Boehner Thinks Repealing The Fourteenth Amendment Is "Worth Considering"
Not one to miss a good wedge issue that appeals to the lizard brains of his constituency, House Minority Leader John Boehner said yesterday on Meet the Press that he was "open to considering" repealing the 14th Amendment. 'Cause you know nothing says I love the Constitution more than tearing it apart.
GREGORY: Do you support efforts to have the 14th amendment amended at this point?
BOEHNER: Well David, I’m not the expert on this issue. I have read these comments here over the past week. There is a problem. To provide an incentive for illegal immigrants to come here so that their children can be U.S. citizens does, in fact, draw more people to our country. I do think that it’s time for us to secure our borders and enforce the law and allow this conversation about the 14th amendment to continue.
GREGORY: Do you have a position on it?
BOEHNER: Listen, I think it’s worth considering. It’s a serious problem that affects our country, and in certain parts of our country, clearly our schools, our hospitals are being overrun by illegal immigrants — a lot of whom came here just so their children could become U.S. citizens. They should do it the legal way.
And the beautiful thing about this line of attack is that it is so ripe for exploitation, because the real facts are unknowable. Do you have any idea how many so-called "anchor babies" are born in the US every year? Of course you don't; there are no reputable studies. Yet go ahead and google that question and see if you don't get some alarmingly high numbers proffered as fact, claiming that upwards of 500,000 babies are born in the US of undocumented immigrants. 60,000 in Dallas alone! Considering that there are only 4,000,000 births in the US each year, that means that one in eight births--according to the facts pulled out of some right wing nut job's posterior--is an "anchor baby". That's an amazing statistic, and ironically, mirrors the percentage of the US population that is Hispanic. Are they suggesting that all Hispanic births are anchor babies? But never ming that! Hospitals and schools overrun with the children of undocumented immigrants. All taking from you--Mr. Conservative Tea-baggin' Voter--all the things you want: a job, a house, a decent education, affordable health coverage.
It's not the Republicans' obstructionist ways or their fetish for reducing taxes that have done away with social safety nets and public goods like education. It's not the union busting and elimination of tariffs championed by Republicans that made it more affordable for corporations to outsource your job. It's not the deregulation of the mortgage and finance industries that created credit default swaps, counting on you to default on your home. It's not the ridiculous and inflammatory rhetoric of socialist agendas that are forcing you to part with a huge chunk of your paycheck to a for-profit insurance company.
No, no, no...it's the fault of these evil little "anchor babies."
Seriously? How stupid do you have to be to believe this crap?
And what's worse? Boehner knows that while they try to hammer this wedge a little further into our collective psyche, the GOP website touts that the Republican Party was responsible for creating the 14th Amendment.
Although the Republican National Committee touts the 14th amendment as one of the GOP’s brightest “accomplishments,” many high-profile Republicans are now trying to appeal to their far-right base by calling for repealing parts of it. Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), John Cornyn (TX), Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), Tom Coburn (TX), Mitch McConnell (KY), Chuck Grassley (IA) and Jeff Sessions (AL) all back holding hearings on the issue.
And now Boehner joins them, clamoring to destroy one of their "greatest achievements."
this kind of stupid REALLY, REALLY BURNS.
The fact that it's coming from elected officials who should have taken the Constitution 101 class that is offered in the Rayburn Building for new and returning Congress Critters, is not only burining stupid, but PHUCKING SCARY.
Justin Coussoule
http://www.coussouleforcongress.com
Make Change Happen!!
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think Beohner's face burns too.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
the anti-immigration crowd.
To show you how serious they are about this as a wedge issue, they're not homo-bashing the ruling on Prop 8 in CA!
So, congratulations to all of the gay people out there. For conservatives, you are no longer the lowest form of life on the planet. The Hispanic immigrants are! And especially, their little babies.
And of course the fact that the 14th just happens to have the equal protection clause has nothing to do with this.
