Boehner pulls a boner
By scarce Friday Nov 06, 2009 1:00pm
How is that the House Minority Leader can mix up the U.S. Constitution with the Declaration of Independence in front of a Tea Party crowd at the Capitol? Who knows..but he did it, pulling out his pocket copy of the Constitution he's pledged to uphold, today pledging to "stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident ..."
Here's more from Rick Sanchez.
SANCHEZ: Representative John Boehner is House minority leader, the number-one Republican in the House of Representatives. So, you would think that he would know the Constitution, know in fact the thing backward and forward.
Well, I got a bit of a surprise for you. Here's John Boehner just a short time ago, House Minority Leader John Boehner addressing a TEA Party rally against health care reform from the marble steps of the U.S. Capitol.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BOEHNER: This is my copy -- this is my copy of the Constitution. And I'm going to stand here with our founding fathers who wrote in the preamble, "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."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SANCHEZ: And do you believe it? As most fifth-graders would know, the document Boehner was quoting is not the Constitution. It's the Declaration of Independence. I'm assuming he knows the difference, but maybe -- I'm not sure now.
Those other House Republicans, the ones behind him, Roy Blunt, Virginia Foxx, Michele Bachmann, are they cringing in despair or just blissfully unaware? I don't know.
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he may be soft spoken, but he's just as much a right-wing idealogical nut job as the rest
the lad has spent way to much time under the tanning booth lamps
Assoholic
Ignoranus:stupid asshole
Typical C&L insult reaction. Knee jerk slanders to a joyous occasion.
Boehner perfectly represents his constituency! They are even less literate and educated than he is!
This is a win win! Not a chance to insult!
But few things change on C&L...it is still the best, Neiwert can't find a concrete verb and C&L commentors prefer insults to analysis!
Here's hoping you feel so much better about yourself. Have a nice weekend!
thanks for your "concern"
I can still here him.
Thanks, MSM.
Definitely the latter. These dumb jackasses couldn't find their fat ass with both hands.
If they don't even know where to look, how are they ever going to interpret any of it? These are your educational tax dollars at work.
Boehner has a mere BA. Blount has an Masters in history, and Foxx has a doctorate (education). Bachmann is said to have an LL.M (taxes) and has a J.D. She's a lawyer? Of course, this is all from Wiki, so they could have written all this themselves. All those degrees, and still stupid. Wow.
HEY!! Do not go blaming the poor teachers for the stupidity of the Republicans. Reagan was very successful in stripping civics out of grade school curriculum because they believed teaching of the history and workings of our government had a serious liberal bias.
I am complaining about the purposeful withholding of education for as many people as possible to prevent the majority from knowing how much and in what way they are getting screwed by the ruling classes. Just like you are.
The guy over Boehner's right shoulder knows Boehner's fucked it up. Blunt has no idea. Foxx just wants to know whether they're serving meat loaf today.
Aaahahahahahaaaaa!
Now that's about THE most spot on analysis I've seen yet!
Ya i heard they had to grab foxx. she was boarding the bus with all the other teabaggers muttering something about bingo.
Gracia Massimo!
they just knew enough to yell "God!" when they got to that part.
There is no box in the world big enough to hold these tools.
of the teabagger movement that is more perfectly accurate than simply noting the fact that the guy was so horny to shout "UNDER GOD!" at the top of his lungs that he forgot to say "indivisible." But I can't come up with a better encapsulation of the movement.
i think that is Lenin when asked about the american ommunist party said " A useful group of idiots.". It seems as though that is how Koch and Armey feel about the teabaggers.
recitation?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, (unless they aren't white) that they are endowed by their creator (my balls) with certain unalienable rights,(profit over people) that among these are life,(free ride on taxpayers) liberty (for us only) and the pursuit of happiness. (my misery loves company)"
unalienable rights
he means unavailable rights
don't expect to actually get any.
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institutions for a reason...their Base
OUT...
and now they are free to be Republicans
And not one of the "million" teabaggers in attendance got that gaffe.
Do you think any of them ever read either document in their life?
They quit reading at "all men are created equal."
Yeah, because at that point it didn't sound like fun any more.
I always though some of these insecure white men would sigh with relief when reading every man is "equal" if you catch my drift... ;-)
Took me a second, but I got it. :)
come across the line where the jack boot is placed on the throat, oh wait, that's the line they're going to insert later.
I doubt any of them would be able to comprehend what the documents say and mean.
If Boner splooged it, it was true
these GOPers couldn't get the Pledge of Allegiance right, another rep thought the constitution was written by the pilgrims from the Mayflower, and then at some point their flag took a dive and fell on to the floor (probably the poor thing couldn't take the sheer stupidity and decided to off itself).
Bunch of tin pot patriots...
