John Boehner was the toast of the Internet for a few minutes yesterday because of this:
Obama, “continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself,” reads a release from Boehner’s office posted online and distributed to reporters Monday. The quote was attributed to Boehner himself in a Financial Times story. […]
His staff retracted this after the DC press had few laughs, but I can’t say I’m surprised–it’s just the culmination of two years of weak-ass “I’m rubber, you’re glue” messaging. When Boehner took over, I subscribed to the “Speaker Alert”, Boehner’s mailing list, and it’s remarkably stupid even by the usually low standards of Republican political pimp sheets. It’s just a string of not very clever lies. For example, the latest one tells me that even Bill Clinton is against President Obama’s “small business tax hike”.
After Newt Gingrich drove the car into the ditch, the Republicans decided that they wanted a Wizard of Oz setup in the House, so we got dufuses like Hastert and Boehner blathering up front while Delay and Cantor scheme behind the curtain. In addition to having a dummy out front, his aides are also pretty weak. If you’re the next Paul Ryan, you probably want to work for the guys with the real power, so Boehner gets the second string of a not very deep bench of staffers. So you might think it’s an accident when the most powerful elected Republican spokesman blames the President for lack of rain, but I see it as part of the plan.
Valdivia
Not to take away from the idiocy that the Orange One now believes Obama has the powers of a diety to control the weather but this made me totally LOL.
Ryan blasted stimulus while groveling to Obama for funds.
ha ha ha ha/ wipes tear
jeffreyw
@Valdivia:
No stimulus for you!
/stimulus nazi
Valdivia
@jeffreyw:
Stimulus for me but not for thee. ;)
c u n d gulag
Blaming Obama for the drought!
ROTFLMAO!
Maybe if these soulless and mindless Conservative morons could ever stop bloviating, the planet might stop warming, and we wouldn’t have a drought.
Cow farts got nothin’ on Conservatives yapping.
Persia
Now, now, we all know the drought is because God doesn’t want a black President in the White House.
That’s how it works, right?
debit
@Valdivia: Hah hah!!
/Nelson Muntz
hells littlest angel
In a just world, Boehner would be in a saloon singing “How Dry I Am” for spare change.
Poopyman
If the Republicans are so concerned about the drought, maybe they should do something about it. Maybe have a high-profile GOP Governor hold a pray-in someplace, maybe a stadium.
That should work out well for them.
Poopyman
… And it’s a little too early in the season to have tropical over-compensation.
Napoleon
Link does not seem to work.
Just when you thought they could not make bigger fools out of themselves the orange one steps up his game and surprises you.
hueyplong
So they DO think that climate issues are man-made.
Linda Featheringill
@Poopyman:
They’re afraid of the fires as an answer to their prayers.
JPL
@hueyplong: nope..see persia’s comment at 5.
Valdivia
@debit:
I am beginning to think they did not think this through at all.
Poopyman
@Linda Featheringill: Oh yeah! I’d forgotten that that was the response.
They probably haven’t forgotten, though.
bjacques
Oh yeah, Boehner? Who was it again who refused to spend stimulus money on the rainmaking machines back in 2009? Sorry, didn’t quite catch that.
arguingwithsignposts
@Valdivia: You’d think the Dept. of Energy has people who work for the other team or something.
SenyorDave
Was Boehner at the 19th hole after a round of golf? He seems like he would be most comfortable in that setting, yukking it up while downing a quick half dozen shots of Jack Daniels.
hueyplong
Well, then, JPL, if it has to be Biblical, I guess this means they’re in for forty years in the wilderness, which means 10 consecutive Democratic wins in presidential electios.
The Regan’s great great gradchild can lead them to FREEDOM.
