority leader anyway?

read the Miranda rights?? not the Miranda rights!! It’s,…it’s…it’s almost like we’re following the constitution or something!!!!

Did he say Fiscal responsibility and National security? Right wing terrorist have killed a man last week and this week in America, while rush,hanity,beck and orielly call for violence on a daily basis. Help the middle class, to where their grave? Nobody has caused more pain and agony for the middle class than the “Wrong wing party of NO” I’ll bet he did not clear this with Spongerush Fatpants, the chairman of the Wrong wing party of NO.

For the neocons it always comes down to how to spin it – what image they’re inventing this week. Bottom line is that their true agenda only benefits the rich and powerful, not America.

OBVIOUSLY, being in the tanning tank too long has seared this man’s “brain”. He doesn’t look stupid, but everything he says IS! The events of the last 2 weeks have shown most of the public that this R extremeness is not benefiting the US. Gates comments today only add to that.

“Boehner also acknowledged that the GOP hasn’t done a good enough to job shaking the “party of no” label.”
Well, perhaps if every time Boehner held a press conference it wasn’t, invariably, a “NO” of some type. Negative criticism is just as like saying “NO”. A good start would be a press conference where Boehner talked about a new idea to solve a problem and how he intends to work across the aisle to get it done.
NAH! That’s just crazy talk.

How appropriate that he said they were “digging themselves out of a hole”–how exactly does one do that?
Keep digging GOP!!!

I tend to just ignore him, because everything is a repeat of the day before.
Posted by: Sharonkatheen | Jun 11, 2009 8:09:01 PM
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He’s a Republican ,what did you expect?
Not change I hope..

I think I see the problem; you can’t dig yourself OUT of a hole, you have to climb out. That explains a lot….

Maybe they can float out of this hole by filling it with John Boehner’s tears.

The whole country is in a hole, a big one that will swallow all of us unless adults once again show up in DC. It doesn’t matter much to me who wears what party jersey but if anyone thinks the difficulties we are facing are from one party or the other than they are surely dillusional or have their heads in a dark and stinky place.

Boner always looks irritated to have to address anybody.

I think the thing that’s being missed is that B is whipping out a Camel in the office.
Is the congress like the LAST bastion of being able to smoke in one’s workplace?
Well I guess that and bars…

Congressman Boehner is digging hard and getting nowhere. IN fact the hole is getting deeper. If Boehner and Mr. No (Cantor) are the best Republicans can do,
there is little hope for the GOP. Tell me one idea from them that makes any sense.

I am an independent. I will consider listening to a Republican again when one of them has the decency to speak out against all the whack-job wingnuts like Limbaugh, Bauchman, and the congressional “birthers” who spew so much hatred of OUR president. You let it continue, so you are complicit in the fear and extremism that is becoming a genuine danger to our country. I don’t think the Republicans care. I think they are fine with destroying civil discourse and damaging society itself if it can propell them to power again. It won’t.

Dear Republican Party,
Just trying to dig yourselves out of a hole (?), and when you get deep enough, cover yourselves over. You’ve served your purpose and overstayed your welcome, and you’ve become nothing but an anachronism and a travesty. Nothing you have done has benefited anybody in the least. You offer no ideas, only obstruction and distraction. People have seen how your ideas turn out, so nobody believes what you’re selling anymore. You are the party of greedy fat-cats and the gullible, low-information, emotionally reactive people the fat cats manipulate for their own benefit; people who can say the earth is 4000 years old and keep a straight face. Get out of the way – we have serious work to do fixing the problems you left us with. You have damaged America.

The GOP had 8 years to make things better, they didn’t unless you were already wealthy. Now all of a sudden they want to help the middle class?… yeah, sure.

Don’t this yo yo know when your in a deep hole you STOP digging. You cant dig your self out of a deep hole.

I juts hope he has a sense of direction. He is digging in while he think he is digging out or he is just simply digging.

I am still laughing!
This clowns are in an alternate universe!

