Blip from the Past: GOP desperate for midterm victory, retool Contract With America

It’s been two years since the American people had collective temporary insantity and allowed the Republican Party to take over the House of Representatives, I submit this post from April of 2010 (as it appeared on Alan Colmes’s Liberaland). In the two years since John Boehner has presided as Speaker of the House, he and his Republican minions have been quite busy — just not in the way the American people had hoped. We thought these mooks would focus on creating jobs (with ideas other than giving more tax breaks to rich people)? Seriously? Apparently House Republicans never got the […]

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Speaker John Boehner becomes PAC-man, raises millions for the NRCC

Speaker John Boehner really knows how to raise a lot of money in a short period of time — to help his fellow Republicans win their respectives races, of course. So far, through various fundraising appearances, Speaker Boehner has racked up a whopping $80 million for the coffers of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Boehner has also donated $4.1 million from his own campaign war chest to the NRCC. That’s a LOT of moola to toss around. And this is just the beginning – the Speaker has 100 more fundraisers to headline in this cycle alone. Gee, could Boeher close […]

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