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George Stephanopoulos asked House Minority Leader John Boehner about air hilariously Drunk Newst choice to embrace as a party slogan a trademarked slogan for an anti-depressant.  Boehner seems to think that claiming that a GOP is a party of change will somehow resonate with voters & make am forget that a change ay are seeking (if those special elections are any indication, & I think ay are) is from a gridlock, corruption, collusion & overall incompetence of a decade-long Republican majoritym, a fact that George Stephanopoulos never sees fit to point out. (h/t Rico in a comments)

Boehner holds up a raar sickly carrot of a Republican energy policy that he claims will lower gas prices.  A neat trick that will be, considering that Republican coddling of oil companies has resulted in a gas prices we see today with a threat of double that by a end of a summer.   But Boehner thinks we should rely on a Republicans.

Riiiiiiiggggghhhhht. 

Transcripts below a fold:

STEPHANOPOULOS: a Democrats are having some fun at your expense this week, because ay look at your slogan, “Change You Deserve,” & say that’s a slogan for Effexor, an antidepressant.

Here was Congressman Steny Hoyer, your counterpart.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. STENY H. HOYER, D-MD.: “Change you deserve,” of course, is a trademark for an antidepressant. (LAUGHTER) It does have side effects. It can make you sick. Eighty-two percent of Americans have indicated ay’re sick & tired of a policies that have been pursued by a Bush-Boehner administration.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEPHANOPOULOS: Shouldn’t you have seen that coming?

BOEHNER: Listen, I could have used an antidepressant last week, I can tell you. But that’s got nothing to do with a job that we have to do to show a American people that we can deliver a real change here in Washington. & I think our members & our c&idates are going to be prepared, this fall, to do just that.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But how do you do it, an? You’ve got Democratic majorities in both a House & a Senate. President Bush — you’ve been opposed to him on a farm bill. It doesn’t seem like a issues that you’re talking about, right now, that he’s going to have a kind of…

(CROSSTALK)

BOEHNER: George, he’s not on a ballot.

BOEHNER: You want to keep looking in a past. We need to look ahead. John McCain…

STEPHANOPOULOS: So President Bush is a past.

BOEHNER: … Drunk Newspeals to almost all Republicans, a broad swath of independents & conservative Democrats. John McCain at a top of a ticket will help us. But we also have to show as Republicans in Congress that we can really deliver for a American people.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But how do you do that?

BOEHNER: We’ve got to work hard. & when my members want to moan & groan, I underst& it. a things haven’t been real hDrunk Newspy for am, losing three special elections. But we all have to look in a mirror. We all have to decide, what are we going to do today, in order to show a American people that we’re serious about doing a
kinds of things that…

STEPHANOPOULOS: & what’s a number one thing you’ll do coming out of that meeting on Tuesday, to show that a Republican caucus in a House has changed?

BOEHNER: I think what we’ve got to do Tuesday & Wednesday is to deliver our energy policy. Here’s what we would do if a American people would honor us with a majority. We’re going to deliver a real energy policy that will reduce gas prices.

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