John Boehner (R-OH) the Looney Republican and His Moral Relativity

Boehner Defends Bush, Demands That Paul McCartney ‘Apologize’ For His Crack At The Former President

This week, President Obama awarded former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. “[It has been] nearly half a century since four lads from Liverpool first landed on our shores and changed everything overnight,” Obama said, commemorating McCartney’s influence on American culture. At the end of the ceremony, Sir Paul appeared to offer praise of Obama while taking a jab at President Bush. “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is,” he said.

The view that Obama is more of an intellectual than Bush is one that many well-known figures publicly hold — including the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Nevertheless, House Minority John Boehner (R-OH) found McCartney’s opinion too much to handle, and demanded that he apologize:

    “Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House,” Boehner told HUMAN EVENTS. “I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.”


...The Washington Monthly's Steve Benen notes:

    The same day McCartney told a harmless joke about George W. Bush's limited intellect, George W. Bush boasted about having ordered torture as president, and insisted he wouldn't change a thing if he had it to do over again. So, just so we're clear, a musician telling a Bush-is-dumb joke generates a fair amount of outrage in some conservative circles. A former president admitting to ordering torture -- bragging about utilizing a technique that the United States has long considered criminal, and has even prosecuted -- is completely fine. One, in Boehner's mind, requires an apology; the other is a source of partisan pride.

Like most conservatives Johnny Boy has a screwed up moral compass - lying the United Staes into one war and screwing up victory in another is patriotic. Where as making a small joke at the expense of John's man-crush, G.W. Bush, is truly awful.

What Tea Partiers Feel Deep in their tiny little hearts and pea sized brains,

What I think this poll shows is that taxes and spending are not by any means the only issues that define TPM members; they are largely united in being unsympathetic to African Americans, militant in their hostility toward illegal immigrants, and very conservative socially. At a minimum, these data throw cold water on the view that the TPM is essentially libertarian. Based on these data, I would say that TPM members have much more in common with social conservatives that welcome government intervention as long as it’s in support of their agenda.

Illegal immigration is a legitimate concern, but considering all the issues facing America it in no way belongs on the top five of America's priorities. The tea party cons do seem to be using hot button nationalism as a way to distract from the terrible problems brought about by the disastrous economic and foreign policy they supported during the Bush era.