White House refuses to send representative to House GOP economic meeting.
By on Sep 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
White House refuses to send representative to House GOP economic meeting.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) had been planning to hold a meeting on the economic crisis today. However, his conference was forced to cancel it when the Bush administration reportedly “refused” to send over a representative to “brief House Republicans on the federal government’s response to the latest financial turmoil.” Boehner said he was “concerned about the lack of information and the lack of consultation that has occurred.” Earlier this week, the White House also canceled press coverage of Bush’s meeting with his chief financial advisory group.
Update In today's White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino simply said that "more and better and earlier communication between us [Congress and the White House] is always a better thing."
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Poor Boner! Dissed by his BFF Georgie. Wonder if he started to cry again?
Speaking of King George, can you say “bunker mentality”? Wonder how many dollars are moving to banks in Paraguay and Dubai?
Maybe Boner can get himself a seat on McStain’s 9/11-like Finance Commission. That should be a good time!
PEACE
September 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pmSpencersMom sez: …Maybe Boner can get himself a seat on McStain’s 9/11-like Finance Commission. That should be a good time!
PEACE
September 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
he’s never shied away from feathering his nest. And that’s where the BEEG money’s gonna be, if it goes that way.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pmDoes anyone really think the criminal cabal behind this administration would dare send one of their dishonest crooks to talk to congress about the results of their criminality.
Far too much has been said about “comptence/incompetence” and other character defects of the folks in this administration.
They are “running out the clock” and grabbin’ what they can while the gittin’ is still good…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:10 pmKeith did it! He said the words!
KEATING FIVE
And he did so while covering his mouth with a piece of paper, when referring to McStain’s plan to buy up the mortgage, hold on to them, and sell them later, just like the Savings and Loans!
I’m lovin’ me some Keith tonight! Olberman, that is, no offense to Keith who posts here…
PEACE
September 18th, 2008 at 7:24 pmI just heard Boehner’s comments about this on NPR. I have to say, for once I agree with him.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pmSay what? The surprise tomorrow will be when Cheney resigns, and Bush nominates Al Gore for VP. If the Senate confirms Al Gore, then Bush will resign. Then Palin/McCain can point their nasty little fingers at Al Gore and squeal that the financial/economic/fiscal disaster/mess/quagmire is purely Al Gore’s responsibility…
Heck of a sneak, Bushie…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pmThey’re digging in…
purtee soon, we’re ALL gonna wanna know the whereabouts of Darth’s ‘undisclosed location’ and his “man-sized” safe…
I’m beginning to think the ’safe’ is really a Tardis, and Cheney an evil, twisted, vain, corrupted Time-Lord…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pmAs the GOP ship sinks, the Republicans are scrambling to be anything but Republicans responsible for this disastrous Republican mess. McCain’s “The Republicans are coming to save you from the Republicans” is falling flat.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pmBush: AWOL from the Texas National Guard, AWOL during the immediate aftermath of 911, AWOL for days during Katrina. Do you really expect the guy to be “present” during an economic meltdown? After all, he’s only the U.S. President and “leader of the free world,” right? Just like he didn’t sit in on meetings regarding the surge, because he had “other stuff to do.”
September 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pmHey, let’s appoint a commitity to appoint a group to appoint a sub commitity to study it? …..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
September 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pmHAHAHAHAHA Watch it swirl down the toilet. Vote republican and just go ahead and kill off the country. We’ll just rebuild from the ashes.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pmSomebody’s gophuquing around with the space-time continua here…is there a new glitch/feature we should know about?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:48 pmSomebody is holding their breath until they turn blue….
September 18th, 2008 at 7:48 pmThe silence from the White House is deafening.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
Say what? The surprise tomorrow will be when Cheney resigns, and Bush nominates Al Gore for VP. If the Senate confirms Al Gore, then Bush will resign. Then Palin/McCain can point their nasty little fingers at Al Gore and squeal that the financial/economic/fiscal disaster/mess/quagmire is purely Al Gore’s responsibility…
Heck of a sneak, Bushie…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
It’d work, don’t you doubt it…The press will have its orders.
