John Boehner had a meeting with a bunch of business lobbyists today, and after coming out of it, he immediately told the world “his” great idea to enact a moratorium on new federal regulations for a year. (You are supposed to wait until Monday so these things seem like new policy ideas, not something the lobbyists told you to do, John.) Boehner set this meeting up with Illinois Republicans Aaron Schock (Hottie) and Peter Roskam (Nottie), and the big news was that business lobbyists really don’t care for many of Obama’s policies!
Roskam said those in the meeting reported that a significant obstacle to the economic recovery is “the down-talking of the private sector, the rhetoric.”
“The anti-business rhetoric that they see coming out of Washington is more than just symbolic.” Roskam added. “It’s creating a great deal of uncertainty.”
Are you suggesting that American patriots are starting to warm up to the idea of socialism?! Oh noes!
We’d better get these great business lobbyists to speak directly to the American people. Surely these great ideas will resonate if the business policy decision-makers let people know what is happening to them.
Democrats responded by repeating their dumb ant line, like idiots. Good work.
Aren’t lobbyist meetings like this supposed to be secret? Or do Republicans just not care anymore? They are regurgitating and announcing support for lobbyist plans for legislation just minutes after the lobbyists told them to. Does that look bad? Nah. They will still do well at midterm time. [CNN]
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Let’s just repeat everything we did from 2001-2009, and marvel at the completely different (good) results this time!!!
The anti-business rhetoric might have a little something to do with the neverending recession caused by our nation’s most useless parasites (aka business executives).
At least use some mouthwash before making a public statement, Mr. Boehner — it’s unseemly when the reporters are busy trying to transcribe your deep and complex understanding of the American economy and they keep getting distracted by the lobbyist spooj on your breath.
[re=619309]germansteel[/re]: But that would be insanity. Oh…
Oompa Boehna doompadee doo
I’ve got another lobbyist for you
Oompa Boehna doompadah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me
What do you get from giving bidniz blow jobs?
A pain in the neck and covered in gobs!!
Why don’t you try something that works?
Or could you prove you’re not a bunch of jerks?
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no moratorium
I have a much better idea. Lets increase the amount of new federal regulation by a factor of 3 and see if we can make John Boehner’s head explode.
Well, if history serves as any proof (hint: it does), Boehner will just keep saying the words “anti-business” for the next six months and eventually, Newt and Palin and Mittens will get on board, Fox will blurt “Some have accused the Obama administration of being anti-business” and within a couple weeks, NPR will ask, “Is the Obama administration perceived as being anti-business?”. Voters will cite how they don’t like Obama’s anti-business strategies when they vote against him in a couple of years.
Because in American politics, all you have to do is find a poor meme, say it enough times, and wait for the results to follow.
Dems, if you have the slightest fucking backbone (hint: you don’t), you’ll learn how to apply the word “facism” to Boehner and his ilk, and you’ll get on that stat.
To make the illusion even more believable, the rep from the Chamber of Commerce actually climbed all the way inside Boehner’s asshole before sitting calmly, drinking a glass of water and appearing not to speak.
Because in American politics, all you have to do is find a poor meme, say it enough times, and wait for the results to follow.
Back in the dark days leading up to the WWII, they called them lies…not memes.
In that picture, is that his ‘O’ face?
[re=619333]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: They didn’t have no interwebz back then. We gots new, fancy terminolologies.
OK, John, how’s about you and the other Republitards take the year off and give us all a breather from you? If the country hasn’t gotten any better, you can come back. But if it has, you’ve got to sit down and shut the fuck up. Forevah!
He looks overdone in that picture.
The Stimulus Plan will not pass.
-John Boehner
Health Care Reform will not pass.
-John Boehner
Financial Reform will not pass.
-John Boehner
Why can’t all businesses be like Apple?
What they did with iPhone is a lot like if Ford had a steering defect that was causing people to drive off cliffs and instead of fighting a recall they announced they would send a free leather steering wheel cover to every owner.
Now that’s smart business.
