Boehner attempts to hijack President's speech?

[kentuck]

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/08/boehner_to_offe.php

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House Min. Leader John Boehner (R-OH) will get the jump on Pres. Obama's prime time address, offering his second major address in as many weeks and setting up Boehner as a viable opponent to Obama if the GOP takes back the House this year and Boehner becomes Speaker.

Boehner will focus his speech on 4 areas, according to excerpts provided to reporters: Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, and veterans affairs.

On Iraq, Boehner will praise Gen. David Petraeus' surge strategy. "When General Petraeus embarked on the surge strategy in January 2007, it was widely viewed as our last chance to save Iraq from spiraling into an irreversible descent toward chaos," Boehner will say. "Some leaders who opposed, criticized, and fought tooth-and-nail to stop the surge strategy now proudly claim credit for the results."

"Today," he'll add, "we mark not the defeat those voices anticipated - but progress."

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Sure hope he addresses how many billions of our dollars it took to 'buy' off the insurgents in 2007.

[Andy823]

2. Well...

If it's like the other speeches has has been making, there won't be any substance to them, and if he makes sense it will be a first! This guy is his own worst enemy, and when he talks he makes a bigger ass out of himself than he was before he talked. He seems to always make some dumb comment, slur his words, and has to come back later to clarify what he said because he usually makes no sense!

Will his speech even be on TV?

[ladjf]

3. Boehner is in charge of pissing on fire plugs. nt