Bush and Boehner Meet Every Week Plotting Strategy but CREW Files Lawsuit on Boehner for Leaking !

[KoKo]

Rep. John Boehner shifts easily into minority role, plots comeback for Republicans
Ohio congressman is Bush's link to House
Monday, August 06, 2007
Sabrina Eaton
Plain Dealer Bureau

Washington - John Boehner has had his share of bad breaks. One of the worst happened in November, when the Democratic Party's sweep of Congress cost him his job as House majority leader.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. discontinued the Barclay cigarettes he had smoked for years, and his dry cleaner turned his white shirts gray and broke their buttons.

Some people would get angry or throw a tantrum at such setbacks.

But the perpetually tanned Boehner, still the top Republican if not the top dog in the House, kept his chin up and be gan to wash and iron his own shirts. He also switched to smoking Camel Ultra Lights.

"I don't do anger at all," says the former plastics salesman from West Chester, a Cincinnati suburb, adding that he immediately accepted "reality for what it was" on election night. "I knew I had been dealt five new cards and I may not have liked them, but I've not had a bad moment since."

Since last November's election, reality for Boehner, an impeccably groomed politician and voracious golfer, has switched from setting the nation's legislative agenda as majority leader to uniting dispirited Republicans. As minority leader, he hopes to return his party to political power by stressing fiscal conservatism and trying to embarrass Democrats now in control.

"We're trying to demonstrate to people that we heard what they said in the last election," says Boehner (pronounced BAY-ner), who attributes GOP losses to the Iraq war's unpopularity, President Bush's low poll numbers, corruption issues including the conviction of fellow Ohio Republican Bob Ney, who's now in prison for bribery, and "people believing that Republicans had lost their way."

Skills acquired over 17 years in Congress are helping Boehner achieve his goals. He's making full use of bomb-throwing talents he polished before the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress, the art of bipartisan compromise he honed as co-author of the No Child Left Behind education reform bill, and the stick-to-it-iveness he showed in comebacks after electoral losses in 1998 cost him a prior party leadership post.

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Boehner, 57, regularly appears on TV to denounce Democratic legislative efforts as "political stunts," and to deride Democrats for failing to make good on promises "that this would be the most open, ethically honest Congress in the history of the country." He says he tries to remain polite.

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http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/1186389294249410.xml&coll=2&thispage=2
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BUT! BOEHNER IS HEADED FOR TROUBLE!


CREW calls for leak investigation into Boehner.


Last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) appeared on Fox News and disclosed a secret court ruling about the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Today, “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Department of Justice asking that the Counterespionage Section of the National Security Division initiate an investigation” into whether Boehner “violated the law by leaking classified information.

In a July 31, 2007 interview with Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, Rep. Boehner disclosed an aspect of a Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court’s decision regarding warrantless wiretapping, stating:

There's been a ruling, over the last four or five months, that prohibits the ability of our intelligence services and our counterintelligence people from listening in to two terrorists in other parts of the world where the communication could come through the United States.

By telling a reporter that a FISA court has restricted the U.S. intelligence community's surveillance of suspected terrorists overseas, Rep. Boehner appears to have transmitted information relating to the national defense in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(d).

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http://citizensforethics.org/node/29880

[illinoisprogressive]

1. this is amazing coming on the heels of the dems big cave in.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Democrats in Congress need to target and attack him every chance they get.

They need to get him off balance so he is ineffective as their leader.

[KoKo]

3. morning kick...