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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 08:52 PM Jun 2014

Obama: Congress Doesn't Do Anything 'Except Block Me And Call Me Names'

Obama: Congress Doesn't Do Anything 'Except Block Me And Call Me Names'

by Igor Bobic at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/obama-boehner-lawsuit_n_5537443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Faced with the threat of legal action over his use of executive power, President Barack Obama pointed his finger squarely back at congressional Republicans on Friday, stating that their historic inaction prompted him to go it alone to address the nation's problems.

"They don't do anything except block me and call me names," Obama said in a speech on the economy at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Without citing which specific executive actions he intended to challenge, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced this week that he would bring legislation to the floor authorizing the House to file a lawsuit against the president to "compel" him to enforce existing law. "We elected a president, Americans note; we didn’t elect a monarch or king," he wrote in a memo to his colleagues.

That set the president off on Friday. In an interview with "Good Morning America," he dismissed the suit as nothing more than a "stunt." And in his remarks in Minnesota, he argued that he was forced to take action on immigration, the federal minimum wage and pay discrimination because this Congress, which has been called the least productive Congress in history, refused to compromise on legislative priorities.



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Obama: Congress Doesn't Do Anything 'Except Block Me And Call Me Names' (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2014 OP
I think Boehner's suit is, unsurprisingly, ill-timed ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #1
I'm with you. applegrove Jun 2014 #2
Agreed. n/t R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2014 #5
Maybe Boehner is trying to get the pressure off of Cheney, poor thing, he did not have many coming Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #3
Thank you, President Obama! mahalo applegrove~ Cha Jun 2014 #4
Cheney is trying to distract from Boehners lawsuit SummerSnow Jun 2014 #6
Boner's suit is nothing but an attempt to overthrow the government meow2u3 Jun 2014 #7
Find your inner Roosevelt, Mr. Obama. Put Lincoln aside for a couple of years. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #8
Good For You Mr. President supercats Jun 2014 #9
is he just now noticing that? Skittles Jun 2014 #10
Give 'em hell, Mr. President! nt stage left Jun 2014 #11
He really screwed the pooch with this one! Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #12
 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
1. I think Boehner's suit is, unsurprisingly, ill-timed ...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 08:58 PM
Jun 2014

and will likely blow up in the gop's face, at the most inopportune moment ... in the height of the 2104 election cycle.

With this suit, it will be nearly impossible to control the message as the Administration will be able to answer all the "over-reach" charges with: Everything is constitutionally permissible; but more, necessary, as congress has been unable/unwilling to act on important matters of state.

The response to the suit will read as a campaign ad for Democrats ... particularly, those running for a House seat, and to a lesser degree, a Senate seat. The response will highlight all the measures that Democrats/the Administration has put forward to deal with Jobs, the infrastructure, climate change, student debt, workers' wages, and all the other areas where President Obama has issued Executive Orders, only to be killed by the republican House, or "filibustered" in the Senate ... And Highlight what republicans have offered instead ... 50+ votes to repeal the ACA, anti-abortion bills, etc., but nothing to address the areas where Executive Orders were issued.

I can't think of a better way to get the obstruction message out to the electorate, than having to answer this suit.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. Maybe Boehner is trying to get the pressure off of Cheney, poor thing, he did not have many coming
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:02 PM
Jun 2014

To his rescue.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
7. Boner's suit is nothing but an attempt to overthrow the government
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:54 PM
Jun 2014

by trying to usurp executive power and put it in the hands of Congress.

 

supercats

(429 posts)
9. Good For You Mr. President
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:48 PM
Jun 2014

Now knock all of boehner's teeth out. He deserves much worse, but at least that will be a start.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
12. He really screwed the pooch with this one!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:32 PM
Jun 2014

His base will be pissed he did not go straight for impeachment, and like has been said above, the lawsuit will draw attention both ways. Obama will be able to lay out in writing all of the arguments pointing out all of the stupid things Congress did to waste time and money, how little they actually did their job, and last, but not least, how low they sunk to "get" Obama. This will cost Republicans a lot of Independent voters who like the rest of us Liberals, are sick and tired of the gridlock while we have so many serious problems with our country.

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