... real diverse group they've got up on the staage there.
... they had WASPs of all shapes and colors. Ranging from fat pale white asshole, to thin bright orange oompa loompa.
But I want an oompa loompa NOW!!!!
The corporations who control these repubs must be sitting back laughing their asses off. These people are so easy to control because their stupid.
Qualifications: Stupid bastards who are willing to take bribes from big business.
Why does anyone expect more from republicans?
Yeah, well I'm not so sure about some Democrats.
The people behind him were experiencing orgasims due to his attendance at their tea bagging party.
You have to love it when an ass makes a bigger ass of itself.
Fascists weren't too knowledgable about the US Constitution...except that it makes good toilet paper.
Screw John Boehner....one of the most dishonest people to ever serve on the hill.
We should not poke fun because perhaps Boner cannot read. ;o}
Especially because the 'We the people' line is in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
Maybe Boner was holding a copy of a parking ticket in his hand (which he hadn't read either.)
the Jehovas witnesses drop on my doorstep as they run away screaming.
What do you do to them? I can't stop laughing.
Jehovas are easy. Answer the door with a beer and cigarette and start screamning "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PORCH". Works every time.
My stomach and my cheeks hurt. I am silly tonight.
I simply and nicely tell them they are traspassing and I am calling the police. That usually gets them moving and grooving toward the street.
for showing up first thing in the morning on a f*cking Saturday or Sunday. Without exception, there they were at 8 am sharp banging on our door like was some sort of emergency.
I think we ended up rotating on which roomate opened the door, and there was somewhat of a competition in our household to see who came up with the most creative way of telling these idiots to sod off.
I just put up a sign in my yard that reads "I DO" SUPPORT THE FREEDOM TO MARRY. Now, they don't even come to the door.
When I'm in the right mood, I relish the approach of any of the cults who seek to convert me to their mind viruses.
Oh, I'm not rude. I'm more than civil. I invite them in. I sit with them, and give them something to drink.
And then I have an honest chat with them. I tell them I'm an atheist, I tell them why, and I tell them I think that they are very dangerous for doing what they're doing. Not that I blame them. They're not evil in intent. Just very dangerous.
The horror that appears on their faces is priceless.
Were you sporting your birthday suit?
... of the Declaration of Independence, is often cited as being one of the most influential pieces in the later development of the socialist movements of the XIX and XX centuries.
Funny that, eh?
What color does Boehner's face turn when he's embarrassed?
Yellow like his belly.
My wish is that someday soon the Republicans, who are provably wrong about almost everything, will become irrelevant. How many times are they going to be laughably, ridiculously wrong before the people who follow them get it. The Boehner's and Bachmann's and Blunt's are not the ones being fooled. At some point I hope the light bulb starts to glow. But then again I have been waiting that for about 40 years.
It all about the image and not the words, that is the rethug way.
Boehner should stick to public crying.
And Palin should stick to winking.
It just goes to show, you get what you pay for. If you vote to put a buffoon in office, you’ll have a buffoon in office.
This is a good time to flip the head-line of this particular post.
Boner pulls a Boehner...
House Minority Leader pulls a Boehner...
No, the Reslugs are just plain ignorant about everything as usual.
To be wiping his ass with the wrong document.
Obviously, never watched Schoolhouse Rock.
"oompa loompa..."
http://satiricalpolitical.com/2009/11/06/john...
Why fill up ones head with them big fancy liberal words?
Everone knows the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are the same thing-
Just like how communism, fascism and socialism are all the same thing! ; )
they are all "isms" really, so I guess they assume the constitution and the declaration are all "tions"
Same difference, the devil is in the details. And we all know the devil is a liberal, and thus they don't have to worry their beautiful minds with mundane stuff like details. Plus they are rich, and we all know that is the only validation needed in this great country of ours...
Boner always pulling out his nicely tanned boner when cheating with his favorite Reslug whores.
You know how you can't UNREAD something once you have read it? I am really hating that fact of life right now.
LAZY. STUPID. OPPORTUNISTIC. UNINFORMED. ILL-PREPARED.
Orrrrr:
A CRIMINALLY DISINGENUOUS, IDIOT OF A BONER.
Most of the time, a Boner is a good thing. Most ladies (and some men) will salivate at the sight or the mere thought of a Boner.
Well, not for this Boner.
it is the copy provided to all new immigrants for studying for the citizenship test!
now how did a republican get the bad copy mixed in when he needed the good copy
Usually they mistake it for toilet paper.
You know who I bet got the biggest laugh about this, our constitutional lawyer, President Obama. You just know Gibbs said, Come here and watch this video. I'm betting there was laughing until crying over this one.
Who are the Democrats that are undecided or voting no on health care tomorrow? What can we the voters do to put the fear of death in them?
