Boehner Crying Foul

It's funny, I remember Orange Julius screaming earlier this spring that President Obama was "campaigner-in-chief" and spending too much time fundraising and not "doing his job" in Washington.  Of course, we now find out that John Boehner has been fundraising himself and not doing his job in Washington and that he's bragging about it.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) raked in nearly $8.5 million in the second quarter of fundraising this year to protect his hard-fought GOP majority in the House.

According to a memo released by his political office on Sunday afternoon, the highest-ranking House Republican has raised close to $80 million dollars for GOP candidates – through his political committees, appearances at member events and contributions solicited from Boehner-signed National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fundraising letters – since taking the gavel in 2011.

Cory Fritz , spokesman for Boehner’s leadership political action committee, The Freedom Project, attributed the hearty fundraising for House GOP races during a presidential election year, to the current policies of President Obama.

If you're wondering why the American Jobs Act died, why the House GOP has done nothing to help the American people and instead chosen to waste $50 million in 30+ votes to try to take affordable health care away from ten of millions of Americans, it's because they were too busy using the time to raise unlimited money from the fat cats who want to buy our government lock, stock and barrel.

The Obama/Romney race is certainly important, but we have to remember legislation comes from Congress, and we need to win there even more badly.  Should the GOP get control of the Senate and keep the House, we'll see nothing but another 2 years of useless votes...including ones on impeachment no doubt.

Should Romney win as well, you can kiss the last 80 years of legislation goodbye.