Let's look at this realistically. Defunding this would NEVER EVER EVER pass the senate, so it was all for show anyway right? So why the hell did we need this Rooney legislation?
The non-binding resolutions had support and that is what Boehner should have presented. The resolutions pass, and throws the ball and pressure into the Senate with Obama on the defense.
Now the freakin House looks like a bunch of stupid chumps. Boehner made a bad call, but he did it trying to please the "real" conservatives who can't understand how to get the hell out of their own way.
Just unbelievable.
First off, doesn't Comrade Romney need you back at the phone bank?
Now, WTH? Realistically? Since when has doing the ****ing job he ran for been throwing a sop to the rabid conservatives nipping at his heels? Whatever happened to words ****ing meaning things in the English language? The constitution puts the President in sole charge of the military and it's employment: check. The constitution gives congress the control over the military's purse, as well as defining who the President is allowed to target with that military he's in charge of. When democrat presidents started playing fast and loose with the definitions, and sending that military places it didn't have a congress' authorization to go, Congress responded by publishing the War Powers Resolution (not Act), another of those non-binding resolutions you were touting so highly up there. WPR, added definition to the Constitution's general terms: military in places which aren't home, where bangs are banging and metal is more prevalent in the air than mosquitoes for more than 90 days is overstepping your authority, and says that Congress shall reassert IT's authority if you cross that line.
So, now we have a president who hasn't just crossed the constitutional line of US troops in harms way without a declaration of war, he's crossed the line set by WPR by keeping them there longer than 90 days without congressional authorization, and when the office which he holds requires Boehner to put his ****ing foot down, remind the President that he's not a ****ing one-man *******ed show, and remove access to the taxpayer funds that the President is using in his abuse of authority, you think ANOTHER non-binding resolution should do the ****ing trick?!?! Based on what evidence, 'lurker?
The freakin' house looks like a bunch of chumps because their speaker has amply demonstrated that the law - Constitution included - and it's requirements don't mean dick to them, compared to the personal exercise of power. That when the law required them to pull on their big-boy underwear and do the hard thing because it was the right thing, they got down on their ****ing knees and gave O'Bozo's dick a great big, wet, slurpy suck, just like good little eunuchs. Boehner has nobody to blame for the aftertaste in his mouth but himself.
