Posted on 07/21/2014 12:27:43 PM PDT by lilyramone
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated today that if President Barack Obama takes actions that exceed his constitutional authority, the House of Representatives has no plans to use its own constitutional authority to withhold funding from those actions.
At his weekly press briefing, CNSNews.com asked Boehner: “You’ve said you disagree with calls to impeach the president over abuse of power via executive actions. But under the Constitution the House actually has the power of the purse. So, if the President takes actions that exceed his Constitutional authority, will you withhold funding for those actions in the next must-pass appropriations bill?
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“The power of the purse will come heavily into play if the GOP takes the Senate in November, provided McConnell drops the current filibuster rule entirely, an action that should be easy to take now that Reid has dropped it unilaterally for approving presidential appointments.”
No question it would carry more weight, but even then it might be tough because Obama could veto the bill, and shut down the government and blame the republicans. It all depends on whether we have a few articulate republicans that can educate the public and go over the media’s head and be heard. The public needs to be turned around enough to make it consequential on the dems.
Just damn. Adios, GOP.
There were no “consequences” from the last “shutdown”. It was all a bunch of overhyped media propaganda. Not even worth a second thought especially for actual conservatives.
The GOP establishment are all liberals. That was even proven back when Reagan first challenged Ford.
The consequences I was referring to were the political consequences, and in the last shutdown they weren’t very good for the Republicans.
I agree the actual consequences to the man on the street were nonexistent but the other side won the political battle and that is what this is about. If they keep winning politically we’ll never change the direction this country is going in.
>>... it might be tough because Obama could veto the bill, and shut down the government and blame the republicans.<<
That’s exactly why the House and Senate should revert to the normal process of passing separate budget bills for each department, and even, I would argue, separate line items within many departments.
That way, they could send up appropriation bills that the vast majority of the country support, say Social Security appropriations, for example, so that even if Obama vetoed, the Dems in House and Senate would have difficulty supporting the veto.
There were no problems for Republicans because of that recent partial government shutdown. The liberal media tried to make it appear so, though.
The liberals in both parties will continue to try to cheat and maneuver politically to try to shut out conservatives. It won’t work very well, though, even with the media still on their side.
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