Exactly what part of the Miranda rights text has Mr. Boehner so upset? If he plans on making this thing “bubble up big,” he needs to articulate his anger a little better because I, for one, am proud that my country believes in following the law.
And if the above outline is really the GOP plan for victory, Mr. Boehner and company might as well sit down and plan a vacation because they are going to have a lot of time on their hands.

Too bad Mr. Boehner is not spending some of his time doing what’s best for his constituents and his country. It’s more important to him to rebuild the Republican Party then it is to save America. Find. I hope the people of his State remember what an unpatriotic hot air balloon he is come the next election cycle and boot him out on his negatively hateful ear.

The GOP cannot find it’s identity until it finds a constituency that agrees with it’s platform but, what is their platform? The country is moving closer every year to a moderate middle of the road ideology.
The issues with the middle class have been neglected by both parties for years and the Republicans have having been associated with big business for years are taking it on the chin with lost jobs.
The party that can create jobs while growing the economy will win the hearts and minds of the electorate. It will take years to undo what the GOP has done to undermine that faith. Americans are looking for that party that at least understands what has been lost in the last 35 years and right now it’s not the GOP.
You can’t keep sending jobs overseas and not expect a backlash. The party that can stop this loss while creating new growth will be the one that the American people will put their faith with.

“But he believes, with some justification, that President Obama is more popular than his policies, and he outlined a comeback strategy.”
This is where an actual reporter would insert facts to back up his assertion that there is “some justification” for Boehner’s assertion. The media’s parroting and endorsement of the Bush era talking points is partially to blame for the mess we’re in now.

Looks like the Obamabots are out in full force this morning.
It will be interesting to see what the President dos about the remaining G-mo prisoners,mostly hardcore Yemenis (well, 92 of them).
Has the President considered sending them to Montserrat or Martinique? I hear the weather is even better there than Bermuda, and the French just might go along with it.

The Republicans have painted themselves into a corner and the impressions
beliefs and campaign statements from their candidates in 2008 were truly
comical.
The republican NRA Gun Advocates -don’t want their assault rifles banned and recently succeed to pass a law allowing guns in national parks, what does this tell you? On the heels of a right wing fantatic racist like Von Bruun-who used his rifle to kill people at the Holocaust Museum and even more murders committed by these gun advocates.Then there is the anti-abortion faction of the republicans-they are now labeled “domestic terrorists” and are also included into the republican party.
Republicans are against -all that is good, healthy, and without violence and murder. Republicans are against helping the poor, and those who are homeless thanks to the Bush de-regulation of our financial system.
Republicans are also against universal health-the very basic care a person deserves is being denied to the poor, in a country that spends more on Health care than any other in the world.They left a mess in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo-with no trials for the prisoners, just leave them there for someone else to clean up.
The Republicans allowed banks, insurance and investment firms to have free reign -without regulations on Wall St that brought this country to its knees. They refuse to accept responsibility for the mess they created.
Republicans also waged a war that will never end in the middle-east costing 11 billion dollars per month, when our country’s lack of infrastructure causes bridges and roads to crumble. The Iraq citizens have free health care for everyone, Americans are not allowed to under the Republican policies, does all of this make you wonder why they lost the election?
Every item of reform that Pres. Obama proposed-they are against- and their leader is a fat, man with cleavage -Rush Limbaugh and a guy named Newt.
They are negative, unappealing and digging themselves as Carver says “to be out of power for the next 40 years”.
Republicans are also getting campaign contributions from drug companies that put out poisonous drugs, dangerous products and allowed our food supply to be tainted -all while allowing companies like Monsanto to feed us GMO foods that are unlabeled and dangerous.
You wonder why the hole is getting deeper -until they shake themselves up and get rid of all these clowns-Boehner is just one of them. He is negative on every policy, every bill -ever statement Obama makes to clean up this mess. I would call them not only the “Party of No” but “The Party of Losers”.

