Boehner is a simple man with simple tastes.
By on Jan 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Boehner is a simple man with simple tastes.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently launched an initiative to “Green the Capitol” by selling more locally grown food and requiring the purchase of carbon offsets. In a press conference today, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) vented:
You know, we’re buying carbon credits. It reminds me of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages when you could buy indulgences. I like the food that we had before. I like real food, food that I can pronounce the name of!
Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/boehnerfood.320.240.flv]
Boehner, a notorious chain smoker, is probably just sore that he’s no longer allowed to light up in the Speaker’s Lobby.
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get used to it boehner. The reign of terror is over. There are going to be a lot of changes you don’t like soon.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmdamn….I meant to put the word nazi in that first post….gotta keep the trolls happy ya know.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmS A L A D. Can you pronounce that, boner?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pmHey, OHIO!
When are you gonna throw this bum out on his well padded ass?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pmI like real food, food that I can pronounce the name of!
I like real people, people that can spell their name in english. Make sense Boner?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pmBoner is a middle-ages type of guy, apparently with little education.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pmReal food, like Hamburgers and Fries?
By the way Boner, vegetables are food too, or are Turkey and Brie on Cranberry bread just to hard to say, being all Liberal Food Like and all.
Buck Fush
January 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHere is a sample of the “New Menu”
- Composed salad tossed to order with choice of seasonal vegetables and proteins with house-made vinaigrette over a warm grilled Focaccia bread
– Roasted chicken with fire-roasted tomatoes and goat cheese
– Cedar-plank wild salmon with apple cilantro relish
– Seared barramundi (fish), white beans and tomatoes with thyme
– Smoked salmon, roasted beets and arugula
– Steamed broccoli, Brussels sprouts, sage roasted butternut squash, herb couscous
– Samplings from Indian, Chinese, Greek, Moroccan and Mexican cuisines
– Locally made Gifford’s Ice Cream from a 70-year-old Washington institution
If Boehner is incapable of pronouncing the words: chicken, broccolli, or ice cream, then I don’t have much cofidence in his ability to legislate our country.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pmBoehner always struck me as the type of guy whose idea of “outdoors” is a golf course, and his notion of a balanced diet is steak (with a dessert of bourbon and Winstons). He’s very 1955.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pmStop the presses….you mean Boehner didn’t bawl his eyes out?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pmThe man can’t even pronounce BONER correctly…of course he will have problems with multi-syllabic words like sal-ad!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pmWhat a sobbing little crybaby!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:57 pmGeebutz, my four year old can pronounce most of these, and she likes her veggies.
Get a life, Boner, or go back to Ohio where the bodies are buried.
warm grilled Focaccia bread
January 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pmMmmm… warm grilled Focaccia bread…
Almost lunch time….mmmmmm
He has the propensity to “cry” over spilt milk.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pmThat man is an embarassment to the state of Ohio.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pmrhf, is he also a TARD?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pmDon’t be mean – you’ll make him cry.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pmDid the Boner provide any examples of food whose names he can’t pronounce?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pmOhio is a place where they come up with new gagets. He fits the mold.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pmheadline should read:
Boner is a simpleton.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pmI’m surprised he didn’t have a good cry over this. Wait until November. This guy’s going to be sobbing like a spoiled little child.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pmNothing like a dem to outlaw normal food and then bring in much higher priced alternatives.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pmNothing like a dem to outlaw normal food and then bring in much higher priced alternatives.
Comment by Roger_Roger
To most of the civilized world, that is normal food. And you know that the prices are higher how? Do you have proof to that assertion. If so, post your proof. No one here is ever going to take you seriously until such time as you can back up the inane comments you make.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pmIf he hates the cafeteria food so much then he should find a lobbyist who’ll take him out to lunch. What a petty ass whiner.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pmNothing like a dem to outlaw normal food and then bring in much higher priced alternatives.
Comment by Roger_Roger
You’ll eat what the dems tell you to eat from now on and you’ll like it.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pmI like the propaganda in the background. “Working for American Families”. These reich-wing fascists do nothing good for the American family.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pmNothing like a dem to outlaw normal food and then bring in much higher priced alternatives.
Comment by Roger_Roger
I doubt he’ll think twice about sending a paige or staffer out to pick up food at the local spots up independence ave…
January 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pmheyuh… what’s this i hear about nancy NOT allowing invesitagors
into rep.foley’s computer (or some such)?
i just caught an end of a news flash…
my first thought – uh oh… she is in deep… somehow…
January 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pmNothing like a dem to outlaw normal food and then bring in much higher priced alternatives.
Comment by Roger_Roger — January 16, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
The new menu is “normal food” in the year 2008. You guys are only happy eating food your mommies cooked you back in the sixties. Are you going to cry to RX2?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pmno tears? no pink tie?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:29 pmHere’s one he can say: “Pork”.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pmHe’ll probably have a fatburger choppered in at taxpayers expense.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pmwould you like to rephrase your statement Roger_Roger?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pmthe trolls are getting failing grades today……you’d think they would get better with practice but it doesn’t seem to work that way.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pmyeah, I don’t know how much more inane a statement can be than the one Roger_Roger made earlier in this thread……
January 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pmwould you like to rephrase your statement Roger_Roger?
Comment by Fred
Roger Roger is a derailer troll. He throws up an inflaming, stupid comment and it is gone for some time. Then comes right in to make another one and so on…
January 16th, 2008 at 3:40 pmBoehner is a simple man with simple tastes.
Correction: Boehner is a simpleton.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:41 pmEnuf said.
