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John Boehner Calls Obama Sick For Making It Tough on Republicans
In an interview with CNBC, Speaker of the House Boehner said that President Obama is sick for making post-sequester life hard for Republicans.
In an interview with the always Republican friendly Larry Kudlow, Boehner whined that President Obama was making it tough for House Republicans. Boehner said, “The President is trying to make it tough on members of Congress. It’s just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House. The Capitol is open for tours. We’ve been planning for this for months.”
John Boehner thinks it is sick that President Obama is trying to hold him and his House Republicans accountable for their sequester. Republicans apparently find anyone trying to hold them accountable for their own actions nauseating. The country has witnessed first hand that House Republicans don’t do accountability. They are all about manufacturing crisis situations that they can use as weapons for political gain.
What is really sick is the fact that Speaker Boehner has consistently lied to the American people. Boehner has said in interview after interview that the House had already passed a sequester replacement. The Speaker is well aware that the passage of the bill occurred in the last Congress, and is no longer valid. Yet, he has continued lie on a daily basis. What is even sicker than that is the fact that Boehner considers depriving 1.7 million people of food, “common sense cuts.”
The reason why Boehner is outraged is because Republicans don’t want there to be any visual evidence that the sequester is impacting the economy. Republicans have been claiming that the sequester would be painless. They have been selling these cuts as something that people won’t even notice. The problem for Republicans is that as time goes by people are going to notice. When workers start losing their jobs back home, House Republicans are going to have a huge problem on their hands.
Here’s a newsflash for John Boehner. President Obama is supposed to be making it tough on Republicans. Boehner wants Obama to roll over and give him everything that he wants. How dare the president actually stand up for working people? This president must be sick if he wants Republicans to be held accountable for their actions. Obama isn’t giving in. The president is going to give Boehner what he wants, so all the Speaker can do is whine how Obama is making life hard for him.
President Obama is doing his job. It’s too bad that John Boehner has no interest in doing his.
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73 Responses to John Boehner Calls Obama Sick For Making It Tough on Republicans
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Joshua
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 3:33 pm
F this a hole. He thinks he has it hard? Try working and going to school full time, living off loans and minimum wage. I have no respect for this whining dirt bag.
Sherlock
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Gee Joshua — why don’t you say what you really think?
Sammy
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
Current TV host Fugelsang plays Boehner in ‘orange face’ to mock David Gregory’s softball interview:
www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/... …
Wish he had done Gregory interviewing McCain.
Wesley
Mar. 8th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Gosh Josh, where were you during President Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Viet Nam War? Things were even harder then that you have it now. So whimper on crybaby.
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 8th, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Dont you mean President Kennedy, Nixon and Johnson? Half that war was on Nixon
But I am sure you just neglected to mention Nixon
Reynardine
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Usual DARVO, q.v.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
If the hostage taking of sequester gave you a thrill,wait till you see the demands to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month
GOP lawmakers say spending bill should target contraception mandate
Read more: thehill.com/blogs/healthw...
Sen. Ted Cruz: Defund ‘Obamacare’ until economy improves
www.washingtontimes.com/b...
Yep,you read that right.To further destroy the American party they want to end birth control and what they lost at the ballot box getting rid of the ACA aka Obamacare
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Oh I forgot to add defunding Acorn.I know it doesn’t exist but we are talking about the GOP here
docs.house.gov/billsthisw...
Its on page 221.
I am not responsible for any damage keyboards due to excessive spitting up water or any liquid due to reading this
From the law firm of Dewey Cheatham and Howe
Sally
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Gee, defunding and closing clinics in Texas has worked so well that they are now FUNDING new ones in order to not have to deal with an expected onslaught of new births that the state cannot handle. What the heck does the GOP think will happen if they ban contraception? Millions of nre white evangelical babies to ensure their future? Or millions of brown poor babies who wil need food and education? Idiots one and all.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:53 pm
GOP Thinks?Surely you jest.When right wingers say the banning of Contraception is not part of their war on women and the right of choice dont believe them for one second
Lyndsay
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 3:55 pm
It’s ok for them to make Obama’s job infinitely more difficult, but for Obama to do it to them…HOW DARE HE? What they are afraid of is their plummeting approval ratings. Just as the economy was beginning to recover they allow the sequester to go into effect. It’s their doing, they are trying to kill economic growth.
tahirah
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:06 pm
How come no one in dc taking a paycut.cant we furlough Congress?
