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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich is worse?
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/mcconnell-filibusters-his-own-bill-to-lift-debt-limit.php
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This may be a moment in Senate history when a senator
filibustered his own proposal, he said. I dont think this has ever happened before.
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C&Ler Dan sent in this clip to us. I know we wrote about Boehner's tobacco ties when he fought to become minority leader ... In this 1996 documentary by PBS called "The People and the Power Game," John Boehner is caught red-handed in an amazing act of corruption, and his biggest critics are fellow Republicans.
Boehner: Mine asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. I did it on the House floor which I regret and I should not have done, it's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that's gone on here for a long time.
Were the checks from tobacco companies?
Boehner: Ahh, I think if my memory serves me correctly, I think it was a tobacco company, yes.
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Which is worse? (Original Post)
Motown_Johnny
Dec 2012
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Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)1. Shameless self bump for the night crowd
I won't do it again
LeftInTX
(25,387 posts)2. Haa Haa at the 1:22 mark in the video...
Boehner is smoking right there in Congress