Boehner derides police officers and teachers as 'special interests'

[flpoljunkie]

(Will any of their states refuse the funding? I think we know the answer to that.)

Boehner derides police officers and teachers as ‘special interests.’



Yesterday, the Senate finally overcame a Republican filibuster to approve $26 billion in funding to bolster state budgets, including $10 billion to prevent massive teacher layoffs. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that she will interrupt the House’s August recess in order to hold a session to pass the bill, instead of waiting to pass it in September. But House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) slammed Pelosi’s decision to call the House back into session, calling the funding a “payoff to union bosses and liberal special interests”:

The American people don’t want more Washington ‘stimulus’ spending – especially in the form of a pay-off to union bosses and liberal special interests. This stunning display of tone-deafness comes at the expense of American workers, who will be hit by another job-killing tax hike because Washington Democrats can’t kick their addiction to more government ‘stimulus’ spending. Democrats should be listening to their constituents – who are asking ‘where are the jobs?’ – instead of scampering back to Washington to push through more special interest bailouts and job-killing tax hikes.

As the Wonk Room explained, this bill is deficit neutral, so there is no “tax hike” necessary. But more importantly, does Boehner really consider teachers, firefighters, and police officers “special interests”? Overall, the funding will save the jobs of about 300,000 workers, including about 140,000 school employees, and according to the Department of Education, 5,000 teaching jobs in Boehner’s home state of Ohio will be preserved.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/05/boehner-derides-jobs/

[stray cat]

1. They are certainly voting blocks - so special intersts may be right

but it doesn't mean their jobs can not be protected more than others on the basis of performing a necessary function for the public.

[Botany]

2. How about golf stimulus funds? $82,000 + on golf in 2009

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29881.html

why this man gets to be elected is beyond me.

[Webster Green]

3. He's really goofy looking.

That dude needs sit-ups, not golf.

[Arkana]

9. Holy shit his legs look like GlowSticks.

[Bitwit1234]

4. But should if goodness forbid he ever needs a policeman/woman

they tell him, his interst in calling for asssistance, is special, so they can't show up.

[Mnpaul]

5. We can't attack Boehner on this one

Obama: Unions Are "Special Interests"
http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=7527

[flpoljunkie]

6. Sure, we can!

[Arkana]

8. Not all special interests are bad, and the unions are not saints.

[Arkana]

7. Stop spending so much time under the lamps, Boner--they're frying your brain.

[bigdarryl]

10. DUMB FUCK hates cops I guess he can take his ugly TANNING FACE and

stick it up his ASS!!!!

[prolesunited]

11. How fucked up have Republicans gotten

when they are deriding cops and teachers? That's like throwing the apple pie in the garbage and kicking the dog.