JOHN BOEHNER REWRITES HISTORY WITH AN EPIC LIE THAT BLAMES OBAMA FOR REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION By Jason Easley SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 John Boehner’s desperation was showing on ABC’s This Week as he repeated the Republican big lie in order to blame President Obama for the fact that House Republicans refuse to do their jobs. Transcript: STEPHANOPOULOS: Bring us inside that room in January. What do you say to the President? What can get done? BOEHNER: I think the conversation’s pretty straightforward. ‘Mr President you’ve got two years left. Want to have two years like we’ve had the last four years where we just butt heads and butt heads and butt heads?’ George I didn’t come to Washington to make noise. I went there to do something on behalf of my country. And I think the president ran for office to do something on behalf of the country. And it’s up to us to see where the common ground is. But tax reform, a big highway bill, certainly are in the realm of doable. It was so subtle that it could be easily missed, but Speaker Boehner was blaming President Obama for the his own refusal to bring popular legislation to the House floor for a vote. Boehner has refused to allow the House to vote on the Senate passed immigration reform bill. He won’t bring legislation to the floor to raise the minimum wage, and he has spent nearly a year refusing to allow a vote on extending unemployment benefits. This the same John Boehner, who stated in February that he would rather , commit suicide than raise the minimum wage. A separate issue is the list of bills that Speaker Boehner has had to pull from the House floor because he didn’t have the votes to pass them. Rep. Boehner claims that he wants to do something for the American people, but based on the items that he mentioned during his This Week interview, he is only interested in helping a few wealthy Americans. Boehner wants tax reform to help the wealthy; the Keystone XL pipeline to help the oil industry, and the Koch brothers and the medical device tax repealed. None of what Boehner wants to do will help average Americans. Most Americans hate this congress. The reason has nothing to do with Obama and everything to with Boehner’s Koch fueled agenda. Every answer that Boehner gave in the interview was based on a single lie. It is a lie that is the basis for the Republican obstructionist cover story. The lie is that legislation is not getting passed because Obama won’t work with Republicans. In his own words, Speaker Boehner debunked this lie when he claimed that the American people don’t want a congress that passes laws. If Speaker John Boehner wants to meet the man who is responsible for the biggest do nothing congress in history, all he has to do is look in the mirror. politicususa/2014/09/28/john-boehner-rewrites-history-epic-lie-blames-obama-republican-obstruction.html CUT AND RUN: A LIST OF JOHN BOEHNERS EPIC AND PATHETIC HOUSE REPUBLICAN FAILURES By Sarah Jones AUGUST 1, 2014 Speaker John Boehner has rendered himself impotent in his position by refusing to take a stand until the Tea Party pushes him over yet another cliff, at which point he folds like a coward, points his fingers at President Obama, and runs whimpering into the cover of night. That John Boehner is a fail is something both the left and right agree upon. They disagree only about the solution to this problem. Boehner has made running away from his own bills and negotiations a trademark of his tenure as Speaker. He is best pictured pointing his finger at Obama as he high tails it away from his own bills and offers. When he wants something passed, he has to rely upon the last Speaker of the House, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi has kindly rolled up her sleeves and gone to work to whip up the votes for things that matter to this country, but she drew the line when Boehner refused to meet the President even halfway with his immigration bill. Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office noted that running away from his bills and negotiations is par for the course for John Boehner, and they offered up a handy round up of the fail: CBS: John Boehner walks away from debt talks [7/22/11] cbsnews/news/john-boehner-walks-away-from-debt-talks/ Roll Call: Boehner Delays Vote, Considers Changes to Debt Bill [7/28/11] rollcall/news/mccarthy_house_wont_vote_thursday_night_debt_plan-207821-1.html The Daily Kos: House leadership blocks vote on payroll tax cut extension [12/19/11] dailykos/story/2011/12/19/1047058/-House-leadership-blocks-vote-on-payroll-tax-cut-extension Bloomberg: Former Highway Bill Foe Boehner Scavenging for U.S. House Votes [2/17/12] bloomberg/news/2012-02-17/former-highway-bill-foe-boehner-scavenging-for-u-s-house-votes.html POLITICO: Cliff chaos: Boehner pulls GOP bill [12/21/12] politico/story/2012/12/eric-cantor-we-have-the-votes-for-plan-b-85365.html The Houston Chronicle:Boehner blasted for pulling Sandy aid bill [1/2/13] chron/news/nation-world/article/Boehner-blasted-for-pulling-Sandy-aid-bill-4162653.php The Associated Press:House Republicans Pull Health Care Bill After Backlash [4/24/13] huffingtonpost/2013/04/24/house-republicans-health-care-bill_n_3149605.html The Washington Times:House Republican rejection of farm bill sows bad seeds for Boehner [6/20/13] washingtontimes/news/2013/jun/20/divided-house-rejects-five-year-farm-bill/?page=all MSNBC: Boehner pulls shutdown bill in major defeat [10/15/13] msnbc/hardball/boehner-pulls-shutdown-bill-major-defeat The Guardian: Boehner backs down and drops Republican demands on debt ceiling [2/11/14] theguardian/world/2014/feb/11/boehner-backs-down-republicans-debt-ceiling USA Today: House GOP kills last hope for immigration bill [7/10/14] usatoday/story/news/politics/2014/07/10/immigration-house-republicans/12477925/ The Washington Post:Revolt within GOP quashes border vote [7/31/14] washingtonpost/politics/house-gop-leaders-spike-border-bill-rather-than-see-it-defeated/2014/07/31/1b720ff2-18e0-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html But the right is also not happy with the Speaker. In June, after former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) stunning defeat at the hands of the Tea Party, a HuffPost/YouGov poll found ”only about a third of Republicans have a favorable view of Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).” Thirty-three percent of Republicans view Boehner favorably, while 41% view him unfavorably. (The poll was conducted June 11-13. ) At Breitbart, they hyperventilated that Boehner was surrendering to a “lawless” President with his border bill, fretting over possible amnesty. This is the same border bill that Pelosi knew Boehner could not get passed as Boehner made frantic motions of blaming Obama for what he had to know was imminent – the revolt of his own party and his inevitable failure to control them. Yesterday, before Boehner canceled his own vote due to the revolt of his party, Breitbart mocked the Speaker with a story about how Americans were burning down the phone lines over his bill. The image was a Tea Party protest urging the Speaker to “try growen (sic) a pair!!” Two blue balls dangle from the sign. Had the Speaker taken the Tea Party’s advice, he would have saved himself the humiliation of defeat from both sides. He could have played the hero to at least one faction. As it is, Boehner is left chasing after scraps and begging the extremist faction of the Tea Party to let him get into bed with them. Today, he offered up 500,000 children as a sacrifice to the Tea Party in a desperate attempt to quiet their growing dissent. This is not the sign of a leader. With all Americans, Boehner scored 20% favorable to 53% unfavorable. Nancy Pelosi scored the highest in that poll, with only 27% ranking her favorably — that’s what a fail this Congress is. The fail is contagious, as the American people are fed up with the Do-Nothings. Even Rasmussen agreed in June, finding Boehner to be the overall most unpopular leader in Congress. It looks like “try growen a pair!!” will be John Boehner’s legacy. politicususa/2014/08/01/sides-agree-john-boehner-fail-watch-epic.html
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