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John Boehner Confirms, "It's Boner. Boner."
Jay Hathaway · 02/27/14 01:58PMHouse Speaker John Boner made a Boehner joke on Wednesday after a reporter confused him with Rep. Dave Camp.
Brief Debt-Limit Hike Means the GOP Will Ruin Your Thanksgiving
Cord Jefferson · 10/10/13 03:12PMHouse Republicans suggested interest in a short-term debt limit increase today in a move that would temporarily prevent the United States from defaulting. Hooray! Of course this means nothing for the government shutdown, and now you can look forward to more pathetic debt-limit brinkmanship taking place right around the holidays. God kill us, everyone.
Cord Jefferson · 10/08/13 06:16PM
Obama: "We Can't Make Extortion Routine as Part of Our Democracy"
Cord Jefferson · 10/08/13 04:27PMIn a shutdown statement followed by a press conference this afternoon, President Obama said much of the same things about America's government standstill that he's been saying since last week: This is a situation caused by a handful of recalcitrant GOP jackasses who are unwilling to talk reasonably about how to end this mess. It is impossible to overstate this fact.
Lacey Donohue · 10/06/13 11:13PM
Lacey Donohue · 10/02/13 06:25PM
How to Be John Boehner’s Bitch: The Official Manual
J.K. Trotter · 08/21/13 01:07PMWashington, D.C. interns — in particular, congressional interns — tend to be embryonic versions of the monsters they serve: rich, white, and drunk on even the tiniest modicum of actual power. How do they get that way? In part by carefully attending to the advice contained in the “2013 Intern Manual” distributed to the unpaid peons of House Speaker John Boehner, the 12-term Republican who superintends the lower chamber’s extreme right wing. Left behind at a recent D.C. house party by a sauced Hill staffer, the manual shows how even the lowest employees lubricate the capital’s gilded political machine.
John Boehner's Son-in-Law Does Not Look How You Think He'd Look
Cord Jefferson · 04/24/13 01:27PMJohn Boehner 'Can't Imagine' Ever Supporting Gay Marriage
Mallory Ortberg · 03/17/13 02:30PMSequestration Arrives as Boehner Cuts Off Negotiations
Maggie Lange · 03/01/13 09:15AMThis Is the Joke That Had Michelle Obama Rolling Her Eyes at John Boehner [UPDATE]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/22/13 04:35PMWatch Michelle Obama Throw World-Historical Shade at John Boehner
Max Read · 01/21/13 03:36PMYour Guide to the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin That Obama Can Mint to Save the World
Max Read · 01/07/13 01:30PMToday, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that President Obama should be "absolutely" prepared to mint a one trillion dollar platinum coin and use it to pay the government's bills. It wasn't a typo: a lot of people are discussing the trillion-dollar coin as a way to avoid a fight over the debt ceiling. But what is it? And why? And whose face will be on it? Here's our guide.
Here Are the Republicans Who Voted 'No' on Hurricane Sandy Relief Funds
Robert Kessler · 01/04/13 05:25PMRobert Kessler · 01/03/13 01:35PM
House Republicans have re-elected Rep. John Boehner as the Speaker of the House, once again.
Congress Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal, But Not Before John Boehner Told Harry Reid to Go Fuck Himself
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/02/13 08:43AMWhat The Hell Just Passed? The Senate Fiscal Cliff Deal Explained
MTanzer · 01/01/13 12:59PMRepublicans Start to Give Up as Obama Clowns Them on Meet The Press
MTanzer · 12/30/12 11:11AMPresident Obama appeared on Meet The Press this morning to talk about the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. His 30 minute conversation with host David Gregory was pretty cordial and never really got heated at any point. Those looking for Obama to show anger at Republicans were probably disappointed, but he dug into them at several moments for their inability to take any of the deals that he offered over the past month.
The Real Consequences of the Fiscal Cliff
Mallory Ortberg · 12/29/12 12:25PMThe fiscal cliff is imminent. We are hurtling, not to mention barreling, toward it. Also, it's looming. Every news organization has been churning out folksy little cartoons explaining the situation at the rate of thousands a day since August. There have also been a lot of Wile E. Coyote jokes, and for that alone we deserve as a people to be bound hand and foot and cast into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.