... isn't that they have these repugnant, un-American ideals about feudalism and oligarchy. It isn't even that they implement some of them and stand in the way of good ideas.
No, the very worst thing about them is that they expect us to love them for it.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
... this country has been an oligarchy from day 1.
We love to have this weird notion about this country being this mythical place which never was. For decades after we won our independence if you were not a land owning white male (read: very wealthy white male) you were simply put shit out of luck. If that is not an oligarchy, I don't know what it is.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
And before that things were even worse.
Progress is hard continuous work.
The notion we love will take a little longer to materialize is all.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
... if you look at the '40s and '50s, we had the largest middle class ever, and during WWII, CEOs only made 14 times as much as their average worker.
But the rich never stop pushing for a bigger share of the pie.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
Exactly.
We once had what we all need again now.
The Republicans took it away with their Voodoo economics.
We are going to get it back.
ixnay must be under the spell of FOX Propaganda Theatre.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I give up...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
he's a clear idiot. all he craves is the power that the Speaker's position will give him if his party wins the House this November. he likely has already measured the chair and desk and had his entire office designed. he can fake 'knowing' about something, but its likely he doesnt understand what he doesnt know. similar to Palin. Boehner doesnt have time for what 'economists' think about the economy, so why should we expect that he'd care to know what the Constitution says? he'd rather play golf, hand out tobacco checks from industry, and smoke cigars in backrooms with lobbyists. all while pretending to care about the 'little people', when its really the 'big rich people' he cares about. John Boehner is more of the same. he's a Tom Delay wannabe. Delay was a real bully, while Boehner is fey considering he crys so often.
Technically Boehner is an "orange" idiot. Or whatever that oompa loompa shade is supposed to be.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
This Boehner guy is really starting to hate America and her freedoms, isn't he.
If being born in America is not proof of citizenship then what?
All other entitlement factors are unacceptable.
Race?
Genetics?
What makes an American if not place of birth.
Parents?
Grandparents?
If so, we'd better all report for deportation to countries of origin.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...get to be born in 'Murka.
strip gays of any and all rights under the law.
and it's also a path to strip everyone they don't like of their rights too.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It is the fastest track to getting rid of one person one vote.
Ed Schultz really covered the billboard and commercial for Boner's opponent in the upcoming Ohio election. Cool that this stuff is really making it big outside of the internet. Ed said he thought the commercial was one of the best ones he's seen and offered to run it every day supposedly. Let's hope it works on the voters of Ohio too.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
people who will vote?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Justin Coussoule
http://www.coussouleforcongress.com
Let's make sure this link always accompanies our stories about the tan man. We need to get Justin elected and get Boner in the retirement home.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
is how boehner blends so nicely with the bookcase behind him. nice shade of orange. and perfect timing for that ad drop of him golfing.
I wouldn't mind him removing the protection for corporations from the 14th... though I'm not to sure that's his primary concern/goal.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Don't you guys understand? We have to destroy the Constituion in order to save it!!!
You know, I was just talking about this in my column. Go ahead and have a read.
I am glad we have a Minority Leader with orange skin. Diversity, you know. Doesn't matter that he is thick as a brick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw0zZttfUaw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Except for the Article II, Amendment 12 and Amendment 25, I can't recall one amendment modifying another that already existed.
The 21 Amendment entirely overturned the 18th Amendment, but as you can see that's not a modification so much as an eradication.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It's a slippery slope. Republicans can't have it both ways, though they always try too.
I think we should repeal his golf privileges. Golfing is not a constitutional right ole Orange One.
Pay no attention to us billionaire greed-heads who pay no taxes and economically rape everyone else.
Lets talk about eliminating the 14th amendment instead. Because all you bigot idiot republicans know it's the $5 an hour bus-boy and fruit pickers that are really screwing you over! Plus, they talk funny and look different. Not real murkins'.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
BOEHNER: Well David, I’m not the expert on this issue.
