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Wow! Do you suppose Boehner and Rubio heard the Pope's words?

Posted: Sep 24, 2015

CNN - Pope Francis challenged America Thursday to embrace millions of undocumented immigrants and join a global campaign against climate change and poverty, wading undaunted into the nation's volatile politics in a historic address to Congress.

Francis also called for a fairer world economy, the abolition of the death penalty, the protection of ethnic and religious minorities, the outlawing of the global "blood" trade in arms and the protection of the family.

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Wonder where some of the SC justices were? - sm

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Were they making a statement by not attending?

Boehner resigning! - nm

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Good - guess he doesn't want to be thrown out. - Conservative

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nm

As a conservative, it's about time. It's a tactical move - by the establishment GOP.

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Throw us some red meat in the hopes that we’ll calm down and acquiesce to their anointing another RINO as our nominee (Jeb).

I wish McConnell would resign too. - NM

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nm

Something is definitely going on. I can see him - resigning his post as Speaker, but

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to resign from his congressional seat entirely?

He's probably been bribed handsomly for all his - backstabbing.

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John Boehner's willingness to fund rather than oppose - Barack Obama's lawlessness is a

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chief reason for his forced resignation from his position as speaker of the House. It is no small issue that, during Boehner’s tenure, Judicial Watch is widely acknowledged to have been performing the oversight that is the job of Congress. We’ve heard from many members of the House who are embarrassed that its committees and oversight have become a joke under Speaker Boehner. Judicial Watch has had more success investigating the IRS, Benghazi, and Clinton email scandals than any House committee under Boehner’s direction.

And the House simply could not stand for John Boehner to allow the funding of the very things he told the American people that House leadership opposed. Corruption in government grew under Speaker Boehner’s watch.

The House, Republicans and Democrats alike, should take the pending leadership change as an opportunity to restore the House of Representatives to its preeminent role as defined under the U.S. Constitution. A reform and restoration agenda for the House should be the priority of any new speaker and leadership team. It is time to commit to combatting government corruption; time to focus on effective and serious oversight and accountability of an out-of-control federal government; time to end the DC transparency crisis; and time to restore constitutional governance and the rule of law. The elected despotism that the Founding Fathers warned about must end.

It is called governing, NOT - funding lawlessness

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All those things you say you oppose? Guess what, I want those things. I am one of those who voted in President Obama. We are THE MAJORITY!

Just because Republicans gerrymandered enough districts to get a majority in Congress does NOT mean they can become little Mussolinis, honestly!

The same tone deafness evidenced by the lovely Ms. Davis, so hurt that we told her Jesus didn't love her (which her and her ilk tells gay people all the time, but somehow that's different) is what I see with the ultra right wing of your party.

There is no despotism, it is elected govt and most of us want it. Boehner was at best obstructing, at worst allowing the tea party jokes to get away with murder.

History will not be kind re these shenanigans. The right wing tea party who controlled the Republicans have slowed the economic progress of this country and came up with not one iota to help the middle class, no jobs, no infrastructure funding, nada.

Guess what, a lot of Democrats under W's administration did NOT want war, did NOT want tax cuts for the wealthy, and I can imagine what would have happened if they shut down the govt over these things.

If you can't get enough votes (even with your majority), you don't have a hissy fit and shut down the govt. That is childishness and obstruction, not courage.

Congress sends Obama a budget and if he vetoes it - and "shuts down" the govt

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so be it.

The best way to counter propaganda is to provide the truth in a widely disseminated way, easy for the public to see with minimal effort.

The Democrats under W did not want war? They voted for it! - John Kerry even did before he voted against it

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I have fatigue over that subject. Believe what you want. In the words of Hillary, what difference does it make?

Based on lies! However, there was...sm - VTMT

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one person who did not believe the lies. That person was Bernie Sanders. Any questions?

