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Did Speaker Boehner Really Snub AZ Memorial Service?

According to the New York Daily News, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, opted to attend an inside-the-beltway Republican National Committee cocktail party rather than accept an invitation from President Obama to fly on Air Force One to attend Wednesday evening‘s memorial rally for the victims of last Saturday’s shooting.

Does this really sound plausible?

Not really, yet many liberal Democrats were criticizing Boehner Thursday for “skipping out” on Wednesday’s memorial service to host a “cocktail party” for the RNC.

“It is disrespectful for Speaker Boehner to skip joining the President’s and bipartisan congressional delegation to the Tucson Memorial so he could host a Washington D.C. cocktail party for RNC members,” a Democratic leadership aide told Politico.

In actuality, the House of Representatives held a vigil for the victims of Saturday’s shootings on Wednesday.  With Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi en route to Arizona with President Barack Obama, Boehner opted to stay in Washington to attend the House vigil.  If Boehner had accepted President Obama’s invitation, then leaders of both parties would have missed the Wednesday vigil, liberal blog site Talking Points Memo notes.

Presented with this recollection of events, Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel confirmed, and defended his boss. “Boehner would not have been able to attend the bipartisan prayer service if he’d gone to Tucson,” he said. “Yesterday, Rep. Giffords’ colleagues on both sides of the aisle honored her and mourned those who were lost. The Speaker felt his place was here in the House, with them.”

Additionally, Boehner‘s office corrected rumors being floated around the blogosphere about the Speaker’s “cocktail party” attendance.  According Boehner’s office, the Republican leader spoke at the RNC event for just three minutes before departing to watch President Obama’s speech on television.

A number of liberal talking heads noticed Boehner’s absence Wednesday evening and proceeded to pile on unfair attacks and mischaracterizations.  But to their credit, TPM notes that the “narrative taking hold — that Boehner rejected a ride on Air Force One in order to attend an RNC event — is more complicated than the soundbites.”

Politico’s assistant managing editor Jeanne Cummings appeared on MSNBC earlier today to try and dispel the rumors:

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  • middleclassprophet
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Of course he did.

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    • Country
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:28pm

      This was sufficient.

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/speaker-boehner-gives-tearful-tribute-to-arizona-shooting-victims/

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    • stifroc
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:42pm

      OMG! Are you serious!?!?!
      Lets say for a moment that he DID go… THEN the headline would be something like:

      “Speaker Boehner Attends Memorial Service to Ease the Conscience of the GOP”
      ………………………….or…………………………..
      “Speaker Boehner Uses Memorial Service for Political Posturing for the GOP”

      Why all the hate? Why all this angry vitriol? Why do Liberals refuse to compromise or conduct themselves with any degree of civility? (Yes I am trolling for you ya big fat sucker….)

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    • Country
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:05am

      OMG! Are you serious!?!?! You are calling me a sucker, it sounds like you are the one who still is leaching off your mama. Grow up and pay for your keep.

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:23pm

    The question: Did Speaker Boehner Really Snub AZ Memorial Service?

    Answer: If the perception of it makes the GOP look bad in any way – yes!
    Answer: If it can be used as a distraction in any way to further the progressive agenda – yes!

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  • TexasPatriot2
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:19pm

    tHERE WAS NO Memorial Service there whatsoever. It was a bunch of stupid liberals pushing their agenda even further. I was disgusted to watch

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  • Pyx
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:09pm

    No one in their right mind would want to sit on an airplane while CHUMPY is doing his Mussolini thing.

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  • notavictim
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:08pm

    Right on Speaker! My confidence in you is growing! Please don’t let us down.

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:08pm

    Boehner no doubt had the foresight to know the MEMORIAL would be nothing more than what it actually was, “A Liberal pep rally”! I don’t blame him for not going. Besides he turned in Princess Pelosi’s plane so he would have opted to fly there like any other normal American, on a commercial flight.

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  • normbal
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:07pm

    I think it was bad enough that our POTUS attended this travesty, leftist student pep rally; Boehner did the right thing by staying away. Now if he’d just get back to work…

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  • notavictim
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:04pm

    I am SO GLAD he didn’t attend the political exploitation of true victims. He behaves statesman like.

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  • untameable-kate
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:03pm

    What did that news clip have to do with JB missing the memorial?
    I hope the LSM doesn’t do what we think they will and make a giant scene over this. I think he did the right thing, besides the memorial was more of a political rally then a solemn service.

