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It goes to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was asked on a conference call about reports that Smartronix.com will get an $18 million contract to rebuild Recovery.gov.
At least it didn’t go to ACORN.

After a full day of heated debate, the House of Representatives has just passed the landmark Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, by a vote of 219-212.
The vote was largely along party lines, with 44 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against it and 8 Republicans supporting passage.
The bill, officially known as the American Clean Energy [...]

At a morning press conference, the first question to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was whether he thinks the Democrats, who hope to bring a sweeping climate change bill to a House floor vote tomorrow, have the numbers to pass it. The response:
Boehner: Well, first, let’s not — I don’t know whether it’s going [...]

The key bit of this story on a number of conservative House Republicans howling — sorry, proceeding to the floor of the world’s second-greatest deliberative body and speaking in measured tones — for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over the department’s right-wing extremism report would seem to be this:

House Minority Leader John [...]

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has catalyzed as much hysteria as it has environmental stewardship. During the holiday’s first half-decade of observance, many Americans, encouraged by a complicit press, fretted over the impending ecological disaster that would result from global cooling. And the very first Earth Day celebration was accused of being a [...]

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” Reilly told the St. Petersburg Times in reference to Boehner’s use of his study. “It’s wrong in [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been pushing the notion that President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal (which he dubs a “light-switch tax”) will “cost every American family up to $3,100 per year in higher energy prices.” But his argument hit a bit of a bump yesterday when an author of the MIT study Boehner cited [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) calls the proposed surtax on AIG bonuses a “sham” and “nothing more than an attempt to cover someone’s rear end because of the political damage that’s out there.” He’ll oppose it, which leaves Republicans with H.Res 251 and empowering the Treasury to veto future bonuses as their anti-AIG arguments.

Whining about Rush Limbaugh’s media coverage: it’s all the rage! Here’s Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee:
According to Politico newspaper yesterday, this coordinated strategy began with “conversations and email exchanges” taking place “in and out of the White House” between former Clinton political operative James Carville, the political team at [...]

The semi-grassroots, semi-astroturf “tea parties” against the stimulus get a thumbs-up from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
In gatherings large and small and at kitchen tables across the nation, Americans who have played by the rules are growing increasingly angry about government rewarding irresponsible behavior and spending their money on bigger and bigger programs that [...]