The GOP has done nothing but, political posturing since Obama was elected… Mitt Romney hasn’t really quit campaigning…
It’s like Utah’s Republican Moderate, John Huntsman said, You can’t just be the party of no…you then have to offer up other good solutions…
Obama smartly gathered this Republican into his fold… a good smart move…
I mean… Obama didn’t make the mess…
I know there are some who want to blame him for the Recovery stimules but, there would have been another Stimules even if McCain had been elected, yes it would have looked different, probably more tax cuts and subsides that support the already wealthy corporations…
But, we voted that out, don’t they get that… The American people as a whole have said, we want to try something different…
Obama may make some mistakes along the way… but, at least he is trying to work things out…and that goes a long way in my book… better than a group of Representatives that just take the stance of “NO” and then constantly shout criticisms from the sidelines…
It just makes them look ridicules.
IMO<<< If the GOP can't reach across the aisles and come up with some progressive, long term solutions to work with this President in our country's time of need, then they just need to get out of the way and try to be supportive of those who do.

Mr. Boehner…what do you and your party know about fiscal responsibility?Look at what your lack of responsibility got us into. You are not relating to the middle American you so often speak of. Behind those big blue eyes are a lot of hate for our president and to say you would like to support him is a lie. From the second day of his administration, you started to criticize him and have continued since. This man is trying to get us out of a hole which you and yours got us into. These problems did not start in Jan. of 09 but were apparent in Dec. of 07. You had all that time to use these ideas that you say are better and yet, you did nothing. You need to sit back …you had your chance. A real American would give our President support on something and at least give him the opportunity to straighten out this mess. You are not even ashamed of the mess you created but you should be.

LoL at Boehner! Everyone knows that you cannot dig your way out of a hole. You have to climb out of a hole or be pulled out by someone else. The American people chose President Obama to pull us out of the Bush/Republican hole. Maybe Mr. Boehner will dig himself and his Party all the way to China.

I don’t understand the Republican argument that the middle-class is going to suffer under Obama’s policies, like health-care reform. I’m a small businessman, middle-class, and can definitely tell you that the system we have sucks. It’s too expensive as it is and you won’t see me crying if we have a public plan that puts some of these crooked insurance companies out of business. I’m 100% pro-business, but there are somethings like defense, education, utilities, and healthcare that cannot function properly (defined as EVERY American having access to it at a reasonable cost) without the role of government. It just irritates me to no end when I hear Rebublicans like Boehner say, “we’ll be coming out with our own health care legislation soon.”
Sorry, pal, you’re not a day late and a dollar short, you’re 8 years too late and you’ve screwed millions of Americans out of billions of dollars in wasted, bloated, private healthcare.
Shut up, Boehner, and start working across the aisle to get healthcare reform done THIS YEAR!

Smoking is still allowed in the Capital?Everyone else is being forced out of buildings to smoke. It’s time for the Feds to do it too.

The “American middle class is going to get whacked by Obama’s proposals” on health care, energy and the economy. People who “played by the rules are paying for those who didn’t.”
Here is is perfectly clear: he plans to play those who think they have a secure job against those who are unemployed or underemployed. The gov’t pushed your job OffShore, so it must be your own fault, we will not help you get a new job.

Mr. Boehner maybe you can show the people that working together we can create something like the health care program. To keep the party of “no” label is of no service to you or your party. We need this program. 72% of the public want it and are willing to pay some additional money to get it. If you ever had to beg an insurance company for your rights and for your coverage, you would know what the rest of the world feels. Under President Obama’s plan, they have a choice. I don’t know why anyone askes you or a member of your party what you think when everyone knows is will be whatever is opposite what Obama wants. After a while, you lose whatever stature you once had by your negativity. He is an intelligent man and a caring man and maybe he could be right on just one thing? What do you think?

So sad that most bloggers on here today need to be employed for once in their lives before having an opinion on anything that affects taxes….we’re talking middle class here not generational welfare recipients!! When you pay into the system you can complain!!

Mr. Boehner…you said you wanted to meet one person who supports the public option….here I am and there are 700 more who marched on the steps of the capital bldg. in Ga. two months ago to support this health care bill and the public option. Don’t know if you are really paying attention….without the public option….insurance companies win…you know that and support it and we know you do.