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January 06, 2007

Confession by tense

"What we really expect out of the Democrats is for them to treat us as they would liked to have been treated."

—John Boehner, former House minority leader [Tags: politics]

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 6, 2007 03:35 PM


Comments

Hilarious!! I guess they couldn't figure this out 6 years ago.

Posted by: Andy Weinberger | January 6, 2007 04:43 PM


As always, the "Liberal Way to the truth". There are lies, fucking lies and liberals.

'"In 1994 when we took control of the House, 12 years ago, it wasn't that — we wanted to treat Democrats the way we had asked to be treated. And, frankly, that's what we did. What we really expect out of the Democrats is for them to treat us as they would like to have been treated," Boehner said.'

Data selection is the "game" of liberals.

Hilarious... ha... ha... ha...

Puah.

Que os den por el culo, progres.

Posted by: Liberal, trash, redundant. | January 6, 2007 05:46 PM


Thanks for the context, which I had not seen. But, frankly, it still seems to me that Boehner wouldn't have used the past conditional unless he felt that the Republicans did not treat the Democrats properly. Otherwise, the natural phrase would ahve been, "...as we treated them."

Posted by: David Weinberger | January 7, 2007 10:56 AM


Perhaps Speaker Pelosi could appoint Reps Boehner, Hastert, and other high ranking Republicans now in the minority to a special committee to suggest which of the rules in effect 12/31/2006 should be changed. And why.

Give them a chance to put their experience as the majority party together with their new-found appreciation of minority rights.

Posted by: Wray Cummings | January 7, 2007 12:17 PM


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