Ethics

Boehner's Boner

By Ed Brayton

With the failure of the bailout bill in the House yesterday, both parties are pointing fingers at one another. The most ridiculous bit of blame mongering came from House Minority Leader John Boehner:

House Republican leaders blamed Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, for the bill's failure, saying she had scuttled a bipartisan compromise with a "partisan speech" shortly before the vote. Pelosi started her speech by citing "the Bush administration's failed economic policies -- policies built on budgetary recklessness, on an anything-goes mentality with no regulation, no supervision and no discipline in the system."

"I do believe that the vote could have succeeded," Boehner said in a news conference. "But the speaker had to give a partisan speech ... that poisoned our caucus."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).