House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) claims that the Obama Stimulus Bill and the Obama budget are the first steps towards American Socialism. He claims this without any justification other than that the budget includes tax increases for the wealthy, and that the Stimulus Bill leaves debt to the next generation. Here Ladies and Gentlemen is yet another of the clear concise Republican hypocrites. Mr. Boehner spoke nearly a word as the Republican Bush Administration took the Nation's largest surplus and turned it into the Nation's largest historical deficit. Mr. Boehner had no qualms about the trillions of dollars spent on the Iraq invasion and occupation. He spoke not a whisper as the Bush Administration created the Home Land Security branch of government. Not a peep when billions of unaccountable dollars were spent in cash by the Iraqi Provisional Authority under the Bush Administration.

Like his counterpart in the Senate, John McCain, Mr. Boehner still believes that the proven failures of the Republican theory of economics is the way to solve the current mess. Yes, he actually has said that the way to grow the economy is to continue to cut taxes by making the Bush Tax Cut permanent, the same tax cut that contributed to the massive deficit left by Bush upon his departure. Like Senator McCain, Mr. Boehner is calling for fewer regulations on the same Financial Institutions that led America down the path to financial disaster because the Bush Administration failed to regulate their actions.

When The Bush Administration proposed the TARP program we did not hear Mr. Boehner nor Mr. McCain talk about the sin of leaving debt to the next generation. They were also quite content to let the Bush Administration give the money to those that they deemed worthy of the funds. From the original distribution of TARP funds by the Bush Administration, the American People received nothing. Those that accepted the funds continued on their spree of excess including parties with bills in the hundreds of thousands, bonuses awarded in the millions of dollars to the bankers who drove their banks into the ground and another ledger of non-accountable funds from the US Government. Did Mr. Boehner or Senator McCain have anything to say about the waste in the first TARP fund distribution, not a word? Mr. Boehner's top political contributors came from the following industries in the last election cycle:

Insurance
$222,525
Securities & Investment
$180,600
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products
$163,950
Lawyers/Law Firms
$162,400
Commercial Banks
$150,450

Is it any wonder who John Boehner is concerned about or who he represents?