Eric Cantor delivered the Republican response to the president's weekly address:
But there was a phrase that Cantor mentioned that stood out for me. The frequently-confused Republican leader said that if voters backed the GOP in November, his party would offer "responsible, adult leadership."
Horseshit. Of course.
For example, here's the House minority leader John Boehner from last week:
“Despite President Obama’s rhetoric, his permanent bailout bill gives Goldman Sachs and other big Wall Street banks a permanent, taxpayer-funded safety net by designating them ‘too big to fail.’ Just whose side is President Obama on?”
So "responsible, adult leadership" from the Republicans means childish opposite-day lies. Got it.
Boehner is actually describing the exact OPPOSITE of what financial regulatory reform involves. It seeks to eliminate "too big to fail," it restores regulations against financial institutions that caused the economic meltdown, and, as we're all aware, the Obama administration is SUING Goldman Sachs for fraud!
I thought the Bush/Cheney/Rove White House was the high water mark for the Republican Fantasyland. This past year, however, has buried it under far greater heaps of contradictory, backwards, non-reality based lies.
Anyone earning less that $200,000 ought to be surrounding the Republican offices on the Hill and dumping countless middle class pink slips, foreclosure notices, bank statements, credit card bills, Chapter 7 schedules and Walmart time cards. The Republicans enabled the economic collapse and now they're standing in the way of the reforms that will help to prevent another one.
By the way, John Boehner voted for the September, 2008 TARP bailout. Twice. Once when it failed, and a second time when it passed a few days later.
On the Republican side, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled in votes from allies such as Judy Biggert (Ill.) and Pat Tiberi (Ohio). The Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), also worked the phones, but none of the GOP vote switchers interviewed yesterday cited him as a major factor.