Evidently teabagging works on those cowards.
We could threaten to put a horny Michale Bachmann in their bed tomorrow night
Teabaggin'
Gross.
right in there in the GOP's Declaration of Constitutional Independence. Give 'em a minute. They'll find it.
the quote is from.....but, he had to READ it!!! Who doesn't learn those lines from the Declaration in like 7th grade??
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Not only does Boehn-Head have no idea that what he is reading is not actually the Constitution, but he has no idea what the Declaration of Independence means.
Honestly, does he realize what he's saying? He supports the notino that all people are equal, and have the right to pursue happiness? Really?
If my pursuit of happiness involves lesbian sex, am I entitled to it, John? How about to marry my lesbian partner? Am I equal?
If my pursuit involves smoking marijuana in the privacy of my own home, am I entitled? Is that my right?
If a corporation gains so much economic power that it literally controls my life through absurd health care policies and threats of dropping my health care policy, is has my pursuit of happiness been infringed? Am I equal to the "person" of the corporation?
You know something, Boehn-Head? FUCK YOU! Fuck you for mistaking the Declaration for the Constitution, you uneducated fuck! And fuck you for reading those precious, sacred words like a mindless zombie with no care for what they mean!
Michael Steele (using Bush logic): "How dare you impugn a man citing a patriotic, red-blooded document. Besides, the Constitution, the Declaration and the Magna Carta all say the same thing, don't they?"
Is that a copy of the Declaration of Independence in your pocket, or are glad to see a bunch of teabaggers?
Is anyone here surprised ? LOL . It appears that this generation of Repug leaders had their high school diplomas and College degrees purchased for them by their wealthy Repug parents , just like the great decider did .
I am not only unsurprised at Boehn-Head's mistake, but I will not be surprised when the Republicans and FUX News argue that we all know that he meant the Declaration, but that it doesn't matter anyway, since the Declaration and the Constitution are the same in spirit.
According to wiki, the Preamble to the Constitution is:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] 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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_...
That's it. Without the footnote, of course. :)
By the way, the language of the Preamble is far less eloquent and meaningful than what Boehn-Head mistook it for.
.... because it says, quite clearly, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE - that is, do what is best for the welfare of American citizens, like reform health care.
We do have to be careful about invoking that phrase. There is no enumerated federal power simply to do whatever the federal government feels is in the general welfare at the time. If the Constitution were interpreted that way, there would be no limit to the federal government at all. All it would have to do is invoke the general welfare clause.
The enumerated power is simply to "tax and spend" in the general welfare. Had Obama been a better Constitutional scholar himself, he could have distinguished the enumerated Constitutional power from "Socialized Medicine" by arguing that all he wants the government to do is set up a spending program that will help the economy and unemployment by ensuring that Americans have health care. Perfectly Constitutional. Unlike, say, the British NHS, which actually hires and fires doctors, and runs the health care of the UK.
The Constitution then sets forth the framework through which those goals are to be achieved, and it's tied to the Bill of Rights.
It's never been a blanket permission / 'the state is always right', IMHO, unless you're riding the Unitary Executive Express like King George XLIII.
... technically, a system like the British NHS could have been perfectly constitutional also.
There is nothing in the constitution which establishes our duty of maintaining the world's largest military budget either.
I have no clue why people tend to walk on constitutional eggshell when it comes to things like welfare and healthcare, while completely ignore the other departments and programs which are also not enumerated in the constitution, have a larger budgetary footprint, and have a dubious lack of compliance with the stated goal by the US constitution of promoting the common welfare.
... a stooge of the ultra right-wing lunatic fringe of the Republican Party. Whipping out the Constitution as a prop to stir up the base as needed (it is, after all, "just a god damned piece of paper"), but has never actually read it.
Conservatives conflate the DoI with the USCon all the time because the USCon often times goes against what they are trying to argue.
... the only guy on Capitol Hill who routinely carried around a copy of the Constitution and could discuss it eloquently was Sen. Robert Byrd.
I thought about Sen. Robert Byrd and wonder what his comment would be on Boehner's speech.
I hope this is a wake up call to every member in Congress. Several of them must be thinking they better brush up on the Constitution just in case they start getting questions about it.
speech on the Senate floor on Constitution Day. I quite enjoyed it.
But doesn't Dennis Kucinich carry his copy of the Constitution everywhere too? I could swear he whipped his out last year at one of the primary debates...
Kooch's has words printed in it.
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the US constitution is one of the shortest and more condensed ones out there. And these idiots can't even get its preamble right.
short. But leave it to them to fuck it up anyway!
Not to mention they were too useless to catch the flag before it hit the ground. And here just the other night that lady troll was bleating about how we liberals disrespect the flag!
he said hell when it fell, and not one of them objected. Excellent display of Christian and Family Values.
