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Congressman Boehner Must Be Stricken with Amnesia
self | Sept 27, 2015 | self

Posted on 09/27/2015 11:37:16 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

Speaker of the House John Boehner disappeared from view during the government shutdown in 2013, assuring conservatives they would have no representation by elected officials.


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He specifically referenced promises by his GOP colleagues in 2013 that they would be able to get rid of Obamacare through the process of funding the government - a tactic which ultimately led to the 16-day government shutdown that fall.

"This plan never had a chance. But over the course of the August recess in 2013 and the course of September, a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew it was a fool's errand, they were getting a lot of pressure at home to do this. And so we got groups here in town, members, the House and Senate here in town who whipped people into a frenzy believing they could accomplish things that they know, they know are never going to happen," he said.

I am starting to think Boehner is just slow, lazy or a drunkard. In his diatribe he misses the whole point.

In 2013, Boehner was sitting on a public relations gold mine.

Obama had:

During this time Bohener disappeared from view, assuring us that conservatives would have no representation from their elected officals
1 posted on 09/27/2015 11:37:16 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Where was Speaker Boehner during the shutdown in 2013?


2 posted on 09/27/2015 11:45:54 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

If we know what you just stated, he knows it, too.

For some reason he and McConnell don’t want to use what’s handed them on a silver platter.

You pass the bills to Obama. You explain what’s happening, what’s at stake. You make him veto the bills. Then you attempt to override and show the Dems in lockstep refusing to override. You keep on explaining.

It’s not that hard to know, certainly not impossible to do.

Perhaps they’ve been compromised through blackmail, or through knowing they are vulnerable to it.


3 posted on 09/27/2015 11:46:56 AM PDT by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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To: txrangerette
You pass the bills to Obama. You explain what’s happening, what’s at stake. You make him veto the bills. Then you attempt to override and show the Dems in lockstep refusing to override. You keep on explaining.

It’s not that hard to know, certainly not impossible to do.

Perhaps they’ve been compromised through blackmail, or through knowing they are vulnerable to it.

Blackmail is very powerful, yet hard to prove. Maybe that explains his disappearing act. It was incredibly strange.

4 posted on 09/27/2015 11:50:15 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: txrangerette

Sounds reasonable and easy to do, yet they refuse to. They are complicit in the race off a cliff. They are consumed with power and their fear of bad press. To hell with all of them.


5 posted on 09/27/2015 11:51:09 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: txrangerette

He was either paid off, or blackmailed. That goes for many others, including Cheap Justice Roberts. IMHO.


6 posted on 09/27/2015 11:51:25 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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I have thought it was blackmail for a long time. The way he constantly betrayed his constituents was incredible.


7 posted on 09/27/2015 11:58:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For views of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: txrangerette

In the absence of any other meaningful explanation blackmail is as good an answer as any.

I don’t buy this personally. I believe that they are afraid of the press and what will be written about them and how that will effect the view(s) of history on their tenure. Further they are afraid of civil unrest on their watch as the Obastard Administration has fomented racial strife to levels never seen before in US history.


8 posted on 09/27/2015 12:00:19 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Can we strike him with a stick?


9 posted on 09/27/2015 12:05:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Where was Speaker Boehner during the shutdown in 2013?


10 posted on 09/27/2015 12:08:04 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Why speculate about blackmail when a simpler scenario is also the more likely one?

Most Republicans in Congress are 100% on board with Obama's agenda.

11 posted on 09/27/2015 12:13:46 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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The times they are changing!!!
A little over a year ago John Boehner was speaker and Eric Cantor was second in command.......in a couple of weeks both will be gone.....we are making a difference.....a lot of the credit resides with Ted Cruz...he stood up and took the flak!!!


12 posted on 09/27/2015 12:14:28 PM PDT by ontap
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...Where was Speaker Boehner during the shutdown in 2013?...

You mean you have to ask??


Boehner IS The Best Alcoholic On Capitol Hill!

Click Any Pic To Enlarge

13 posted on 09/27/2015 12:16:08 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MtnClimber

I have thought it was blackmail for a long time.


You a little visit from the FBI men in black..

Saying you got a nice little family there...
Be shame if something happened to them.. i.e. Like that?..

As walked by on their way to “some where”.. or just talking to themselves looking at John..


14 posted on 09/27/2015 12:17:13 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

> “I am starting to think Boehner is just slow, lazy or a drunkard. In his diatribe he misses the whole point.”

You got it.

He’s also allowed power to go to his head thereby exacerbating his drunken instability.

Very dangerous man to have in power at this moment in American history.

He has 34 days left and he can still do a lot of damage.


15 posted on 09/27/2015 12:19:29 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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He's a DIE-EN:

Democrat In Everything - Except Name

16 posted on 09/27/2015 12:23:47 PM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Amnesia?

He was likely just drunk again.


17 posted on 09/27/2015 12:25:26 PM PDT by boycott
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Where was Speaker Boehner during the shutdown in 2013?

Having a meeting with a like-minded constituent


18 posted on 09/27/2015 12:26:58 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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A Speaker who can’t sell the American people that Obama has declared war on them doesn’t even deserve the description of “empty suit.”


19 posted on 09/27/2015 12:36:11 PM PDT by stevem
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Boner is spewing GOPe talking points.

Your points are excellent.

Without the shutdown and associated images of old vets facing barricades at memorials, and Mt Rushmore closed off, Republicans would not have taken both houses.


20 posted on 09/27/2015 12:51:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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