I'm assuming at this point that he can't even hear himself talk...otherwise he'd be amazed at the sheer stupidity of what he just said.

then again, maybe he couldn't hear his own words over the sound of Rubio being crunched under the party bus.

That was one long, insightful article.

tl;dr

The Boehner Show's about to be cantor'd.

The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

What was it attached to?

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

On September 21, 2010, the Senate filibuster of the bill was maintained in a 56-43 vote; it would have taken 60 votes to stop the filibuster and continue the progress of the bill.

Step one: Filibuster everything
Step two: Wait a while
Step three: IT DIDN'T PASS THE SENATE WHICH DEMOCRATS CONTROL!!!

James!: borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

On September 21, 2010, the Senate filibuster of the bill was maintained in a 56-43 vote; it would have taken 60 votes to stop the filibuster and continue the progress of the bill.

Oh gosh, so that should mean it passed the democratically controlled house too, right? I mean that was before midterm elections, so borg simultaneously complimented and insulted the democrats in a single expulsion of derp. Well done borg, you're a testament to stupidity.

Boehner is actually more interested in the Dreamsicle Act, where only people who are vanilla at the core and unnaturally orange on the outside get full citizenship.

borg: The Dream Act passed the Democrat-controlled house in 2010 and was killed by Republican filibuster in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Otherwise you were spot on.

jbc: Boehner is actually more interested in the Dreamsicle Act, where only people who are vanilla at the core and unnaturally orange on the outside get full citizenship.

whar funny button? whar?!?

I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it.

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.


/GOP2012: WE GOT NUTHIN'!

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

This is proof that it is possible to type two sentences which are independently true and still be a goddamn liar in sum.

oh, I found a better image that explains Boehner's stance.

Between Boehner and McConnell and Cantor, I don't know who to respect LEAST.

Hello! My name is Baluckla Fartbongo. You killed my bill. Prepare to die!

Because Republican's pulling a bill is the fault of Obama!

More "Republican Personal Responsibility" - I am not responsible for my own actions!! others are!!


I think the American people in general are not too smart, but I think they will even see through this BS.

WHAR SUPERMAJORITY

Asking questions of the president is frowned upon as it may put them in a position where they have to take a stand or make a definitive statement.

We can't have that.

Does he ACTUALLY think the American people are THAT stupid/naive/memory-challenged? Oh yeah, right - they are, so he'll probably get away with it.

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Yes it lost 55 YEAs to 45 NEAs! - guess which side voted for what.

James!: borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

On September 21, 2010, the Senate filibuster of the bill was maintained in a 56-43 vote; it would have taken 60 votes to stop the filibuster and continue the progress of the bill.

Sorry 56 to 43.

Guys, be fair. The weeping cheeto is a well documented alcoholic. It's perfectly reasonable that he doesn't remember how the Dream Act played out.

Does this man know that the President CAN'T PASS BILLS because ITS THE FARKING LEGISLATIVE BRANCH'S JOB. Who is the is John Boehner and what does he do for a living?.....Oh for farks sake!

This was their strategy, after all. Filibuster everything, take credit for what they could, blame Obama for what they couldn't, and dodge any blame for themselves.

Problem is, that strategy failed when it became obvious that the GOP was happy to destroy the middle class & let the poor suffer to keep their pockets lined and their lobbyists happy. That's why they have no chance of taking back the Oval Office. Now, they're just trying to keep their seats - if they can continue to filibuster everything, well, nothing's changed, and they will be able to use that during the 2016 Presidential election to keep a new Democrat from taking the Oval Office.

Vote Republicans out of the Senate and the House. It's the only way.

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

It was fillibustered in the Senate. Democrats didn't have 60 votes.

GOP Senators who previously supported and voted for DREAM in 2007, like Susan Collins, joined the filibuster simply to deny the Obama administration a "win".

But somehow according to GOP talking points and people who suck on GOP cawk, Obama just now made the issue "political" on Friday.

cabbyman: Asking questions of the president is frowned upon as it may put them in a position where they have to take a stand or make a definitive statement.

We can't have that.

Are you lost?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it.

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.


/GOP2012: WE GOT NUTHIN'!

I knew I had you favorited as "Dr. Seuss" for a reason :)

Corvus: borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Yes it lost 55 YEAs to 45 NEAs! - guess which side voted for what.

45 NEAs?! In MY Senate?

I mean, a single teachers' union has bankrupted all 50 states plus Canada and Mexico, and now you're telling me that there are 44 MORE of them, and in the US Senate to boot?

Fark me.

// the NEA is probably the single largest factor in my education, and not because of the teachers I had

cabbyman: Asking questions of the president is frowned upon as it may put them in a position where they have to take a stand or make a definitive statement.

We can't have that.

Damn lazy trolls can't even post in the right thread.

I am having problems seeing any cons to the Dream Act. If you have lived here most of your life.....have graduated from high school/GED then why not? I realise that both sides are using this for political ends....but still.

Paul Werdel June 19, 2012, 11:10 AM 819

John Boehner, after killing the DREAM Act earlier this year, calls out President Obama for killing the DREAM Act.

Is this a tweet?

stoli n coke: The weeping cheeto is a well documented alcoholic

You'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) just how many lawmakers are alcoholics. I bet it is higher than the rate of alcoholism among the general public.

BTW as an immigration attorney who as we speak has a Guatemalan couple in the next room giving the paralegal their teenage children's bio info, I'm really getting a kick out of the killing of the Dream act.

This move from Obama couldn't have worked out any better for him and his party.

