Whistleblower claims that a quarter of the contractor-supplied translators working for the US military in Afghanistan don’t know the languages they’re supposed to be translating.
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Obama rolls out fully Boehnerized new stump speech. Did I mention Boehner.
Shorter Sarah Palin: We must all refrain from provocative acts. Like burning Korans or being Muslim.
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Following up on the Orszag post below, here’s John Boehner’s translation of Orszag’s massive budgetary boner.
Just out from the orangeman …
“If the president is serious about finally focusing on jobs, a good start would be taking the advice of his recently departed budget director and freezing all tax rates, coupled with cutting federal spending to where it was before all the bailouts, government takeovers, and ‘stimulus’ spending sprees.”
So Orszag’s self-compromise is now an endorsement of Republican policy, which Boehner now uses to attack the president. Who could have predicted …
On the second point, on first blush, it seems like Boehner is just doing a mixing of confusion references and lying. But the first part is accurate.