Democrats who voted for the Iraq War - Truthhurts

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YEAs — 77
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Breaux (D-LA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Edwards (D-NC)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA) Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Torricelli (D-NJ)

Based on lies...Republican deception - Bush in Bed with Bin Laden

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Not Lies. Look it up - H.J. Res. 114 - Truthhurts

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There were 77 yeas in the Senate. Only 23 voted against it.

H.J.Res. 114 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002

The list of Dems who voted for it were:
YEAs
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Breaux (D-LA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Edwards (D-NC)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Torricelli (D-NJ)

AKA, Destroying America, the recipe. Mix in - being overwhelmed by illegals.

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nm

Unless your heritage is Native American - Nick

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At some point your people were immigrants, too.

GO TED GO! Since Obama is taking to a SHTF - situation, a wise conservative would

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set up a prepping situation SOON.

The lawlessness is getting worse. Let them reap what they have sown. Fully.

Ted Cruz is the most conservative choice. The #1 - choice for social, fiscal, and

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constitutional conservatives. He speaks with passion, acts with conviction and abides by principle. There are many good men in the field, yet Cruz stand alone.

I hope you are only pushing Ted for Prez and not Speaker - Truthhurts

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One problem - He can't be Speaker. He's a Senator - it has to be a House Representative.

No, just commenting on his speaking at Values Voters, - probably posted in wrong place.

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nm

:) Okay. Wasn't sure. A lot of people don't know - Truthhurts

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crap about the government including some on this board, don't know who the Representatives or Senators are and what their jobs are, yet they vote.

For example, just the other day, I read a comment on a news site who thinks the government consists of a President and Congress has no say in the laws or spending. That's the kind of people that shouldn't be allowed to vote. Probably the same people who voted for Obama because of his eloquent pie-in-the-sky hopes and dreams. Hope they're happy now.

Always good to set the record straight. Ditto about the lack of - understanding on the function of govt.

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I'm not surprised though. "A republic, if you can keep it" said Ben Franklin. Now I know exactly what he meant.

Any time a conservative voted against him they were - demoted. Good riddance.

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My vote, Louie Gohmert!

How can anyone be demoted in Congress? I don't understand your statement. - Truthhurts

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There's nothing they can be demoted to....they're Representatives elected by the people. They only way to be demoted is if they weren't re-elected by the people.

On the committees they are serving on, not in Congress. - NM

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:if i is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with - Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama

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administration for the rest of its tenure, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal - and then, presumably, to land in a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama’s priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House."

Ted Cruz quote: After his speech today, Cruz expressed concern that Mr Boehner may be ending his tenure with one more effort at negotiation with Democrats.

Wow, I sure hope so! - That would be great!

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Poor Ted. Not. He is the biggest jerk in the Republican party and the most hated. Also, I understand he has yet to prove he is an American citizen.

If Boehner has done that, all credit to him. He finally got things moving in a productive way, even if one of those things was himself moving out!

They're going to vote on a "clean" CR without PP funding - Truthhurts

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Sad to say that the Dems have the Republicans over a barrel. The Senate will just block anything that has PP defunding in it. They've done it twice now through their ignorance. They can't get the thick heads to see the truth about PP. Their names will be known and it's up to the voters to boot them out if they're up for re-election in 2016. What they are doing is condoning murder.
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"Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to pass a spending bill before government funding runs out.

The biggest hurdle? Demands from House conservatives that even a short-term continuing resolution (CR) funding the government block money for Planned Parenthood.

“The three of us agree that we want a short-term CR,” Reid told reporters after the 90-minute huddle in the Oval Office. “We want to make sure the riders are off that, we want to make sure the government will be running.”

The top Democrats sought to present a united front in the contentious budget battle, even as Reid and Pelosi extended an olive branch to their Republican counterparts, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), to sit down and hammer out a comprehensive budget agreement.

Reid said that he is prepared “to do something meaningful with spending” on a broader funding deal after the short-term measure is passed. But he would not reveal how much additional spending he wants.

