Boehner On Bachmann's Response: 'I Had Other Obligations'

[babylonsister]

Boehner On Bachmann's Response: 'I Had Other Obligations'
Brian Beutler | January 26, 2011, 12:30PM


House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Wednesday morning that he did not watch Michele Bachmann's Tuesday night response response to the State of the Union.

"No I did not," Boehner said at his weekly press conference. "I had other obligations."

Burn! :D

House GOP leadership was not pleased when Bachmann decided to freelance, and in the days before the speech, Bachmann herself sought to recast the rebuttal, apparently hoping to reverse the impression that it was a Tea Party alternative to the official Republican response.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/boehner-on-bachmann-sotu-response-i-had-other-obligations.php?ref=fpb

[peace frog]

1. Ah yes, the "I had other priorities etc" lame excuse

No one could have predicted we'd hear that old chestnut from a GOPer. Just ask Dick Cheney. :eyes:

[Enrique]

4. i thought of that too

are there deferments to get out of Michele Bachmann speeches?

[Urban Prairie]

2. "Sometimes our right hand doesn't know what our far right hand is doing"

--Ronald Reagan

Who is really in charge over there?

Haha!!

[old mark]

3. K&R...He might be Speaker Boehner, but they will save his barstool only so long...

I noticed he seemed very uncomfortable at the SOTU-he had to go all that time without a drink!



mark

[janet118]

8. Probably needed a smoke . . . he's supposed to be a heavy smoker n/t

[Vickers]

5. Happy hour doesn't last all night, people. n/t

[fishwax]

6. he was probably at a memorial service or a state dinner

He seems to have a lot of "other obligations" ...

[madinmaryland]

7. Sheesh, everyone. It was cocktail hour for Boehner. He has his priorities!