1. It gets Latinos to the ballot box to pull the D lever come November
2. It basically torpedos any chance of Rubio being the VP nom
3. A few Republicans look like racist asshats
4. A few non-racist asshat Republicans get to fight with the racist asshats in a nice little GOP civil war
5. Romney's wishy washy non-position on the topic looks amazingly weak
6. Boeher's flip flopping here looks boner-rific
7. The "generic consensus" position on the topic in the country overall gets pushed leftward

Bulleye. Home run. Critical hit. Touchdown. A++++ will troll again.

stoli n coke: Guys, be fair. The weeping cheeto is a well documented alcoholic. It's perfectly reasonable that he doesn't remember how the Dream Act played out.

God I wish someone would call him out on that...

Obama: "Look, John, I know you're at the bar everyday by 3:45pm, getting a head start on what will be the first of many, many whiskey sours, but for cryin' out loud it hasn't even been 2 years since you guys filibustered it!"

I love the usual suspects comments at the end of that article. Typical "WAHHHHHHH! I DENY REALITY, SO I'LL POST WHAT I WANT TO HEAR!" crap from them.

Losers.

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Actually democrats do not CONTROL the senate. Democrats have a majority in the senate, however since everything requires a 60 vote supermajority, no one really CONTROLS the senate.

karnal: I am having problems seeing any cons to the Dream Act. If you have lived here most of your life.....have graduated from high school/GED then why not? I realise that both sides are using this for political ends....but still.

But then brown people will want to come here even more and have anchor teens.

DeltaPunch: MaudlinMutantMollusk: I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it.

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.


/GOP2012: WE GOT NUTHIN'!

I knew I had you favorited as "Dr. Seuss" for a reason :)

That's genuine Groucho Marx right there (Horse Feathers)

Ambivalence

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Actually democrats do not CONTROL the senate. Democrats have a majority in the senate, however since everything requires a 60 vote supermajority, no one really CONTROLS the senate.



I still control the senate.....from my throne in Hell

I really don't farking understand this:

"It puts everyone in a difficult position," Boehner complained at a press availability Tuesday, arguing that the administration's unilateral move made reaching a bipartisan legislative solution more difficult.

Unable to embrace the new policy for fear of angering their conservative base, and unwilling to attack the decision on its merits for fear of further angering immigrant voters, Republicans have resorted to a very narrow critique: By short-circuiting Congress, and putting members in an awkward position, Obama's made achieving a legislative solution more difficult.

What the fark is this "difficult position?" Either you agree with the policy or you do not agree with the policy. Either you want to pass legislation like this policy or you don't.

Either Obama did something you like, making it easier for you, or he did something you oppose and you're going to try and repeal it. Not just "making it difficult to do the same thing"

The only answer is Obama has made their legislative efforts "difficult" because now they can't agree with Obama because if they did they would be AGREEING WITH OBAMA. And then the world would end.

These whining Republican legislators can go DIAF.

Esc7: I really don't farking understand this:

"It puts everyone in a difficult position," Boehner complained at a press availability Tuesday, arguing that the administration's unilateral move made reaching a bipartisan legislative solution more difficult.

Unable to embrace the new policy for fear of angering their conservative base, and unwilling to attack the decision on its merits for fear of further angering immigrant voters, Republicans have resorted to a very narrow critique: By short-circuiting Congress, and putting members in an awkward position, Obama's made achieving a legislative solution more difficult.

What the fark is this "difficult position?" Either you agree with the policy or you do not agree with the policy. Either you want to pass legislation like this policy or you don't.

Either Obama did something you like, making it easier for you, or he did something you oppose and you're going to try and repeal it. Not just "making it difficult to do the same thing"

The only answer is Obama has made their legislative efforts "difficult" because now they can't agree with Obama because if they did they would be AGREEING WITH OBAMA. And then the world would end.

These whining Republican legislators can go DIAF.

They're put in the difficult position of either taking an unpopular stand, or publicly agreeing with Obama.

karnal: I am having problems seeing any cons to the Dream Act. If you have lived here most of your life.....have graduated from high school/GED then why not? I realise that both sides are using this for political ends....but still.

It used to be something that had some modicum of GOP support. It was originally proposed by Orin Hatch in 2001. It was re-introduced in 2007, co-sponsored by Charles Hagel and Richard Lugar, and had the support of of Several GOP Senators.

But now it's simply dead in the water because they can't let sekret kenyan mooslem "win" something.

karnal: I am having problems seeing any cons to the Dream Act. If you have lived here most of your life.....have graduated from high school/GED then why not? I realise that both sides are using this for political ends....but still.

Some people have an obsession with what the right wing media tells them is "fair," and for reasons only they understand, having a broken system of legitimate immigration means that we have to punish people who came here as children and who have demonstrated that they will be productive members of society. They see it as a giant queue of millions of people, and the graduates and veterans who grew up in America are cheating somehow. I don't fully understand it.

If pressed for clarification long enough, you sometimes get a thinly-veiled racist statement about brown people not being real Americans or trying to "take over."

borg: The Dream Act passed the house and was killed in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate.

Does it hurt to be so stupid?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: DeltaPunch: MaudlinMutantMollusk: I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it.

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.


/GOP2012: WE GOT NUTHIN'!

I knew I had you favorited as "Dr. Seuss" for a reason :)

That's genuine Groucho Marx right there (Horse Feathers)

I caught that movie on TV a few weeks ago, and when that song was going I couldn't help but think of the current attitude of the GOP.

For those not hip to the teachings of Marx: Link