Boehner Warns Obama Headed for 'Brick Wall'

[okaawhatever]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner warned President Barack Obama that he will "run into a brick wall" by using his executive power and bypassing Congress, as the White House has signaled the President intends to do.

"We’re just not going to sit here and let the President trample all over us," said Boehner.

"This idea that he's just going to go it alone, I have to remind him we do have a constitution. And the Congress writes the laws, and the President’s job is to execute the laws faithfully. And if he tries to ignore this he's going to run into a brick wall.

Boehner, speaking during an annual State of the Union day breakfast in his Capitol office with reporters, also said raising the minimum wage for new federal contractors, which the President is expected to announce tonight, won't have much real world effect.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/28/boehner-warns-obama-headed-for-brick-wall/

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The money shot: "And the Congress writes the laws, and the President's job is to execute the laws faithfully." Ommm...so does that mean it's Congress' fault (ahem...YOURS) that Obamacare is the law of the land?

[Scuba]

1. This guy?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024391749

[okaawhatever]

12. A slightly less orange version of him, yes. It is winter after all. nt

[tanyev]

2. Yeah, Wile E. Coyote never learned, either.

[DURHAM D]

3. Fuck him. nt

[Swede Atlanta]

4. Hey Boehner boy.......

The President may issue EOs that comply with the law. He is not circumventing the law but is simply exercising his Executive Authority to act, pursued to legislation enacted by Congress and/or Regulations adopted by Executive Agencies to manifest Congress' wishes.

Ronald Ray-gun issued 381 in his two terms
Bush senior issued 166 in his one term
Clinton issued 364 in his two terms
GWB issued 291 in his two terms
Obama has issued as of end 2013 a total of 167 with 3 years left in his second term. Based on that average of 33 per year would me he could be expected to have issued around 267 - 270 at the end of his second term

That would mean that BO has issued less than any of the most recent 5 presidents (himself included) if you consider GHWB only had one term.

Where was the outrage when Raygun was issuing his 381 EOs or GWBs 291? There was none from the pukes because they liked it.

I suggest Boehner boy take a 7th grade civics class before he applies for his GED.

[okaawhatever]

8. Excellent call out of hypocrisy. Too bad you used so many polysyllabic words. The neo-cons won't

be able to understand it.

[mindwalker_i]

24. Boehner knows this

But, like most Republicans, he won't let facts get in the way of a good narrative.

But about that hitting a brick wall thing, will the brinks be orange and will they be crying?

[frazzled]

5. You announced the brick wall before he even took office

Remember, the main job of the Republicans was supposed to be preventing him from doing anything? Making him a one-term president? (That didn't work out too well.)

The president is not planning to do anything that is not entirely within the constitutional purview of his office.

[lostincalifornia]

6. gee, because of the repukes in congress we hit a brick wall for 6 years, so what is different?

[jaysunb]

7. This is a subtle impeachment threat. n/t

[okaawhatever]

9. Have you heard/read anything or are you just going with their the right wing's history? thx nt

[jaysunb]

13. History and recent rumblings from the far right

which the Speaker is a captive of. There's nothing they'd like better than to embroil the President in an impeachment probe for the final years of his term. They'd like nothing better than to continue the attempt to delegitimize his Presidency by any means possible.

It's coming.....

[jeff47]

18. Well, it went rather poorly for them last time.

So I'm looking forward to them repeating the error.

[jaysunb]

25. Impeachment could happen in the House, but there will

never be 67 votes for removal. If that (impeachment) happens the wingnuts will have accomplished their goal of sullying up the Presidents legacy.

[Joanie Baloney]

10. I don't know if Jake Tapper, Candy Crowley or Dana Bash

personally wrote the article, but you would think that one of them would have the smarts to notice this spelling error that adds a quite gruesome imagery to Boehner's words:

He joked about saying the blowback he got the day after election that Obamacare is the "law of the land"

"I never got slapped around more in my whole life...you'd think i had taken God's name in vein or something"

-JB

[onehandle]

11. You. Are. Doing. Nothing.

By nothing, you are destroying America.

The President should slap the shit out of you traitors tonight.

[RoccoR5955]

14. Someone needs to tell Boner

that people in glass houses shouldn't go around throwing bricks!

[L0oniX]

15. YAwn

[The Wizard]

16. The Repubes have stonewalled

this president from day one. What's new?

[Isoldeblue]

17. Empty lame threat

and running scared. Eat dirt, rethugs.

[freshwest]

26. LOL! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. Actually, it's called "stonewalling".

[Spirochete]

20. So he hits a brick wall

that will at least give him something smarter than Boner to deal with...

[rickyhall]

21. I'd like to see him wearing an orange jumpsuit

[okaawhatever]

22. In his case, a skin-colored jumpsuit. nt

[elleng]

23. He's been trying to deal with you + the other brick wall, in the senate,

ever since his first inaugural, a**hole!

[surrealAmerican]

27. You username pretty much sums up my reaction to this statement.

We should take this seriously why?

[IADEMO2004]

28. GOP is more a mud pit than brick wall

need to put a lot of heat to them and bake a crust on the top so we can progress forward over them.

[sakabatou]

29. Johnny boy, you've been slamming into one again and again and again...

[okaawhatever]

30. This is how you can tell the GOP owns the media. Boehner says that Congress writes the laws not the

President. He already knows the media won't call him out on the hypocrisy for having screamed "Obama is responsible for the ACA not us" for the last few years. Not to mention it was Congress who wholly failed at repealing the law.

Oh, and speaker Boehner, Congress isn't the only one who makes the law. See Roe v. Wade for clarification.

[Populist_Prole]

31. Brick wall?? As opposed to the open portals of good faith heretofore!!??

This mook is doing nothing more than pandering to his nutjob base in order to remain relevant.

[Kablooie]

32. In other words, Boehner warns Obama of status quo.

[DCBob]

33. This is just pointless boner babble. There is nothing he can do if its an executive order.

Maybe impeachment.. but that wont go anywhere.

[okaawhatever]

35. Sadly we can't count on the media to point out to the average American that Obama hasn't

committed an impeachable offense. Never mind educating the masses on the history of executive orders. The same rabid right wingers believing impeachment is appropriate won't hear about George HW Bush signing an executive banning some assault weapons.

[truthisfreedom]

34. Boehner, you obstructionist brick, you've been a brick wall

since day one. Congress' job is to write and pass laws. You aren't a congressman. You're a BRICK.

[jmowreader]

36. Boehner's problem is, Congress has stopped writing laws

Sixty-two attempts to repeal Obamacare, or whatever the hell the number is, does not count as "writing laws." Nor do the two bills a day naming things after Ronald Reagan.

If Congress refuses to write laws and it needs done, the job naturally devolves to the president.

Oh, and John? Where were you when Bush was running the country with signing statements?

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

37. Boehner is a orange brick wall.