John Boehner dismisses cops, firefighters and teachers as ?liberal special interests?
House Minority Leader John Boehner, America?s golfingest politician (see HERE), figures that anything Democrats propose to help state and local governments deal with fiscal problems is just a sop to ?liberal special interests? ? even if the beneficiaries are police officers, firefighters and school teachers.
Yesterday, the Senate finally approved $26 billion in funding to bolster state budgets, including $10 billion meant to prevent massive teacher layoffs. The Senate has been grappling with this funding for months, but two Republicans senators ? Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) ? voted to move forward once the bill was fully paid for with spending offsets.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that she will interrupt the House?s August recess in order to hold a session to pass the bill, instead of waiting to pass it in September. But House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) slammed Pelosi?s decision to call the House back into session, calling the funding a ?payoff to union bosses and liberal special interests?:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/20...cial-interest/