Murkins have the memories of gerbils.
And about as much independence, anymore…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pmAnd in addition to my comment in #7, Pelosi took impeachment off the table. I fear we may need more than just an election to change things. Depressed, big time right now.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pmBULLETIN!! BULLETIN!!!
Great news has just been received!
American astronauts have discovered huge deposits of gold on the moon to pay for all these bailouts!
What a relief. I thought they were going print all that money on worthless paper! Praise Jehovah, Allah, Jesus and all the others who contributed to this windfall.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:58 pmBush is hiding in the White House like Hitler hid in his underground Bunker in Berlin during the last days of the Third Reich. Both of them afraid to face the reality of they had wrought.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pmThe House GOP wants a meeting with “The Big Head” for some fresh ideas and some new talking points. The stooped ones don’t realize that this is the end of the line. GOP = No New Ideas = FAIL. The End.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pmscytherius has a legit point – there was a time I feared the criminal cabal behind dur chimpfurher would be able to rule our country for one thousand years.
After stealing the 2000 election they were able to use 9/11 to rally folks around them and use fake terrorist threats to undermine the US Constitution.
Yes, 9/11 was an inside job – but don’t take my word from it – look at what original chimpy “dream team” cabinet member has to say about his ol’ boss and the criminal cabal behind him:
http://www.nomoregames.net
It is only because of the “ashes” you refer to that we can even hope to see change.
Shame it took this though…
September 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pmtokin librul Says:
Somebody’s gophuquing around with the space-time continua here…is there a new glitch/feature we should know about?
Tokin, are you trying to imply that the fact that your and my posts, #1 and #2, which show as posted a good 40 minutes before the article itself was up, is a problem with TP’s system?
I thought we were just showing an incredible level of ESP…
:-P
PEACE
September 18th, 2008 at 8:11 pmtokin librul, the real culprit is that the morons at AT&T and NSA are slow readers.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:13 pmA pretty clear signal that the administration thinks the House republicans would try to get some political mileage, and boost their re-election chances by pulling another stunt like the camp-out on the House floor.
Bush is giving them the presidential raspberry, and he doesn’t care who knows it.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pmBush is busy packing his bags for Paraguay…
September 18th, 2008 at 8:23 pmbarfly Says:
Bush is giving them the presidential raspberry, and he doesn’t care who knows it.
well, they have been trying to toss him under the bus this election cycle and act like they are not Republicans, so it may be a bit of Chimpy’s revenge against them. They are all a bunch of shallow, vindictive SOBs. The whole lot of them.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pmNow they’re upset? This is the Bush m.o.
“Trust me.”
September 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pmOr as J. Sidney McCain said today in his interview with the Spanish reporter, “What about me what?”
September 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pmspencers mom, now Paul Begala and Rachel Maddow said it too. And Begala said now is the time since McCain’s acting like a regulator.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:30 pmSo Bush is not letting anyone out of the clubhouse now. And here I thought they were supposed to be keeping the women, blacks and other minorities out! Maybe tomorrow we’ll focus our military efforts on taking down Marvel Comics. You never know who is a Skrull and who is the newest janitor. Or maybe we’ll declare war on Russia and put our economy to work, creating the 21st century Rosie the Riveter in the newest porno for the troops, that’ll be stopped halfway to the front!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:34 pmBy the way, in case y’all didn’t get the memo that distilled the blame for the meltdown: It’s Clinton’s fault.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:56 pmWhat are they hiding? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:12 pmLet’s see:
Financial Collapse. No Bush to be seen.
Hurricaine Ike. No Bush to be seen.
Hurricaine Katrina. No Bush to be seen.
am I paranoid to think that there is a pattern here ?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pmUmm…when do we get to burn the rethugs at the stake?
September 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pmI don’t like how they are moving so very fast to fix this mess. I can’t imagine that they’d planned for this so that they’d have a well thought out plan to fix it either. Trillions down the road–why are we not throwing the arse-holes who are responsible for this in jail? Oh, yeah, we’d have to impeach them first.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am