Roger Roger is a derailer troll. He throws up an inflaming, stupid comment and it is gone for some time. Then comes right in to make another one and so on…
Comment by Juan C
so we just did his bidding??? we’ll learn..
January 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pmFreedom fries for all!!!
Comment by Southern Man
you’ll eat what the dem tell you to eat…..
January 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pmFreedom fries for all!!!
Comment by Southern Man — January 16, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
I think you mean “pommes frites”
January 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pmDid he break down and cry again?
Hilary didn’t cry she just got a little choked up. But this weenie bawled like a baby on television – at least three times!
January 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pmDid he break down and cry again?
Hilary didn’t cry she just got a little choked up. But this weenie bawled like a baby on television – at least three times!
Comment by nofltwlt
he had misplaced his bootstraps.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pmsorry ’bout the OT… i found the story…
i guess she’s just following some protocal…
Speaker Pelosi Won’t Help Foley Investigators
House Lawyers Deny Access to Foley’s House Computers
By VIC WALTER and KRISTA KJELLMAN
Jan. 16, 2008—
Florida law enforcement officials have been denied access to the office computers of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, despite a direct appeal to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for help in their investigation of sexually explicit messages sent to current and former teenage congressional pages.
In response to a letter sent to Pelosi last month by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, House Deputy General Counsel Kerry Kircher denied the agency’s request, citing the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, which protects congressional papers.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pm[...]
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4143280&page=1
southern, our set are in place….boner is upset because the winds of change are blowin….
January 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pmBut hasn’t he got a great tan? Lot of junkets to the Bahamas?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pmyou’ve got a point, southern man… did you just pick that up?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm’cause we’ve been b!tch!n about it for many long months…
now, go gloat somewhere else… your insincerity is showing…
Boner boy is getting the Delay payoffs and doing good. He keeps a tan, his nails done and the fake hair do. Now as the GOP falls we’ll see what Boner boy really looks like without the tan and hair do. Oh how the Mighty have fallen.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pmb-o-n-e-r-s
January 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pmhis favorite indulgence and easy to pronounce.
I don’t get it. Pelosi’s advocating growing more “local” food but Boehner is upset because he wants food that “he can pronounce the name of”.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pmHow many foods grown “locally” in Ohio (or DC, for that matter) have “unpronounceable” names?
Or is Boehner just showing how stupid he is? Perhaps he just needs to request that this plan include mandatory pictures of the food alongside the food when and where it’s bought.
Southern Man is agreeing that Cheney deserves to be impeached. You’re not going to get your troll paycheck this week SM.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pmI always wondered what the 20-30% of those for Bush in the polls were like. Now I see. It’s a moron from the great state of OHIO. Christ, he must be from southern Ohio!
January 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pmable as
Yeah, cranberry bread is so hard to pronounce – is it even American?
January 16th, 2008 at 4:35 pmBoehner lives up to his name every day. Bonehead.
To be fair, Boehner translates to polisher, I think. Someone may have put an umlaut over the ‘o’ in the name at entry which immigration changes to ‘oe’ during processing. In my case, the last four letters of my name are ‘eman’, the entry form shows the last four letters as ‘mann’. They dropped the final ‘n’. That was 176 years ago when my paternal forebears entered the country.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pmHow about we just simplify that sentence right down to the real bottom line:
Boner is simple.
There. Done. ;o)
January 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmPack your own wonder bread PBJ dumbass. I’m having the Barramundi
January 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pmI suppose Boehner is one of those gourmands who mistakes a pile of chopped romaine with some cubes of stale bread and a couple of hunks of dried out chicken for a Caesar salad
January 16th, 2008 at 6:10 pmJohn “the crying man” Boehner?
January 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pmThat new menu kicks ass. What’s the problem? Obviously the Bone-man hates Democracy.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pmYou calling me a thief shows your inferiority complex to me. I am better than you in all aspects of life, and you secretly know it. You won’t admit, but we all know.
Comment by Southern Man
I don’t know man…..gonna have to rate this as phycobullcrap…..but at least you put your sentences together pretty well.
you get a D overall, not much better than gg today so come back tommorrow and try a little harder ok?
January 16th, 2008 at 6:50 pmThat new menu kicks ass. What’s the problem?
Comment by ForTruth — January 16, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
Apparently there is nothing from Applebees.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:00 pmBy food he means Jack Daniels, Chivas, Stoly, Crown Royal, Yagermeister, Cuervo…
January 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pmFYI, Boner’s in a gerrymandered district and will be a congress critter for life. We only hope he keeps smoking cigarettes at his present rate.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:07 pmHand up whistling
January 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pm“Hey waiter, don’t you have anything that is chicken fried in this place?”
Garcon,
January 16th, 2008 at 11:48 pmMore Cheese Whiz. Hurry now if you expect me to tip!
Boner: You know, we’re buying carbon credits. It reminds me of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages when you could buy indulgences.
Wow. Who knew that The Boner reads Alexander Cockburn?
January 17th, 2008 at 1:07 amReplying to my own post: Cockburn has been not-infrequently “out there” in his columns, but he really took a dive off the deep end with that one (and subsequent columns in The Nation, Counterpunch, and elsewhere). There are lots of good takedowns of Cockburn on the web by the likes of George Monbiot and others. One good one, with links to several others, is here.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:23 amFirst, carbon credits can be used directly to fund projects to clean the environment. Thus, a chemical corporation paying carbon credits may pay for another recicling corporation cleaning the rivers and planting trees. I only see “full capitalism” opportunities.
And where is Boehner’s mother to slap him in the forehead and make him eat his spinachs?
January 17th, 2008 at 12:38 pm