John Boehner: A Pelosi Ally?

[Wretched Excess]

this is the what the dying gasp of desperation looks like.  the dems are feeding the MSM a line of propaganda about how often john boehner votes with nancy pelosi (!).  and the MSM is once again the willing accomplice (or jailhouse girlfriend) of the liberals. 

the idea, of course, is to blunt the argument that pelosi is a crazed, bug eyed zealot that is trying to take everyone's property and give it to the state.  what they don't tell you is that all of the votes in which they agree are crap like resolutions to congratulate the south carolina baseball team on winning the world series, Expressing support for designation of May 2010 as Mental Health Month, Recognizing the importance of manufactured and modular housing in the United States, and Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mothers Day.  Those are actual roll call votes.  I copied them from house.gov.

the point is that the democrats are feeding this info to the MSM.   I can't imagine the panic that must be gripping the democrat leadership right now.  to try to convince people that nancy pelosi is in bed with john boehner (so to speak) . . . it's just unbelievable.

and can't these idiots make up their minds?  wasn't it just last month that john boehner was obama's "satan of the week"?  didn't the president deliver speech after speech demonizing the man?  and now he's just like nancy pelosi?

John Boehner: A Pelosi Ally?

Republicans have cast House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Enemy No. 1 this election season, and they point out in a number of campaign ads how closely Democrats running for re-election have aligned with the speaker's voting record. Those ads fail to mention, however, just how commonplace such figures are -- even House GOP leader John Boehner votes with Pelosi the majority of the time, it turns out.

Boehner sided with Pelosi and Democrats 52 percent of the time, according to a review of this year's votes that Democrats provided to The Hill. Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), chairman of the House Republican conference, also voted with Pelosi 52 percent of the time, while House GOP leaders Eric Cantor (Va.) and Pete Sessions (Texas) voted with her 57 percent of the time. Even Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann voted with the speaker on 58 percent of votes.

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[true_blood]

Welcome to the spin machine that is the MSM and the demosocialists.

[DumbAss Tanker]

A stupid waste of time and diversion of resources for them, and therefore a good thing.  The only thing that will affect a Representative's re-election is the opinion of voters in his own District, what the country as a whole thinks of him doesn't matter a fart in a nuclear blast.  You'd think they'd know this, with Skeletor errr, Nancy Pelosi, to look at as an example.   

[cavegal]

By doing this they are admitting Pelosi is a problem?

[Wretched Excess]

A stupid waste of time and diversion of resources for them, and therefore a good thing.  The only thing that will affect a Representative's re-election is the opinion of voters in his own District, what the country as a whole thinks of him doesn't matter a fart in a nuclear blast.  You'd think they'd know this, with Skeletor errr, Nancy Pelosi, to look at as an example.   

I think the republicans have done a pretty good job of nationalizing nancy pelosi in her role as speaker of the house.  "See what you got?  you want more?  then vote republican".  Everyone realizes that there is nothing they can do to suck the retardation out of nancy pelosi's constituents in the people's republic of san fransisco, so she will be back no matter what they do.  but they can do their part to make sure that she isn't speaker of the house when she comes back.

it was my impression that this is the image that the dems were trying to undo.

[Wretched Excess]

By doing this they are admitting Pelosi is a problem?

I think that by doing this they are admitting that there entire agenda turned out to be a problem.

[Karin]

I skimmed the article at the link, and it's very stupid.  Also stupid are the 4 comments that followed, one of which was that JB's approval rating was lower than NP's, so he ought to vote with her 100% of the time.  Our publicly educated electorate.  I'm so proud. 

[miskie]

Drugs are nobodies friend. EOM.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I think the republicans have done a pretty good job of nationalizing nancy pelosi in her role as speaker of the house.  "See what you got?  you want more?  then vote republican".  Everyone realizes that there is nothing they can do to suck the retardation out of nancy pelosi's constituents in the people's republic of san fransisco, so she will be back no matter what they do.  but they can do their part to make sure that she isn't speaker of the house when she comes back.

it was my impression that this is the image that the dems were trying to undo.

That's probably where their stupid little heads are at, but the fundamental problem with that thought process is that nobody gives a flying f*ck what the Minority Leader or a Whip for either party might do or say as far as the national impact goes, the Speaker is the only member of the House that has any national visibility at all, and understandably so since the majority party picks him or her and is in the driver's seat on all the legislation as long as they have a solid majority/caucus.

[Carl]

How many bills (or votes) go through the house in every year that are procedural,formalities or simply non important items every one votes for (a resolution to honor such and such)?

This truly shows the desperation and coupled with the contrived reporting of a late dem surge suggests that the MSM is privy to internal polling and the results of Nov 2nd may be far worse for libs then many believe.

[Wretched Excess]

How many bills (or votes) go through the house in every year that are procedural,formalities or simply non important items every one votes for (a resolution to honor such and such)?

a good chuck of them.  there were 565 roll call votes this year (they number them sequentially);  you can peruse them here.