Another career conservative who doesn't know or understand the constitution.
come on Nicole you can do better. latest figs show Hispanics @ roughly 50mill, 1/6th of the US population.By many estimates on both sides of the issue 7/20mill may be illegal. 1/6th of 4mill births is in the neighborhood of 666,666 (spooky, do the math). but Hispanics have a higher birth rate (2.3 compared to 1.9 avg) than the average so in fact their #'s are higher than 666,666. So by extrapolation as many as 280,000 could/may be considered "anchor babies".to imply that it's not an incentive to have baby here is ludicrous. FWIW do any of you live on/near the border? what is so wrong with bringing our immigration/birth policy in line with the rest of the world?
just asking.
is your kool-aid, dude?
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
And I stand by them.
I am a Californian, so yes, I understand the issue.
Interesting that you only perceive the problem as Mexicans crossing the border. You know that Malkin is an anchor baby too...not exactly Mexican, is she?
Did you know that most undocumented immigrants here actually entered the country legally and overstayed their visas? In San Francisco, there is a huge percentage of undocumented immigrants from Asia, who visit family and then never leave.
I'm just saying that you're swallowing up a whole lot of fear mongering over those scary Mexicans when I don't think you have a complete grasp of the real issues.
what if repealing the 14th gives us progressives the opportunity to stop corporations from being considered people? maybe that's something to consider.
BUT...I would like to see a family tree of John Boner's. I bet big money not 4 generations ago we find an immigrant.
Now that's what I call TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
Translation: I didn't do my homework, Mr. Gregory.
This guy is SO not interested in policy. He has NO idea what the implications are. Someone on his team made the claim, the "press" seem to think it's a dumb idea... um... let's see... I would say... maybe someone might want to think about it. You know, someone who cares.
Go John GO!!! GO! GO ! GO!
Repeal the women's vote and bring back slavery too! HOO! HOO! HOO!
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you." --Mr. Burns
Honestly, he is such a dumb ass...why even take him seriously?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/pa...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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Anything that makes the Repudlickin Party look more like a bunch of inbred stump stupid shitheels is OK with me. Bring it TARDS Bring it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsfKK34SFY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Wonder what these repuke fascists' are gonna do in about 20 years, when the Hispanics and Blacks outnumber the Whites?
I love to see and hear the chirping of crickets when I bring this up to wing-nut in-laws. Especially when I tell them it is going to happen in their lifetime!
They really get flustered when I say that maybe gays and minorities will outlaw marriage for white evangelical Christians. Or demand that whites show papers of origin, since they no longer have more votes. Really freaks them out.
I like to hum the Twilight Zone song when doing it to my extra wing-nutty brother-in-law. It leaves him speechless, which is priceless.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
White will be re-defined as necessary to make whites the majority in the US. It has happened repeatedly in US history and will happen again.
I know on some forms I have to mark the spot that says, White-Non Hispanic.
It's like we don't even deserve a category of our own anymore...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Baenher will do anything for a crisis about now.
Even threaten to dis-assemble the country amendment by amendment.
Anything to take our minds off the debacle Bush and his Republicans
got us into.
The last two years has been a Republican tail wagging orgy.
We know who you are and what you did, Republicans.
No, we don't miss Bush one bit, and get out of our way!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I think what we have here simply, is a cad.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
is worth considering.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
like an orange Homer Simpson. The Republican base definitely gets proper representation.
this whack job has the brains of a golf ball. that interview was a waist of time and so was the topic.
Even David Gregory calls out this pathetic,lying fraud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAFNaowavs
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
the GOP's way of saying: You fnck with my DADT, I fnck with your 14th Amendment. Also known as "two can play that game", the question is CAN the Dems return the FAVOUR ?
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
"Repeal" Boehner , that's what's worth considering .Too much sun for sure .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
he look Mexican to me ...
