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Democrat Laughs in Do-Nothing John Boehners Face For Suing Obama
By: Sarah Jones
Wednesday, June, 25th, 2014, 6:05 pm
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) seems to have found Speaker Boehners hubris hard to swallow today.
On the heels of Boehners announcement that the Republican Party will be doing what it always does when a Democrat is in office sue and try to impeach (after obstruction and ginning up scandals) Pocan laughed in Boehners face with a statement denouncing the Speaker for his historically lazy House that tried to shut the government down just last year.
With Speaker Boehner and the Tea Party at the helm, this Congress has failed to act on vital legislation to help improve the lives of Americans. The same Speaker who allowed the government to shut down last October, now intends to sue the President of the United States for acting while Congress has not, instead voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act 54 times and turning the tragedy in Benghazi into a manufactured scandal.
In fact, the least productive Congress in modern history the so-called Do-nothing Congress of 1948 passed 350 bills in their first year; this Congress passed fewer than 100 bills in its first year. It is ironic the Speaker would sue the President for doing his job while the House of Representatives fails to do its job.
Speaker Boehner is allowing the Tea Party tail to wag the dog. It is clear he has chosen to be the Speaker for the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party. Unfortunately, this Republican controlled House of Representatives has no intention of actually governing and will continue to block any effort by President Obama at the expense of our constituents.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/25/democrat-laughs-do-nothing-john-boehners-face-suing-obama-legislating.html
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)for people. Thus voting to repeal the ACA 54 times and Benghazi.
randys1
(16,286 posts)for a while, to figure out that a vote for a con is a vote for death...
plain and simple
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)Cha
(297,101 posts)bayareaboy
(793 posts)A Christianized variation of Somalia!
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)with our present day civil rights and environmental protections.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"take our country back" to the policies of the 19th century.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)They want to take so much of it back that everyone but them and their cronies are poverty stricken to the point of being serfs. Far too many in Washington DC see politics as a path to wealth and power rather than being an honest servant of the people that want prosperity for the whole nation.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The idea that it's the Tea Party tail wagging the Republican dog is debatable. The way the Republicans have been operating over the last three years, they haven't made much of an effort to repudiate the Tea Baggers or distance themselves from that special brand of political lunacy.
Other than that, Pocan's statement is spot on. I wonder if anyone in the popular media will pick up on it? There seems to be one particularly juicy point that even the chucktodds can understand: The current Congress' output versus the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of 1948. The 1948 Congress looks positively frenetic compared to Boehner's stewardship over the House.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned freedom into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom freedom from regulation the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
This is what the Republicans have been about for a long time. The Tea Party just serves as their shock troops to implement their real policy faster.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Exploitation pretty well captures it. For the privileged few who have successfully gamed the system for the past 35 years, "freedom" has become their go-to word meaning, "We want our privilege cast in amber, never to be lost. The only acceptable change must tilt things even further in our favor."
History teaches us that it never ends well for the exploiters. Our efforts are as much about saving their miserable, worthless carcasses as it is in moving toward a more just, equitable society.
eridani
(51,907 posts)--shit in the reservoir and personally execute anyone who looks at you cross-eyed.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)That takes care of both Bachmann and Palin!!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Freedom - in GOP-speak - is as honest a phrase as "Americans for Prosperity" is about aiming to make all Americans prosperous.
Beartracks
(12,806 posts)... It means freedom from having things done TO you.
Saw that on Twitter the other day.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,881 posts)In Boehner's case.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Props to Mr. Pocan for his statements.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Oh, that was harsh. But then he gets right down to it:
On January first, House Republican leadership unveiled the new House work calendar revealing that the House would only be in session for 97 days prior to Election Day and 112 days through the end of the year. Thats a Do-Noting-Double-Down.
