So, this happened.
House Speaker John Boehner put comedienne Joy Behar in a headlock this weekend while in the Hamptons campaigning for Republican Lee Zeldin, telling the liberal former co-host of The View, “I am Obama’s best friend.”
This was in response to Behar lecturing Cryin’ Johnny to “Stop obstructing President Obama.”
What disappoints me about this is how this could have been a teaching moment. Granted, [note, the following is solely my opinion and does not reflect the views of other members of this site] Joy Behar is an idiot and would have learned nothing. But couldn’t Boehner have said, “We are not a rubber stamp legislature like in some Third World dictatorship. We have genuine policy differences with the president which, in many cases, reflect the will of the majority of Americans who elected us. Many of us believe the president’s policies are bad for many Americans and for the middle class in particular; and so we do our best to advance alternatives; most of which are obstructed by the leader of the senate, Harry Reid, who won’t even bring our legislation up for a vote.”
And the reason I suspect Boehner didn’t isn’t so much because it would have whistled in one of Behar’s ears and right t’other, but because essentially agrees with the criticism that Republicans are obstructing Obama for the sake of obstruction and if it weren’t for those Tea Party hicks, he could have passed Amnesty, passed a carbon tax, passed a whole bunch of other radical Democrat agenda items, and gone home happily convinced that he had “got something done.”
Sigh.
Milksop Boehner isn’t capable of rational communication of the conservative agenda. He has his own political give & take to think about. He’s not a champion.
Honestly, I think Congress should spend every other session doing nothing but rescinding laws.
Boehner is more dedicated to making the Washington merry-go-round function smoothly than he is in having principles or taking a stand. Like those guys in the circle of Hell who are standing on their tip-toes in sewage up to their noses, he is not interested in making waves. He votes in as cautious a way as Obama avoids responsibility.
“The establish first – right or wrong!”
Actually, given how few friends Obama truly has; you know those from his childhood, his college years, etc. who helped campaign for him that we never saw or heard of, Boehner might just have actually spoken the truth saying that he is Obama’s best friend.