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  • AsilisArt
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:02pm

    I‘m glad he wasn’t part of AZ memorial. I would have been disappointed if he’d participated in the cheering and celebration-like atmosphere. Watching it made me feel uncomfortable.

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    • shorthanded12
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:17pm

      Sad to say Clinton got it following Oaklahoma, And no disrespect to the injured and deceased, Last night was embarressing to say the least.

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  • tbone9630
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:02pm

    I wonder if there was a Mexican/ Indian medicine man at the vigil?

     
    • AZBabe
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:24pm

      What a joke that guy was…he is a professor at the U of A…no real medicine man and no real native American either…just an old hippy from the 60′s who teaches some progressive class.

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  • shorthanded12
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:02pm

    Well lets see here it dont take a Harvard Degree to figure this one out….Number 1 in Arizona, Number 2 over seas to avoid any gaphs, So you dont put One and Three in the same areana. Not evan 10 minutes into the ceromony PMSNBC was badgering Boehner. Ya cant win with the Progressives.

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  • ltb
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:01pm

    A four hour plane ride with Obama and Pelosi? You’re forgiven John.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Lol that would like be the punshiment from hell being on the plane with those two

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:28pm

      I am sure Obama brought his IPod so he did not have to listen to the Queen Biotch all the way to AZ. Can you imagine her on the plane complaining that the tax payers wine is not chilled enough for her to drink……

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:01pm

    I personally feel that he made the right decision. The memorial service was no more than a political statement. Boehner was aware of that. I can not imagine how painful it would have been to have to sit there and pretend otherwise.The president hedged his duty to speak out against the vile accusations from the extremeists on the left prior to the memorial service. To not expect that obama would not grandstand and use this tragedy to take advantage of a crisis would be foolish. He chose not to make a mockery of the tragedy. Some will fault him for this and some will appreciate his decision. The president will go right back to his agenda long before the last victim is laid to rest.

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  • Rn mom
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:59pm

    Why does the lib left MSM have to make mountains out of molehills? They will pick this tragedy apart and make it about them. We all have family members/friends like this. People who have a compulsive need to have the spotlight shine on them. What will they whine about tomorrow?

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  • ConservativeAaron
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:57pm

    There needed to be leadership in DC anyhow since Pelosi had taken to Tuscon with the rest of the group. It seems to me it would have been inappropriate for there to have been an event in DC without leadeship.

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    • Diana
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:09pm

      I agree, we needed some leadership left behind in Washington, when has all of the major leaders in Washington ever skipped out during session and flown together to an event somewhere?!

      I’m glad he did not provide that progressive pep rally with his presence! And shame on every Christian in that place that bowed their head to the chief Native American as HE blessed (not asked God to bless) the spiders and the snakes and the fish!

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:56am

      Don’t forget that he did use the words “Creator” and this is also a representation of “God”. Since Jewish Scribes have not revealed the True Name of the person we in the Christian Era call, “God”. Arabs call him Allah and Jews call him either YaWeH or the English translation Jehovah. Don‘t be so fast to denigrate another’s belief system just because it does not fit your expectations. It is what the Catholic Spaniards did to the Mayan Culture in Mexico. It is what was done to Indians at the time of the Puritans in the North East. Even the Indians in Florida and the East Coast where treated unfairly by General Andrew Jackson and then President Andrew Jackson.

      Many have been killed by well meaning ignorant people, don’t be like the ignorant people know your history and your faith.

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    • DarKangelAZRAEL
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:19am

      1TRUEONE55,

      I think she was making the point that the POTUS has always taken on the air of being religious while being completely ambiguous as to which or what really. I think he is not religious at all but worships at the alter of socialism and just adopts this perceived religiousness to either benefit a nation that really needs their president to be as such OR to simply benefit himself. Being Christian he should have mentioned God or Jesus. However he did neither. Also If he was censoring himself as to be politically correct and not bruise anyone’s soft sensibilities then he does us all a disservice as well as WHICHEVER religion he believes in.

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  • Philo Beddoe
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:56pm

    He would have been booed, ridiculed who knows what. After the wellstone joke, this could have turned out the same.

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  • AzDebi
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:56pm

    Exactly what did MY REPRESENTATIVE miss? From my viewpoint?…Sad to say, nothing…He would have accomplished far more by finding a peaceful place to pray…I would have to bet that Mr. Boehner does exactly that…AND…on a regular basis…God doesn’t need a venue to be approached…he just needs a humble and obedient heart…both of which Mr. Boehner possesses.

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    • JimOhio
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:05pm

      Amen! The best prayers are the ones we say in humble reverence quietly and sincerely. That way there is no question to the motives.

