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Boner Warns Obama After Midterms: Don't 'Poison the Well'
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/boehner-warns-obama-after-midterms-dont-poison-well-n242831House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday warned that the president will "poison the well" for the new Congress if he takes executive action to address the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
"I've made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this Congress," Boehner told reporters at his first news conference after big GOP gains in Tuesday's midterm elections.
"When you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. And he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path," he said.
Boehner also pledged that the House will vote to repeal the president's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that repeal legislation would be headed to a certain veto and perhaps failure in the upper chamber.
"I've made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this Congress," Boehner told reporters at his first news conference after big GOP gains in Tuesday's midterm elections.
"When you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. And he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path," he said.
Boehner also pledged that the House will vote to repeal the president's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that repeal legislation would be headed to a certain veto and perhaps failure in the upper chamber.
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Maybe he's orange from all the fire? 
" 'President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?' One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. 'Fire is catching!' I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. 'Fire is catching, and if we burn, you burn with is!" - Suzanne Collins "Mockingjay"
Boehner passed out dead drunk while watching the Mockingjay Trailer.
Anatomically correct!
