Posted by
Mike Bates on Saturday, September 03, 2011 3:34:55 PM
On MSNBC's Political Nation Friday evening, host Al Sharpton interviewed Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post. They spoke about House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH):
GRIM: So, you`re right, the record that he is amassing is probably one
of the most extreme records that a House Speaker has put up in decades.
SHARPTON: Well, based on your last statement, he being probably the
most extreme Speaker we`ve seen in decades, should President Obama even
bother negotiating with him?
GRIM: No, he probably shouldn`t. He should do the opposite approach.
If these guys really think Boehner is probably the most extreme speaker
in recent history, they must have mighty short memories. Does the name
Nancy Pelosi sound familiar, Reverend Al?
She served as speaker from 2007 to 20011. Before the election that
brought her to power, she said she didn’t “really consider ourselves at
war” with terrorism. That may partially explain her votes as the
ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. In the years prior to
9/11, despite her having inside knowledge of the threats confronting the
U.S., she regularly voted against intelligence funding.
Dependably pro illegal immigrant, pro abortion on demand, and pro big
labor bosses, Pelosi voted more liberal on social policy issues than 96
percent of her colleagues, according to the nonpartisan National
Journal. Her grade from the National Taxpayers Union for the year
before Democrats took control of the House was an F, as it had been for
the entire previous decade.
Her extremism even extended to for the Boy Scouts. The president of
the U.S. serves as honorary president of that organization. In 2000,
she and ten other members of Congress wrote to President Clinton,
requesting he resign from the Boy Scouts because of the organization’s
“unacceptable” policy of banning homosexuals from leadership positions.
Out of over 200 House Democrats, fewer than a dozen Democrats signed
the letter. Pelosi was one of them.
As speaker, she shoved through ObamaCare, about which she remarked, "We
have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." She pushed
Obama's stimulus. These are but two of the many reasons why the
national debt increased from $8.7 trillion to just under $14 trillion
during her term as speaker.
In light of all this, John Boehner is probably the most extreme speaker
we've seen in decades. The Rev and Grim should take their comedy
routine on the road. They'd probably have a bigger audience.