Top Republican sounds off on 'political rebellion'

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Source: CNN

“We’re in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America,” House Majority Leader John Boehner said on CNN’s State of the Union, ”And this rebellion is by people who really have not been actively involved in the political process and they don’t really care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. They want to see people who are going to stand up and protect the future for our kids and grandkids.”

Boehner also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that Republicans will have “a difficult road to walk to work with relatively new entrants into the political system to show them, that by and large, we are the party that represents their interests.”

But Boehner also tried to downplay the significance of Saturday’s surprise announcement by moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava who decided to bow out of a hotly contested three-way race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.

“This is a pretty unusual situation,” Boehner said of the decision by conservative Republican Doug Hoffman to run against Scozzafava on the Conservative Party ticket in Tuesday’s special election. “Clearly,” Boehner observed, would be on the left side of our party.”

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/01/top-republican-sounds-off-on-political-rebellion/

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Boehner certainly didn't give a good goddamn about our kids and grandkids when his hero Bush was in office. And he's full of it if he thinks the Republicans represent the interests of the people.

[Arkana]

1. And yet they're not the party that represents the interests of ANYONE

except the (white, Protestant) rich and snobby.

[ShockediSay]

12. They represent the Country Clubbers and the Lobbyists

{not that the Big Corporate Lobbies don't hold sway in our own party in large measure)

Why should lobbying expenses be tax deductible for the Big Corporations?

[seattle_blue]

2. Pretty sad

I watched part of this today and it looked like more of a republican "love fest" than anything else. Pretty disturbing, if you ask me.

[Downwinder]

3. They could start by supporting single payer. n/t

[TankLV]

4. Isn't it amazing how many repukes don't care if you're a repuke or a democrat...

I get that everytime I bring up another repuke LIE...to the repukes at the office...

[bertman]

5. Dead right, TankLV.

[onehandle]

6. No, it's the last gasp of those who would have been wearing sheets not too long ago.

They love their guns and misuse religion to deny other's rights.

And you will use their hate to assist your pro-corporation goals.

You are all screwing our kids and grandkids.

[unhappycamper]

7. "House Majority Leader John Boehner "?

"House Majority Leader John Boehner "? Way to go, CNN.

[trungpa ricochet]

8. CNN needs an editor

Bonehead is the House MINORITY leader. :dunce:

[Ikonoklast]

9. Boner is speaking of the schism in his already shrinking party.

They have spent the last thirty years piecing together a political Frankenstein's monster; now they have lost control of it and it is rampaging through the hinterlands.

[BeFree]

19. Exactly

The pubbies are circling the drain and his callout is an attempt to cling to the shreds of toilet paper swirling in their dump just to keep their heads above water.

Let us all pledge to do our best to see we get a clean wash out of their ilk.

[Demeter]

10. How Can a Perceptive Man Be Such an Ass?

If he knows this, why does he do the stupid, criminal things he does in Congress? Where is the service to the Poeple and the adherence to the Constitution?

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. I'm not saying anything.

[MisterK]

11. Repukes are the party of corporate/ wealth interests

Always were.
This charade of them being revolutionary is laughable . Theyve always been the party that fought for Paris Hilton, her Dadda and giant corporate interests

[libodem]

13. What you said

in the last sentence. You KNOW he could give a rat's ass about our children and grandchildren. He could care less about the people. He cares about earning lobby money and propping up the corporations, he represents. BTW, who gave corporations 'personhood' anyway? Boner sucks bongwater. Has anyone ever explained to Bone-head that government protection and indulgence of corporations equals Fascism? Fascism, Boner, you dick! Take those orange lips off the bong for a minute and listen up. Oh, what the hell, have another drink.

[lib2DaBone]

15. When did Boehner sober up enough to figure anything out?

I heard he drinks Vodka and Orange Crush...

[Justitia]

16. Yup, we got a political rebellion alright - and it got Barack Obama elected president last November.

So, Boner is right about that.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Boner, Captain in the Dick Army

[AllentownJake]

18. Hey John

The nutjobs are coming for you. You are part of the establishment to them.

[Joe the Liberal]

20. John Boner is such a scumbag......

"They want to see people who are going to stand up and protect the future for our kids and grandkids.”

Yea no shit Johnny, maybe they should start by kicking you and the rest of your corrupt rebuplican fascists out of office in the next election. That sounds like a good place to start if you ask me.



“a difficult road to walk to work with relatively new entrants into the political system to show them, that by and large, we are the party that represents their interests.”

HA! represent their interests? or the interests of big corporate America? Sorry Johnny but the majority of America knows whose interests you and your sellout scumbag republicans represent and it's ain't the majority or America's.

Don't you just love it when Republicans pretend to care? They need to just drop the theatrics, the bullshit, the facade, the charade and come out with the truth....Oh wait repubs are 100% incapable of telling the truth, my bad.