Boehner offers to help Obama on Afghanistan

[pissedoff01]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/boehner-offers-to-help-obama-o.html?wprss=44

Boehner offers to help Obama on Afghanistan
By Ben Pershing

One day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she wouldn't help President Obama round up votes to support his troop surge in Afghanistan, an offer of assistance came forth from an unlikely source -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

"I think the president has made a responsible decision with regard to our plan to succeed in Afghanistan, and I will work to make sure that our troops get everything they need in order to succeed," Boehner said at his regular press briefing Thursday, after being asked about the Speaker's remarks.

Pelosi, who has expressed personal misgivings about the wisdom of sending more troops to Afghanistan, made clear Wednesday that many members of her caucus felt the same way about the war and that she had promised not to "ever ask them to vote for it" again. With a supplemental appropriation of at least $30 billion necessary next year to pay for the added troops, a significant bloc of Democratic opposition in the House means that the funding will have to pass with GOP support. That's where Boehner comes in.

"We've got to get these troops in there as quickly as possible," the Ohio Republican said, later adding: "I believe a supplemental spending bill that supports our troops in the field is vital, and I will be there to support it."

[spanone]

1. ask boner why only 3 rethuglicons in the senate voted to fund the war?

[rwheeler31]

2. Who would trust a boner to make a sensible decision?

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Little Boner spent a few weeks in the Navy and cried his way out because of a sore back.

Doesn't seem to bother him playing golf in his old age though. Just another typical republican coward and draft dodger who loves to send the sons and daughters of his constituents off to get killed in George Bush's wars.

[lamp_shade]

4. Nancy plays the game better than anybody. For one thing, the President hasn't even asked

for funding yet, but when he does, he'll get way more than enough votes, without Nancy having to utter a word. Count on it.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I know I know

send him and the whole damn republican congress over and let they talk the Taliban to death. Bet they can do it to...