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:21pm

      Was it just me or was anyone else offended watching Progressives recite Bible passages?

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    • TRUTHLADY
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:56pm

      I too was offended by the people who don’t believe in God quoting from the Bible. But like the Bible says, “God will not be mocked”. One day they will all know the truth, and there will be no excuses to be made, because God knows what is in the hearts of men.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:23pm

      I know what you mean, As soon as I heard that guy impersonating President Obama start using the word God at the pulpit, I got worried wondering what they had done to the real President.

      Here is a President that has recited his own version of the Declaration Of Independence multiple times and snubbed God in every one of them. He really is pathetic.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:56pm

    The left vilifies a GOP leader? Say it isn’t so!

    The real news would be if they complimented him for attending the congressional prayer vigil.

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:55pm

    HEY! Lay off Boehner!

    I don’t want to see him cry again…

     
    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:12pm

      lol…thanks trainer, I needed that!

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    • barbaraw62
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:02pm

      Oh, look in the mirror… it’ll make you cry!

      barbaraw62  
    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:13pm

      sheesh, such hostility! Such blind lashing out at every perceived slight. YOU are the reason why the right is being targeted as angry. Relax, Boehner is a crybaby, no need to defend that. :-)

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    • sing it out
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:16pm

      @ Trainer,
      You said “Boehner is a crybaby, no need to defend that.”
      I agree the man cries, but I disagree that he is a “crybaby.” That term implies weakness, and I perceive Speaker Boehenr’s tears as coming from a genuine heart. Some people are just emotional; at lesst he has a heart. I know you were just joking, but I still wouldn’t use “crybaby.” :-)

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:29pm

      I won’t argue with that. :-)

      I like Boehner. But I am also aware that he is not nearly as far right as I would like. I just cannot wait to see the very people defending him now crucifying him when he compromises with the Dems.

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    • tess q
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:25am

      so he cries. what does that have to do with his ability to make decisions?
      my belief about government is the more power the government has the more vulnerable the people are that someone will abuse that power. that idea gave birth to our country. if rep. boehner understands that and works within that frame work to solve problems than why would i care if he cries or not?? if it’s cool you want than elect john travolta, he’s the coolest guy there is.

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  • tketterer
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:55pm

    Or be accused of being political since Giffords is on the other side.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:54pm

    The Left Wing Smear Machine is having a feeding frenzy. They have a “blood fevah” and the only answer is more conservative blood.

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    • Rn mom
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Don’t say blood libel! LOL

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    • not funny
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:04pm

      I heard a radio caller today say that “civility” is the new word for “censorship”.

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    • not funny
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:07pm

      A radio caller today said that “civility” is the new word for “censorship”. Could be.

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  • DimmuBorgir
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:52pm

    How about not putting number 1 and number 3 on the same flight?? sounds like a good enough reason to refuse an invitation to me.

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  • booger71
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:51pm

    He would have probably been booed like Gov Brewer

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    • TX Progressive
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:55pm

      i didn’t hear boos…

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    • VermontPatriot
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:03pm

      A perfect example of selective…oops, I meant progressive hearing!

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:05pm

      With Biden (#2) in a war zone and Obama (#1) and Bohener (#3) of US leadership in the same place, he would have been accussed of putting his leadership role for the country in danger and vilified for it. I think either way he loses.

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:09pm

      They were confirmed by the NYT

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:17pm

      Indeed.

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    • AZBabe
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

      She was absolutely booed an it was a disgrace as was the whole disgusting pep rally. T-shirts and branding at a memorial? Please! What bi-partisan delegation…since when does odumbo/nappy/holder/pelousy represent a bi-artisan delegation…

      As a native Tucsonan I am disgusted and embarrassed by the whole event!

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    • ruffnex
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:30pm

      I may be wrong ( as I didn‘t watch much of the ’ceremony’?) but wasn’t The Governor the only Republican speaking….? Bi-Partison?

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:40pm

      I am amazed also at the disgrace they have of bringing that traitor Napoletano to the state she has abandoned and dishonored via her actions to even speak here as well. I have to wonder just what kind of ‘messages’ they made to the governor of ours after the entire pony show was over.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:46pm

      @J.C. McGlynn

      exactly … and if anything would have happened the left would have gone on another feeding frenzy about how he didn’t need to be there … I think Boehner did the right thing .. for the country.

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    • Airdaleusn1
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:40pm

      There were Boo’s Sadly

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:50pm

    I’d sure never fly on a plane with the current president, no matter how much I was paid and no matter how important the event was.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:10pm

      Speaker Boehner was saving our money by not going.