MattF
It’s completely typical of food-stamp-Acorn-Cadillac-teleprompter-affirmative-action-Kenyan-Muslim-socialists that they don’t take responsibility for the weather. Doesn’t everybody know that? And his wife is colored, in case you didn’t notice.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
This would be the political equivalent of inbreeding: They have spent years hearing nothing but themselves. With only themselves to share ideas with, we get gene regression, also known as Boehner.
debbie
Where is the Priority USA ad with the video of Boehner promising during the 2010 campaign that “Republicans would focus like a laser on jobs” that then cuts to his response when asked what he thought about the loss of 1,000,000 public sector jobs, “So be it.”?
Why are we talking about Paul Ryan’s shoulders?
Kent
Wait…
So Boehner does believe that global warming is man made? And he’s blaming Obama for not doing enough?
Stranger things have happened. Last election the Repugs ran on Obama cutting medicare. Maybe this election they’ll run on Obama’s inaction on climate change.
Vlad
The link in the article is dead.
The corrected link is here: Link
(It needs to say “entries” rather than “entry”.)
bob h
Obama can slam Republicans over the farm/drought bill, and the wind energy subsidies, but why can he not mention what holds these issues together- man-caused climate change? When 70% of Americans feel there is something to it, and people in the drought-plagues states must be particularly receptive? Romney/Ryan ought to be hammered over this.
NonyNony
@Kent:
No. Obama’s campaign ripped into Paul Ryan accusing him of blocking drought relief legislation. Boehner’s office bungled an “I’m rubber and you’re glue” message that was supposed to be “No, it’s Obama’s fault that there isn’t any drought relief because the Democrats in the Senate won’t roll over and do everything the Republicans in the House want”.
Comically bungled press release, that’s all. Boehner isn’t paid to believe in climate change so he doesn’t believe in climate change. He’s paid to pretend to be in charge of the House, drink bourbon and play golf. He’s got 2 out of 3 down cold.
John
I don’t think that’s at all right. The two situations are in fact quite dissimilar. With DeLay and Hastert, Hastert was a willing puppet for DeLay. Essentially, his job was to do whatever DeLay told him to do, and he was happy to oblige.
The Boehner/Cantor relationship is different. They are rivals. Cantor is the one with real power over the Republican Caucus, but Boehner is not a willing puppet like Hastert was. He does what he can to run things while Cantor tries to sabotage him. DeLay wasn’t constantly trying to sabotage Hastert, because that wouldn’t have made any sense – Hastert was just doing DeLay’s bidding.
Jay C
So what’s the implication here? That Obama brought on the drought with a Kenyan Muslim hoodoo spell, and that it’ll start to rain again once we elect a Republican Pres?
p.a.
I hate the MSM’s ‘he said/he said’ journalism and the right wing wurlitzer/puke funnel as much as anyone, but one positive benefit for prog/libs is the way never being challenged allows dufuses and nonentities to become standard bearers of the right. Whenever the Dems speak with a unified voice (meaning avoiding Nelson/Landrieu-ism), they have a fair chance of exposing these morans. Not a perfect situation, of course, without the MSM actually doing its job, but for now we should be happy for any advantage we can get.
wrb
I’m getting a sneaking sense that they’ve fucked themselves over– lie fatigue has taken their ability to communicate. Years of crazy shit followed by the campaign adopting a policy of lying casually and regularly leaves them wiith nothing.
A “big lie” can work when embedded in a context where truth is expected. I think they are about to discover that a “lie all the time” strategy doesn’t- you just end up tuned out.
hal
How on earth did Boner find out Obama is really Storm from the X-men? That was supposed to be a secret.
Tom Levenson
Assumes a fact not in evidence: Cantor is smarter and his aides are stronger than Boehner’s.
The scarier presumption is that Boehner is as good as it gets.
Recall, also, that Ryan is a legend in his own mind; when he has to confront counter-arguers as formidable as, say, his own constituents, he runs, whimpering.
At least as a control hypothesis, you have to ask…couldn’t the Elephant party actually be this bad?
On my rough days the question answers it self.
Carol from CO
Are they finally admitting that O is God?