As Jason Easley pointed out earlier today, this lawsuit is all about impeachment proceedings against President Obama. Speaker Boehner denies this, but this is how the Clinton impeachment started. Boehner claims hes doing this to keep Obama from destroying the integrity of the office, but that claim is laughable given how Republicans rolled out the red carpet for Bushs gross expansion of executive branch power. Its okay when other presidents do it, but its not okay when Obama does it.
Despicable Kochroaches, the whole bunch of them!
sheshe2
(83,722 posts)They have already destroyed the "INTEGRITY" of the office. Relentlessly without remorse. I don't know where to start. They are willfully ignorant, cruel beyond reason to the American people and want anyone less than the 1% to be destroyed. Patriots? No they are not. They want to bring America to her knees, that is their objective. They do it with a passionate cruelty, they lost their humanity a long time ago, their souls are dead their bodies just haven't registered that fact yet.
darrymaine
(1 post)Bad
William769
(55,144 posts)What's so bad?
movonne
(9,623 posts)Cha
(297,101 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)it's worth repeating!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)These clowns held a meeting while President Obama was being innaugurated, vowing to block anything he tried to do. The FIRST time he was sworn in. What do they think THEY were elected to do - the people's business. They have done only the Koch business, ignoring regular citizens. IF Boehner EVER sobers up, he will owe apologies to us all for the damage he has done, with the help of his cohorts. $$$ definitely trumps a vote it seems.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)And if that's what they mean they are correct.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)you know it
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,881 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)rocktivity
(44,573 posts)And maybe we voters can turn into a class action countersuit! If we don't want to wait until November that is!
rocktivity
Scuba
(53,475 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)What happened???
Oh, yeah. Benghazi!
Cha
(297,101 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the bidding of their corporate masters and screwing with women's bodies.
Cha
(297,101 posts)Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller
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Despite Boehner lawsuit plan, @PressSec says Pres Obama not rethinking his "pen and a phone" strategy to pursue exec actions on his own.
7:35 AM - 25 Jun 2014
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Sabrina @Charmed86
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Josh - I'm looking forward to the republican "taxed funded lawsuit against the President for doing his job" LMAO
7:37 AM - 25 Jun 2014
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lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)which were conveniently found on Repigs hard drives have been mysterious found and I fear that GOP fear something ugly made pop its ugly head and further expose them what they are which in my opinion is not patriotic.
Uncle Joe
(58,342 posts)Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.
ffr
(22,668 posts)Now that's what I call going on the offensive! Keep exposing those dirty bastards for the lazy money sucking slobs they are.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)gademocrat7
(10,653 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"We, the People"should sue these lazy representatives. They were elected to do a job, which they do not do. All they have done since President Obama was ELECTED by the citizens, is disrupt, waste time. Why should taxpayers be saddled with their medical coverage and pension plan? DEFUND these millionaires, let them pay their own expenses. If not for us, Cheney would have croaked long ago, instead of being all over the TV insulting the President. His snarling face is sickening.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)AllyCat
(16,174 posts)appeared on the ballot. Thank Rep. Pocan for telling it like it is.
hue
(4,949 posts)QuestForSense
(653 posts)So far, he's a chorus of one. Who's going to remember this the day after tomorrow?
HenryWallace
(332 posts)Won't members of Congress have to sign on to this individually (and not in their capacity as elected officials)?
Are there not penalties for filing frivolous law suits?
Could a counter-suit be filed to recover legal costs?
If these individuals will not stand behind their own actions in regard to this "civil" suit, they need to be called out as the cowards they are!
pam4water
(2,916 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Yeah, just like Clinton insisted on using Presidential powers as a Democrat, Obama has taken it to the next level of outrage for the RW loony-tunes, and keeps insisting on being President, not only as a Democrat, but while Black(!), and you know, doing stuff. For the people.
This scene always comes to mind when I picture Boehner running meetings. Just substitute a bottle of scotch for the secretary. Can I get an "Harumph"?!
supercats
(429 posts)The entire republican party is a neanderthal joke....We should just abolish them.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)And he was fascinated by the games and cheered on the USA