Boehner confirms lawsuit against Obama, defends Netanyahu invitation
Published January 28, 2015
FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON - House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that Republicans will sue President Obama over his use of executive action on immigration.

"The president's overreach when he took executive action to deal with the immigration problems in our country, frankly, in my view, is a violation of our Constitution," Boehner said on "Special Report with Bret Baier."

"We believe that the filing of a lawsuit to try to stop the president from - from violating our Constitution is an important step for our institution," he added. "This isn't about immigration. This is the president violating the Constitution, violating his oath of office, and frankly, not upholding the rule of law."

The move to sue has been seen as an effort to appease conservatives who are upset they will be forced to accept a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that does not include provisions rolling back the president's executive actions.

Earlier Wednesday, the White House shrugged off Boehner's threats of a lawsuit.

"House Republicans seem to be relying more and more on the courts these days to challenge the president's authority," White House spokesman Eric Shultz said. "We believe that we acted within the full bounds of authority enshrined to the executive branch, and we'll be defending that."

Last year, the House moved to sue Obama over his administration's delayed implementation of the employer mandate in ObamaCare.

In the wide-ranging interview with Baier, Boehner said he wasn't surprised by the pushback he's received from inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress.

"The Israeli prime minister can also talk with some expertise about the growing threat of radical Islam," Boehner said. "We've got a serious problem in the world and the president just wants to act like it's going to just disappear. And so as a co-equal branch of our government, I don't have any problem at all in doing what I did to invite the prime minister to come to Congress and address those concerns."

Boehner also discussed hiccups he's had with the Republican caucus.

"Listen, I was the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party," he said. "I understand their concerns. I understand their frustrations. But we have a Constitution that we abide by and we're going to live by."

When asked why the House would once again hold a vote to repeal ObamaCare, Boehner said it came down to getting new Republican voices heard.

"We have 47 new members of Congress on the Republican side who have never had the chance to cast their vote to repeal ObamaCare," Boehner said. "ObamaCare is hurting our economy. It's hurting the job prospects for millions of Americans. And it's hurting our whole health care delivery system while at the same time driving up costs for the average American."

Boehner also said Republicans would offer an alternative to ObamaCare by the end of the congressional session.

"There are three committee chairmen that have the jurisdiction over the health care policy in our country and those three chairmen are working together to craft what we believe would be a better approach with regard to health care for the American people than ObamaCare."


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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

The repubs look like a bunch of crying little babies, wanting to sue over any little "violation".

It reminds me of the lady who sued Mc Donald's over the hot coffee she spilled in her own lap.

Why sue? Because they CAN!

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GOP:

Gaslight
Obstruct
Project

A 'little' violation?

Illegally allowing 5 million illegals to enter and trash our country!

Allowing multitudes of illegals that have been CONVICTED of felonies to not only stay but in fact released to commit more crimes on our populace...including MURDERING them!

Communist!



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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

This is who odumbo and the libtards want a free pass!

Iran calls for assassination of Netanyahu's children

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

COMMIES!!!!!!

Republicans are cry babies? Seems to me that our putrid jack-ass of a president is the cry baby. He is all in a huff about Netanyahu giving a speech before Congress. The guy is a child, and a stupid one at that.

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I :heart; Q

Invite a world leader to address congress without involving the state department?

This is unprecedented and down right disrespectful.

Jerks.

The country is seeing Repugnican Jackwads for what they are...Repugnican jackwads. Just keep believing in Faux News, Breitbart and the rest of the misinforming wacky righty media...cuz that's what your good at.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness -
John Kenneth Galbraith

Your democrap leaders are exposed and going down.
It's just a matter of time now.
Exposures are happening daily now.
Communist!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

The lawsuit is going to be hilarious.  The President (Harvard) and his people (smarter than the GOP) have beaten these slow witted and unimaginitive jackasses at every turn. 

That asswipe richly deserves to be disrespected. Congress is just joining in with every other world leader in disrespecting this dumbass.

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I :heart; Q

Surprising that Netanyahu's handlers didn't screen this one.  It's like he'll be speaking to the Garden Club.  Once he see's his audience he'll probably walk out and assuredly fire his agent.    

 

Bebe is thinking twice now. He won't do it because he knows it's wrong. He actually has a conscience unlike some.

Invite a world leader to address congress without involving the state department?

This is unprecedented and down right disrespectful.    Obama has a pen and a phone, why don't he call somebody or write somebody a letter???

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If so, he'd be the only world leader afraid of the PiC.

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I :heart; Q

As PM of Israel he's probably not afraid of anything, he is probably just figuring out what a clown car Congress is. 

who is paying for this waiste of time lawsuit?

we are...

lower my taxes and cancel the lawsuit.

it's the right thing to do...

Ben Nen knows that he is being used to insult the President politically. He also knows that he will be punished politically for allowing himself to pay the president an insult. Lets see how the alleged lame duck deals with this. Don't be too surprised when this backfires.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

wait! we haven't paid for the unnecessary war in iraq.

now, an unnecessary lawsuit, that can't possibly be won?

idiots.

how 'bout you waiste less money, we pay less taxes.

we have more money. spend it.

and the economy improves.

just a thought.

too logical for boner...