Boehner’s Crocodile Tears

John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, has been crying a lot lately. However, judging by Boehner’s votes, he doesn’t seem to be all too sincere about the things he “cares” and “cries” about such as children having the same opportunity as him for the “American Dream”. Here’s some of his recent votes:

• Voted against SCHIP (the program that provides health care to poor children)
• Voted against the stimulus (which gave people/saved jobs, among other things)
• Voted against the 9/11 first responders bill (which gave health care to those who helped clean up 9/11)
• For free trade and trade agreements that made it easier to ship jobs overseas
• Wants to cut everything except defense in discretionary spending (such as education, infrastructure, agriculture which only accounts for 43% of discretionary spending)
• Opposes hiring more women and minorities
• Opposes federal funding for health care
• Voted against the DREAM Act (which would give children who were brought here at a young age a path to citizenship)
• Opposes amnesty and a path for undocumented workers becoming citizens
• Voted against modifying bankruptcy laws (which would have avoided foreclosures)
• For cutting education (also voted against grants for minority colleges and green public schools)
• Voted against HCR (which had laws against children and people being denied health care due to preexisting conditions, among many other things)
• Voted for spending that ran up the national debt during Bush (which leaves the debt to our children)
• Voted against middle class tax cuts

A very good actor, that tan man is.