Discussion: House GOP Finally Sues Obama On Obamacare

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I’ll get the popcorn.

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Hey! GOP

Just do a ClassLess Action suit.

Geez!

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Boehner says he is acting illegally. I wonder if he remembers the many many Signing Statements that George Bush signed. Obama has signed some too, however the quantities don’t compare.

From http://www.coherentbabble.com/listGWBall.htm (this link goes directly to Gdubya’s list)

***When a United States President signs legislation enacted by Congress, he may issue a written statement commenting on his actions.
Signing statements are often merely ceremonial, praising or criticizing the law or lawmakers or remarking on the importance of the issue addressed by the law. Such signing statements are often called “rhetorical” signing statements.

*****However, other signing statements may challenge Congress’s authority to act or assert that that the president will not enforce the law as written. ******

This type of signing statement is often called a “constitutional” signing statement: a president will object to a provision of law by citing a provision of the Constitution, or by citing a Supreme Court ruling interpreting the Constitution, or by bare assertion (without citation to authority) that the law offends the Constitution or invades the power of the Executive. Or the president may announce that he will interpret the law to avoid constitutional difficulties that he perceives.
Please note that other presidential documents appearing on the White House website – especially presidential remarks delivered at bill signing ceremonies – are frequently misidentified as signing statements; even scholars occasionally make this mistake. This website presents a document as a signing statement only if the Daily or Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, publications issued by the Office of the Federal Register in the Government Printing Office, categorizes the document as a signing statement.***

The hatred and hypocrisy of theses Republicans will never cease to surprise me. They are truly despicable. I hope this blows up in their faces (never with their base, I’m sure).

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The problem is that in today’s political atmosphere, anything that a Republican lawmaker or President do is automatically Constitutional. Anything that a Democratic lawmaker or President does is considered unConstitutional until such time as they can find a judge to state that it is unConstitutional.

Today’s Republican party doesn’t give a damn about precedent, the rule of law, or past actions taken under laws already written when it’s a Democrat who is taking the action. They automatically deem it illegal and do their best to make it such.

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Another frivolous lawsuit clogging up our already overburdened legal system. And here I thought the Republicans were in favor of tort reform.

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Very much looking forward to the unraveling of Turley’s once promising career.

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The House has been injured, and will continue to be injured, by the unconstitutional actions

Jibberish…Turley’s a fast typer.

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Wait, if the lawsuit is against Obama, why isn’t he listed as a defendant?

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See? That’s what Obama gets for trying to be a dictator. The Republicans were prepared to compromise and negotiate all kinds of legislation, and they were going to do it any day now. But America-hating Obama has now “poisoned the well”, making it impossible for the Republicans to work with him.

Gosh, and we were sooo close, too.

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I never much cared for Jonathan Turley – he always seemed rather oily to me – but he is now entirely dead to me.

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““Even for $500-per-hour in taxpayer dollars, Speaker Boehner has had to
scour Washington to find a lawyer willing to file this meritless lawsuit
against the president,” said Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Minority
Leader Pelosi. “Now, he’s hired a TV personality for this latest episode
of his distraction and dysfunction.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/gop-lawsuit-jonathan-turley-112980.html#ixzz3Jiv6f8e1”

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[quote]Republicans have had a tough time finding a lawyer to handle the litigation. [/quote] So lawyers are smarter than Republicant Members of Congress. Who would’ve known?

FIFY.

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Do we have the money for this lawsuit? Fiscal conservatives want to know.

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“the will of the American people”

As usual, they are calling a close election a mandate.

And proving once and for all they are incapable of unifying themselves to write legislation.

So they are asking the Corporate 5 on the Supreme COurt to hold his arms while they hit him.

And there’s another bare majority, 5-4, they consider overwhelming.

The will of the people is to toss Congress in the dump. With Boehner at the bottom of the bag. That is a provable fact.

That The People oppose the ACA, notsomuch.

Call it Obamacare in their polls, and they can claim a small majority in opposition.
Call it the ACA, that majority shrinks to single digits, almost to an even break.
Call it Medicaid expansion and the opposition becomes smaller than even the most outrageous ideologue can call a majority.

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I’m fucking confused. Does this count as poisoning or unpoisoning the well?

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Don’t usually do the ditto thing, but may I join you in your profound disappointment?

Anyone else perceive that, in the Republican game of political poker, this is a joker that they thought was a wild card?

And that they weren’t going to play it once they saw how much of a joke it was, until the immigration mess caught up with them?

This is all stalling-kabuki now, this ruse is meant to distract the rabid anti-immigration Dreamcrushers from their appointed madness.

It is a red meat offering, intended to give the rabid wolves from the Tea Mob something to chew on until Republican leadership can figure out how to herd their Cruz cats.

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My respect for Jonathan Turley has sunk to an all time low.

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Yes, and didn’t President Bush delay some deadlines during implementation of Medicare Part D?

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