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Least Productive Congress in History Leaves Washington for Five-Week Vacation

August 1, 2014 Jon Ponder

After breaking all records for doing nothing, the least productive Congress in U.S. history leaves town today for a five-week vacation:

The grand-daddy of all “Do Nothing” Congresses will be departing soon for an undeserved five week summer vacation – leaving behind a pile of unfinished business and a serious humanitarian crisis festering along the U.S.-Mexico border.

While lawmakers likely will be able to claim a modicum of success on a few issues, the House prepared to close up shop Thursday afternoon after Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was forced to pull from the floor two GOP measures to help house, process and deport tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America who crossed the border illegally in recent months.

Don’t Legislate — Litigate!

July 14, 2014 Buck Banks

Some say Congress is sending us to wrack and ruin,
And by doing nothing they’ll be our undoing.
So what to do with a president
Who takes executive action, exigent?
You call him out in the media, of course, and sue him.

One Third of Republicans Not Happy with GOP Leadership

June 16, 2014 Buck Banks

30%

Of Republicans have a favorable view of Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. Also troubling for the GOP leaders is the fact that 45% of Republican respondents said GOP leadership in Congress is not conservative enough.

Boehner Calls Obama’s Climate-Change Plan ‘Nuts’

June 3, 2014 Buck Banks

The president’s plan is nuts, there’s really no more succinct way to describe it.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by the Washington Post, on President Obama’s new EPA rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Boehner Claims to Not Be ‘Qualified’ to Debate Climate Change

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 Buck Banks

It’s a strange form of reasoning. Very few of us are scientists, which is exactly why we tend to defer to scientific judgment. It might make sense to question expert consensus in a field where you are an expert, but if you know very little about it, you probably want to just go along with what the experts think. Scientists do, in fact, have a nearly unanimous view of anthropogenic global warming. Scientists likewise believe that chugging Liquid Drano is bad for your health, which is why, precisely because of my lack of scientific training, I hold off on the Drano Cocktails.

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine in response to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) telling the Huffington Post “I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change.”

Only 11% of Boehner’s Campaign Money is Donated in Ohio

May 27, 2014 Buck Banks

89%

Of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) campaign contributions come from outside of his home state of Ohio, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Boehner: Tea Party, Conservative Republicans Not that Different

May 21, 2014 Buck Banks

I think the tea party has brought great energy to our political process. You get in these primary elections — they are hard-fought battles and sometimes — listen, there is not that much, not that big a difference between what you call the tea party and your average conservative Republican.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), asserting the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically the same, CNN reports.

Boehner Mocks Fellow Republicans Over Immigration Reform

April 28, 2014 Buck Banks

Here’s the attitude. Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

New Campaign Ad Hits Boehner Hard

April 15, 2014 Buck Banks

If you have a Boehner lasting more than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.

— A new ad from J.D. Winteregg (R), who is challenging Speaker John Boehner in next month’s Ohio congressional primary.

Boehner Is Pragmatic — In Secret

February 4, 2014 Buck Banks

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Least Productive Congress in History Leaves Washington for Five-Week Vacation

Don’t Legislate — Litigate!

One Third of Republicans Not Happy with GOP Leadership

30%

Boehner Calls Obama’s Climate-Change Plan ‘Nuts’

The president’s plan is nuts, there’s really no more succinct way to describe it.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by the Washington Post, on President Obama’s new EPA rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Boehner Claims to Not Be ‘Qualified’ to Debate Climate Change

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine in response to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) telling the Huffington Post “I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change.”

Only 11% of Boehner’s Campaign Money is Donated in Ohio

89%

Of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) campaign contributions come from outside of his home state of Ohio, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Boehner: Tea Party, Conservative Republicans Not that Different

I think the tea party has brought great energy to our political process. You get in these primary elections — they are hard-fought battles and sometimes — listen, there is not that much, not that big a difference between what you call the tea party and your average conservative Republican.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), asserting the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically the same, CNN reports.

Boehner Mocks Fellow Republicans Over Immigration Reform

Here’s the attitude. Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard.

— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) “theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

New Campaign Ad Hits Boehner Hard

If you have a Boehner lasting more than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.

— A new ad from J.D. Winteregg (R), who is challenging Speaker John Boehner in next month’s Ohio congressional primary.

Boehner Is Pragmatic — In Secret

There’s no sense picking a fight we can’t win.

— Speaker John Boehner, quoted by Roll Call, in a private GOP conference meeting on raising the debt ceiling.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.