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Its against the Constitution
The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution. It was submitted to the states for ratification in 1789, but was not adopted until 1992.
lm945
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
I thought the only Amendment the RWTBs recognized was the Second Amendment.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
When its money involved, their little piggish noses perks up.
mjh
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 6:12 pm
I thought the only Amendment the RWTBs recognized was the Second Amendment.
Not true.
They pay attention to the First — but only because they think its SOLE purpose is justifying the Second.
They pay attention to the Tenth (limits on federal gov’t power) — but only because they constantly feel threatened by an “ever-expanding” federal gov’t (and therefore need more guns to protect themselves.)
They pay attention to the Thirteenth (abolition of slavery) — but only because they like to remind us that it was their idea . . . which isn’t true, but since when have they ever cared about historical facts?
They pay attention to the Fourteenth (Citizenship) — but only because they feel it should be amended (if not repealed outright) in the wake of the election of a Kenyan Muslim Socialist President.
They pay attention to the Sixteenth (establishment of federal income tax) — but only because of their desire to repeal it.
See? They recognize other Amendments . . .
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PSzymeczek
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
They pay attention to the Seventeenth, but only because they want to repeal it and have the gerrymandered state legislatures choose the Senators.
Rose
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 11:56 pm
good idea? worthless in times of crisis?
MrsGunka
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:06 pm
I’d like to see an MRI/CT-Scan of Boner’s brain. Think it would look like a dill PICKLE! Boozer Boner is certifiable.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Do you really want to know the effects of alcohol on the brain?
www.google.com/imgres?img...
Not very pretty to say the least
MrsGunka
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Exactly! His liver will look worse!
mjh
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:35 pm
I’d like to see an MRI/CT-Scan of Boner’s brain.
Wish granted:
2.bp.blogspot.com/_50GobC...
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imabrummie
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Bonehead Boehner has a brain? I didn’t know that!
Trudy
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
If an elected official has done so wrong to citizens of the country, the citizens should have the rights to vote them out. They not only represent their state, they represent this country which includes all its citizens not just the ones from a specific state, that would be state senators. Boehner needs to go, he and Paul and Ryan. The government needs go forward and stop these idiots from tearing us down because they didn’t get their way.
Anne
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
The term DARVO is exactly right in describing the behavior of this worthless excuse for a Speaker or even a human being. He is the dog being wagged by the tail AKA the Tea Partiers in his party, and is by far the most inept Speaker I have seen in my lifetime. He and his ilk have been making it extremely tough on a large number of Americans with their obstructionism, negatively and overall uselessness.
Donna Radisch
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Senator, Who are You Kidding? You are worried about White House Tours, Worry about the American People you are screwing. Take a pay Cut, Stop taking Lobbyist money & Working for the United States Of Corporations With President Koch Brothers
j
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:44 pm
This is off subject – today the UK Guardian has a report on the investigation of the torture in Iraq, it goes into heartbreaking detail of the tortures, Cheney and Rumsfeld are implicated, also someone by the name of Steele, and also Gen Petraus.
Please read it and what I want to know is ‘are any of these people going to be put on trial?’
Sally
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
Of coursde they won’t be held accountable, but they want Obama to resign because ‘he let four Americans die in Benghazi and went off to Las Vegas to campaign when he knew they were being killed.’ Oh my.
bluerose
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 9:31 pm
They wont unless its Obama’s fault.
terry
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
this statement means they never had any intention of tackling this self made problem ‘We’ve been planning for this for months’
Paws
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Well you’ll have to forgive me for not giving a damn about how put out John Boehner and other Republicans feel over how they’re being treated by the President.
Time and time again I have seen stories about how conciliatory the President is toward Republicans and people on the left give him a lot of grief for that – yet the President still tries to reach out to them. Yet, time and time again, he has been rebuffed.
I think the President is pretty much at the end of his patience limit with these people and now that the shoe is on the other foot, Boehner is crying into his wine.
