Discussion for article #224533
How exactly can it get worse, John? You and your ilk scream NO! more often? Will you impeach Obama? What would make it worse?
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Well fuck it then, why don’t you get yourself one of those fancy trial lawyers and sue him?
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I’ve never seen a group of people so pleased that they aren’t doing their jobs. Can you imagine anyone else saying I refuse to do my job, and you’re wrong to try to do it for me?
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This is outrageous. The administration has to take a page from Jon Stewart and demonstrate that this is just conscienceless lying that’s ridiculously easy to expose as intelligence-insulting bullshit. The Congressional Republicans have been saying they won’t work with Obama because he won’t obey the laws they pass. Now the story is he won’t work with them? Fucking Nixon had more respect for the truth, and people’s memories, the ability of recording devices to prove you’re a liar, and objective reality.
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Boehner, an hour ago: we’re not doing immigration reform.
Boehner, now: why won’t this president work with us on immigration reform?
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Speaker Boehner, you’re “in charge” of the least popular, least trusted, least productive Congress in the history of the United States of America.
Fuck off, and welcome to your legacy.
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Exactly, the most recent meme was that they can’t work with the president on immigration reform because they can’t trust him to uphold the laws. Then, he tells them to pass something that doesn’t go into effect until he’s gone. Again, their response was that they couldn’t trust him. Now that we’ve got a real crisis on our hands, they blame the president for doing something when they’re the ones who’ve repeatedly refused the president. But will anyone in the MSM point this out? Nope, they’ll just blame both sides.
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I encourage the President to “ignore” the elected representatives as long as they do nothing.
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YAWN!!!
Pres. Obama will do absolutely nothing on the issue. Just like the Dems. did when they controlled both the House and Senate.
Both parties have been playing political football on the immigration issue and today’s announcement is just that, a political move - distraction from the Hobby Lobby ridiculous ruling.
The administration new MONTHS ago, even before the Senate passed the immigration reform bill, that the House WOULD NEVER act on it and immigration reform was dead and they did NOTHING.
I feel bad for the president because he’s faced the MOST obstruction any other president has faced. Obstruction from politicians, corporations and Americans. He’s hated and their hatred for him drives their obstruction. So, I can’t say I blame him much for the failure to get immigration passed.
Did any reporters ask any hard questions ?
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Worse for whom is the question. I think that he, Boener, subconsciously is admitting that when the President does what needs to be and should be done not only without them but despite them, that the Republican Party will suffer thoroughly for possibly the rest of the century and in an ironic, fateful twist, they will be punished by the very people that they are attempting to hold down.
That’s sweet, Mexican/Kenyan style : )
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Yo, John. Worse than what, exactly?
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Boner is just a sad little drunk.
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Now, that’s funny.
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Then do your fucking job and put some legislation on the table.
Of course we know you won’t, because you’re too afraid of your base. So STFU orange man.
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Won’t work. Rethugs are immune to facts, logic, sarcasm, mockery and satire.
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Actually, I don’t think that’s true. Throughout 2013, the general consensus was that Republicans HAVE to do something on immigration reform in order to insulate their 2016 candidates from having to take a position on the issue and they HAD to do something in order to have any chance of ever again be a national, governing party. Even the RNC’s autopsy of the 2012 election concluded they needed to move on immigration reform in order to stop the bleeding with Hispanics. That’s why Marco Rubio hopped on the issue and was so vocal in his support for reform. He thought it would be a winning issue to carry him into 2016. Unfortunately for him, the conservative entertainment complex was having none of it. And Rubio’s polling has gone from being at the top of the heap to bringing up the rear.
That said, I think the administration was right to be very hopeful that something could pass. Republicans need it and Democrats wanted it. Since it’s clearly not going to pass in this legislative session, Republicans are going to have to either pass it in 2015 right as their candidates start announcing their candidacies or they’ll have to let it die and risk immigration reform being a big deal again in their primaries.
Either way, I think they’re screwed. If they pass it next year, THE campaign question will be whether or not they’d repeal it and how quickly after being sworn in they’d start working on repeal. Or, nothing gets passed and all the candidates have to weigh in on their immigration plan. That didn’t work out so well in 2012, and it will be even worse in 2016.
Also, because this bears repeating over and over again…Democrats only had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate for 24 legislative days.
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“As the Supreme Court reminded us this week, under our Constitution there are sharp limits to what the president can accomplish if he ignores the American people and their elected representatives,” he concluded.
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Who ignores the will of the American people?!! In fact, ignoring and trying to repeal legislation favored by the American people is about all you republicans can manage. Talk about a bunch of worthless, do-nothing, partisan hacks. You don’t begin to earn your salaries.
Shame on you, John Boehner.
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Poor Boehner’s thin skin is amusing to me. The President told it exactly and forcefully like it is with with poor John and his herd of noes who have flunked the course.
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