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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 16, 2013, 12:42 PM May 2013

Boehner: Obama Administration Displaying ‘Arrogance Of Power’

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accused the Obama administration of displaying an "arrogance of power" in his weekly press conference Thursday.

He referenced issuing surrounding Benghazi, the unfolding IRS scandal, the Justice Department reviewing AP journalists' phone records and the administration asking health industry executives to help finance Obamacare implementation.

"Our system requires the bonds of trust between the American people and their government," Boehner told reporters. "And those bonds, once broken, are very hard to repair. Nothing dissolves the bonds between the people and their government like the arrogance of power here in Washington. And that's what the American people are seeing today from the administration. Remarkable arrogance.

"This House will stop at nothing to get to the American people, the answers and the accountability that they expect," he said. "But the best way to repair this damage is for the administration to come forward with the truth. The whole truth so that the American people will have all of the facts."

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From the Comment section at TPM:

phunkshun • 13 minutes ago ?
Jesus Christ, when are these white people going to stop with the whole uppity bit. Its worn so thin I can see the bone in my elbow.

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Boehner: Obama Administration Displaying ‘Arrogance Of Power’ (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
waaaaa warrior1 May 2013 #1
i.e. Obama beat him at golf Enrique May 2013 #2
We have our winner! Brigid May 2013 #15
This is hard work... Cracklin Charlie May 2013 #3
Oh, look who's talking... BlueDemKev May 2013 #4
"Remarkable arrogance" Proud Liberal Dem May 2013 #5
He used a lot of words to say nothing. Standard GOP talkification. JoePhilly May 2013 #6
"Our system requires the bonds of trust between the American people and their government," Wounded Bear May 2013 #7
Go Have Another Drink Weak Speaker Boehner otohara May 2013 #8
your kidding? Blue_Roses May 2013 #9
Translation: the President is black meow2u3 May 2013 #10
Boehner is worried that the GOP's trail of dirty money will be unveiled. Rosa Luxemburg May 2013 #11
Oh the hypocrisy! sakabatou May 2013 #12
Crybaby lunatica May 2013 #13
John. Please stop. My sides... SidDithers May 2013 #14
Well, Speaker Bonehead, it's like this: DFW May 2013 #16
Projection, thy name is GOP. n/t winter is coming May 2013 #17
madinmaryland: Boehner Displaying ‘Douchebaggery' nt madinmaryland May 2013 #18
And I thought Gingrich was bad... KennedyBrothers May 2013 #19

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
3. This is hard work...
Thu May 16, 2013, 12:57 PM
May 2013

You think it's easy trying to find new ways of saying "uppity" all the time? Boehner hardly has any time for tanning!

BlueDemKev

(3,003 posts)
4. Oh, look who's talking...
Thu May 16, 2013, 01:04 PM
May 2013

Fuck off, Boehner. You and your right-wing brigade are the LAST people on earth who need to be lecturing ANYONE about "arrogance of power."

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,436 posts)
5. "Remarkable arrogance"
Thu May 16, 2013, 01:14 PM
May 2013

Did he sleep through the previous (mis)administration? Or IOKIYAR? Has President Obama ever told anybody to f-off on the Senate floor?

Wounded Bear

(58,698 posts)
7. "Our system requires the bonds of trust between the American people and their government,"
Thu May 16, 2013, 02:13 PM
May 2013

Yep, just what old Ronnie Reagan would have said......oh wait.



A Republican? Lecturing us on "trusting" the government?

Oh......kay......

meow2u3

(24,771 posts)
10. Translation: the President is black
Thu May 16, 2013, 08:31 PM
May 2013

Agent Orange thinks blacks shouldn't even vote, let alone become President.

Boner ignores the will of the people, even his own constituents, and he calls Obama arrogant?

DFW

(54,436 posts)
16. Well, Speaker Bonehead, it's like this:
Fri May 17, 2013, 04:09 PM
May 2013

When Obama invades a country for no reason other than hot business prospects for his VP and his financiers--THEN it's arrogance of power. So far, it has been "being president while being a Democrat, half-black and sober" that you're upset about.

That's not arrogance. That's "in the course of human events," to borrow a phrase from an old Bolshevik named Jefferson. Don't bother to read any of his stuff. You'd hate it

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