John Boehner: I Criticize Obama So Much Because I Want To 'Help' Him

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On CNN's State of the Union today, Candy Crowley pointed out to House Speaker John Boehner that in recent weeks he has been ramping up the attacks on President Obama. He has recently taken to accusing Obama of acting beneath the office of the presidency in how he has chosen to pick fights with Congress. However, despite Boehner's sharp tone in decrying Obama's tactics, he insists he is doing it to try and 'help' the president.

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Boehner insisted that he still has a 'very good relationship' with the president despite everything he's said, including his campaign-style rhetoric claiming that the United States 'can't live for four more years' under Obama. Boehner made it clear that while he may have amped up the rhetoric, he has not attacked the president on any personal grounds.

Boehner went down a whole list of examples to argue that he really believes Obama is acting beneath the office of the presidency in his election-year posturing.

'The president's getting some very bad advice from his campaign team because he's diminishing the presidency by picking fake fights, going after straw men every day' the president's bigger than this. The presidency is important. America has big challenges, big fiscal challenges, and we've got big challenges for our economy, and the president ought to be working with Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill to address the big issues that affect the American people.'

When Crowley pressed him on if this is just election-year rhetoric, Boehner said, 'Someone needs to help him out, so I thought I would.'

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• Yeah ' he's been wanting to help Obama pack since 1/20/2009.  I want Obama and all Dems to move Boehner from the Speaker's Office to the back bench.  Since 2010, and the GOP House takeover, Congress has fallen to single digit approval ratings, the Tea Party held America hostage and brought about the Tea Party Downgrade, the Republicans have held the middle class tax cuts hostage to tax cuts for the wealthy.  Time to send the Tea Party and the Republcians home.

• Obama is beyond help, Mr. Speaker.

  All but the thickest headed liberals know Obama has failed.

   If reelected,he will continue in his lawlessness, hand out more billions to his supporters and weaken the country further by appeasing and aiding the enemies of the US.

  Our allies don't trust us and our enemies laugh at us. This has to stop.

• Creeper of the House Boehner needs some self help.. Stop with smoking, crying and tanning beds.

• Yep, the same way Boehner criticized GW Bush?

  Who is the divisive one, when Boehner said that in 2011, he got 98% of what he wanted and he was happy?  Who again walked away from negotiations in Aug of 2011?  Who again did his number 2 man, Eric Cantor and 20 other TBGOPers and Newton LeRoy Gingrich, met on Jan 20, 2009, the day pres Obama was sworn in, plotting to defeat him?  

  Now again, who is dividing America?

  How about helping America and pass the Job Act, Boehner?

• History may not not be kind to John, since he presided over the least popular House, ever, that among other things sought to put the US into default, intentionally, just so they could say that the incumbent President 'failed'. In fact opposing Obama is the stated goal of the House tea party caucus, which John can not control. So he has not been a success as the speaker. That is not his fault, but the fact remains.

• John, you are the most useless and pathetic Speaker in House history. You currently preside over one of the houses of the absolute least popular Congress in American history. Watching you screw up every single day is bordering on painful. You seem about as unprepared for the job as Herman Cain was for the nomination but at least Cain was interesting. You are a joke and an embarassment.
   
  Now, all of that criticism is really me just trying to help you. Don't' you see that?

•  ''..weaken the country further by appeasing and aiding the enemies of the US.'
  Aiding the enemy? Not just a stretch, but just a huge lie.
  But birthers like you don't wanna hear anything truthful anyway, so no surprise you accuse the president of 'aiding the enemy'. Just pure baloney Gloves, and you know it.
  Maybe ask the family of OBL how he gave aid to him? He's dead, maybe you didn't hear the news.??

• Why didn't he cry this time?

• Obama is toast.
  Kimmel's jokes last night showed that even thought he lefties don't say anything they are aware of all his scandals, broken promises and failures and they don't like it.

• If Mr. Boehner and the Republican party have been trying to help the president and the country since 2008, god help America should they decide they actively want to harm it. I'm not sure what they could do that's worse than the poison pill packed legislation, the attempts at holding the country hostage and the record number of fillibusters of the past few years and I'm not sure I want to find out.

• Boehner has had a very tough job and I think that, in fact, he is more of a friend to Obama than people realize. If Boehner had been a tea party nut, like Bachman or Gohmert, the damage done by this dysfunctional House would have been worse.

• And Romney is whitebread that can't figure out which side he wants buttered.

• Imagine'a Catholic lying on a Sunday!

• ' the president ought to be working with Democrats and Republicans on
  Capitol Hill to address the big issues that affect the American people.'

   This is exactly what President Obama has been doing,John.
   It has been very clear the Republican/Tea Party folks have done nothing but try and obstruct everything this current President has set out to accomplished in his 31/2 years.
   John,just what have you done to help President Obama and your fellow Americans to go forward?
  To 'clean'up some of the endless piles left by the Bush/Cheney Teams time in office?

• Take that kind of help and shove it. If he wants to help, he should get his caucus in order and do something for the country. Because all he has done so far is hinder. 

• Boehner is a vintage political leech, but I'm comfortable with that. Even though he's a crook he at least appears to dwell on planet Earth. Now, the freak show he presides over, however'.

•  I agree he has a tough job.
   It is a tough job keeping the young guns in control.

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• Boehner probably does want to help, but his hands are tied by a caucus out of their collective minds. If he even breathes about a deal with this White House he gets crucified. The sad legacy he'll leave is as the Speaker who could do nothing in the ultimate do-nothing congress.

• People who don't learn from their failures, blame others for their failures.
  The Blamer-in-chief can't be helped.

• Boehner is useless. To everyone.

• A very nicely placed return volley winner'

  'Straight down the line!

• John Boehner just wants to help, by criticising?

  'That's nice!

  Many would like to see you leave the tanning beds behind and less of the tearful welling up at given moment.

  It's becoming increasingly difficult for people seeing a grown and tanned man crying profusely'

• John Boehner: I Criticize Obama So Much Because I Want To 'Help' Him 

  I praise Sarah Palin so much, because she's so frigging intelligent. 

  If the above statements carry even an iota of sincerity ' JUST SHOOT ME.

• The problem is not that John Boehner was unprepared, but that he was over-prepared to play the mindless political games of obstruction. Boehner knows how things work in Washington as well as anyone. He just took it upon himself as a given that he would be rewarded for stopping Obama's agenda at all costs. The irony is that he could very well lose his precious Speakership as a result.