Boehner Invokes Violence, Compares Being In Congress To "Standing In Front Of A Machine Gun"

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Boehner: Congress this year like 'standing in front of a machine gun'
@ 4:13 pm by Michael O'Brien


Count House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) among those who've been rankled by the flurry of legislation this year.

Boehner likened the onslaught of major bills this year to facing machine gun fire during an on-camera press conference Tuesday afternoon.

"Being in Congress this year has been like standing in front of a machine gun," Boehner said. "Whether it's the stimulus bill, the omnibus appropriations bill, whether it was the trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see in the budget, whether it was taking over a health care system, a national energy tax, and now somebody is going to suggest we're going to do immigration reform in the midst of all this?"

"How much is enough" the GOP leader incredulously added, before adding that he's in the "doubtful" column about the Congress's ability to get all those priorities done this year.

The liberal watchdog Media Matters Action Network flagged Boehner's remarks Tuesday, arguing that Boehner was the third House Republican in recent days to invoke violence in describing the GOP's position.

and compares it to the Bataan Death March?

John you are not facing a machine gun.

machine guns fired at us. If Boner ever wants to know fear, that's it. Boner is a punk.

it's hard, hard, hard work :eyes:

he gets. FU Boner, this is what you were sent to do, WORK! Shut up and get on with it.

Obama should just be clearing brush like my hero Dubya, instead of actually doing something

Not where you stand.

on how it compares with being in Congress. You fucking dipshit!!

"I am such a pathetic wuss that simply having lots of work to do frightens me as much as machine gun fire would frighten a real man".

And takes his attention away from collecting money from lobbyists and all the rest of his slimy world.

When did Boehner ever look down the barrel of a machine gun?

You found time to raise your salary... how about taking care of business. You have a great health care plan for you and your stupid family. How about giving the American people one too. Effwad.

People use analogies like that all the time for all kinds of things.

Maybe they should have a supply of smelling salts in the House chamber.

The only difference is that Bush wasn't reaching out to the Democratic Party to create true bi-partisan solutions. It was always either "My way or the highway."

"I've been in the minority party since January -- now I know how road kill feels."

All the UV rays must have permanently damages whatever brains he might have possessed at one time.

He really is a great whiner, isn't he?

under a declared war Boner? Hoping for a Purple Heart? Bronze Star? Silver Star? Legion of Merit? You're a douche bag John. Pathetic mouth piece...Just pissed because your cig's are being regulated...

...but "Boner's" staff doesn't seem to get it: first the press conference, then the sauce, John; not the other way around.