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    Tag: John Boehner

    Washington, We Have A Problem


    By TiredIronTim, Section News
    Posted on Wed Sep 11, 2013 at 02:21:21 PM EST
    Tags: John Boehner, Speaker of the House, Obamacare, Continuing Resolution, Fraud and Deception (all tags)

    This is Michigan calling......One of several states

    (3 comments, 841 words in story) Full Story

    Republican Party Leadership: Alex, I'd like to buy a clue for $100 please...


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sun Mar 17, 2013 at 09:00:00 AM EST
    Tags: National republican party, Michigan republican party, John Boehner, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, Bobby Schostak, Rick Snyder, Brian Calley, Jase Bolger, Randy Richardville, Roger Kahn, Paul Scott, Where have all of the leaders gone?, Principles?, What principles?, Hmmmmmm, Do you think that they got the message now?, That's where we end up too if we don't speak up for what we believe, Well said Doctor! (all tags)

    Let me start off by saying that this is Exhibit "A" on what should be happening in the various levels of government around America.

    And this isn't the only example of people that we need to be paying attention to.

    {Continued below}

    (9 comments, 477 words in story) Full Story

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Good Counsel For Carl Levin


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Jan 03, 2013 at 10:51:22 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Batteries, LG Chem, A123, More Money, Subsidies, Technology, China, Doubling Down, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Carl Levin, Crony Capitalism, Good Advice (all tags)

    Carl Levin has a bridge to sell you over some swampland in Michigan.

    In Mid-December, Senator Carl Levin posted a position piece supporting further battery technology spending by taxpayers in Michigan.  He states:


    That's why an announcement in November by the Department of Energy was so important to Michigan. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a consortium of government, university and private-sector research labs aimed at revolutionizing battery technology.

    Fittingly, Michigan is playing a key role in the effort. The consortium, headquartered at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, will include research hubs at Johnson Controls in Holland, and on the University of Michigan campus. Dow Chemical in Midland is also a key corporate partner.

    The JCESR is nothing short of a Manhattan Project-styled effort to blow through the technical and economic limitations imposed by existing battery technology. Despite enormous progress that has allowed impressive accomplishments in hybrid vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt, today's batteries are still bigger, heavier, more expensive and lower capacity than we'd like. With technical improvements, we can bring down costs, reduce our dependence on imported oil and protect our environment.

    The answer to this challenge is an effort that, as my colleague Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois put it, "brings together, under a single organizational roof, the world's leading scientists, engineers and manufacturers in energy storage and provides them with the tools, resources and market reach necessary to produce major breakthroughs."

    In other words we have failed miserably in our efforts to date, and we should really double down.

    Between the sale of battery technology to China, and a dismal failure of LG Chem to realize the investment made:

    "But now you're getting it. Reporters who visited the Michigan factory of the South Korean company LG Chem, which got $151 million in stimulus money to manufacture lithium-ion batteries, discovered workers sitting around playing Monopoly and poker. The employees said it wasn't their fault: "What do you do when there's no work?"  "
    Sure why not follow THESE successes with additional money thrown around.

    As far as going all-in with these schemes, one might better be served with the proverbial 'fool me once .." advice.  Frankly, Senator Levin should take the advice given to Harry Reid by the weeper last night.  

    At least the recipient would be 'getting it' voluntarily.

    (3 comments) Comments >>

    B.O.H.I.C.A.


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Sun Jul 31, 2011 at 09:46:13 PM EST
    Tags: Barry Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Nancy Pelosi. (all tags)

    Evidently, somehow the powers-that-be behind the curtain of a back-room discussion have managed to craft some sort of deal to stave off an alleged default.  But first, let's watch Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) out-argue Senator John Kerry (D-MA) in a floor speech from last Saturday.

    (4 comments, 356 words in story) Full Story

    That Ain't No Promised Land


    By Rougman, Section News
    Posted on Sat Jul 30, 2011 at 12:55:45 PM EST
    Tags: John Boehner, Dan Benishek, Budget (all tags)

    In an effort to bridge the timeline between now and the next election, practical Republicans have said they'd love them some many hundreds of billions of dollars in added debt over the short term in order to budget an additional $7 trillion in debt over the next ten years.

    This is the new face of fiscal and political practicality.

    Now, even the impractical among us knew that the Boehner bill, as written, was as dead on arrival as the dermis underneath a Nancy Pelosi botoxic expression. We'll just have to wait and see what the mouldering Harry Reid can do to the bill before he sends it back to Boehner.

    Wherever this leads, many of us in the tea party are being considered "impractical" or "hobbits" by the establishment GOP because we are not falling in line behind our christened party leaders in their Orwellian attempts to rein in spending.

    But, from an equally practical standpoint, what evidence do we hobbits have from these GOP leaders that they have any intention of cutting overall spending when, according to the lexicon they employ, a $1 trillion cut in spending in reality is an $8 trillion increase in spending over ten years?

    Let's go back a few years. It was a Republican president with great Republican support that gave us No Child Left Behind and the prescription drug benefit. TARP was a bipartisan fiscal calamity. Every one of these examples have the sticky fingerprints of John Boehner all over them.

    (6 comments, 834 words in story) Full Story

    I Wish...


    By Corinthian Scales, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Sat Jan 08, 2011 at 12:07:13 PM EST
    Tags: Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Jimmy Kimmel, Republicans, Dimocrats (all tags)



    Ah, if the GOP only had the stones...

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    Upton Should Call On Sarah Palin


    By jenkuz, Section News
    Posted on Thu Dec 30, 2010 at 11:55:05 PM EST
    Tags: Abortion, economy, environmentalism, EPA, Fred Upton, Global Warming, government regulation, green energy, Jennifer Granholm, John Boehner, Michigan, Politics, Repeal, Republicans, Sarah Palin, sierra club (all tags)

    Cross-posted

    Fred Upton got the post he wanted in the House, as Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.  Boehner gave him the job over massive objections from conservatives.  Perhaps if Upton cries, he will convince some of them that he's going to be a real stalwart.

    JGillman of RightMichigan voices the concern that so many are thinking.  Now that Upton got the post over all the objections, will he do what needs doing?

    Judging from some of  his responses to criticism, I'd say that's a definite no.

    He said he was going to Washington to repeal that healthcare law, then he agreed to support the insertion of Pitt's Protect Life Act, and Smith's No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act into the law.  That's called nibbling around the edges.  The way the genius Republican leadership has been going, if the acts do end up being inserted, they will become known as the Stupak amendment for criminy's sake.   Why in the world would you say you were going to repeal it, but first change it a little to make it better, then repeal it?  Does that make sense?

    (3 comments, 470 words in story) Full Story

    NRLC shines a spotlight on Upton's record; Down With Upton


    By jenkuz, Section News
    Posted on Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 04:41:36 AM EST
    Tags: Abortion, Fred Upton, conservatives. Tagged Abortion, Cliff Stearns, conservatism, Doc Hastings, environmentalism, Eric Cantor, government regulation, green energy, Joe Barton, John Boehner, John Shimkus, Mark Levin, Michigan, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party (all tags)

    Cross-posted at jennerationx.com

    Uh oh.

    Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, is insisting he is worthy to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and has written an Op Ed in the Washington Examiner titled, "Rep. Fred Upton: A new majority for America."  In it, he describes what he will do if in fact he is chosen as chair, and reiterates his manly chainsaw approach to the budget, and unfortunately, uses the words, "shine the spotlight" on the Obama-Pelosi regulatory policies.

    Hang on, check the spotlight bulb first, is it the government-mandated type?

    (1 comment, 711 words in story) Full Story

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