House To Vote On Arming And Training Syrian Rebels:

President Obama has talked about his strategy for fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq and of course approached Congress for authorization but more importantly funding. So the House is taking up the topic and considering their vote and they want to get out of town to complete campaigning in their…

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House Republicans vote to sue President Obama

Republicans really are a wacky bunch… The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225 to 201 on Wednesday to authorize Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to sue President Barack Obama and others in his administration for failure to fully implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known…

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Obama Boehner Walker Dimitrijevic

For the past six years the various left and progressive groups have been screaming about the obstructionists in the House of Representatives aided and abetted by Speaker John Boehner. Accused of hewing the company line, being co-opted by the tea party jihad, or out and out racism, the right has…

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VIDEO: John Boehner’s message to furloughed federal workers: “………”

During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Speaker John Boehner was asked by a reporter asked if he had a message to the 800,000 federal workers who are now out of work as a result of the Republican shutdown of the federal government. In response to the question, Speaker Boehner…

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When Will The Department of Justice Arrest John Boehner?

I won’t mind if my lawyer friends weigh in on this…but it seems to me that if I aid and abet someone in the commission of a crime…that I am asking for some legal trouble of my own. But does the same apply if I simply ‘encourage’ someone to break…

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Rep. Mark Takano corrects anti-immigration reform circulated by fellow Congressman

This is absolutely hilarious… When Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) started circulating a letter that complained about the Senate’s immigration reform bill, he may have expected some grumbling from Democrats, but he probably did not expect to get a failing grade. However, when Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) received the letter and…

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House Speaker Has No Spine: No Vote On Immigration Bill

House Speaker John Boehner said he would not bring the current Immigration Bill to the house floor unless a majority of the Republican majority was ready to support the bill. Hiding behind a plaint that the bill was too important to bring to a vote unless a majority of both…

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House Speaker John Boehner Throws Representative Paul Ryan Under the Bus or Not?

Speaker of the House, John Boehner continues to hold the line on the policies and positions that helped the GOP lose the election in 2012…saying it wasn’t the policies that the party espouses that are the problem…but the candidates and personalities that the party chose for their ticket! Huh? Isn’t…

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The Republican tradition of ousting the Speaker

This is worth a read… After a painful rejection by his own party in his attempt to pass a bill to avoid the fiscal cliff, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is at the center of ouster talks. While Boehner is undoubtedly still in a strong position, past history might give him…

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Medicare and the Fiscal Cliff

Representative John Boehner is trying to include cuts and adjustments to Medicare as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. I won’t deny Medicare needs some serious attention to insure is liquidity for the future. But it is far too important and far too complex to be addressed with sound byte…

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