Ok, I’m now pulling out what’s left of the hair I still have. Can someone please explain to me how it is that a man who has been nothing more than an accomplice in the committing of what continues to be the greatest exercise in generational theft in our history, still has the nerve to spout off at those conservatives who dare oppose what is nothing more than yet another example of kicking the can a little further down the road. Because while Boehner is quite determined in his claims that it is in anyway a deficit reducer, the cold hard fact is, it isn’t. And with that, the debt run up by the federal government since House Speaker John Boehner cut his first spending deal with Barry "Almighty" has now officially topped $3 Trillion.
I’m sure many of us had some pretty high hopes after we wrestled control of the House from Nancy Pelosi back in 2010. But what has transpired since this is nowhere near what we were hoping for when Boehner became speaker in January 2011. This is not what we had in mind. But Boehner, apparently, seemed to quickly forget how he came to be in his present position. He cut his first spending deal with Barry on March 1, 2011, and that deal took effect after March 4, 2011 when the continuing resolution then funding the government expired. Since then, the federal government has been funded under legislation approved by the Republican-controlled House that Boehner leads. And there has been no slow down in spending.
Let me offer a brief refresher course of Boehner’s tenure as Speaker, at least as it regards to the explosive level of spending that has taken place during that time. At the close of business on March 4, 2011, the federal debt was $14,182,627,184,881.03, according to the U.S. Treasury. As of the close of business on Dec. 10, 2013, it was $17,234,005,998,603.93. That means that under federal spending deals negotiated during Boehner's speakership and approved by a Republican-majority House that Boehner leads, the federal debt has increased $3,051,378,813,722.90. And Boehner is far from being the only guilty party here. Another RINO, Paul Ryan, the architect of this latest boondoggle, has been seen everywhere championing it’s ‘benefits’.
So in what is meant to be nothing more than an attempt put things in some sort of perspective, it was at the end of January 1989, the month that Ronald Reagan left office, that the federal debt was $2,697,957,000,000, and that would be according to the Monthly Statement of the Public Debt. The debt did not exceed $3 Trillion until March of 1990, when George H.W. Bush was president. At the end of March 1990, the total debt the United States government had accumulated in its then-almost-214 years of existence was almost exactly as much as the increase in the debt during the less than three years of Boehner’s speakership or, $3,051,956,000,000. And he still feels that he can lecture us about deficit reduction? Really, John?
Boehner is the 53rd speaker of the House. The recently deceased Tom Foley, the 49th speaker, held the office in 1990 when the total debt topped the $3 Trillion mark. Under Boehner, the debt has now increased more in less than three years than it did under the first 48 House speakers combined—running from Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania to Jim Wright of Texas. The $3,051,378,813,722.90 increase in the debt since Boehner cut his initial March 2011 spending deal with Barry "Almighty" equals $26,530.729 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census Bureau estimates there are now in the United States. And Boehner is not the only one who can be blamed, sadly our entire leadership team SUCKS!
And still, even after all that, he somehow feels entitled to throw what was really nothing more than a tantrum when challenged by certain conservative groups about what this latest bogus ‘budget deal’ is supposed to accomplish. The people of his district back in Ohio now have a responsibility to those of us in the rest of the country to vote this useless douchebag out of office come next November. I mean it’s this kind of stuff that the Republicans insist upon doing that just pisses people off. They seem quite determined to make themselves appear as being a slightly less liberal version of the Democrats. And if they actually think that Obamacare is going to be enough of an issue for them to win on, next November, they’re dead wrong!
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