Posted on 10/30/2011 5:24:08 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
House Speaker John Boehner said something quite significant last week during an interview with Talk Radio Network's Laura Ingraham. Speaking of President Obama's vow to take unilateral executive actions because, in the chief executive's words, "we can't wait for Congress to do their job," Boehner offered this observation: "We are keeping a very close eye on the administration to make sure they are following the law and following the Constitution. We have the ability to limit their use of funds to try to bring this administration to heel."
Boehner is right, Congress can indeed limit what presidents can do simply by denying them the funds or by limiting how those funds can be spent. As political scientists Wilmoore Kendall and George Carey wrote in their "Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition," Congress "has all the ultimate weapons in any showdown with either of the other two branches" of the federal government. But the question for the House speaker is why are we just now hearing him issue this warning to Obama nearly a year after voters restored Boehner's party to majority status in the people's house? The Republican victory of 2010 represented a historically deep rejection of Obama's programs. Not only did voters put a GOP majority in control of the House, they also elected legions of new Republican governors and state legislators in the most massive off-year victory for the party since before the Great Depression.
As The Washington Examiner said on this page in July, solid majorities of the American people want federal spending reduced and the national debt brought under control. Unfortunately, Boehner and too many of his Republican colleagues in the House have, for whatever reason, declined to exercise their constitutional weapons to force Obama and the Democratic majority that
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You’re kidding. Mr. Round-Heels?
Is the author of this editorial so obtuse that he doesn’t understand why boner hasn’t isued any warnings to zero until now? Really?
Boehner is right, Congress can indeed limit what presidents can do simply by denying them the funds or by limiting how those funds can be spent.
True, but it’s useless unless they enforce it. They already have...
The House voted to approve a continuing resolution to keep the government funded from the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 through Nov. 18. According to an analysis by the conservative Republican Study Committee, the CR permits funding for both Planned Parenthood and implementation of Obamacare.
Same old story sit and wait we dont want to look like the bad guys we want everyone to love us besides this would put a crimp in my golf arrangements with the president. I’m sick of thier do nothing attitude. We have a house of girly men with no balls. Grab the dog by the leash and pull upward and keep it there! fat chance
Talk is cheap.
Obama is saying what he’s saying, and that’s all he’s doing. When he actually asks for the money, that will be the time when Boehner should act. What else can he do?
Nice use of the word “heel”. One brings a dog to heel. I like it.
From the free dictionary idioms
“bring a dog to heel”: to make a dog heel; to make a dog stand or follow close to one’s heels
Zer0 COULD use some dog training based on the pics of him walking Bo.
The question isn't: Why?
Is Boehner up to the challenge? So far the answer has been no.
” Same old story sit and wait we dont want to look like the bad guys we want everyone to love us besides this would put a crimp in my golf arrangements with the president. I’m sick of thier do nothing attitude. We have a house of girly men with no balls. “
Who does this remind me of ? : )
Y'know, it seems every time this finance the government crisis arises, an extension is always passed.
If the thinking is .. "Wellll, we can't see beyond ___________ ", but congress almost always does pass another funding bill ... why not just say, "We can't see beyond a year from now" and pass a bill for a year instead of this month-at-a-time thing?
Yeah,
House Speaker John Boehner is a eunich.
About as much confidence in him leading against obammy as I would having Tonto lead a charge against the Lone Ranger.
Boehner could put his member and his nuts in a guillotine, the thing could drop and he STILL wouldn’t bleed because there’s not enough there to do any damage to him.
I am really bummed Sarah didn’t decide to run. She has a bigger set than the whole lot of them put together.
Enough with country club RINOS the hell with the lot of them.
That’s RACIST!!
A threat with no follow up.
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