Boehner: We'll vote on Syria if Obama backs repeal of Obamacare.

[Drunken Irishman]

[mike_c]

1. really?

Did you make that up-- -- or did he really say that ?

[hlthe2b]

2. I see no evidence of him saying anything other than House would consider in September. This is NOT

something to joke about. WAAAAAY too serious.

Provide a link if there is one or say so if this is sarcasm.

[pnwmom]

13. Black humor is always about something serious.

I thought this OP was a welcome relief.

[hlthe2b]

18. Had he given that confirmation at the end, I would agree...

[WCGreen]

23. the lack of a link was my clue...

[Control-Z]

3. Ha!

It wouldn't surprise me, though, if that were really the case. God damn republicans.

[NuclearDem]

4. Oh, Boehner, you piece of orange shit.

[The Magistrate]

5. Sounds About Right, Sir

In regard to the Congress and its Constitutional authorities and duties, we are in about the position of a monarchy when the King is stricken with imbecility or insanity. Divine right and all be as it may, he is incapable of ruling, and must be ruled around by one expedient or another. Congress at present is barely competent to name a Federal building, or designate a commemorative day for corn muffins or hummingbirds. Its present leadership and members, taken as a body, are no more competent to pass on matters of state than a seven year old is to sign a hire-purchase contract.

[LittleBlue]

6. I've never been happy to see Boehner talk

Until today.

Hope this gets bogged down in the endless congressional Obamacare clusterfuck. They'll be ready for a vote in 2058. Assuming Obama doesn't claim that congress is passing and he's going to war anyway, this could effectively end the Syria war talk.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. So many years of appeasement and triangulation

And here we are.

[winter is coming]

8. LOL, that quote's gonna haunt him. n/t

[krispos42]

9. I can't tell if you're joking or not

And the fact that Congress is this crazy, so that such a headline could easily be true, makes me sad.

[pnwmom]

14. It's a joke.

And a funny one, too, IMHO.

[krispos42]

16. Or it might be prophetic

I'd love to see a reporter ask him that question, though...

"Speaker Boehner, will you approve military strikes in Syria if the President agrees to repeal ObamaCare?"

[pnwmom]

17. Yes, it is scarily close to the truth. n/t

[Chan790]

31. It's a proof of Poe's law, if nothing else.

"Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

[Cali_Democrat]

10. LOL

[KittyWampus]

11. We'll bomb Syria but it has to be offset in the budget. LOL

[davidpdx]

29. Take it out of his booze budget

On second thought let him drink himself to death.

[kentuck]

12. Oh Screw you!

Your bottom-sucking carp ass will be gone after the next election.

[fadedrose]

15. Sweetie, are you and Boehner both drunk now?

I admit he looks like a great drinking partner (I remember from my younger days what a good drinking partner looks like).

But you gotta get hm sobered up before the Congress votes on 9/9...

[UTUSN]

19. Bwah-hah, but it ain't that far fetched he would say that. n/t

[tblue]

20. That's truly sick.

What a twisted gnarly little gnome.

[iandhr]

21. It took me a sec to realize its a joke.

But it wouldn't surprise me if he said that.

[tblue37]

22. I call Poe's Law! nt

[City Lights]

24. Go fuck yourself, John.

_|_

[yodermon]

25. DAMMIT DRUNKEN IRISHMAN, DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS!!!! n/t

[gopiscrap]

26. If he said that then that fucker

needs to be impeached...so much for doing your constitutional duty.

[Billy Love]

27. Good. Neither will happen.

So the Syrian war resolution will be DOA.

[thelordofhell]

28. I here The Onion is hiring

[golfguru]

30. Syrians opposed to Assad say Obama’s decision will embolden his regime

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-inspectors-leave-syria-as-us-pushes-forward-with-plans-for-military-action/2013/08/31/9d79d88a-121b-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html

Obama leaving door open to Syria strike, even if Congress votes no

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/31/obama-leaving-door-open-to-syria-strike-even-if-congress-votes-no/#ixzz2dbunIJlK

[oldandhappy]

32. drunken ireshman pulls joke on drunken boehner

[jberryhill]

33. Good one

[B Calm]

34. LOL, would not surprise me if he did come out and say something like this.

[krispos42]

35. And 4 days later...

[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]Syria debate gives John Boehner an escape hatch

By Greg Sargent, Published: September 3 at 12:00 pm



House Speaker John Boehner just announced that he will support Obama’s request for Congressional authorization for the use of force in Syria. “I’m going to support the president’s call to action,” Boehner said. Eric Cantor agrees. It remains unclear whether majorities in Congress will go along, but that’s a big step forward for the President.

Boehner’s announcement brings up another element to all of this: The war debate actually gives the House Speaker a way out of the big mess he’d expected to find himself in this fall, thanks to conservative demands for a series of epic confrontations over Obamacare and the debt limit.

<snip>

Meanwhile, Ornstein suggested another possibility, though it seems unlikely at best: what if some Republicans inject the debate over Obamacare and funding the government into the argument over Syria?

“It’s not likely that anyone will do that,” Ornstein said. “But is it beyond imagining that in some of these negotiations, someone says, `We really want to go with you on the war issue, but our constituents are against it, You want your resolution on Syria? How about {delaying or defunding} Obamacare?’”

<more>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/03/syria-debate-gives-john-boehner-an-escape-hatch/




D'oh!