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Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrat Laughs in Do-Nothing John Boehner’s Face For Suing Obama [View all]
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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Democrat Laughs in Do-Nothing John Boehner’s Face For Suing Obama [View all]
babylonsister
Jun 2014
OP
They don't want to "take our country back." They just want to destroy our government. nt
kelliekat44
Jun 2014
#1
Exactly. They don't want the government in a position where it can do good
Louisiana1976
Jun 2014
#3
The rank and file idiots voting for them, who is barely surviving, needs to starve
randys1
Jun 2014
#51
It's in keeping with Boehner's motto: 'We're not here to make laws, we're here to repeal them.'
freshwest
Jun 2014
#7