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    • Fedup
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:12pm

      The President, Vice President and the Speaker of the House should NEVER be on the same plane. Not even two of them, in my humble opinion is acceptable. The succession of power goes from the President to the Vice President (who was either in Iraq or somewhere in the Middle East at the time) to the Speaker of the House so I am glad that Boehner stayed in Washington– especially with Biden in the Middle East.

       
    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Well, he shouldn’t decline to travel woth B.O. for an event of national importance, but the only thing he missed this time around was a sideshow.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:16pm

      My luck would be while flying on Air Force One that I would hear Obama say “Let me show you how I fly this thing…” and it would be the last thing I would ever hear again on the way into the ground.

      Once again, the Progressives are going nuts to blame the right, the tea party, and conservatives for the matter in Tuscon, and link it to the right in the House. No such linkage exists, only the useless pain and suffering inflicted on the world, and the greatest of losses on six families by one lone nut.

      Watch out, for the Progressives are again up to the smoke and mirror distractions while they move in plain sight.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:16pm

      I have posted my email here and have asked Glenn Beck to send me an email if he disagreed wuith anything I have ever written on The Blaze. To date, he has not responded. I’ll have to start keeping track of how many days Glenn has agreed with me.

       
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:26pm

      So by Sunday morning, I’m guessing
      the MFM media and Obama’s fluffernutters will be asking :
      ” Why did Sarah Palin not attend the rally in Tucson ?”

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    • Diana
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:31pm

      Beckisnuts,

      Do you actually think Beck reads any comments or any emails that contains comments from this site? You are the one that is nuts. He especially is not gonna read anything from a self described hater whose user name is BECKISNUTS! C’mon now you commie, how incredibly stupid and ignorant are you? Beck wouldn’t respond to someone who sent an email glorifying and praising him either who stated they agree with his every word! For you to think that you are so important that Beck would even respond, or isn’t responding because he agrees with you, lets me know you are incredibly self-loathing and narcissistic and are probably in need of a mental evaluation. Although, we all already knew that!

      theCREATORisGOD  
    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:31pm

      I agree Swampy

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Beck is nutz
      Good point. Keep up the good work. You just might be the lucky individual who will qualify as the next experimental subject to be strapped in a white jacket with many, many, buckles and straps. Thrown in a room with no windows and padded walls. The more you write, the more NUTS you believe you are.

      I learned today that the FEDS may make us take a psychological evaluation exam to purchase a firearm. Do not believe anything you hear, and very little you read.

      NUT HOUSE, THE TRUTH will set you free.

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    • KILLA FROM WASIILLA
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:35pm

      Hey playa,
      No ive been having trouble with my email. Must have overlooked it. Parentals been on me to get a job but my unemployement aint ran out yet. I told them for sure id move out by my 30th bday if they keep the kids. I aint been up to much. Mostly talking noise on a bunch of websites. You oughta also if you get some time. Its a blast. I get on and say the same things over and over. You should see these morons. They get so pissed its halarous. Ive been acting like a envestment banker on that stock site we on, i think people are actually taking my advice…Idiots. And staight clowning fools on another. Hit me up when you get off work, and see if you guys will be hireing in bout 4 months

      Later
      Ace

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:36pm

      @Beckisnuts

      Please check yourself into the nearest of mental health facilities in mother russia and they shall take care of all of your needs, for the short time they allow you any freedoms at all.

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    • Chris
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:36pm

      Man half those politicians where there only to be part of a dog and pony show. They think because the showed up and where seen on camera that they somehow have taken the moral high ground.

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    • .becklsnuts.
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:46pm

      tee hee

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    • chardansearavitriol
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:55pm

      @swampy: Astounding. Do you just have to be an infant from the first chance you get? Do you get a thrill from most people thinking youre kinda pathetic?

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    • Rogue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:57pm

      Beckisnuts. you are the man! I myself wrote a letter to president Obama, telling him that he needs to contact me if he disagrees that he is the worst president in the history of our nation, and that his agenda during his first two years has been nothing but an attempt to turn the USA into a socialist regime. Since he hasn’t written me back, I guess I’m right too! lol

      I’m quite sure Mr. Beck has seen your email actually. unfortunately, if you watched his show, you would know that he doesn’t respond to anyone who is direspectful, petty, and/or ignorant. You sir, unfortunately have the trifecta.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Hmm.. no mention by the Dems of why Obama did not attend a memorial for the Ft. Hood victims? Oh right there was not a Governemnt sponsored memorial – no political gain to be made apparently.

