John Boehner, Do You Remember This?
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John Boehner, do you remember writing these words when you ran for Minority Leader:
Nothing was more appalling to me than the fact that three of our own Members brazenly sold out our country, our Conference, and the fate of our colleagues for personal enrichment or in one case, personal perversion. In 1994 we made it clear we wouldn't tolerate such activity, and showed our differences with the Democrats, by changing our rules to deny prime leadership and committee positions from any Member who had been indicted.
The problem is that this isn't good enough any more. Voters correctly expect more from us, and we should expect more from each other.
Then why put Ken Calvert on Appropriations when there were other people with less baggage? Who could you have chosen? Joe Wilson (R-SC) or Henry Brown (R-SC) or several others.
Joe Wilson's son fought in Iraq. It'd be a freaking PR coup to put him on Appropriations while the Dems are trying to defund the war.
You can believe if you want to in the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Or Santa Claus. But there's no such a thing as a Republican PR coup. When it comes to a leftie's lying, cheating, or hypocrisy, the left wing base DOESN'T CARE.