Speaker Nancy Pelosi was criticized on this blog and other sites for her failure to end various corrupt practices such as pork and congressional travel. Indeed, Pelosi added jets to ferry members abroad on junkets and used a personal governmental jet to go back and forward to California. Now, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has announced that he will take commercial flights. Regardless of whether you opposed the GOP in the elections, it is important to give credit to such reforms. Boehner is to be commended for this symbolic change.
The report on curtailing or ending earmarks also may indicate that the GOP is serious in pushing some reforms long demanded by good government advocates. Pelosi allowed the opportunity to pass — one of many — after the Democrats took control. She could have, for example, eliminated the public-sponsored vacations disguised as congressional fact-finding missions to Europe and other areas. She didn’t. If Boehner is willing to take such steps, he should receive well-earned praise. The use of commercial aircraft would be a good first step.
Boehner appears, however, to have yielded to pressure to preserve earmarks after discussing a ban. Of course, you can still have pork without earmarks so there remains the question of whether Boehner can control his rank and file in continuing the wasteful practices in the budget.
The most important step that Boehner could take in this area is to sharply curtail congressional travel budgets. I, for one, wish him the best in taking advantage of his election to implement real reforms.
Source: Politico
Dear TEE NEW
you are obviously an avid student of the Democratic Party…NOT….Lets just wait and see how great and talented the Honorable Mr Speaker is…usually I don’t respond personally, but when you made the very cheap sex shot at Madame Pelosi, I felt duty bound…good luck in the green room over at FOX…..
Thank God that that horror of a cockroach Pelosi is finely of her thrown. Oh wait we have to pass her expense account to see what’s in it. If Mr Boehner is willing to fly commercial I don’t care what ticket class he uses it won’t add up to the bill that disgusting which of the west ran up If Pelosi has to go commercial, the TSA screening is probably the only sex she is likely to ever get.She is a pathetic excuse for a human being.
Happy new year all !
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Thanks for the reminder, Blouise.
Gyges
1, November 11, 2010 at 11:16 am
Remember folks the first rule of magic is: When you do something with your left hand, make sure everyone is looking at your right. …
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That’s why he colored himself orange in the first place.
“You teabaggers can call yourself whatever you wish, you’re all still teabaggers. I extend an equal amount of contempt for any variety thereof for the damage done to this country since Reagan and the arrogance to dare to try to inflict it on us again. You’re lucky the Constitution allows you to continue to vote.” (rcampbell)
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Beautifully said and dead-on accurate.
SwM,
One person posting under several different names is not a mob … it’s simply one guy attempting to spread his pearls across the Turley blog landscape. That’s a lesson I learned a couple weeks ago …
Remember Boehner is a Republican.
Remember also that President Nixon tried this once as well. He flew with his wife I believe to San Clemente California.
The passengers on that plane were outraged (obviously Republican back slappers) that the President was flying on a commercial flight. But, some passengers also saw themselves as targets because they did not know Nixon would be on board…
Did the passengers have a right to know about a high level figure that may compromise their safety?
BUT, I read Boehner differently. I think what he is saying is that he will fly commercial airlines…. As long as that airliner is chartered for his exclusive use…
Just him and his entourage.
Yes… It still might be cheaper than a military aircraft.
Change which give me an advantage Is REAL CHANGE.
Boehner appears, however, to have yielded to pressure to preserve earmarks after discussing a ban. Of course, you can still have pork without earmarks so there remains the question of whether Boehner can control his rank and file in continuing the wasteful practices in the budget.
The most important step that Boehner could take in this area is to sharply curtail congressional travel budgets. I, for one, wish him the best in taking advantage of his election to implement real reforms.
I am really laughing….Da Boner is gonna go it, like a working stiff huh?…..this is jingoistic, simple minded, not living in reality kinda stuff, from mister NO F…n NO…how is his staff suppose to be with him?…oh he don’t need no staff…he is “super boner”…if Goof ball comes anywhere near the talent level of Speaker Pelosi ( whom all he did was diss while she was) (read anything about the economy and the high level cabinet Republicans who spoke very highly of her and her grasp on the issues at hand and the total ignorance of Da Boner, and six chins McConnell, and their friends) and I will rewrite this missive, and maybe eat a hat or two, on you tube….but don’t boil any water soon, or set out the salt…this guy for all of his supposed working class empathy…is a complete fake….bought, paid for, signed, sealed and delivered by big pharma, big trade companies, big corporate dollars, all the way down the line….hell, he is from Ohio, he could drive there faster than taking a plane…maybe that is what he gonna let his staff do…when does America wake the f up and get real with these GOPPER jerks…who are spoon feeding us recycled policy crap from the Nixon, Reagan la de dah land of fantasy…actually Nixon did change us over from the “Gold standard” to the Dollar…now that is failing too…WAKE UP…..
rcampbell,
Well said!
mcoville”…we are now thinking for ourselves…”
And only yourselves—nothing has changed.
It was not progressive policies or ideology which brought the US and world economy to a near collapse. It was the failed experiment with conservativism going back to Reagan. The failure of conservative thought is not theoretical, it’s a fact.
“…and we will oppose raising that debt level to the extent we can….”
The Republican Party has already told you that you cannot, so now what?. You helped put back into the majority in the House the same people whose actions you claim to abhor. Pardon me for gagging on the outright hypocricy of that thinking.
By contrast, Obama’s actions have pretty much all been directed at trying to prime the business pump and helping some of the people who’ve been most damaged by conservatives’ failures. (Helping average citizens? That must be against the law, right?) This you callously call just more goverment spending as if on some equivilence with the damage done by the reckless borrowing & spending of the previous White House, and these exact same House and Senate leaders. Didn’t hear any moaning during the running up of the debt. But we’ve sure heard about it when an administration tries to address the needs of the country.
You teabaggers can call yourself whatever you wish, you’re all still teabaggers. I extend an equal amount of contempt for any variety thereof for the damage done to this country since Reagan and the arrogance to dare to try to inflict it on us again. You’re lucky the Constitution allows you to continue to vote.