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Barack Obama

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sheshe2

(93,026 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 11:43 PM Aug 2014

The President goes it alone. (BOG POST) [View all]

The President carries the weight of his office, that alone is immense. The burden in my opinion is staggering. Now he carries the weight of Congress as they have refused to do their jobs that they are well paid to do. They have left it all on his shoulders.













This seats taken and it will be until January of 2016.



He stands alone in so many ways, it's not just the GOP. So many have left him adrift.

Hypocrite Boehner Demands Obama Act Alone On Border Crisis While Suing Him For Executive Action

After being forced to pull their own bill, House Republican leaders issued a statement that was full of the sort of crazy-making that the nation has come to expect from the GOP.

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So, it is not okay for Obama to take executive action unless the House is paralyzed by Republican infighting? Speaker Boehner and the House Republicans can’t have it both ways. They can’t claim that President Obama is a tyrant, and then tell him to act without them.

On an issue as important as the humanitarian crisis on the border, the House of Representatives must weigh in. Boehner has to realize that his own inability do the most basic part of his job is not going to help his lawsuit.

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The next time someone in the media laments that both sides do it, and Washington is broken, remember this moment. Both sides don’t do it, and Washington isn’t broken. The Republican Party has broken Washington because their constant infighting has made it impossible for the House Republicans to accomplish anything.

It isn’t President Obama’s fault that John Boehner has let the lunatics run the asylum.


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/31/republicans-destruct-boehner-forced-pull-border-bill-pass.html

Then the brave bold Congress left town for 8 weeks. Way to go GOP! Not!

BOG

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