Furthermore, this kerfuffle over the White House tours is really amazing. They care that kids won’t get to visit the White House on school trips but at the same time they are letting funding for food stamps and school lunch programs get cut because they don’t want to raise taxes on a few thousand billionaires? They don’t care about these kids, they’re just using this as an excuse to bash the president, just like they’ve used every other inconsequential thing to bash him over. Golf, vacation, now White House tours.
Well tough. Grow up, act like the adults you’re supposed to be, and get to work.
mjh
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
John Boehner Calls Obama Sick For Making It Tough on Republicans
‘Cause, life must never be tough for either the One Percent or those that represent them [the GOP.]
Right, John?
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Kit
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
In psychology… We call that PROJECTION…
Gail Nugent
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Speaker of the House, John Boehner has a Bipolar condition and is seriously in need of medication or hospitalization. He has such highs and lows and usually low and crying. Just by the look on his face anyone in their right mind can see that John Boehner has some form of mental illness and needs an evaluation as soon as possible.
Jo Hargis
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 12:53 am
I think calling Boehner bi-polar is a bit of a stretch. First off, that’s a medical diagnosis that none of us are qualified to make. Secondly, I wouldn’t even, from my own observations, say I see the highs and lows associated with bi-polar disorder.
What I **do** see, however, is very visible signs of a “weepy drunk”. We’ve all seen them. Some guys get aggressive when drunk, some get happy and lovey, some get weepy.
His liver has to be pickled by now. Sheesh.
Sandra
Mar. 8th, 2013 at 12:13 am
It’s called alcoholism. Highs and lows, emotitonal ie weeping at the drop of a hat, confusion, victimhood, etc.
Boener needs to get himself admitted to the Betty Ford Clinic asap.
Dorian Staten
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7:30 pm
I don’t see where Boehner said Obama was ‘sick.’ He said Obama was trying to make things tough on members of Congress and that it was ‘silly,’ but I don’t see where he called Obama ‘sick.’
I’m a far Left liberal and a big fan of this site, but it seems like this article is twisting Boehner’s words a bit.
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Right
Jo Hargis
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 12:57 am
I see your point. It doesn’t mean Boehner didn’t say it; the article states quite clearly a couple of times that he did say it. If he did, they should have given us a direct quote. A bit sloppy, not the worst I’ve ever seen though.
DF
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7:47 pm
I don’t care whose idea the sequester was!!! How can anyone in Washington (right wing or left wing) send billions to countries that hate us and then take funds away from us!! It is CRAZY!!!! Get rid of ALL OF THEM!!! Get somebody that actually cares for it’s citizens and is willing to help us. My paycheck has done nothing but go down since January and the costs of everything is rising!! What the heck!!! NOBODY IS LOOKING OUT FOR ME…. NOBODY!!!! I HATE THIS TWO PARTY SYSTEM!!!
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 8:01 pm
How Much Does Uncle Sam Spend on Foreign Aid? 1 % of the total budget that amounts to about 30 billion
www.pbs.org/newshour/rund...
www.foreignassistance.gov...
How much do tax subsidies to corporations cost the treasury?
It is important to note that many reports on Corporate Subsidies include other things such as Tax Expenditures. Thus, one of the reasons for the conflicting dollar amounts between reports. This effort attempts to focus just on Corporate subsidies, but does reference reports that include Tax Expenditures. That said, the most common figure quoted for Corporate Subsidies only is about $100 billion each year.
cps-news.com/wp-content/c...
I say your anger is a little misplaced
robbiecc
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Maybe we should borrow an old and time tested idea from the Catholic Church and have a ‘Congressional Conclave’ lock em all up together until they come to some sort of agreement-no fones, no computers/internet-just each other. Doubt many could go 24 hrs w/o their own personal vices.
Reynardine
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Jean-Paul Sartre already wrote that one. It was called “Huis Clos ” (Sequestered Jury), usually translated as “No Exit”.
Phyllis Dunaway
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 8:26 pm
After the Repugs determination to “make Obama a one term Pres.” and tried every dirty trick in the book to obstruct the recovery, Bayner is a fool if he thinks anyone cares if the Repugs are experiencing some payback!
