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Pelosi: If Boehner were a woman he’d be labeled ‘the weakest Speaker in history’
Appearing on Monday night’s episode of “All In with Chris Hayes,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that if her Republican counterpart, House Speaker John Boehner, were a woman, “they’d be calling him the weakest Speaker in history.” Hayes asked Pelosi, “Is John Boehner a weak speaker?” Pelosi smiled.…
Democrat mocks John Boehner for ‘epiphany’ about debt ‘charade’
Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington poked fun at House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday after the Republican from Ohio admitted there was no imminent debt crisis. “Our debt is so bad, we’re told, that we have to take food out of the mouths of children through the nutrition program…
Boehner: ‘I can’t imagine’ supporting a gay son’s marriage
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman recently reversed on his opposition to same sex marriage after his son came out as gay, but House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says that he would never support equal marriage rights for an LGBT child. During an interview with ABC that aired on Sunday, host…
Current TV host plays Boehner in ‘orange face’ to mock David Gregory’s softball interview
Current TV host John Fugelsang on Monday painted his face orange to point out the absurdity of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Sunday interview with NBC’s David Gregory. Fugelsang played the part of a grumpy Boehner, while Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s Frank Conniff took the role of mocking Gregory’s interviewing…
David Gregory spars with Boehner: ‘Mr. Speaker, that’s just not true’
Meet the Press host David Gregory repeatedly pressed Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) to explain why he believed President Obama was to blame for the automatic budget cuts that went into effect Friday when Congress failed to reach a compromise. He never got an answer that quite…
Pelosi rips into Boehner’s desire to ‘pink slip’ Americans in budget negotiations
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday blamed Republicans for doing nothing to stop automatic spending cuts in the so-called sequester, which she said would disproportionately impact women and that Americans “might as well get a pink slip” directly from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). “Tomorrow is fraught with…
Boehner urges Senate to get ‘off their ass’ and do something on sequester
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) called on President Barack Obama and the Democratically-led U.S. Senate take action to avoid the sequester on Tuesday, asking what it will take for the Senate to “get off their ass” and do something. The sequester is a set of rapidly approaching…
Boehner: ‘How about a little foreplay’ before immigration reform?
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says that he isn’t willing to talk about a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants until he gets “a little foreplay” from President Barack Obama. During a small meeting with reporters on Tuesday, ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Boehner if he was ready to discuss a…
Boehner: Ending abortion ‘one of our most fundamental goals this year’
In a special message to the annual anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) vowed that ending abortion would be one of the top priorities of Republicans this year. “Defending life, of course, is about much more than voting the right way or saying the right things,”…
Michelle Obama rolls her eyes at Speaker Boehner (A GIF for the masses)
If, like most people, you stopped watching the wall-to-wall inaugural coverage around the time Jay-Z and Beyoncé followed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) off the main stage, you might have missed this moment during the luncheon, when something House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said got a reaction out of First Lady…
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