Posted on 07/27/2012 8:34:49 PM PDT by Free in Texas
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated Thursday that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that he leads may go ahead and provide the Obama administration with the funding it needs to implement a regulation that earlier this year Boehner himself called "an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
At a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, Boehner said he believes "resolving" the regulation's attack on religious liberty may not be something for Congress to deal with because he thinks it may be one of those policy goals that "can sometimes best be done [through] other than legislative avenues."
Boehner did not explain what those "other than legislative avenues" may be. However, whether or not the Obama administration can actually carry out the regulation depends entirely on whether or not Boehner's Republican-majority House votes to give the administration the money to do it. If the Republican-majority House prohibits spending any money to implement the regulation in whatever legislation that funds the government after Sept. 30, the administration cannot implement it.
Boehner's House can stop what Boehner called an "attack on religious freedom," or it can give Presdient Obama the money to launch the attack.
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GOP caving on policy. Have they ever done that before?
“There ain't a dimes bit of difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
Or something like that. And what was the actual difference (other than party name) betweet Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson in 1912?
Ditto’s that! Question is ??? have they allowed him to stay?
I think the DNC detailed a guy full-time to stand behind him and hold him up.
Those of you thinking that Romney won’t exhibit the exact same behavior and much worse given his lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal record as Governor are smoking something funny!
SOMEBODY FIRE THIS BOZO!
PUT TOGETHER A CAUCUS AND DEMAND A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. IF HE DOESN’T GET IT, DEMAND THAT HE RESIGN AS SPEAKER!
THEN BRING BACK NEWT GINGRICH!
They are pretty effective going after Bachmann, though.
This is nuts. What’s happening to the GOP? Guns held to their heads. Choose death rather than support obama.
You TELL’em, Conor!!
(I agree whole-heartedly!)
How can a limp No-Balls Boner remain erect without a spine?
that is an easy one. Helium in the head.
Nah, how’s about Michelle Bachmann? She has more b@lls than most of the men up on Crapitol Hell. :)
Bitch, bitch, bitch! Whatever happens in November, but especially if Romney loses, something has to be done, instead of complaining all the time. There’s four years to get a new party going. That would be a lot of work, sure, but bitching gets nothing done. Start immediately in November.
Should Romney win, the Speaker HAS to be changed. There’s too much to change, not to compromise.
The “guy”?? It’s not just him, it’s the whole group of GOP elite. yeah. You guys who are going to just cower and vote for Romney. You think this is bad? The horror has just begun if he runs the GOP.
Amen my friend. Amen
Here’s how you do it:
1) Michele Bachmann needs to get together with Jim DeMint and approach every single K-Street corporate lobbyist with the following proposition: Support our leadership in the House and the Senate and, in return, we will scrap the corporate income tax in the United States. Gone. 0%. This will cost the federal government at most an extra $300 billion per year. Considering the fact that the federal government spends in excess of $3 trillion per year, it’s a drop in the bucket. Besides, the Laffer Curve effect will probably increase total income tax receipts due to increased economic activity. America would become the world’s premier tax haven for international business concerns to base their operations in the U.S.A.
2) Bachmann and DeMint need to go to the Big Tobacco firms and get control of the Tobacco checkbook that Cry-Baby Boner and Turkey Gobbler McConnel currently control. That is the source of both of these jackwagons REAL power; the Big Tobacco money.
3) Hire a couple of Private Investigators to dig up ALL of the dirt on Cry-Baby Boner and Turkey Gobbler McConnel.
4) Fund to the hilt Cry-Baby Boner’s Democrat opponent in Ohio. I don’t care if he is the second-coming of Karl Marx. He [or she] will be nothing but a back bencher in the 113th Congress.
Time to go all LBJ with these penny ante yokels.
Film at 11. [tape delayed until 12:15]
Time for Bohner to go.
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