John Boehner explains his opposition to tighter bank regulation: “This is killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.”
And there’s the rub. Conservatives are supposed to say that opposition to the bill is driven by concern that it doesn’t go far enough and won’t really solve problems. In reality, Boehner is conceding that his concern is that congress is using big nasty weapons to go after poor defenseless ants.
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