An article on CBSNews.com, Thursday, included a rather bizarre headline: "John Boehner: A Pelosi Ally?" Reporter Stephanie Condon trumpeted, "Boehner sided with Pelosi and Democrats 52 percent of the time, according to a review of this year's votes that Democrats provided to The Hill."
To show some sort of contradiction, she highlighted examples of Republicans pointing out "how closely Democrats running for re-election have aligned with the [Pelosi's] voting record."
It wasn't until the third paragraph that Condon revealed a fact that negates the whole point of the article: "The reality is that most of the 565 votes the House took this year were on mundane items -- such as naming a post office. Republicans -- and moderate Democrats -- still often split with Democratic leadership on high-profile issues."
Considering that John Boehner has a lifetime American Conservative Union score of 94 and Nancy Pelosi's is a lowly two, calling him an "ally" of Pelosi sounds rather absurd.
Apparently the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is interested in blurring the differences between Republican Boehner and Democrat Pelosi. The organization retweeted the article.
