Boehner on "Hardball" tonight
House Majority Leader John Boehner, a West Chester Republican, is scheduled to appear today as a guest on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews."
The show airs at 5 p.m., and repeats at 7 p.m.
Also in Washington today, Boehner held a 10:30 a.m. on-camera briefing and is participating in a 2:15 p.m. press conference with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.
On the floor today: A bill to erase the death tax and legislation to give President Bush line-item veto authority.
That means new White House Budget Director Rob Portman, a Terrace Park Republican, will be in the Capitol today, lobbying former colleagues just off the House floor to vote for the line-item veto bill.
Meanwhile, the Senate is considering the defense authorization bill today, which includes voting on two Iraq-related amendments that seek to express the "sense of Congress" on the policy regarding Iraq and the re-deployment of U.S. Armed Forces to Iraq.
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Post a Comment*It's called the estate tax, not the death tax.
exactly right and another example of the Enquirer's tendency to print Republican-flavored rhetoric as "news."
What a wRong wing wacko stenographer fishwrap !
The rag is full of schmidt !
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Voting to repeal the estate tax is just one more way the GOP insures their future campaign contributions. Eight very wealthy families have bankrolled this campaign.
However more than 800 wealthy Americans have joined in a public appeal to keep the estate tax. They argue that repealing the tax would further enrich the wealthiest Americans and hurt struggling families. They also argue that financial success should be based on merit rather than on inheritance.
Warren E. Buffett, George Soros, Paul Newman and William H. Gates Sr., father of Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates III, are among the most prominent in that group.
Mr. Buffett said the estate tax fosters economic growth by encouraging Americans to rise based on merit, not inheritance. "If you take the C.E.O.'s of the Fortune 500," he said in an interview, "and put in the eldest son of every one of those who ran the place in 1975, the American economy would not run as well as letting the Jack Welches, who started out with nothing, rise to the top of General Electric."
I don't now what's scarier, George Bush with a line item veto or George Bush with his finger on the button...
Boehner is ethically challenged.
From:
http://www.clevescene.com/Issues/current/topstories/secondpunch.html
Have Ohio's congressmen found a new way to line their pockets?
House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-We Can't Believe You Made a Guy from Ohio Your Leader) rose to power in the wake of Tom DeLay's indictment for myriad crimes involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his Indian casino clients.
Yet Boehner's most recent financial disclosure form raises questions about his own relationship with tribal casinos.
According to the filing, Boehner made a pit stop at an Indian-owned casino in Northern Michigan and walked out with $2,700.
His spokesman claims it was pure luck. Boehner supposedly stopped in at the casino to use the bathroom. While waiting for an aide, he "decided put a couple of bucks in the slots" and hit the jackpot.
"This is gambling, that's what it was," says spokesman Don Seymour. "A guy stops by and wins money. People do it every day."
Sure, but most people don't have such close ties to the casino.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Boehner received $32,500 in campaign contributions from Indian tribes represented by Abramoff. And Boehner's PAC, the Freedom Project, received $31,500 from four Abramoff tribal clients, according to The Washington Post.
The casinos got a good return on its investment. Boehner is pushing for legislation to crack down on internet gambling, which rakes in half a billion dollars each year. The measure is supported by the American Gaming Association, the largest casino lobby, which clearly wants to stop overseas bookies from taking a chunk of the profits.
Seymour doesn't see the connection. "If you can make that leap here, you can make that leap with any congressman," he argues.
Indeed we can. The run of luck was suspiciously similar to that of another Ohio congressman, Bob Ney (R-Soon to be Making License Plates at a Federal Pen Near You).
In 2004, Ney reported winning $34,000 at a London casino. His spokesman claimed he put down $100 on a three-card draw game, let it ride on a long shot, and hit the jackpot.
Ney has since been implicated in the Abramoff scandal as well. He's accused of trading favors for gifts and vacations.
When pressed about the coincidence of Boehner winning thousands of dollars from a group for whom he carries water in Congress, Seymour went into robotic PR mode. He couldn't understand why anyone would think the jackpot appeared at all suspicious, nor would he explain why Boehner would choose to take his bathroom break at a casino rather than, say, McDonalds.
"It is what it is," Seymour says. "Any other conclusions you want to draw, you're welcome to."
He said it, not us.
Boehner was on hardballs talking about the estate tax and you call it the death tax? I can't believe this rightwing rag isn't being boycotted yet.
I boycott it !
If it isn't free !
They get no money from me !
Their advertisers don't get my money either unless by accident.
I don't get their ads because I don't like fish !
I burn up their free blog to expose the wRong wing nuts !
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They're making money off you w(R)ight now, idiot. Don't you see the ads all over this web site????
Interesting that Cleveland magazine doesn't mention any Democrats who have won far more gambling:
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16827687&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
Wonder if Scene thinks Kanjorski is on the take, too.
wake up anonymous said...
They're making money off you w(R)ight now, idiot. Don't you see the ads all over this web site????
6/26/2006 11:39 PM
They are not making money off of me, period !!
I didn't notice any ads. They don't get any of my money !!
They couldn't be making any money or they would staff with reporters instead of stenographers !!
The internet will kill the wRong wing fishwrap !!
They don't get one dime from me, wRong wing wacko !!
Don't you see the ads all over this web site????
I don't see them !!
The idiot is the individual without ad blocker !!
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