Further proof that they don't want people with brains in their party. They want the loonies, crazies and nuts. The party will self-destruct, leaving the Dems (damn it) and hopefully a new strong third party.
If, in fact, the Republicans go the way of the Whigs (which I doubt), the newly emerging parties will only continue business as usual.
The Democratic Party will split into the Progressocrats and the Conservacrats. The latter will absorb the sane once-Republicans, and the former will be marginalized.
And nothing will change.
I've been considering for awhile now that the conservative Democrats and the repugs are the true majority in Congress. I hope I'm wrong.
I'll bet no one in the crowd knew he was wrong either. Assclowns all of them.
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someone's getting a gift certificate from the U.S. Government Book Store.
http://www.gpo.gov/
A long time ago, someone said that ignorance is bliss.
It looks like there's a whole bunch of blissful idiots out there just teabagging away....
And they all vote Republican.
BTW...I thought pulling a boner was Carrie Prejean's job.
Oh well....wrong again.
;-)
BOEHNER: This is my copy -- this is my copy of the Constitution.
Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free...
Psst hey stupid it isn`t that ….
BOEHNER: Oops ok here is the Constitution
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty
Psst idiot that’s not it….
BOEHNER: Err ehh well here I go
To be, or not to be……no ummm lets see…
What a tool.
LOL
Thank you Ohio for giving us this genius.
Boehner was a loser before all this...now he’s a laughing-stock, too.
Yeah, America is in a crisis.. and guess why? Because we have greedy selfish crap like him voting against everything to better our country,
This guy is an idiot....and he's become corrupt in his pursuit of power.
Hey bonehead we need to fix our health care system.
Everyone is worth saving and treating- anything else is inhumanity 1O1.
Ohio -plez it’s time to boot this old man- out on his @ss.
... aren't these reps supposed to be sworn in to defend and abide by the US constitution? And isn't it clear Mr. Boehner, nor many of those reps would not know the US constitution if it kick them in their asses?
So, why aren't the Dems requesting a vote of censure against these idiots who don't know the Constitution, yet they swore by it, and thus it makes sense why the GOP has been wiping their derrières with the law of our land.
Seriously. Are the Dems so tone deaf as to miss this opportunity to give these idiots a fatal blow?
I agree that many of the reps would not know the US Constitution if it kicked them in the ass. But that goes for both sides of the aisle.
Just listen speech yesterday, how he slurs his words. Between the suntan booth and alchohol, he doesn't have many brain cells left.
Boehner should be indicted along with his buddies Blunt and DeLay for money laundering.
Oh I forgot....we are suppose to look forward and not back.
Remember when Limbaugh did the same thing in his big CPAC speech not all that long ago? The right doesn't care about things like "accuracy" or "history" or "sobriety". As long as you're angry about things you may not completely understand and/or can take everything BeckMalkinLimbaughHannity tells you as gospel truth, you're a "patriot".
along with Rep. Akin who screwed up the Pledge of Allegiance. In the meantime, they continue to get the best health care, payed for by me, and their sons and daughters continue to attend the best universities.
The Teabaggers were non the wiser.
here in Georgia at one of the town hall meetings. A Paul Broun surrogate just about said Boehner's words verbatim. I was lucky enough to get to a microphone and suggest that if they were going to hand out copies of the documents, they might benefit by reading them first.
constitution. They don't give a shit about the constitution. The only thing they care about is their cushy fucking job. Not a one of them ever had any reason to be in government except to further their own greedy self serving needs.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America. Did you see Markos slap the shit out of tancredo? Always the coward tancredo ran away saying it was a low blow for markos to point ot that tancredo didn't go to veitnam when he was called because of a nervous condition. Yea he was a coward back then also.
I hate these fucking chickenhawks!
not sworn to protect the Constitution (that I know of) there is one blogger (that I know of) on this site who has made the same mistake. While we were having a disagreement on whether the Constitution granted rights or protected them.
"The Bill of Rights lists our "inalienable" rights solely as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
The Constitution--which does grant us the rights of freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, freedom to congregate, freedom of religion, etc.--was written to codify the government for the people, of the people and by the people."
Not only did they get where it came from wrong, they even thought it listed those three as solely and not among. Accidents happen.
you "wannabe" scholar. Do not try to play in the major league with a minor league mentality.
take your own advice. I know the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution but neither The Bill of Rights nor the Constitution lists Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, that is from the Declaration of Independence which is not part of the Constitution. The Blogger had them confused same as Boehner.
The wingnuts continually quote from the Declaration so they can utilize the "Creator" reference and perpetuate their fiction that this is somehow an official Christian nation. Nowhere in the Constitution is there mention of God, the Creator, or any deity, or even "providence" - just We the People.
.....Boner
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