Posted on 11/13/2014 8:18:47 AM PST by servo1969
After a White House meeting last week, Republicans described Speaker John Boehner aggressively confronting President Obama over the president's planned executive amnesty, prompting an extended period of a defensive Obama attempting to justify his actions.
But a key moment of the meeting, left out from those accounts, was unveiled by Boehner himself in an exuberant moment of boasting in a closed-door meeting with GOP colleagues minutes ago.
Boehner recalled telling Obama, Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can't, then do what you gotta do.
The sentiment, recalled by several lawmakers exiting the meeting, angered conservatives not only because the Ohio Republican paired an immigration effort to Obama's plan to brazenly flout his constitutional role, but also because he seemed to have let him off the hook in the event he later went ahead with the plan.
"To me it's unacceptable. We believe what [Obama] is doing is unconstitutional," said one fuming lawmaker leaving the session.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
one has to wonder if the republican leadership in DC have been bought off or threatened with theirs or their families lives. Bonehead has allowed himself to be put in a tough spot by his constant capitulation to the obozo on everything obozo has wanted him to do for the past 6 years. Unless and until the current republican leadership is removed, obozo will get exactly what he wants and when he wants it and he obviously knows it and expects nothing less.
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t aware of that.
Why do some people insist that they have been bought off or threatened? Is it soooo hard to believe that they agree with the Democrats on a lot of things? jeez not every thing is a conspiracy.
If Boehner actually said that, or anything like it, he needs to be removed from his position. If not, it means that while the democrats could not defeat the American voter, Boehner and the Republican caucus did.
>”To me it’s unacceptable. We believe what [Obama] is doing is unconstitutional,” said one fuming lawmaker leaving the session.<
So, do something about this outrage, Congressman(woman?)!!!
Well spoken. I believed it before the election and believe it even more now. They will do what they want because everyone voted for them again.
It is we who never learn. We are just as bad as the people on the Democrat plantation.
Begged! Was Bhonner in a drunken stupor. Was he giving the Bampster a booty call. This is disgraceful. What a pillow biter.
Spend a buck and buy yourself a clue.
Boehner’s not a member of our team.
Mr. Speaker, what do you mean, '. . . do what you gotta do???
As the Speaker of the only lawmaking representatives of "the People" under the United States Constitution, and a sworn defender and upholder of that Constitution, you should be representing that "People's" Constitution and its limitations on the Executive branch to its proper role as Executor of the law which exists, as passed in accordance with its provisions, and prohibits the Executive from being a maker of laws.
Mr. Speaker, in his "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Justice Joseph Story's concluding remarks are significant to the serious threats we face today:
"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Justice Joseph Story
What a kiss ass sissy.
SH***TTT - but you forget, boner is not our team!!
“In the middle of a crisis we should keep personal criticism of our team members to a minimum.”
You are correct! We just need to vote Republican and then crawl back under the porch until the master beckons again. Leave the leading to the leader.
**WHIIPPP****WHHIIIPPP***
“GET BACK ON THAT PLANTATION CONSERVATIVE SCUM”
-Sincerely, The Republican Party
bump
BREAKING NEWS: To all the fools the fell for the repub’s lies and actually voted for them again,
HAHA!!!!
Boehner is the poster boy for the Republican Party. Weakness personified.
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