Boehner admits to handing out tobacco checks on the House floor (3:02)

[underpants]

Run time: 03:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg   Posted on YouTube: February 09, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 10, 2009 By DU Member: underpants Views on DU: 2579

 

[robinlynne]

1. HOly shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! k&r.

[Historic NY]

2. Republican ethics...doing the dirty deed in the those hallow halls...

[midnight]

3. Isn't this bribery?

[wroberts189]

14. You would think so and so would I.

But I believe you need one of those "quid pro quo" thingies...

They have undermined the law and constitution so much ..for instance ignoring those who ignore house subpoena's.

Its like the law or the basic intent of the laws ..or the spirit of the laws. Has been neutered and undermined to such an extent they can do anything.

But do not dare steal a loaf a bread to feed your baby that's living under the bridge.... your going away buddy.

The laws only apply to those who cannot afford to fight it... that's why Maddof sits in his 7 million dollar penthouse while his victims.. one is 90 years old, find jobs at Walmart.

[underpants]

16. With Boehner (both sides really) they write "rules" to give themselves cover

this instance was still pretty clearly even in violation of their own "rules" but Boehner is in the upper stratusphere where you can just say "Ooops super promise I won't do it again" and decorum* allows it to pass.

*"decorum" is another layer of excuse for why someone like Boehner is given another pass--money. Boehner pulls in the big bucks and doles them out so everyone on his side isn't about to cut off that stream and the other side has people who do the same thing so they don't want to set a precedent that might come back on them also

[Ozymanithrax]

4. So it is not illegal for tobacco companies...

to openly bribe Republican congressmen.

I did not know that.

[TheEuclideanOne]

5. I hate the way guilty people like this crook phrase things.

"It's not a violation of the house rules."
Sure, who makes up rules like that. They probably didn't exist because it is hard to assume that somebody would be such a scumbag.

"If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was a tobacco check."
Of course your memory serves you correctly, you scumbag asshole. You probably know the exact amount of each check as well as who it went to and every minor detail of it. Don't be so fucking coy.

How do you feel about that episode looking back. It is a bad practice and we ought to stop it."
Yeah, you think? And don't talk about it as though you were an outsider watching it happen. YOU FUCKING DID IT!

[underpants]

11. Spot on Eculidean

The "violation of the house rules" is such a cheap bullshit excuse
you can't violate the rules if YOU wrote them so badly that they can't be violated

The Repub from Washington blows the "If memory serves..." out of the water because "I was a friend..." means they know exactly who and how much they handed out.

great analysis

[firedupdem]

6. What documentary is this clip from? I want to see more! n/t

[underpants]

12. In this 1996 documentary by PBS called "The People and the Power Game,"

I missed that orginally. Will if I can find it

The source for this was Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/john-boehner-admits-giving-bribes-big-t

check this out
http://www.hedricksmith.com/site_powergame/files/overview.html

[firedupdem]

17. Thanks! I'm going to check these out...n/t

[cooolandrew]

7. OMG everyday they find new ways to bowl me over in shock. He won't do it again yah yah.

[Left Coast2020]

8. Paging the Ethics Chairman, Paging the Ethics Chairman!

Get this bone-head out of Congress. An investigation should get started soon. REmember how repugs screemed about dems un-ethical blips?

[Ganja Ninja]

9. "I know I'll never do it again."

Yeah nowadays he has the bank account routing numbers so its direct deposited.

[Career Prole]

10. K & R!

What a piece of shit!

:kick:

[acmavm]

13. Wonder why Boehner didn't start crying when confronted.

[babylonsister]

15. Rec'd. He should be thrown in jail!

:grr:

[TheEuclideanOne]

18. They don't throw people like this in jail.

Instead, they reward them by making them the Majority/Minority leader. This was a story before he was selected, so the party is well aware of this when he was selected. I remember it being an issue. To believe that this should put somebody in jail would assume that the party does not support these types of behavior. The sad thing is that they do.

[1776Forever]

19. This is from a 1996 documentary by PBS - From Crooks & Liars report link.....

John Boehner admits to giving bribes from Big Tobacco on the House floor...Why does the media consider him credible?
By John Amato Monday Feb 09, 2009 4:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/john-boehner-admits-giving-bribes-big-t

C&Ler Dan sent in this clip to us. I know we wrote about Boehner's tobacco ties when he fought to become minority leader ... In this 1996 documentary by PBS called "The People and the Power Game," John Boehner is caught red-handed in an amazing act of corruption, and his biggest critics are fellow Republicans.

Boehner: Mine asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. I did it on the House floor which I regret and I should not have done, it's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that's gone on here for a long time.

Were the checks from tobacco companies?

Boehner: Ahh, I think if my memory serves me correctly, I think it was a tobacco company, yes.

Q)....but in this case tobacco's well timed contributions helped save its subsidy. The people that were passing out the checks won.

So how did he become their leader in the HOUSE? Oh right, being corrupt is just fine for Republicans, but they put a hold on the Solis nomination for something her husband is involved in and she had nothing to do with.

And yet the media uses John Boehner as a spokesman bashing the stimulus package as if he's been a clean member of the Republican party.

[Algorem]

20. it's ironic because boehner's obviously going to die from smoking

it's just a race to see which result of smoking kills him first:emphysema,lung cancer,heart disease...