Boehner: Stimulus Was GOP's Rebirth
Dispatches From CPAC
House Min. Leader John Boehner pushed a GOP renaissance in his CPAC remarks today, calling the GOP's opposition to the passage of the stimulus the beginning of the party's rebirth.
"It was the moment when the Republicans officially started listening to the American people again," Boehner said. Boehner and ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney both said the GOP had focused on listening, rather than lecturing.
Ironically, Boehner lambasted Pres. Obama for finger-wagging, then leveling criticisms of Obama in the next breath.
But Boehner laid out several concepts he will push if the GOP gains the majority and he is elected Speaker. "I pledge to you right here and now: We're going to run the House differently," he said.
Boehner said his House will post all bills online for three days, as well as votes, and will "outlaw 'phantom' amendments.'"
In a poke at the Obama admin's failure to put all negotiations on C-Span, Boehner said, "We will put cameras in the Rules Committee hearing room so Americans can see how decisions are made about what bills come to a vote."
"I can't tell you that a Republican Congress will change the world in 2 years -- we won't. We can't. But we can stop the Obama-Pelosi agenda. We can promote better solutions to the challenges facing the country," Boehner said.
Why does he have such contempt for the voters and the electoral process who voted this majority and President into office?
It's truly mind-boggling.
It's one thing to disagree with someone, but this implication that the Democratic Party Majority just appeared out of nowhere is totally laughable.
I voted for Obama.
I voted for the Democrats.
I want them to be successful.
I want them to govern.
I want them to do all the things they suggested they would do.
The Republican Party's obvious contempt for the democratic process is about as un-American as it gets.
That was such a stupid comment, Ethan.
It is Democratic to speak out against the government and policies you disagree with.
The American people did vote for Obama. They didnt vote for the Stimulus, or to raise the debt ceiling, or for a health care bill that wont save money, will cost over a trillion dollars, and will result in a government takeover of health care.
Open your eyes. read the polls and how unpopular the agenda is in average america.
I want them to be successful, too. But not by putting trillions of dollars of debt on my children.
"The American people did vote for Obama. They didnt vote for the Stimulus"
Barack Obama campaigned on a stimulus package to stimulate the economy.
Open MY eyes? Where were YOU in 2008? Hahaha.
Obama won 365 electoral college votes and 69,456,897 votes with his campaign to solve America's problems:
Stimulus, health care reform, financial reform, energy reform, education reform, re-invigorate American manufacturing, new modern foreign diplomacy, ending Iraq, refocusing on Al Qaeda and Af/Pak, etc...
And that is EXACTLY what he has been doing, and doing very well -- despite the neanderthal Republican Liars attempts to bring down this country.
In my opinion, anonymous comments are cowardly, especially when they contain insults.
Daniel Brockman
Mr. Boehner says (http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=173807) that the Health Insurance Exchange in Obama's health care proposal differs from his proposal to allow insurance transactions across state lines. Yet it seems to me the exchange is quite similar to Boehner's proposal for high-risk pools. Boehner calls the exchange "government-run". But it would be possible to set it up as a independent corporation. Boehner says the exchange will permit "a", that is exactly one, government-mandated insurance policy designed by the government. But I note that if there is a high-risk pool, then some one must define a basic policy that participating insurers will be required to provide and that will be available to persons not otherwise insurable. And as I read Obama's proposal, the exchange will have this one basic policy definition, and it will also have any number of other insurance policies, and these will include without limitation all the policies that are available to the members of congress.
So, I think if Boehner was serious about offering Americans a wide choice of health insurance policies, and if Boehner was serious about meaningful health care reform, then he could and would negotiate with Obama and resolve the differences between his "across state lines" proposal and his "high-risk pools" proposal and Obama's "exchange" proposal. There aren't many differences, and they are minor. If Boehner is a legislator, then he is capable of this kind of negotiation and resolution.
But I see Boehner repeatedly objecting to Obama's proposal on matters of minor detail. He's quibbling. And I see him as refusing to negotiate a solution, and refusing to seriously consider health care reform, and preferring to defeat Obama's proposal rather than offer a meaningful alternative.
Boehner is proving he is the leader of the party that just says "no".
If the democrats were serious about a bipartisan healthcare bill, the would scrap this piece of crap and come up with a new truly bi-partisan bill. This country has to work together to become a great country once again. We are broke and broken. When they force every american to buy insurance that only helps the insurance companies, not americans, not my budget. Right now, i personally cannot afford health insurance, on the other hand, the last time I was sick was 5 years ago. So had i been paying for insurance those 5 years at say $95 a month for myself, and only went to the doctor once; it just cost me nearly 6000 to see a doctor to pay him yet MORE money in the form of a co-pay. That's an expensive visit! Health insurance is the biggest rip off when you are young and healthy. No thanks, i dont want this plan or any other...i will pay my costs out of pocket until i turn 40.
I have used my real name to identify the origination of my comment...What'cha gonna do, Daniel, egg my house? Let the air out of my tires? Have another sip of kool-aid, Daniel Brockman! Thousands of pages of left-wing rhetoric is not my idea of a good place to START!!! Egad, no wonder we can't make any appreciable PROGRESS within this Congress! Pay some attention to the real-time, collective WILL OF WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Daniel. That alone should be enough of a premise upon which to base scrapping the old and beginning anew!
BTW, Ethan: Is it painful to be brainwashed by the far-left throughout childhood? I always wonder if our young folks have a memory of that terrible experience. Apparently NOT.
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