Boehner takes historical inspiration from his kindred spirits, the Boers, and their unregulated utopia of years gone by: the Orange Free State.
No backlash against the lack of Oompah Boehner? What happened to the Angry Left I knew and loved?
[re=619323]x111e7thst[/re]: would that look like this
[re=619353]user-of-owls[/re]: Since Boehner is an orange, isn’t it a bit crazy he’d have taken his PolySci 101 from the Orange Free State? But hey, politics in ‘Murica is nothing if not crazy.
And while we’re at it, Boner also thinks we should also put a moratorium on black men being president, makes sense to me, does it to you?
BTW, Boner is starting to look like Mel Gibson, or is it the other way around?
[re=619324]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Ya mean like the new definition for “Socialist?”
[re=619324]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: oh, that has already happened in the financial blogs, cable shows, web sites, papers, etc.
Wall Street Journal, Kiplingers et al have it covered, and will continue to cover this anti-business stance of the Obamer administration forever.
the end.
Remember way back when those hippie libs made those “corporate flag of america” t-shirts where the stars were replaced by logos and the AdBustery types bought them and hung them in their patchouli-drenched dorm rooms, as an ironic political statement?
Prepare for teabaggers to begin buying the same posters / wearing the same t-shirts, completely unironically.
Oh let’s be against anything that those evil business owners want, all they do is provide jobs and products and capital and such crap.
Let’s see….
Economy failing
Banks failing
Oil flowing in the Gulf
Politics dominated by money and morons
Yep, the lack of regulation is what made this country great!
John Boner looks too much like Wendel Corey in ‘Rear Window’.You somehow, never really buy his act.( Its that grim lack of eye-focus, I think.) No telling what the bastard is up to.Usually bad twanky.
WD
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Poopyhead.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Wait, so business owners create money out of thin air just so they can “provide” jobs? How selfless of them.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]:
I dunno, giving the bidniz types what want hasn’t really worked out.
When’s the rant about how Barry Obamer is going to start a communist fascist revolution?
Boehner should be careful about this new meme of his. Buzz Mills dropped out of the Arizona governor’s race this week. His main qualification was being not only a businessman, but a businessman whose business is guns! And yet he had to bow to the superior political strategies of “a lady” Republican. And then there’s our favorite bid-ness owner, Tim James, who was sent packing by Alabama Republicans, even though his Daddy was gubner. Apparently G.W. Bush put a little tarnish on the idea that being a captain of industry automatically qualifies one for high public office. Let’s hope the voters in California agree.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Oh goodness, Junior…Really? They provide all that?
Or do we allow them access the richest market in all the world and the jobs get created as a by-product of them exploiting that market?
The first thing you need to remember is that when someone tells you we have to provide incentives for people to make themselves rich, what they are actually doing is trying to stick their dicks down your throat by telling you it’s a feeding tube. Don’t an idiot, spit out the dick.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: As a business owner I find myself in complete agreement with my feathered friend whose excellent nocturnal vision let’s him clearly see what others miss while wandering around in the dark.
Poopyhead
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Rand? Is that you? No, you can’t operate on my eyeballs just ’cause the free market says you can.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: And in exchange for all those wonderful contributions, all they ask for is all of our money and blind obedience.
Alternative Alt-text:
“High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo”
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Yes, becuase that’s what this is, liberals being against “anything” business owners want.
P.S. Please look up the word capital. Thanks!
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: [re=619436]And in exchange for all those wonderful contributions, all they ask for is all of our money and blind obedience. [/re]
(Yes, I did mean ALL our money. All our tax money in the form of government contracts and corporate subsidies and all of our net income in the form of products and services, many of which are either over-priced or don’t work as advertised.)
Also, I forgot to mention they also want to be exempt from the laws the rest of us have to follow (i.e. no liability for the harm some products cause). If I pumped as much poison into the environment as corporations do, I’d probably get arrested for attempted murder. If I sold a faulty product that put the people who bought it in danger, I’d be locked up for manslaughter. But to them, these are costs of doing business, and HOW DARE the government try to regulate us to keep us from doing these things?!
