Paul Waldman (WAPO) rips Boehner a new anal orifice

[Statistikhengst]

The rolling disaster of John Boehner 8217 s speakership - The Washington Post

The first is the possibility of a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security if Congress can’t pass a bill to fund the department. At a moment when the news is being dominated by terrorism, both in the Middle East and in Europe, a shutdown would be a PR disaster for the GOP (even if, in reality, the key functions of the department would continue with little interruption). The House passed a bill to fund the department, including a provision revoking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Everyone knows that such a bill is going nowhere — it failed to overcome a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, and even if it had, Obama has made clear that he’ll veto it.

Asked repeatedly by host Chris Wallace whether the House would revisit the Homeland Security spending bill, Boehner kept repeating that “The House has done its job.” ..

...Boehner can say “Senate Democrats should be to blame,” but that won’t make it so. Everyone knows how this is going to end: Both houses are going to pass a “clean” spending bill, which Obama will sign. The only question is whether there’s a department shutdown along the way. If and when that happens, Republicans are going to be blamed, just as they were when they forced a total government shutdown in 2013. His calculation now seems to be the same as it was then: I’ll force a shutdown to show the tea partyers that I’m being tough and standing up to Obama, and then once it becomes clear that we’re getting the blame, that’ll give me the room to end the crisis by giving in and allowing the vote that will bring everything to a close. It’s not exactly a strategy to maximize his party’s political gain.

That brings us to the second ongoing PR catastrophe Boehner has engineered, the upcoming speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both here and in Israel, where Netanyahu faces an election next month, the speech has been roundly condemned for politicizing the relationship between the two countries, essentially turning the Israeli prime minister into a partisan Republican coming to the U.S. to campaign against President Obama’s approach to negotiating with Iran about their nuclear program. Worst of all, Boehner invited Netanyahu to make the speech without informing the White House, a bit of foreign policy usurpation that people in both parties find somewhere between inappropriate and outrageous....

...WALLACE: But when you talk with [Israeli ambassador] Ron Dermer about inviting Netanyahu, you told him specifically not to tell the White House.

Why would you do that, sir?

BOEHNER: Because I wanted to make sure that there was no interference. There’s no secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I frankly didn’t want them getting in the way and quashing what I thought was a real opportunity....

...It may be that by now Boehner thinks that having come this far, he can’t rescind the invitation without making the whole thing look even worse. That’s possible, but by making the invitation in the first place, and keeping it secret from the administration, he created a truly epic blunder, one that not only makes him look bad but also damages American foreign policy interests.

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Republicans may be defending this stuff now, but in a number of months, I bet they will not.

John Boehner (R-OH) is an absolute disaster as Speaker of the HOR.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I thought they already passed a year long funding bill? These people are nuts!

 

[Iceweasel]

The House passed a bill to fund the department,

 

[Statistikhengst]

The House passed a bill to fund the department,

With a poison pill that is unacceptable.

 

[OKTexas]

The House passed a bill to fund the department,

With a poison pill that is unacceptable.

Wrong, your dear leader threw out the poison pill when he decided to throw out immigration laws with no legal authority to do so. Congress is exercising their constitutional authority to stop it, I and millions of other Americans support congress in this effort.

 

[HenryBHough]

We can always count on Statist to celebrate his (?) anal fixation in the headers.

Democrat!

The NEW party of NO!

 

[NLT]

OP claims he is not a fag.......puuuuuhlllllllllleease

 

[Lakhota]

The NaziCons won't pass any "clean" bills - they'll all be stuffed with spoilers.

 

[OKTexas]

The NaziCons won't pass any "clean" bills - they'll all be stuffed with spoilers.

Screw off bitch, a clean bill doesn't have to contain everything you commiecrats want, they passed a clean bill, the commiecrats in the senate prevented debate. Who's the party of no now?

 

[Iceweasel]

As if Democrats even knew what a clean bill was.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Right on queue, dems complaining about poison pills in the bill. Hilarious.