President Blames Boehner

[BDBoop]

Oh, shit! That's gonna leave a mark.

Obama Pins Government Shutdown on Boehner - ABC News

Apparently, yesterday the President made it clear that Boehner is standing in the way of the vote that would allow this stalemate to end.

President Barack Obama says House Speaker John Boehner is the only thing standing in the way of reopening the federal government.

Obama is speaking at a small business just outside of Washington on the third day of the shutdown. He says Boehner is preventing a vote on a funding bill because he doesn't want to anger "extremists" in his party.

Well - he's right. ALL Boehner had to do was let the vote go to the floor, and he folded like a cheap suit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/opinion/john-boehners-shutdown.html

At any point, Mr. Boehner could have stopped it. Had he put on the floor a simple temporary spending resolution to keep the government open, without the outrageous demands to delay or defund the health reform law, it could easily have passed the House with a strong majority — including with sizable support from Republican members, many of whom are aware of how badly this collapse will damage their party.

But Mr. Boehner refused. He stood in the well of the House and repeated the tired falsehood that the Affordable Care Act was killing jobs. He came up with a series of increasingly ridiculous demands: defund the health law, delay it for a year, stop its requirement that employers pay for contraception, block the medical device tax, delay the individual mandate for a year, strip Congressional employees of their health subsidies. All were instantly rejected by the Senate. “They’ve lost their minds,” Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said of the House Republicans. “They keep trying to do the same thing over and over again.”

Finally, at the last minute, when there was still time to end the charade with a straightforward spending bill, Mr. Boehner made the most absurd demand of all: an immediate conference committee with the Senate. Suddenly, with less than an hour left, he wanted to set up formal negotiations?

For six months, the Senate has been demanding a conference with the House on the 2014 budget — talks that might have prevented the impasse in the first place. But the House leadership has adamantly refused, knowing it would not succeed in getting all the cuts to taxes and spending that it demands. For Mr. Boehner to call for a conference near midnight was the height of hypocrisy.

He deserves whatever befalls him.

John Boehner, between a rock and a hard place on shutdown and debt limit - The Washington Post

Boehner’s leadership team has on three occasions this year watched the Democrats effectively become the ruling party by passing key legislation that most Republicans opposed.

On New Year’s Day, the House approved a tax package that preserved lower rates for all workers except the rich, securing just 85 Republican votes, or 40 percent of Boehner’s caucus. A few weeks later, just 49 Republicans supported federal disaster aid for Mid-Atlantic states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, and in late February, 87 Republicans supported a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

Those votes left Boehner in as weak a position as any speaker in modern times. By August, he and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) were counseling their rank and file against trying to scuttle the government funding bill, which expired at midnight Monday, the end of the fiscal year. The leaders wanted to pivot to the fight on the debt ceiling, and they kept crafting options that would transfer some of that political energy from the government funding fight to the debt-limit clash.

“They got blown away,” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), one of the agitators against Boehner who opposed the speaker’s reelection bid.

And I still can't bring myself to feel for the guy.

 

[Sunni Man]

Boehner is proving to be top notch leader and a patriotic American who follows the Constitution. ..

 

[edthecynic]

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Of course he's going to blame it on Boehner. But O knows that he himself is to blame for this.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Wow... Obama blames somebody else?

Shocked I say!!!!

 

[Vox]

Strange, I thought he'll blame it on Bush

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Aren't we all surprised? Obama just showing, again, that he is unfit for the office.
The problem is - he is still acting like a Senator.

 

[tinydancer]

As Gomer Pyle used to say surprise, surprise, surprise..... because Obama isn't blaming Bush for a change.

Obama is the Blamer in Chief.

[ame=http://youtu.be/J6_1Pw1xm9U]Surprise Surprise Surprise - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bendog]

I gotta feel for Boehner a little. He's pretty much being blamed for not destorying his own speakership for Obamacare.

Now if it comes down to sacraficing his career to save us from default .... that would be a Moment in Courage.

 

[ogibillm]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

 

[ogibillm]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

i'm of the opinion that we shouldn't do intentional harm to the economy. call me crazy, i know.

and at least i'm not taking my marching orders from college drop out talk radio hosts.

 

[bendog]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

 

[birddog]

Supporting Obamacare IS intentionally harming the economy big time!!

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

i'm of the opinion that we shouldn't do intentional harm to the economy. call me crazy, i know.

and at least i'm not taking my marching orders from college drop out talk radio hosts.

Yeah, only dimwitted community agitators who wouldn't know how to create a dime of wealth if their life depended on it.

 

[BDBoop]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

Exactly.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

if the shoe fits.

does anyone honestly believe that if a clean cr went to vote in the house it wouldn't pass today?

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

What utter bullshit... ACA was shoved through with an eleventh hour parliamentary trick... it doesn't enjoy anywhere near majority support, it is riddled with cronyism, special deals for Obama supporters, companies are running from it, it is driving premiums up, many of the exchanges aren't even working yet, etc.

People overwhelmingly don't want this. .you and your lefty minions need to get over it.

 

[BDBoop]

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

What utter bullshit... ACA was shoved through with an eleventh hour parliamentary trick... it doesn't enjoy anywhere near majority support, it is riddled with cronyism, special deals for Obama supporters, companies are running from it, it is driving premiums up, many of the exchanges aren't even working yet, etc.

People overwhelmingly don't want this. .you and your lefty minions need to get over it.

We don't need to get over it; we won.

 

[ogibillm]

And here we have it folks....the entire left doesn't consider IF it should pass...just that, well...because Obama said so...it should pass with no questions asked.

BAA BAA Sheep.

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

What utter bullshit... ACA was shoved through with an eleventh hour parliamentary trick... it doesn't enjoy anywhere near majority support, it is riddled with cronyism, special deals for Obama supporters, companies are running from it, it is driving premiums up, many of the exchanges aren't even working yet, etc.

People overwhelmingly don't want this. .you and your lefty minions need to get over it.

if that's true you should be able to discuss and pass reasonable changes and amendments to the bill.

have you tried doing that?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Not really. Whether the issue is obamacare, or some other law that was legally enacted, is irrelevant. Cruz elevated the issue to whether 15 senators and 30-40 reps can be allowed to shut down the govt because they don't like a LAW. They left Obama no room for compromise, and are frankly surprised Obama didn't cave, like he always has before.

They miscalculated. His legacy is Obamacare, but if he caves on this, his legacy will be the potus who abandoned representative democracy.

What utter bullshit... ACA was shoved through with an eleventh hour parliamentary trick... it doesn't enjoy anywhere near majority support, it is riddled with cronyism, special deals for Obama supporters, companies are running from it, it is driving premiums up, many of the exchanges aren't even working yet, etc.

People overwhelmingly don't want this. .you and your lefty minions need to get over it.

We don't need to get over it; we won.

The fact that that is all you see here speaks volumes... just another Progressive troll that doesn't give a shit about anything other than getting their way... regardless of the outcome on the country as a whole.

Fucking parasites...