Pelosi stressed that she wants spending talks to proceed in a “timely fashion” so Congress can tackle other pressing issues, such as highway funding and a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.

“It’s important for us … to have not a very long CR, but one that enables us to have the time for the appropriators to write an omnibus bill,” she said. “The sooner we can agree on a number under which we can write the appropriations bill, the sooner we can get this job done and address some of the other issues.”

McConnell has warned against a standoff over the issue, arguing it would hurt the GOP brand just as the 2013 shutdown over ObamaCare damaged the party.

“We’re going to fund the government,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday. “We’re not going to shut the government down and we will do that hopefully into late fall.”

He was going to leave in 2014, but stayed on after Eric - Cantor. Too bad for the Democrats,

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he always voted in line with them.

I saw the SC justices there...SM - Attention to Detail

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sitting near the front of the audience wearing black robes.

with a few missing...SM - Attention to Detail

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Maybe they had other commitments they couldn't get out of. I don't see why some missing it is that important. There was a contingent there representing the SC.

Of course they were, 3 SC justices who are usually - proudly Catholic failed to show

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I guess they were pretty much saying that their version of Catholicism does NOT have much time for that help the poor nonsense, just like their rulings as SC justices (witness the dastardly Citizens United) have made this country into a den of inequality and deregulation, where money that SHOULD be paid in tax is actually used to buy politicians! That's A-OK with them.

Those who usually wear their Catholicism like a badge (I'm looking at you Scalia, you jerk) were unsurprisingly not present, go figure.

They are not the Supreme Catholics, the pope is the Supreme Catholic. They obviously would rather not listen to what he has to say, so arrogance anyone? They are bums.

OMG! Boehner did hear the Pope! - sm

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I guess he just cannot stomach being a Republican anymore.

Praise the Lord!

He's the one who invited the pope. - NM

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NM

The UN is picking which refugees America is taking in. - Our sovereignty is being handed over to the UN

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We really have no representation. I don't care anymore.

The Catholic Church inside is going through the - same thing as America, you have

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conservative leaders who want to adhere to God's Law, and social leaders who believe in "social justice" and "collective salvation" liberation type theology. They also believe in abortion.

It's saddens me, but I see in the foreseeable future a mix of - communism and liberation theology.

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Bad times ahead.

Mother Theresa must be turning over in her - grave.

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My sister-in-law used to be the parish coordinator for one of the - largest Catholic Churches in town.

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I asked her once about why Catholics loved illegals so much. She said."because they are the ones filling the pews now and most of the nuns and Priests come from other countries. Very few are U.S. citizens now.:

I'm really getting sick of reading all the anti-Catholic crap on this board. - xxz

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It's getting old.

The pope has injected himself into politics. It's fine - with me.

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He at the UN suggesting the US open the Southern border to all. - Guess what, it ALREADY IS!

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Please do not forget that the Pope - Nick

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is not only the head of the Catholic Church, he is also the Head of Vatican State, which is its own separate country. Yes, the Vatican is a country. That is why the pope was speaking at the UN. Not as a religious leader--they did not invite the Dali Lama or any other revered leader of any religion. The Vatican is its own sovereign country. (And just an interesting aside, when you travel in the Vatican and you need to use an ATM machine, the instructions are in Latin! They really are.)

If the Pope sounded more like a spiritual leader than a poltician, - then I would agree with you, but he

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doesn't.

I, too, am Catholic - AM

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and am mighty sick of Catholic bashing. The church is in a time of growth. I predict good things will come from this papacy.

Sounds like one of my hospital accounts on the West Coast - Practically all the docs as well as patients

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are foreign. I have actually had one of the doctors say "undocumented immigrant" in his reports.

Looked like he couldn't stomach SOMETHING.. - I thought he might barf during

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the Pope's speech. He looked a little green around the gills. Maybe he just needed another drink.

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