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    • cmbrooks3
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:07pm

      Could you be the “Swampy” who used to post on the Gospel Advocate site?

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:14pm

      So much for unity!!!

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    • happyboy
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:28pm

      HE KNEW THE SERVICE WOULD BE TURNED INTO A POLITICAL PEP RALLY LIKE IT WAS.

      When do people laugh and applaude at memorial services? Was there laughing at Kennedy‘s memorial service or Reagan’s. The mob booed the Arizona Governor.

      Sevility is the Democrat word for Censorship. We will not be silenced and will oppose the Democrat lies even louder and more vile. Democrats can go an murder more of their own and try to blame it on us but it will not work. We have more resolve now than before the Safeway Massacure.

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    • be heard
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:34pm

      It is very sad for the families of the victims to have a memorial for their loved ones turned into a political rally. My prayers go out the families and friends of the victims as they try to move forward. The sooner the media circus ends the soon they can start the healing.

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:47pm

      For various reasons I think it was an intelligent decision on the part of our speaker!
      Smart move, Mr. Speaker!

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    • terridear1
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Boehner is 3rd in line to the White hOuse, we don’t need the president and the house speaker in the same place in case of fowl play. As evidence, I use Obama’s continuous degradation of Arizona as evil, dangerous and not representative of his brand of “American.” I think it was better for Boehner to stay, just in case. Inner harbor is nice but I could choose a better place to have meeting for Republicans.

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    • Sam I am
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:09pm

      I noticed that Biden was mysteriously absent too!

      Snort, snort.

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    • dwh320
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:16pm

      With the VP overseas and the President in a area where a assassination was attempted it only makes sense that the Speaker of the House would not be at the service. Thats how they ALWAYS do things. Remember that during the State of the Union there will be a member of government held far away just in case something happens.

      STOP WITH THE LIES. The Speaker was instructed to stay away for national security reasons. Just like a high ranking member will stay away from D.C. during the State of the Union.

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:07pm

      Boehner was probably scared of catch‘en something a shot would’nt cure if he went there!

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:25pm

      Why would any self respecting conservative attend a Wellstone stump speech rally and funeral for the dems? I guess Boehner could have brought his air whistle to blow everytime ole teleprompter gave the signal for applause.

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    • 101
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:48pm

      Since Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House,

      she must give up her private jet.

      She’ll be flying Southwest from now on because….

      “Bags fly free”.

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    • jusayin
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:56pm

      Another desperate attempt by the left to discredit the right. Their desperation is so obvious.

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    • lionslayer44
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:22am

      all the crap obama said about Boehner i wouldnt go anywhere with him either. it would have been perfect had Boehner flown on a domestic coach flight. there is an old saying for someone you dont care much for, “i wouldnt piss in his ear if his brain was on fire.”

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:37am

      It might have been the exact reason for his staying in Washington, that one of the top five in succession has to stay in Washington in the case that the President is incapacitated. I had an argument with a Democratic Coffee shop owner about the fact that Bush flew AF1 to Kansas for safety. She was all up in arms and calling him a coward. Even when I tried to explain to her that it was SOP for AF1 and protocol to take the President to the nearest Safe and Secure SAC/Air Force Military Base. Clinton would have been taken there also if he was out in the country and this happened, lucky some other person she trusted told her the same thing.

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    • EnlightenedinGA
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:38am

      I agree with FEDUP…..

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    • xredcoat
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:58am

      Memorial service? I guess I missed it. I saw something that reminded me of a 2008 campaign event, no wonder The Speaker chose to attend to the duties for which he was elected.

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:41pm

      I hope so!!!

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    • docvet
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:37pm

      I know this is off track, but it just occured to me that if the rich countries are sucking the opportunity out of poor countries, everytime Obama flys in Air Force One, do three villages starve to death in Ethiopia? Just wondering…

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    • americacan
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:44pm

      He didn’t want to go because he was afraid Obama and Pelosi would have held him down and try to make him drink the kool-aid.

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    • Chappy123
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:13pm

      He would have just been booed by the liberal’s who dont know how to behave at a Democratic Pep Rally.

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    • gracentruth
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:00pm

      Thank you, Honorable Speaker of the House, Boehner, for not degrading yourself by flying with B.O. As an American for sovereignty, I stand with you. Repeal Obamacare, lower the debt ceiling, and defund most of the big government. Good times ahead.

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    • booklvr51
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:52pm

      Why would Boehner want to be at the kick-off event for the 2012 Obama for President campaign?

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