HOPEFULLY, BOEHNER’S REPLACEMENT WILL BE AN IMPROVEMENT

…The soon to be gone (I hope!) John Boehner

 

John Boehner’s foot continues to find his mouth.

 

Even though John Boehner (R-OH) has said that he will leave as Speaker of the House after the Republicans dig up another patsy, he hasn’t stopped being a total jerk.  Instead of working with his party to help with some real efforts for stopping the current mass shootings occurring all over America, Boehner tried to make the gun issue the fault of the Democrats.

 

When asked whether or not it was time for Congress to reconsider the research on gun violence instituted by the Centers for Disease Control, House Speaker John Boehner turned it all back on the Democrats.  “If Democrats really cared about gun violence, they would have done something about it when they were running Washington”, House Speaker Boehner exclaimed.

 

"We've seen far too many of these," Boehner said, before putting the blame on Democrats.

 

"In '09 and '10, we had Democrat majorities in the House and Senate. We had a Democrat president. And this clearly was not a priority for them. The president can rail all he wants," Boehner said, referring to President Barack Obama's angry denunciation of Congress' failure to address the issue.

 

So it’s all the president’s fault for not going after an issue that is at the top of the GOP’s list to ignore whenever possible.

 

Let’s see, wasn’t it in '09 and '10 when the president and his administration were a bit busy picking up all the garbage that had been left for us by the Bush Administration? 

 

As I recall, the president and the Democratic Congress were overwhelmed dealing with the worst recession since the Great Depression; and the saving of the US auto industry; and dealing with all the mortgage foreclosures.  And wasn’t the US unemployment rate at 10% while we were losing 800,000 jobs per month.   Oh, and let’s not forget the president trying to bring home all those American troops at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Leave it to “Speaker Boner” to make a stupid remark about the president over a background check issue that the Republicans wouldn’t allow to come to a vote, even after all those innocent children were gunned down at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

 

"We've seen far too many of these, but it's not my problem”, said Boehner. 

 

John Boehner is the highest ranking elected Republican in the country. When specifically asked about background checks, "I'm not the expert on each of the individual policies, but I would like to see us work together on finding effective ways to reduce these horrific incidents."

 

But just to make it clear, a Senate Democrat did try with the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey bill, which would extend background checks to gun shows and Internet sales. But the Republicans in the Senate killed the bill with a filibuster.

 

Let’s also not forget all the bills Democrats introduced in the House that were shuffled off to committees, never to be heard from again.

 

Therefore, Mr. Speaker, spare us your sympathy for those innocents killed by those guns they should not have been allowed to purchase.

 

Shame on you for trying to shove all the blame on to others.  You too, have some responsibility.

 

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