Rudy Gonzales
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 10:31 pm
We know Boehner will cry at the drop of a tear, and his whining is just typical of a jealous loser. Sequestration has been around for much longer than thought, but the sequestration devil rose and spoke on the House floor:
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=N... )
The states with the biggest military installations are the states where sequestration will hit the hardest. Look around your state and see which military installations will be effected the greatest.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z... )
It’s more than sequestration that matters. These same TEA-quest-traitors are maneuvering around immigration reform which was caused by previous presidents and Mexico during the “Bracero Program” from 1942 until 1964. Farmers and ranchers called for cheap labor and now many have been here long enough to have grandchildren as basis for allowing them full citizenship.
It is hoped that the TEA-Republican’s and all the Democrats in Washington DC are paying attention to the wishes of the Hispanic/Latino community. It is hoped that they remember the consequences of 2012 and how the Hispanic/Latino community backed president Obama and most of his party across the nation. The Hispanic/Latino community are much better versed with the internet and more knowledgeable on bigotry and prejudice as addressed across this country. We all are aware of TEA-Republican’s chomping at the bit to gut the Voting Rights Act and specifically Section 5 to give states greater influence in determining voters rights. But, it is at the local and state level where TEA party influence controls the Republican party, and giving local people the right to determine if a person can vote and when should never be abridged. There is a pervasive shove to disenfranchise voters across the land by local and state legislators with shortening time to vote or requiring photo ID’s to be able to vote. Here’s a video which shows the pervasive actions of the extreme right winged segment of the white community:
( www.americanprogress.org/... )
The year 1965 is still here in huge portions of the country and the voting rights act is just as important, including section 5. In fact, this should be applied all across the nation. The phrase, “an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution” holds true today just as much as it did back then. In Alabama, because the city had not obtained pre clearance from federal authorities, it could not revise its voting list using utility records. Nor could it use a municipal redistricting plan enacted by the City Council that had concentrated black voters, who are in the majority, into just two of the five districts, limiting black voting power. Voting should be in proportion to the ethnic diversity of the state. We will Vote in the 2014 Mid-term and in 2016.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 10:46 pm
I know in Oklahoma there is talk of up to 24.000 defense related jobs will be lost and now they’re whining.Was at the VA the other day and said elections have consequences and this is what you voted for.I was not looked at very friendly after that.
Dan
Mar. 6th, 2013 at 11:49 pm
I figured you would block my post. That’s why I took a screen shot of it before I submitted it. That way I can send it to others so they can compare what you censor, and what you allow.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 6:15 am
And then what?
Evermore Jones
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 3:10 am
My intuition says that Cheney is still in control. That he controls the purse strings of the oil companies and that they are funding this stalemate. The idea that the republican’ts are stupid or perhaps crazy I think is a red herring. These days they have the air of men determined to make as much money as possible out of this crisis before they relent. I wonder if they will blink before the economy goes down in flames? They seem to want us all poor enough that we’ll have to take our children out of school and put them to work in factories . . .again.
gsb
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 9:09 am
Evermore: What factorys. are not most already gone! No, they don’t want your children as workers, they would prefer them as slaves. The south has always hated the fact they lost that, ability.
Dru Gallego
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 3:11 am
The GOP leaders should have all been charged with treason or the Sabotage Act when they plotted to destroy our economy at a cover meeting January 20, 2009 during President Obama’s inauguration night…..Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Pete Session, Tom Coburn, and the rest are traitors to the American people and they are still holding back on passing the American Jobs Act that could put food on the table and a roof over many homeless families. For shame that Boehner claims the president is making it hard for the Republicans. The Obstructionist Republicans are evil and have no conscious or empathy for the American people, just for their pocket books and re-election coffers.
Jarediah Jones
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 7:48 am
With a last name that sounds like “boner”, he sure is flaccid.
Sherlock
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 10:50 am
The GOP has been beaten twice by a black guy and will be beaten by an old woman in 2016— They killed their own dinasours and they will be extinct themselves soon—-
O God I pray.
eileen winkler
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
john boehner, how the hell was he re elected. ? this man is a mental case, a drunk, a skitso, and a very unhappy person . he has serious problems. i hope the president hangs strong for the poor and working class, make the republicans represent the american people or take them to their knees.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
How was he re-electrg?Mental case + republican voters = Re-election
That is all
PSzymeczek
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 1:02 pm
They can’t find anyone in western Ohio to challenge him.
Sherlock
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Please- please- please- stop referring to Republicans as “mental cases” or “sick”.
