I don’t know what was going in, but Michelle Obama was not feeling whatever John Boehner was trying to say, check out this GIF and video of Michelle’s eye roll below.
I mean…damn! can he just let the first lady eat in peace! Lol At least the Inauguration dinner turned out a bit entertaining for the rest of us.
I must say that I’m rather surprised republicans would actually want to change the Constitution. After their constant incorrect criticism of Democrats being against the Constitution, it seems rather hypocritical. The reason republicans want to change the Constitution is because it’s an election season and they pander to their base on this issue. First lets take a look at what a couple of the top republicans said, here’s John Boehner on Meet The Press,
Next, Rep. Phil Gingrey supports changing the 14th amendment oh Hardball
Congressman Brian Bilbray even at one point mentions rich illegal immigrants having children in the US.
Considering all the concerns illegal immigration can be solved without changing the amendment. Like Rep. Gutierrez said on Hardball, these issues can be solved with enforcing the immigration laws. Republicans don’t want to do that now, since election time is approaching, they would rather nothing gets done in Washington.
Attacking the children of illegal immigrants wont stop illegal immigrations. Doesn’t even make sense. Immigrants don’t come to America just to plop their kids in America and leave them here with no resources. They come to America because of jobs. We need to start enforcing laws that prohibit the hiring of illegal immigrants.
Changing the 14th amendment this way would only increase the number of undocumented illegal immigrants. Not only would Mexicans be hurt, but any person in America with at least one parent who came here as an illegal immigrant, including some politicians like republican Bobby Jindal. Imagine all the crap most Americans would have to go through just to prove they are American. Technically everyone except, Native Americans, are all children of immigrants.
Let’s look at the part of the 14th amendment republicans want to change, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”. Think about if that wasn’t apart of the Constitution…it opens the door for more government control. Not to get into a slippery slope scenario, but why even open that can of worms up?
It even seems rather odd that republicans like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are pushing for a 14th amendment change. These two have been staunchly for fair immigration reform and haven’t been in full lockstep with the republican party….
Lesson to learn here is that the republicans only love the Constitution…except when it goes against their personal political agendas. This issue is being brought up now because it’s purely for political and 2010 election reasons. I hope people can see through the foolery.
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This was supposed to be a substantive discussion on improving the health care reform legislation. Unfortunately, the republican party didn’t get the memo that they need to present ideas and not campaign rhetoric. It constantly consisted of republican members telling lies and Pres. Obama having to be like an adult and teach these kids a lesson. Case and point, John Boehner who wants to keep bringing up the lie that the bill funds abortion. How many times do we have to go through this?! Health Care Reform does not fund abortions, it’s not in the bill, it can’t be in the bill because it’s federal law that abortions not be covered! But like always, Boehner has little to offer so he runs to his little black book of GOP talking points. Here’s the exchange between Obama and Boehner, later on even Pelosi called him out for lying.
Like mentioned before on this blog, John McCain could not stop campaigning during the summit. He only spewed talking points to benefit himself because he knows the republican base he needs doesn’t care about substance.
Next up and the last example of failure was Eric Cantor. As always, he brought his favorite prop, the long health care bill. It was highly unnecessary.
It’s really a shame that Pres. Obama has to tell republicans that bills are long and yes, there’s a lot of words and stuff. I know the GOP doesn’t like to read because it might cause them get facts mixed up with their talking points, but c’mon. Just read the bill and you might have better ideas to contribute. Here’s more of the exchange between Pres. Obama and Eric Cantor,
Again, very little substance but instead what we have gotten from the republicans were a replay of last year. In my opinion, this is only proof that most of the GOP is unwilling to work with democrats and therefore they need to get the bill through with or without republican support.
It’s a shame, that even considering that some republican ideas are in these bills, that they are unwilling to compromise and vote for a bill that will save thousands of Americans from dying because they don’t have health insurance. A bill that will not allow insurance companies to rip off their customers because there is no competition. A bill that would save employers money and not take as much from pay checks to fund employer based health care. Unfortunately, democrats are dealing with facts while republicans want to continue with their talking points. It’s pretty obvious who cares about their personal gains instead of the American people.
Clearly republicans feel backed into a corner now that a moderate health care plan from dems was revealed, a plan that even republicans could get behind. Even opposing this would continue to prove the point that the GOP is just opposing health care reform for political purposes. Here’s the weird press conference that Boehner held today in which…well, we pretty much got insight into the republican health care alternative they were talking about.
Here’s the brief transcript via ThinkProgress,
QUESTION: Will the Republicans put their alternative online for 72 hours as well?
BOEHNER: Uh, we’ll uh, we’ll have our ideas ready. Don’t worry.
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QUESTION: Is it your plan to have one Republican alternative that you all would get behind and endorse?
BOHNER: We have a number of ideas that we would like to proffer in this process, and we’re not quite sure how the majority intends to proceed. And so until we understand how they intend to proceed, it’s pretty difficult for us to have a solid plan.
At least he’s finally being honest with the American people or maybe he’s bull-shitting us, either way he just let us know the GOP doesn’t really have a plan. All they have are “ideas” within their “heads” 
Why can’t the GOP get behind a plan? It’s not hard, we know what it is, it’s nothing.
Parties are fun, but that’s what the weekends are for. But, not for house republicans that don’t want to make progress on key legislation. Most couldn’t even afford to go to John Boehner’s beach party, but I’m wondering if any of us regular people were invited. Anyways, here’s the invitation. You can read more about it Think Progress.
