First It Was Ron Johnson, Now It's John Boehner And Leonard Lance Kissing Up To Communist China

Ohio voters may not be thrilled with Boehner backing China's efforts to keep the yuan artificially low against the dollar but Communist China's leader Wen Jiabao is on the same exact page as Boehner and two factions of the GOP, the lunatic fringe ideologues like Mike Pence, Michele Bachmann, Paul Broun, Steve King and Louie Gohmert and the corporate whores charged with by their party with pleasing Wall Street and reeling in the big bribes, i.e., Team-Boehner (Eric Cantor, Pete Sessions, Paul Ryan, David Dreier and Kevin McCarthy). As we saw last week, Tim Ryan's bill to stop Chinese currency manipulation against the dollar passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, most Republicans siding with Nancy Pelosi on this one. Only 73 of the slimiest anti-American GOP sellouts stuck with John Boehner and Wen Jiabao. Premier Wen went ape shit over the vote, furious that so few Members of Congress followed Boehner in his defense of Chinese currency manipulation.

By deliberately keeping the value of its yuan low, China is able to sell products here at an artificially low price, House Democratic leaders argue. As a result, U.S. manufacturers-- whose prices would be much more competitive if China allowed the market to set the value of its currency-- go out of business.

Jiabao said the measure showed U.S. ignorance about Chinese economic decisions.

“…Some in the United States, in particular some in the U.S. Congress, do not know fully about China,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. “They are politicizing the problems in U.S.-China relations-- in particular, the trade imbalance between our two countries. I don’t think this is the right thing to do.”

I'm not certain if Wen was using Republican talking points of if Boehner uses Chinese talking points but they sure do make the exact same points in blaming American workers instead of currency manipulations for the massive loss of jobs across America, particularly-- and ironically, in Boehner's home state of Ohio. In fact, as we saw last week, while every Ohio Democrat voted for Ryan's bill, Boehner lost the three senior Ohio Republicans-- Steve LaTourette, Pat Tiberi and Michael Turner-- plus Steve Austria. The only Ohio Congressmembers the would-be Speaker managed to hang onto were pathetic backbenchers, newcomers with no influence-- and all dependent on Boehner's goodwill for their campaign financing: Jim Jordan, Bob Latta and Mean Jean Schmidt.

Moderate central New Jersey voters want to believe that their congressman Leonard Lance is mainstream, especially when it comes to bread and butter issues like jobs. But on the vote to stop Chinese currency manipulation, Chris Smith and Frank LoBiondo in neighboring districts voted with most of Congress to put America's foot down while Lance voted with Michele Bachmann and John Boehner and, more important, the big multinational Wall Street banksters who have dictated every single vote he's taken since he first got into Congress. Ed Potosnak, the Blue America-endorsed progressive who's challenging Lance, has a very different way of looking at it. "I'm committed to ending tax breaks and giveaways to companies that ship jobs overseas," Ed told us after the disgraceful vote by Lance. "In Congress I intend to work towards legislation that will reward companies for creating and keeping jobs here in the U.S. My opponent's vote last week is deplorable. He continues to put the profits of his biggest campaign contributors-- big banks and Wall Street-- ahead of the needs of our families and small New Jersey businesses. If my opponent had gotten his way many more jobs would be lost in America to the greed of the financial industry."