John Boehner would also like a moratorium on tax increases and Congressional sex investigations. And free loans for tanning booths.
Sure, how much damage could, say, a large oil company like, say, BP, do in a year anyway if it doesn’t have to follow any whaddayacallem, rules?
Yes all the commas were meant to indicate I am speaking in a sarcastic tone.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: and lack of regulation has worked so well for America, the Gulf of Mexico and the Global financial system!
[re=619443]Mad Brahms[/re]: In his mind, we probably should be grateful that the business owners provide themselves with the resources to create even more goods and services FOR US, rather than expecting them to be motivated by the potential for more profits.
If they didn’t provide the capital for their own ventures, we might have to resort to having government loans, grants, and subsidies to new businesses (something I’m sure would never, ever happen).
[re=619446]BarackMyWorld[/re]: I, for one, love a bit of lead and cadmium in my childrens toys. It makes them easier to manage.
Roskam said those in the meeting reported that a significant obstacle to the economic recovery is “the down-talking of the private sector, the rhetoric.”
He then added that people should not complain about losing their jobs, because if it wasn’t for the private sector, no one would have had jobs to get fired from.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Thank you! That’s a good idea. Let’s start with these evil business owners: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0707/woman-denied-insurance-one-cent/ Actually, we have already started. Yay Barry!
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]:
Talking-point Troll repeats talking-points. STOP BORING ME, PAULTARD.
If you are going to troll, at least do it in a way that is even mildly annoying. You should go on over to Sadly No!, check out some of the greats, and come back when your stupid has some pizzazz.
That’s the best idea he’s ever had! It’s so sad. And it’s not his idea. And it didn’t work last time.
But I’ll take the easy shot: cribs. No, not the fun! happy! gay! places where various Congress men live together. I’m talking about the ones where babies go to sleep and sometimes die from esophagus sized lead parts used by low-bid manufacturers over in the mysterious Orient. But manufacturers have to follow federal safety regulations despite Boheners wish that America be more like Somalia. Are those the regulations we don’t need anymore? GOP’ers only:
A) Let the market decide which crib makers live and which ones die.
B) Caveat emptor. If the babies don’t like the way their parents act, they can go elsewhere
C) Nothing in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence says anything about an inalienable right to life
D) Once you’re out of the womb, we could not care less what happens next.
I would not put a guy in charge of my party whose last name easily morphs into “Boner”.
[re=619471]WalkinwiththeKing[/re]: Well, it depends on the kind of party, really
[re=619469]just pixels[/re]: Needs E) All of the above, also known as “The Bachmann Option”
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: but what does Obamas Right Testicle think about that?
hheeennngghh?
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]:
I honestly don’t know why I bother trying to enlighten you and your fellow µbrains.
1. Corporate America does not create jobs for vanity. They create jobs out of necessity. A necessity to make them even more money – fast. It’s all about shareholder value, nowadays. They don’t give a rat’s ass about you, your family, or your pesky money-sucking benefits.
2. The long-term business model is extinct. Ever wonder what happened to lifetime employment? Gone. Why bother with long-term growth when you can run a business aground and still walk away with a hefty severence package? Speaking of growth, the new business model considers contraction as growth. Shed the costly facilities, capital, and employees and you’re growing. Congratulations! You get a $1M bonus for saving the company $500k!
3. Products? America has been a service industry for decades. The spittle of “Made with PRIDE in the USA” products are total fuckin’ garbage that nobody wants.
4. Capital? Go ask your bosses to purchase a piece of equipment that would make you more productive. I’ve worked for multi-billion dollar global conglomerates that wouldn’t spend a fuckin’ dime on anything that wouldn’t give them a return in a year, but fly their managers and execs all over the world for 2-hour meetings.
5. Corporate America loves to whine about the anti-business environment in America. The truth is that they enjoy more rights than you – and none of the liabilities. I think AIG and Goldman Sachs made that abundantly clear. Banking deregulation was the equivalent of giving a drunken gambler your debit card and unlimited access to an ATM in a casino. Sure, they could get lucky. But are you willing to give them that chance?