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
yeah , better check his papers .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Since Birthers want to see Obama's papers, I demand to see Michele Bachmann's and Sharon Angle's brain MRI.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
Now that Boner has got his spray-tan all juiced up so that he and his cast-of-clowns can start their whinging about not being on vacation in Uganda but having to come back to DC, he starts on another Ailes/Cheeeeney talking point. He obviously got his NEW marching order Kool-Aide injection over the last few days from his boss, the flying fat man from palm beach..!!
"Let's try to fool the millions and millions of peons out there and say "we're going to repeal part of the Constitution" !!! They'll believe anything !! So, have a great day at the tanning salon or the soup kitchen depending on who you are... If it's soup, I don't wanna know..
Boner forgets history over two days old, so some say we should give him a pass for just being fundamentally stupid, but I disagree!! AND, based on a pretty fact-driven interview (completely un-explored territory for all republicans) with Heather Gerken (For Yale Law) tonight on Rachel's show, Boner and his gang-o-clowns can not, under any circumstances, get the Constitution changed in the next DECADE - IF AT ALL..EVER... BASED ON FACTS. So what he is spewing IS A LIE...
So again, Boner is an idiot. Give up hope that ANY of his brain will ever come back...It may ALL eventually go down the toilet bowl with the rest of his excess spray on stuff... but who really cares...
DISMANTLING the Constitution, so this is "NOW-A-DAY Republicans" way of saying "we are still doing useful things in D.C.".
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
People should be worried about this one, if they get away with doing this then which Amendment will be next that they will try to do away with?
Today, in the local paper, the idea of trashing the 14th Amendment was being thrown around as part of an easy, quick fix to the problem of illegal immigration. I was amazed, frankly, at how quickly the know-nothings took their marching orders from Blimpaugh and his ilk.
Now, granted, they have no idea what the 14th Amendment does or means, and their gears spin out of control when told that we--'Murkin employers and consumers--are benefiting off the backs of immigrant labor at the same time we rail against it...and that maybe that's part of the problem instead of simply our birthright.
Still, dismantling the Constitution in order to "protect our country" comes just as easily and thoughtlessly as does torturing others in order to "insure our security." Knuckle-draggers have no irony meter.
to think that 14th amendment is for:
-American newborn whose both parents are American citizens.
-American newborn whose at least one parent is American citizen.
That's what the forefathers call SELF EVIDENT TRUTH, soooo for whom that 14th amendment must be ... hummmmm
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
This is just more of the Repugs strategy of feeding the BS lovers their daily dose , keeping them happy , creating distractions and chaos in order to avoid having to answer questions on serious and pertinent issues ... because they can only offer the same boat load of crap that they did under Bush . Like explaining their " logic " when they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 % and at the same time they claim to be so "concerned " about the deficit that was of no concern when they , Bush and Cheney were spending us into oblivion ... they can't explain it because it doesn't add up and makes no sense .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
"Bush and Cheney were spending us into oblivion" I want that question answered, since they call Dems "BIG Spenders"(aka we do the shit, you get the BLAME).
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
...repeal Boner in November.
'nuff said.
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The Republicans desire to rewrite the Constitution in their own Rosemary's Baby image is sigificantly more scary than another Murrow Building or Twin Towers attack for obvious reasons. As a nation we can recover for the first two assaults, I am not sure the nation could survive a Republican's successful assault on the Consitution.
That said, having been born in and having live in Texas for 60 years I do not find the statistic you cited for the Dallas area to be unbelievable. After all we are talking about a metroplex area of around 5M people, just for starters.
One source of "anchor" babies that has not been mentioned, that I have witnessed, which is probably the major source in areas away from the SW border, is legal aliens with working or student visas.
The hysteria of the right on this issue is just that, hysteria, but there is a real problem, especially in the border areas which are mostly rural, arid, and not rich, being saddled with supporting the health and educational needs of unemployed illegals with or without anchor babies. And the Federal Government has been doing nothing much to help for the entirety of my life.
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