Posted on 03/23/2011 1:59:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Good point. Boehner should have been been in Obama's office with his sleeves rolled up and demanding some answers over this, not sending some polite, mealy-mouthed, letter.
Boehner's been on Capitol Hill waaaaay too long. He's forgotten how to fight (if he ever knew in the first place).
What good would it have done for Boehner to go to the Oval Office before today?? Obama hasn’t been there!
I don't believe you have enough appreciation for the language of the letter. A certain amount of diplo-speak is to be expected in communications between branches of government, whether you or the masses like it or not. As for Boehner himself, he's been Speaker just over 60 days if my calculation is accurate. Whether or not he turns out to being a good Speaker is yet to be seen, but the hostility that gets posted about him here is more than discouraging.
Then he should have called him on the phone and told him to expect a nasty welcome when he got back.
I’m having trouble finding anything in this letter that suggests that the Consititution might obligate the President to seek the approval or even the advice of all or any part of the Congress. Why are GOP leaders so frightened by Obama? Note also that Boehner and Issa have both refused requests by the public to even subpoena the Hawaiian birth records.
OUTSTANDING post! The first comment on the thread was the first thought in my head. IMPEACH Barack Obama!
This is the first step....
Hello, Crybaby John, you were given a Republican majority in the House to kick Barry Zer0 in his scrawny butt, not play footsie with him and the Donkeys.
Boehner needs to go and be replaced with someone who's got a pair — Michelle Bachmann.
If Michele Bachmann were the Speaker of the House, she'd be taking incoming flak from the media and left, day and night, but that's because she'd actually be fighting The People's fight.
I am becoming sorely disappointed in Mr. Boehner.
Yeah, diplo speak, you mean like the civility and respect Obama shows Republicans & Conservatives or anyone who disagree’s with him?
It’s obvious where your fantasy lays, with Mr. Boehner. Boehner has been around quite a while in Congress and many conservatives and Republcans quinged when he was made Speaker....whether you like that or not, too bad. It’s how some people feel. Not everyone loves Boehner....
Good speaker? Yeah, they took the time to discuss lightbulbs with the Lybia fiasco going on; unemployment, high gas prices, moratorium in Gulf, you know, important stuff that the people of this country are concerned about....
Well, we’ll see about Boehner, as I said. Interestingly he’s been Speaker for about the same length of time that you’ve been posting on FR...
The other day, I think it was Hannity, they took to the streets to ask people questions about our government, who is the VP, many didn’t know. Then they asked, who is the speaker of the house, the lady said, Oh I don’t know his name, but its the guy that cries all the time..
Yeah, that is what some Americans know about Speaker of the House...our guy...embarrassing.
Worth repeating from another msg board argument with some liberal swine:
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..Typical libbie coward: No response of substance to the content I presented and essentially an ad homineim attack on the messenger as if the messenger is some low life form.
For a refreshing change, why don’t you engage me in a civil response to my allegations about the constitutionality of all the egregious tramplings on liberties the Obeyme administration has done?.
And did you watch the video of Blowhard Biden chestbeating about how he would impeach a president who attacked another country w/o congressional approval? I’ll include it again here (because liberals tend to expect others to do things for them):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adpa5kYUhCA
OK. Now that you’ve watched the video, please answer the following. I’ll make it easy for you so you libbies can just fill in the blanks:
1. Did Obutthole start a military conflict in Libya WITHOUT approval of Congress? Yes____ No ____
2. Did Blowhard Biden state in the video that he would impeach a president who attacked another country w/o congressional approval? Yes____ No ____
3. Is Blowhard Biden a hypocrite for not objecting to the military intervention in Libya? Yes ____ No ___
4. Did you go to 1:11 in the video where it quotes Obomba in December 2007:
“The President does not have power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation”
Yes ____ No ___
5. Is President Obomba a hypocrite for his military intervention in Libya? Yes ____ No ___
If you answered “YES” to the above 5 questions, you at least have a brain. If not, you’re a liberal.
You naive libbies have destroyed this country. FYI, I’m more like a libertarian. Have you libbies forgotten what the word “liberty” means with all your gov’t fascist policies, one would think you’d want to delete the term from the dictionary and be done with it.
Debating with the likes of libbies like you is like shooting fish in a barrel. You’ve been sooo owned.
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End of rant against a liberal... Hopefully this is good fuel for others to argue with.
Boehner and the other Republican representatives are "troubled"? Ooooo, I'm sure that will cause commie-pig-in-chief 0dumb0 to reconsider his f___ed up coalition plans or his lack of planning as to what he really expects to accomplish in Libya or with Ghaddafi!
C'mon Boehner & Repubs! Grow a pair of brass balls and come down on 0dumb0 and the demoRATs like stink on s__t! Geez, what a bunch of weenies!
Weak and stupid as usual from the GOP.
But, people, can we get off the "Impeach him!" kick? Impeachment is carried out IN THE SENATE. Harry Reid is NOT going to impeach Obama, ok? Give it a rest.
Actually impeachment is done in the House. The Senate holds the trial with the Chief Justice presiding. They either convict or acquit and then remove if found guilty.
However, I do agree, the Senate will not find him guilty.
I really don’t want him to be impeached over this. If we started to impeach Presidents who did this starting with President Nixon, every President would be impeached. I don’t want to tie the hands of future President Palin because of this. Many people think the War’s Act is unconstitutional. Conservatives used to think this but recently they have been supporting it. So I don’t know if the conservatives have changed their minds or what.
Well in his defense, Boner didn't know where the President was. Was he still in Latin America or on the golf course or at some swanky restaurant? lol.
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