Boehner Says He Regrets Clinton Impeachment

[applegrove]

Boehner Says He Regrets Clinton Impeachment

April 8, 2021 at 8:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/08/boehner-says-he-regrets-clinton-impeachment/

"SNIP.....

“Former Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, says in a new memoir that he regrets supporting the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, calling it a partisan attack that he now wishes he had repudiated,” the New York Times reports.

Said Boehner: “In my view, Republicans impeached him for one reason and one reason only — because it was strenuously recommended to us by one Tom DeLay. Tom believed that impeaching Clinton would win us all these House seats, would be a big win politically, and he convinced enough of the membership and the G.O.P. base that this was true.”

He added: “I was on board at the time. I won’t pretend otherwise. But I regret it now. I regret that I didn’t fight against it.”

.....SNIP"

[Maru Kitteh]

1. A wee late for that shit. nt

[LisaM]

4. Yes.

But, the truth is always welcome. Boehner was one of those Republicans who frustrated me, because you sense.there is some buried decency. Unlike Tom DeLay, who has none.

[orleans]

5. oh, please don't give him so much credit. if he had any "buried decency"

it was in the bottom of his endless cocktails and that's why he always cried: he was looking for his decency at the bottom of his glass and he just couldn't fucking find it no matter how much he drank.

[Generic Other]

29. I tend to think you are correct

but he's had time to mull over his culpability in the wee hours with a shot glass. At least I hope so. Sounds like a jailhouse conversion to me. A man facing HIS maker who I hope is a harsh judge.

"St. Peter don't ya take me cause I can't go...I owe my soul to the company store." Company store equals GQP in his case. Funny how irony and karma work like that. Keeps ya awake nights.

[LisaM]

33. I wouldn't call it giving him credit.

I said he frustrated me because I though the had buried decency, and I meant it. I remember that skit he did with Obama - he was funny, and I got the sense Obama liked him a little bit too.

It's to his discredit that he chose the bad over the good, but i will always maintain that a deathbed conversion is better than none. We all like to quote Lee Atwater when his disciples continue to use his playbook.

[applegrove]

2. Nice of him to grow a conscience after a coup attempt when he knows

Academics are going to be researching "how it happened" for generations.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Kinda when we understood the Republican scumbaggery.

20+ years ago.

[Nutella]

6. The healing powers of MMJ

[applegrove]

7. What is MMJ?

[GReedDiamond]

8. Medical Marijuana aka cannabis...nt

[applegrove]

12. Oh. So he is marketing himself to marijuana users. Maybe. Had to be some

reason why he gave up the goods on the GOP. I'm in canada and there were big and small MJ companies jockeying for space before marajuana became legal.

[GReedDiamond]

13. Boehner is on the board of directors for Acreage Holdings...

"Acreage Holdings (formerly known as High Street Capital Partners) is a public company domiciled in British Columbia, Canada, holding a portfolio of cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensing operations in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acreage_Holdings

[applegrove]

16. That makes sense. I knew he was representing marajuana growers. Did

not know it was in Canada. That's the Seagrams model during prohibition (or the Australia stretegy in the game Risk).

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seagram-company-limited

My uncle's father was a Ship's Captain in Nova Scotia and spent a short bit of time in New York's finest jail for booze running during prohibition. Lots of canadian sea captains did.

[GReedDiamond]

20. Interesting, thanks for the link...

...I will check it out. I've never thought about what was going on in Canada during prohibition in the US.

[PortTack]

9. Some decency from that man would to be speak up now to the qgop who intend to impeach

Biden if they win the house back. mccarthy, cowman and the rest will all be on board to please, the deposed idiot king and give him what he sees as an ultimate revenge. It doesn’t matter that they have nothing more than “what he did in the Ukraine” as VP the scumbags will do it.

Worthless, soulless, traitors that care only about power..including john b.

[Arazi]

10. Classic "hindsight is 20/20". Fuck him. Seriously. Fuck him with a porcupine

[skylucy]

15. Fuck him with a porcupine! LOL! Thank you for giving me a new phrase to add to my angry rants

about any number of Republicans.

[wellst0nev0ter]

11. Oh FUCK OFF n/t

[Solly Mack]

14. Mea culpa of don't give a fuck about woulda, coulda, shoulda now when he knew full well then

what he was doing - about everything - was wrong.

[UTUSN]

17. Note to BOEHNER: Anything else?

[jcgoldie]

18. Boehner seems to regret a lot of shit

But when he had an opportunity to influence the course of history he just went along with the bullshit.

[joetheman]

21. Except he didn't regret helping Mitch shit all over Obama's efforts.nt

[Iggo]

19. Fuck him. (n/t)

[Leith]

22. Too little, too late

Even way back when I was a teenager and friends wanted me to join them in some mayhem, I understood that some lines were not to be crossed. The main ones were hurting people in any way, property destruction, and theft. I understood that before I was 14.

Why the hell can't adult rethugs understand the same? Boehner had his epiphanies too late in life. He has to do better than "Sorry, folks! My bad!"

Yes, I certainly will bicker over who murdered who.*


* Gratuitous Monty Python reference.

[WhiteTara]

23. I wonder if he's regretful of handing out checks

from tobacco companies on the floor of the House.

[llmart]

27. This is how I see people like Boehner

There are people who live their lives with a moral compass and use that moral compass to make life decisions, and they do it for the better part of their lives. There are others who don't develop a moral compass until they are nearing the end of their lives, maybe have a serious health issue arise as they age, and if they consider themselves true believers they begin to do what some psychologists call "bargaining with God".

They're afraid they'll meet their maker and it won't be pretty.

[dalton99a]

25. Never saw him cry over it

[RobinA]

26. Two Decades Late

and a dollar short. Bye, bye!

[bullwinkle428]

28. Does he feel any regret over all the shit he did to Barack Obama??

[Wounded Bear]

30. Somebody is completing his 8th and 9th Steps...

[gratuitous]

32. Dear John

In your retirement, may I suggest you avail yourself of the opportunity to shut up more?

[ProfessorGAC]

34. "I Wish I Hadn't Robbed That Bank!"

"But my no good buddy was so persuasive."
Nice try, Johnny.
If you had more backbone then, the QOP scorched earth approach may never have flowered.