Boehner’s boner, GOP Inc. – classic GOP redistribution of wealth
Here’s the money quote, via Daily Kos, Boehner says it’s time senior citizens did their part for the war effort.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, the Ohio Republican with his eye on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s gavel, said the tide is turning the GOP’s way.
“The American people have written off the Democrats,” Boehner said Monday in an interview with Tribune-Review editors and reporters. “They’re willing to look at us again.”
Stating that if they do take control of the House the GOP’s main focus will be passing a bill to repeal the recently passed health care changes even though it has no chance of enactment.
If Republicans retake control of the House, Boehner promised a vote on a bill repealing the health care law and replacing it with a scaled-down package of tax breaks and court reforms. Democrats likely would maintain control of the Senate, and Obama could veto the proposal, all but eliminating its chances of succeeding.
Beyond that the GOP’s main goal will be to redistribute wealth from Seniors and future retirees to corporations to pay for the War(s).
Boehner had praise, however, for Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan and stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan. He declined to list any benchmarks he has for measuring progress in the nine-year war, at a time of increasing violence and Obama’s replacement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus.
Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he’d favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
“We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we’re broke,” Boehner said. “If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you’re retired, why are we paying you at a time when we’re broke? We just need to be honest with people.”
War is a racket, that’s for sure. This should destroy Boehner and the GOP’s chances to take over the House in November. Seriously this, and Rep. Barton’s apology, is enough for the American to know who the GOP is beholden, it’s GOP Inc.
