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Boehner Speaks at Tea Party Rally
Waving a copy of the Constitution before a sea of "Teabaggers," Republican Rep. John Boehner declared his opposition to government-run health care Thursday—calling the bill the "greatest threat to freedom" he's seen in his 19-year career. CNN
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Ruckus
At least being outside making a speech he can work on his tan.
floridabob
You gotta love ol' Bonehead! He is the only source of amusment in this whole "debate".
crymeariver
My thoughts exactly. Instead of getting his butt to doing the people's work, he is outside trying to get a tan why we foot the bill.
akasya00
Trolling for votes anyone, anyone?
Spartann
TINA BROWN AND HER CREW NEED TO GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH SOME REAL LIFE TEABAGGERS..... THEY CAN BE FOUND "HANGING OUT" IN NYC, AT THE EAGLE BAR........ BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW WHERE THEIR STOMPING GROUND IS, DON'T YA MISS TINA GURRRRRL ???
DeeAmbro
Watching Fake News? BTW, I wonder if Fake News will cover some of the signs seen at the rally. Here's one particularly odious one: it's a stack of naked, dead bodies from Dachau Germany. The poster reads "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945. This is who the republicans are in bed with. Actually, I'm sure Fake News won't cover it at all, so you'll have to (gasp) change the channel to see it. Disgusting people, these teabaggers.
Spartann
Hey DeeAmbro...you should go to the Eagle Bar with Tina Brown ... I'm sure she'd be happy have you tag along ....Have fun meeting all them BIG BAD NYC Teabaggers.....
maspring
Conservatives read the Constitution the same way they read their Bibles. They pick and choose whatever is expedient and ignore whatever doesn't support their position at any given time.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Because the words "promote the general welfare" don't support Boehner's ideology he's happy to pretend they don't exist.
On a side note: Many of his supporters are perfectly happy with a selective reading of both the Bible and the Constitution. It allows them to base their positions on something that sounds noble without actually having to live up to the ideals that they pretend to support.
The problem comes when they try to convince other people of the rightness of their positions. Other people who are not trained to read the Bible or the Constitution selectively will not be persuaded. They will see Boehner and company as intellectually inconsistent at best. Disingenuous or downright stupid at worst.
For that reason, Boehner's display changes no minds. It simply feels good to the base but accomplishes nothing beyond the immediate gratification.
It is, in short, a big obscene display of public masturbation.
Spartann
Hey maspring... Last time I checked, promote means: support or actively encourage, not mandate....What's the word mean to you ?
maspring
Thanks Spartann.
In reading my post selectively you help to illustrate my point.
As for a direct answer to your question: Mandate is not the same as force. But the mandate is not the thing in the health care bill that the conservatives are upset about. If it were they could have been supportive of a single payer system in which there is no mandate.
Here again conservatives are selective. They have no problems with mandates as long as they are mandates that they agree with.
Pregnant? Conservatives would be more than happy to mandate that you carry the child to term.
Spartann
maspring..... Please don't get me started on that subject....I need not make "my" peace with my God ...... What you do with your sucker and ask of "your" God is what "you" will do... Your the one that makes that choice...and nothing I can say or do, would ever be as tough on you.... Cause your choice will be with you forever.
floridabob
Maspring, that's a pretty accurate assessment. Unfortunately to be lost on several of the readers,
amanda07070
Where did maspring claim that it was anything other than the definition? Where did maspring say the word "mandate"? What I read was "Because the words "promote the general welfare" don't support Boehner's ideology he's happy to pretend they don't exist."
This is what you got? Really, that's it?
BTW - Man, that guy is drunk.
piktor
You are all missing the bigger point in this video:
Uncle Bonehead is holding the Constitution and reading the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
Uncle Bonehead pretends to say "unalienable" but says "unalliable".
This is the Leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. Congress but shoots blanks in defense of "freedom".
Uncle Bonehead is a laughable moron, leading his like-minded colleagues to ridicule. This idiot is a clown for the history books.
dougiec
Where did John Boehner keep this copy of the U.S. Constitution when George Bush and Dick Cheney were in office?
floridabob
My guess would be the same place George and Dick did.
amanda07070
Good one.
cbl99201
Is it "unalienable" rights (per Boehner)? I always thought it was "inalienable" rights.
piktor
Uncle boner uses the right prefix, but he completely misses the word and comes up with the opposite - "unalliable".
Furthermore, uncle boner is citing the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, not the Constitution !!
This GOP moron has assaulted grammar, history and plain facts in defense of his so-called freedom. Which means he is a slave to his pathetic ignorance. Not surprising, though.
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"Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred." Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523:
You can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. All individual's have unalienable rights.
Inalienable rights: Rights which are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights. Morrison v. State, Mo. App., 252 S.W.2d 97, 101.
You can surrender, sell or transfer inalienable rights if you consent either actually or constructively. Inalienable rights are not inherent in man and can be alienated by government. Persons have inalienable rights. Most state constitutions recognize only inalienable rights.
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From Declaration Of Independence:
"...We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness--" etc...
Sharonkathleen
You would think that he would have known that he was quoting the Declaration of Independence instead of the Constitution.
wbishop12
HAHA!!! Boehner is such a dumbass!!
andrew0823
Ooops he must have forgot that he ahd to speak and had his three martini lunch...clearly slurring his speech. He's the best they got!
magoo363
Boehner is the Republican version of the Kool-Aid man. He is orange instead of red, skinny instead of fat, and instead of saying "OH YEAH!" he just comes out and says "OH NO!" But on top of all that the Republicans line up and drink up his Kool-Aid.
crymeariver
All I can say is I hope his "year-long" tan is simply from a bottle. Otherwise he better keep his day job; he will need his GOVERNMENT-RUN health insurance when he comes down with skin cancer in the future.
bleedingheartmex
man ! he is if not drunk close he is slurring words great stuff
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