Why would anybody advocate a lifetime of working countless jobs at fly-by-night sweatshops? If you desire to have no future, be my guest. Just don’t get pissed when society (the socialists, y’know) decide it’s not for them.
[re=619528]Servo[/re]: You forgot to call him Poopyhead. Otherwise your effort is greatly appreciated. Probably a complete waste of time with this particular troll, but appreciated nonetheless.
Oh look, it’s one of those orange Tickle My Prostate dolls the lobbyists love so much. Just tick a roll of cnotes up his ass and he sings “God Bless America.”
So no more drug laws?
Weird photo — the Duke of Orange merely looks like a pancaked pink person, and you can’t see the strings going to his head and hands.
A one year new regulation mora-rectorium would be great if you don’t want to see health reform, financial reform, deep-water drilling moratorium, possibly immigration reform etc, implemented. They’ll have more time to attend teaparties! What an asshole! Drink more orange food dye John for we need a race of orange people. We’ll figure out an appropriate official name for the oranges later, but for now I’ll refer to them in the formal term of Dried Cum Stain.
[re=619390]Obamas Left Testicle[/re]: Except when they make “profits” by trading in obscure financial “products,” which aren’t products at all, but do follow all GAAB (Generally Asinine Accounting Bullshit) guidelines. Oh, and the wondrous products they make: iPhones and Cap’n Crunch and Big Macs! Wheee! Oh, they do *sell* other products, as the 3 foot deep pile of chinese plastic shit in my kids’ rooms demonstrates.
[Ooops, my bad. iPhones are made in China or somewhere, by happy little workers who jump off buildings. No regulations about that in Commie China. Yes, we should be more capitalist--just like the Red/Yellow hordes! Oh, and here's a nice dam that will fuck up your entire country's riverine ecosystem forever. Regs? Fuck 'em--the army just revoked them, heh heh.]
Oh, and jobs! Wondrous jobs! Been a ton of that created lately.
Meanwhile, all those nasty federal regs? You know, the ones that keep cow shit out of our food and the engines ailerons and bonbons or whatever the fuck attacked to airplanes so they don’t fall out of the sky? Yeah, those all kill jobs. And, after all, those fancy regulations didn’t stop BP from taking history’s biggest dump all over the gulf coast, right? “But the Federal Register has so many pages, and no pictures we can color, and no word search, also.” Well, read the fucking thing once in your life–you’ll find that all that transparency you bleat about now is contained in the FR, which is also a prime venue for Our Corporate Masters to piss all over ideas that would help make people safer, happier, and healthier (or, at least, not dead). And Our Corporate Masters get their legions of idiots to write comments about regs to the agencies, which all have to be addressed in the regulatory process (about which Boner knows nothing), which makes for all those tedious pages. Jesus, these people who bitch and moan about government and who haven’t the slightest idea what government does. Can’t they just turn in their voter registration cards? We can give away two WWE pay per views for each of these peabrains who surrenders the franchise, and let the country be run by grownups.
[Also, we have tons of cops and jails, but still crime, so cops and jails just don't work. Let's cut them out of the budget.]
[re=619608]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Just move to Bermuda, already, and join your Uighur buddies. The ghost of the Great Helmsman is not amused.
Oh, and whenever you respond to the goober, don’t forget: Poopyhead!
I’d like to take a moment here and personally excoriate Mom and Pop Boner for unleashing their heartless amoral offspring upon the land. BAD PARENTS! BAD, BAD PARENTS!
This guy can do the impossible – ie, make me think warmly of Nancy Pelosi.
Said one generous Teabag donor,
“When John winks, I get a boner!”
[Ooops, my bad. iPhones are made in China or somewhere, by happy little workers who jump off buildings."
For Taiwan companies, though.
Boehner looks like he’s been impaled in that photo. I keep waiting for the point of the to come out of his mouth.
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