That is a huge diss to mental cases and sick people. Cut to the chase. Republicans are greedy EVIL bastards that should be treated as terrorists.
Other than that they are wonderful people.
Arthur Cohen
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Right, how dare the uppity President act like a President, and a Democratic one at that. I hope before I reincarnate as a Hokkaido pumpkin America stops electing the stupid, the venal and the corrupt. (I know, but there’s that Hope.)
joe ramirez
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
I’m so sick of this Boner D* face, nothing but a whining-good for nothing-cry baby-spineless-politician… What has he done to take our country forward? The Republican Party needs a respectable American that can bring solutions to the table and Boehner ain’t got it…
EDDIE
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
havent heard a good word about boehner and i will be darn if i will start now.
drink up boehner
EDDIE
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
congress plus all working for the rep should be willing to take a pay cut unless you can prove you are honest and i believe some are.
eddie again
Zama
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Send Boehner back to us in Ohio. He is failing us and the nation.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 4:35 pm
That’s up to the voters of his district in Ohio.Unfortunately the rest of us have no say in the matter
coulterda
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 8:14 pm
John, you caused your problems, not the President, after all, he was elected by the majority of the people in the U.S., you and the Republicans created your own bed, now do something about it.
Brian Loudermilch
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
The GOP is Hurting because they SUCK.
The Pain will go away when they STOP
acting like Assholes.
Perfectly Obvious to anyone BUT John Boehner.
Inez
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
When will stop financing the rest of the world at the xpense of Americans? No, of course, we must pump money into Syria. We are still spending money in Iran, and Afghanistan. Hoiw about the buckspent on peacekeeping in Germany, Japan, and wherelse? Sequester is depriving food for the hugry, education for our young children, less for Homeland Security. It makes me ill to look at Boner’s hypocritical face. He cannot even bring votes to the floor. The 2 bills he referred to last year were not passed.
Inez
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
When will stop financing the rest of the world at th e expense of Americans? No, of course, we must pump money into Syria. We are still spending money in Iran, and Afghanistan. How about the bucks spent on peacekeeping in Germany, Japan, and wherelse? Sequester is depriving food for the hungry, education for our young children, less for Homeland Security. It makes me ill to look at Boner’s hypocritical face. He cannot even bring votes to the floor. The 2 bills he referred to last year were not passed.
john gerben jr
Mar. 7th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Wa wa wa wa pooooooor baby
Karen Brown
Mar. 8th, 2013 at 8:00 am
They wrote the Sequester bill (had to, it’s a REVENUE bill and the Constitution makes that clear in Article 1, Section 7, that those can ONLY originate in the House of Reps). The GOP House passed it, wanted it, got 98 percent of what they wanted out of it. And now, it seems, they have been ‘planning for it for MONTHS’ (which doesn’t seem to indicate they were planning on doing anything to AVOID it) and now don’t want to take the heat for it?
Grow up, Boehner, put on the ‘big boy panties’, and for once, you are going to not be able to dodge actually LIVING being in the supposed ‘Party of personal responsibility’.
Oh, and Boehner, it isn’t the President’s JOB to make your life easy. And you sure as heck haven’t been doing that for him. Karma, guy.
Gary
Mar. 8th, 2013 at 11:32 pm
Think about it a minute folks. I have read a bunch of real good posts, but, you are not looking at facts. When the committee failed to get a deal and the sequester was started 16 months ago, McCain and a few other neocons kept saying they were not going to let it happen to their precious (MIC). They kept throwing bill after bill at it, anywhere from repealing ACA to making all the cuts to social programs and take away from the MIC cuts. After last years GOP austerity from 2 years ago took place, we had a percentage drop in the GDP in the last quarter. After they saw that it would hurt Americans and Obama’s legacy, suddenly they stopped trying to stop the sequester. ANY QUESTIONS?
Dena Langdon
Mar. 9th, 2013 at 10:28 am
Boehner is a typical bully–doesn’t get his way and he has to lie about it and then
cry about it.
iwentcrazy
Mar. 9th, 2013 at 11:02 am
Surely, you posted this for the lulz.
AS
Mar. 9th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Democrats AND Republicans need to WORK TOGETHER. Time to put Americans over party politics.
Grow up and stop the madness.