Another All-ReFUCKlickin' Show On MTP This Sunday:

[Dinger]

Last week was cat-killer Sunday, and now:

MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT
WEEKEND LISTINGS 2/5/06

REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH)
House Majority Leader

SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA)
Chairman, Judiciary Committee

RON BROWNSTEIN
Los Angeles Times

JOHN HARWOOD
Wall Street Journal

[Katherine Brengle]

1. ick... i used to actually watch that show! n/t

[Dinger]

2. Yeah, I Did Too, And I Feel Dirty - eeew!

:puke:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. WRONG FRAMEWORK, FOLKS!

Wait a sec and think. THIS IS GREAT NEWS.
The more these folks get in the face of the people, the less credibility they will have, especially with an all GOP line-up.
OK, Boehner is another pretty face and personable, but really, their ideas are bankrupt, as is our economy.

This is really good news, as part of a process.

[zulchzulu]

4. Questions Timmy could ask...

With REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH)
House Majority Leader:

What about the checks you were handing out for the tobacco industry? Boehner was forced to apologize in the mid-1990s for distributing checks from tobacco companies to his colleagues as they worked on the House floor.
Why were there too many votes in the initial vote?

From: http://www.dccc.org/houseofscandal/members/JohnBoehnerOH-8.html

John Boehner voted with Tom DeLay 95% of the time between Jan. 1 2004 and March 31 2005.
Is this the kind of lockstep government that working families deserve?

John Boehner voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay.
Does the integrity of the House mean so little that John Boehner would sacrifice it to defend Tom DeLay?

When Republicans realized it was "impossible to win the communications battle" over the gutted ethics rules, Boehner flip-flopped and voted to put the old rules back into place.
So John Boehner cares about the integrity of the House after all -- when cable news is covering it.

When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, John Boehner voted twice to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.
So instead of a bipartisan effort to get government working for Americans, John Boehner stood for cronyism and partisan politics.

From an article with a broken link: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:neuC4DQMD7sJ:news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060115/ap_on_go_co/house_leadership_boehner+BOEHNER+ohio+2004+vote&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11&client=safari
In the past five years, special interests have paid for 31 of Boehner's 36 recorded domestic and international trips. On 22 of those 31 privately funded trips Boehner took his wife. The average cost for each of the 31 trips was about $4,000.

Sallie Mae provided one of the three trips in 2003 to West Palm Beach, Fla.; its executives have donated more than $150,000 to Boehner since 2001.

The lender's lobbyist threw a party for Boehner on Sept. 30, 2004, with the lawmaker collecting checks from 34 of Sallie Mae's executives that day.

Clashes with DeLay and his close ties to Gingrich forced Boehner from his leadership job in 1998. He has acknowledged that his years out of power softened him.

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I'd ask Specter about the NSA investigations...

[July]

5. DON"T WATCH. That's my advice, FWIW.

Losing audience is all that will get Timmy's attention.

[madrchsod]

6. home ratings for mtp 3.0 million

adults 25-45 1.1 million (top advertising rate)
overall 4 million viewers.

so few people have so much power? their self importance underwhelms me.