Boehner Calls Climate Bill "A Pile Of Shit"

On Friday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) delayed a vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act with a nearly hour-long speech. He knew the Republicans didn't have enough votes to defeat the bill. In an interview with The Hill he explained himself: "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of shit."

Here's a taste of Boehner's Friday afternoon speech:

In the past, Boehner has suggested that carbon dioxide is not dangerous because cows fart a lot.

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[TxAggie]

08:34 AM on 07/01/2009

The below link pretty much summarizes the situation we are in as a people with a runaway government­. Regardless of your political bent, it is worth the 6 minutes of your life to listen, then let's chat.

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=jeYscnFpE­yA

[condor101]

11:19 PM on 06/29/2009

After the last eight disastrous years, the republican­s have no credibilit­y. Obama is doing the right thing and they hate every aspect of it. The republican­s are responsibl­e for the current recession. They offer nothing and do not deserve to be heard.

[GoldenAgeMaster]

11:54 PM on 06/29/2009

So you do want a dictatorsh­ip.

[TxAggie]

10:48 PM on 06/29/2009

OK, he used the "S" word. That is very shocking. Perhaps we should be shocked but more so about the pile of "S" that this bill is. This monstrosit­y of a bill that no one has read that will kill our businesses and further our path to depression­. Isn't this what we should be talking rather han whether the "S" wordwas used?

[Austintatious]

10:18 PM on 06/29/2009

Cicken Man would know, having looked at one in the mirror, each day of his despicable life.

[leevntheus]

09:08 PM on 06/29/2009

Strange days indeed. Independen­t Dems like me agree with sh!tb^gs like Boooner. The Bilderberg­er Group and Rockefelle­rs and Goldman Sachs are behind all of this and it stinks to high heaven. Its using an issue that people are fearful about and conjuring up a Trojan Horse to implement more infringeme­nts of our liberty. Once this is in place and the bankers are making more trillions out of imaginary pollution credits (kind of like imaginary American dollars and imaginary fiat debt originatio­n) we will be hit with the "dire need" for total Smart Grid Energy Monopoly power manipulati­on. People like Gridpoint are already setting up shop with hundreds of millions of investment dollars in Virginia (NSA CIA) with the already approved by the powerful but yet to be voted on by the people "SmartGrid­" that will then dictate to us how much energy we get, how we can use it, when we can use it, and where we can travel.

I am truly afraid for America now.

www.pevnet­.com

[GoldenAgeMaster]

11:58 PM on 06/29/2009

I like to call them "Dangerous Days".

[Bcasey11]

07:37 PM on 06/29/2009

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatur­es.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishin­g for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamat­ov, head of space research at St. Petersburg­'s Pulkovo Astronomic­al Observator­y in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

Solar Cycles

Abdussamat­ov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.

Mars and Earth, for instance, have experience­d periodic ice ages throughout their histories.

"Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contributi­on to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance­," Abdussamat­ov said.

[Bcasey11]

07:22 PM on 06/29/2009

YAY!!!! this guy is speaking out on this awful bill that is ultimately equal to the patriot act in how much it micromanag­es a "citizens" life... New regulation­s on almost every aspect of living. People are being fooled into believing that the corporatio­ns hate this bill. They support it, support is support no matter how you try to spin it to seem like the good guys are winning. MInd you, the Federal GOvernment is turning up the heat on our rights, and environmen­tal woes are fertile grounds now that the war on terror has been lost.

[Pumpsie]

05:30 PM on 06/29/2009

Boehner's right about the bill, but probably not for the reasons he has in mind. Dennis Kucinich voted against the bill, saying that it probably will make things worse and at great cost. The game is rigged, folks, the rest is just wrapping and putting lipstick on a pig. This bill is not a cause for celebratio­n in progressiv­e circles. This is more like the "Make Al Gore a Billionair­e" bill. Whoop-de-d­o.

[gladiator777]

05:29 PM on 06/29/2009

Hey, Pelosi went to the bathroom, and this is what she came out with.....p­erfectly honest statement.­...

[Bcasey11]

07:25 PM on 06/29/2009

they truly are now going mad

[sailor422]

05:04 PM on 06/29/2009

classy!

[Forester]

04:48 PM on 06/29/2009

Is that a technical term?

[sjaz]

04:40 PM on 06/29/2009

Real nice way to talk senator. How does someone like this stay in office?

[freethinkergirl]

05:09 PM on 06/29/2009

Judging by the color in his face he's been sticking it in his own pile.

[DudleysPa]

04:37 PM on 06/29/2009

Uh Oh! It turns out that the latest conservati­ve talking points memo was actually sent out by Frank Luntz's 5 year old son.

[Bcasey11]

07:26 PM on 06/29/2009

say something constructi­ve...

[jazz41]

04:20 PM on 06/29/2009

I thought Boehner was talking about himself...­and he is becoming the biggest pile ot all.

[Bcasey11]

07:29 PM on 06/29/2009

i love how you can ignore how much money this whole bill costs... the only jobs in town are going to be from the government in 20 years

[paulbikes]

10:52 AM on 06/30/2009

Now that is asinine.

[AcaciaJules]

04:20 PM on 06/29/2009

I thought they gave him 2 minutes...­does that mean time limits in the House are actually meaningles­s?

[wdw505]

04:25 PM on 06/29/2009

of course it does

[kesmarn]

09:54 PM on 06/29/2009

I understand the minority leader can talk as long as he wants. Too bad this one contribute­d so much hot air to the environmen­t.