Boehner's "Small Price" - by John Kerry

[LittleClarkie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/boehners-small-price_b_64259.html

Just yesterday on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked John Boehner, the leader of the GOP in the House, this question (video on Horse's Mouth):

"The loss in blood, the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment is going to require?" And Mr. Boehner responded: "The investment that we're making today will be a small price if we're able to stop al Qaeda here, if we're able to stabilize the Middle East, it's not only going to be a small price for the near future, but think about the future for our kids and their kids."

(snip)

Whether you support or oppose the Bush escalation, no American should ever for even a moment think the cost of war is small.

Visit our wounded warriors at Walter Reed hospital and ask whether the price they paid was small. Talk to the mothers, fathers, husbands and wives of those who have been killed and ask them to measure the price of war. Young lives stopped short, children who won't have a mother or father there as they grow up, when they graduate, when they get married -- that loss is many things, but it is not small.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Why doesn't Boner enlist himself...

...and make it an infinitesimally small price?

NGU.

[Kagemusha]

2. I understand that it's important to sound patriotic and all here and that's fine...

But to me, the point is not about the "small price" because American blood comes expensive because that's just underlining how in America, the blood of other nations, especially brown or black ones, is pretty worthless. To me that's not the point, or shouldn't be.

To me, the point is that the US is not going to do any of those things, stop al Qaeda, stabilize the middle east: Hell no! No, a thousand times no! It's not going to do those things, and therefore the price, large or small, is for naught. For nothing.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Well said

I couldn't agree more.

[Supersedeas]

14. as if American blood has a price (tho small) -- and the blood of others doesn't even measure

in the eyes of a rightwing hack.

[Kagemusha]

19. Well it doesn't, I just refuse to be surprised at that.

And I mean, it doesn't in the eyes of a rightwing hack, of course.

[LittleClarkie]

4. kickage

and such.

[ClassWarrior]

5. And another.

NGU.

[wisteria]

6. The media bias over this is obvious.

Boehner clearly meant what he said- he repeated the comments- "small price", once again during his answer. How is it that CNN just over looked this slam down playing the importance of our troops lives? Yet, they went after Senator Kerry with knives over his flubbing a line in a joke directed at Bush and spun it into a slam directed at our troops which it wasn't? Senator Kerry apologized for his comments possibly hurting our troops. Kerry is right, where is Boehner's apology? Our party should be demanding one from him.

[beachmom]

7. Because it wasn't on Drudge Report, and because the "stars"

of the Democratic party have remained mum.

This is all about power and who has it. Not about the truth or decency.

[wisteria]

8. You are correct. .n/t

[ClassWarrior]

9. Sure, the media screws us again - let's form a circular firing squad...

...and shoot our fellow Dems!!

And fwiw, Keith Olbermann hasn't remained mum... I'm sure Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy and Stephanie Miller won't, either... So what do you want??

Karl Rove must be rubbing his pasty white thighs with glee.

NGU.

[beachmom]

10. I'm not a fan of the circular firing squad, but you can't deny

that most Dems are quiet. Last I read it's Kerry, Dean, and the DCCC. Where is everyone else? You can't totally complain about the media if you're not hitting them with this every chance you get. And the media will often not bite on a story until they see a chorus.

[ClassWarrior]

12. So are most of the Rape-Publicans. So?

That's why we have surrogates. Drudge and Rimbaugh can hurl the crap and their elected slimeballs can pretend to stay above the fray.

Our surrogates have been - and will continue to be - anything BUT quiet on this. I applaud and appreciate Kerry, Dean, and the rest of our electeds who do have the courage to speak up. But to expect your average Rep from Bumpkinville to wade into the muck and deftly smack down Bill Orally is a kind of unrealistic. I too wish every official was an FDR, but sadly that's not how it works.

NGU.

[beachmom]

15. We don't need surrogates for this. And, in fact, with something

like this, GOP elected officials would have done it themselves IN ADDITION to the right wing noise machine.

The criticism is mild here -- I'm asking them to please feed the media so this story gets out there.

[karynnj]

16. But the leaders who have the microphone should

Biden was great on this - it gave him a chance, that he used well, to attack Republicans, from the moral high ground. He looked like a statesman. (Kerry's, Dean's and the DCCC's statements did as well.) This was a no brainer - and you did not have to go on Fox News to criticize it..

[blm]

18. The media BIAS on this proves their complicity with BushInc - as if we needed

more proof. The way they lied about Gore and Kerry and protected the Bushboy for his failures on 9-11 and Iraq was ample proof.

[Catchawave]

11. Boehner got the Olbermann smackdown tonight....

a whole segment with Biden ... excellent! I'm watching the repeat now.

[ProSense]

13. CNN's hypocrisy

here.

[SunDrop23]

17. Of course it is a small price...after all, none of THEM are over there.