Discussion: Boehner: Confederate Flag Issue Shouldn't Become 'Political Football'

system1 · July 9, 2015, 3:54pm

Discussion for article #238288

daveyjones64 · July 9, 2015, 4:25pm

“So when the Parks Service prohibition of Confederate flags was added to the bill, then our understanding was that they heard from some of their extreme members within their caucus that they weren’t gong to help pass the bill unless they can have something out of it,” McCollum said. “Our understanding is that is why this amendment was offered.”

If you don’t want it be a political football, then don’t make it a political football!!!

littlegirlblue · July 9, 2015, 4:26pm

You’re a spinless, boneless, chickenless egg
You’ll Have to be put with the bowl to beg
Johnny I hardly knew ya

theghostofeustacetilley · July 9, 2015, 4:31pm

FOOTBALL-GATE! MORe LIBtard elecTION cycLE GAmesMENshIP maKING RepubLICAns owN OUR PoliciES. ShAME For MAKing RAce A PoliTICAL FOOTBALLS1!!!one!1!!!

k_in_va · July 9, 2015, 4:32pm

Oh, my …

becca656 · July 9, 2015, 4:33pm

“I do not want this to become some political football.”

Sir, you are no Tom Brady. I know Tom Brady. And you are not him. Not only could you not get this political football into the end zone, but it would probably end up on the sidelines in the Gatorade cooler.

mantan · July 9, 2015, 4:33pm

Revealing mix of footballs, Mr. Speaker…

dswx · July 9, 2015, 4:35pm

“He added that he considered illegal immigration to be the “biggest political football” he’d seen yet in his career.”

Yet he happily wasted time and money trying to repeal the ACA over 50 times.

Boehner is easily going down as the worst Speaker in modern history by any objective measures and it is not even close.

mattinpa · July 9, 2015, 4:37pm

When did it ever work out well to have a cowardly mediocrity in a leadership position during times of dramatic change? Can’t think of too many examples of that.

littlegirlblue · July 9, 2015, 4:37pm

Trying to establish the existence of balls on his own person.

publishermike · July 9, 2015, 4:37pm

What you want matters less than a fart in a wind tunnel. History will tear you apart and remember you as the speaker that presided over the most ineffectual branch of government ever in our nation’s existence.

mantan · July 9, 2015, 4:40pm

Hiballs? At Boehner’s saturation, it just takes a drop.

pluckyinky · July 9, 2015, 4:44pm

When a reporter asked whether Boehner supported Confederate flags in federal cemeteries, the House speaker responded “no.”

Boehner continued, “Definitely not. You see, my son-in-law is black and my tatted up daughter may someday soon have biracial babies. I’m just doing and saying this idiotic shit in order to appease the trash life, hillbillies in my caucus.”

ralph_vonholst · July 9, 2015, 4:45pm

When will Boehner take his political footballs and go home?

sniffit · July 9, 2015, 4:50pm

"“I do not want this to become some political football.”’

Lemme help ya out there, Boney…repeat after me: “As Speaker of the House and leader of the Republican Party, I denounce all attempts by any member of the House or my party to promote the Confederate Flag, which is a reprehensible symbol of racism, white superiority and traitorous anti-American sentiment, and I will use all of my considerable power to prevent and block attempts to institutionalize reverence towards such an abhorrent symbol.”

Simple. Done. Your slate will be clean. Football deflated.

mantan · July 9, 2015, 4:52pm

If racists and butts were candy and nuts…

beattycat · July 9, 2015, 4:56pm

I think it’s time for some adults here in Congress to sit down and have conversation about how to address this issue," he told reporters. “I do not want this to become some political football.”

This from the biggest crybaby non-adult in all of Congress (outside of McConnell, perhaps).

jonney_5 · July 9, 2015, 4:57pm

That’s saying something, following both Gingrich and Hastert

ralph_vonholst · July 9, 2015, 4:58pm

John Boehner. Once again blurring the line between ignominious and opprobrious.

srfromgr · July 9, 2015, 4:58pm

Isn’t that white supremacist loving representative Scalise (R-KKK) part of the GOP leadership??? Ummm…I do declare, I believe that asshole is the Majority Whip.

In case anyone forgot: (Wikipedia)

In 2014, political blogger Lamar White, Jr. uncovered anonymous comments from 2002 on the white supremacist website Stormfront that referenced a speech Scalise had given, from which he concluded Scalise addressed the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), a group founded by David Duke. White posted his findings on his blog and soon after the media took note. Scalise said that he had spoken at the conference in 2002 and stated that he did not know of the “racist nature of the group”.

Uh…yeah. That Guy.