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Despite Hype, GOP still hasn't sued Obama [Boehner Lies!]
Politico ^ | 10/24/2014 | Josh Gerstein

Posted on 10/25/2014 11:53:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker

It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven’t managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they’d be suing the president.

House Speaker John Boehner came out swinging hard last June when he announced that his chamber would take President Barack Obama to court. The suit, charging that the president grossly exceeded his constitutional authority by failing to implement portions of the Obamacare law, was billed as an election-season rallying point for aggrieved Republicans. But days before the midterms the House’s legal guns seem to have fallen silent.

Lawyers close to the process said they originally expected the legal challenge to be filed in September but now they don’t expect any action before the elections.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2014election; agitprop; boehner; demwitsonfr; election2014; johnboehner; obama; ohio; speakerboehner; speakerjohnboehner; troll; zotworthy
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For anyone who believed Boehner, all I can say is oops! He thinks the GOP is stupid, and sometimes I think maybe he's right.
1 posted on 10/25/2014 11:53:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker

I’m sure his gnomes will be here soon to explain it all away.


2 posted on 10/25/2014 11:55:20 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: Alter Kaker

I was sitting at a four way stop the other day, waiting to turn left. The banal, mechanical, mindless motions I was through inspired me to think about John Boehner. I thought, “I wonder how their lawsuit is going.” I knew the answer, and this article confirms what I knew.


3 posted on 10/25/2014 11:56:52 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

But vote Republican! Or else!


4 posted on 10/25/2014 11:57:34 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Crazieman

No matter what!

For the children! So they can all get new polio or ebola too! OH THANK YOU GOP!! THANK YOU!!!


5 posted on 10/25/2014 12:00:10 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: Alter Kaker


This John Boehner?
6 posted on 10/25/2014 12:01:35 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Conservatives who vote for Boehner and McConnell this election cycle are only feeding the problem.

What is needed is Republican control of both houses with Boehner and McConnell losing their seats.

7 posted on 10/25/2014 12:02:01 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Alter Kaker

Boehner is establishment and he considers the Democrats to be his political allies more than the Tea Party and conservatives in the Republican Party. He’s a compromised individual with plenty of dirt on him, which is why he’ll never take up the battle against the Democrats in congress. If we’re ever going to get something done in DC he and McConnell plus the rest of the GOPe have to be kicked out of positions of power.


8 posted on 10/25/2014 12:02:28 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Alter Kaker

Bammy’s not gonna get sued by his “best friend” Boner.


9 posted on 10/25/2014 12:08:56 PM PDT by MaggiesPitchfork
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It is a waste of time. The courts will respond by telling Boner
"Hey what have you done within your Constitutional power of the purse to stop the tyrant king? Nothing, you have no case here in this venue. Go back the House chambers and work out your own political sad sack stories."

Case dismissed!
10 posted on 10/25/2014 12:10:06 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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In all fairness to Boooner, perhaps they’re simply postponing suing for a strategic reason because suing President Narcissus BEFORE the midterm elections might adversely affect some Repubs chances of winning?

I suppose we’ll know when we see what Repubs do after the mid-terms.


11 posted on 10/25/2014 12:10:25 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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-—”In all fairness to Boooner, perhaps they’re simply postponing suing for a strategic reason because suing President Narcissus BEFORE the midterm elections might adversely affect some Repubs chances of winning?”

(BY that I mean, might rally more Democryte zombies out to vote AGAINST repubs...)


12 posted on 10/25/2014 12:12:35 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: dowcaet
I assume Boehner is a drunk with quite a few skeletons in his closet. A very easy mark for blackmail. Blackmail that the Chicago Kenyan is oh so good at.
13 posted on 10/25/2014 12:15:31 PM PDT by Bullish (A 5 year old could run the country better than Obama.)
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Commentator Mark Levin Slams Boehner's Lawsuit Against Obama

"Levin . . . warned that Obama would likely win the court case, which would then embolden the president to go around Congress with more executive orders."

The courts could also reject the suit arguing that the Constitution provides other means and tell Boehner, "It is the Congress' responsibility.. you idiot!"

Who can argue that the Congress' Constitution responsibilities do not apply? That this has to be handed off to the third part of government?

14 posted on 10/25/2014 12:15:58 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: jimbo123
That reminds me

From the Chambers to the chamber pot..

Void the bowels of Washington, D.C. 2014 - 2016


15 posted on 10/25/2014 12:18:40 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

I think he announced the idea of this suit to prop himself up and make him look like a conservative rather than the statist he is.


16 posted on 10/25/2014 12:30:33 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: dowcaet

” Boehner is establishment and he considers the Democrats to be his political allies more than the Tea Party and conservatives in the Republican Party. He’s a compromised individual with plenty of dirt on him, which is why he’ll never take up the battle against the Democrats in congress. If we’re ever going to get something done in DC he and McConnell plus the rest of the GOPe have to be kicked out of positions of power.”

Not easy. The pro-amnesty businessmen own them, and they have millions invested in RINOS.


17 posted on 10/25/2014 12:44:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

He’s been pretty much worthless.

As much as I can’t stand Pelosi, at least she moved her party’s agenda forward.

We get Mr. Feckless as a Speaker...


18 posted on 10/25/2014 12:44:52 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: demshateGod; Norm Lenhart

“...I was sitting at a four way stop the other day, waiting to turn left. ...”

Apparently, there are some in the GOP waiting for November to “turn left” too.

Replacing Boehner with a Conservative would be a good way to prove otherwise.


19 posted on 10/25/2014 12:46:38 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

McConnell is just as deadly.


20 posted on 10/25/2014 12:48:34 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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