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Speaker Boehner Warns House Republicans Not To Celebrate If ObamaCare Is Overturned
Conservative Nation News ^ | June 21, 2012

Posted on 06/21/2012 3:26:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(The Hill) -- Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned Republican House members not to to celebrate if the Supreme Court rules against the healthcare law.

"There will be no spiking of the ball," he wrote in a memo to the conference. "Republicans are focused on the economy … We will not celebrate at a time when millions of our fellow Americans remain out of work."

The memo came after a tense morning when the Supreme Court could have issued its ruling, but did not.

The next possible day for a decision is Monday, June 25. Justices could also issue a ruling later next week.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey Jonnie your one of the reasons the Republicans are called
“The Stupid Party”. Find some Balls man.


21 posted on 06/21/2012 3:50:37 PM PDT by Pompah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

GLOATING!

22 posted on 06/21/2012 3:54:10 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Happy Rain

Spike the ball AND say told ya so...then introduce repeal if every aspect of this disaster.

No celebrating my azz.


23 posted on 06/21/2012 3:55:20 PM PDT by Adder (Da bro has GOT to go!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
the independents piss all over themselves when they hear that

Actually, that doesn't happen at all---see 2010 for many examples. But that is the spew the media and beltway "consultants," like Rover, want you to swallow.

24 posted on 06/21/2012 4:00:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FUJB!


25 posted on 06/21/2012 4:05:48 PM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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To: MNDude

No, Boehner is absolutely correct: there should be no celebrating/gloating.

What there needs to be is serious commentary and resolve that SCOTUS made the correct decision in protecting the Constitution and our Republic. We can expect the Left to to thermonuclear over this: OUR job is to protect the integrity of the Court as they continue and expand their attempts to tear it down. I believe that this decision only marks the latest chapter in this fight. Celebrating/gloating plays right into our enemies’ hands.


26 posted on 06/21/2012 4:13:15 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

The main word here is IF


27 posted on 06/21/2012 4:20:41 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Mr. Speaker Boehner,

Are they allowed to go before cameras and cry?

Interested Voter

28 posted on 06/21/2012 4:21:09 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

29 posted on 06/21/2012 4:31:06 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Argus

I’m having cake.

....and eating it too!!!!


30 posted on 06/21/2012 4:35:38 PM PDT by ak267
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To: uncbob
The main word here is IF

Very true. But better to plan to keep the genie in the bottle, rather than have to try to shove it back in once out.

The Left has been doing the Alinsky thing on the credibility and the integrity of the Court for years now. Fix, personalize, polarize. Actively working to create the perception that it's just another partisan branch of the government rather than holding a unique place in our Republic as the final, ultimate arbiter of the Constitution and protector of this nation's founding principles.

The best thing that we can do IF Obamacare is overturned is stick to principled and serious discussion of why the law was wrong and why the court is (again, IF) correct in overturning it.

Celebrating/gloating would be portrayed as reinforcing the notion of the Court as a partisan body. It would do to Conservatives exactly what the boorish behavior by Liberals at the Paul Wellstone funeral did to the Left. Not only are we Conservatives better than that, we are smarter than that too.
31 posted on 06/21/2012 4:39:04 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just like McCain. Don’t want to upset the Democrats. If only we had a party of do rather than “why can’t we just get along”? This is scary and there are no Republicans anymore. They’re all just a bunch of wimpy hand wringing cowards.


32 posted on 06/21/2012 4:55:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Fireworks in my driveway. Boner not invited.


33 posted on 06/21/2012 5:24:22 PM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

these people decide elections because a good deal of so called “conservatives” are too damn busy to go to the polls and vote.... when I hear a cheer because voter turnout was 50%, it turns my stomach...


34 posted on 06/21/2012 5:27:03 PM PDT by joe fonebone (I am the 15%)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
STFU "Mr. Speaker".

"Republicans are focused on the economy"

Try "focusing" on getting the illegitimate Kenyan out of office and restoring our constitution.

The main reason the economy sucks IS BECAUSE THE F'N GOVERNMENT WON'T LEAVE THE MARKETPLACE ALONE!!!


35 posted on 06/21/2012 6:57:30 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; one box left.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Perhaps the pols in Washington shouldn’t be celebrating, but the rest of us definitely should.

It will be extremely important that liberals get the message that they were wrong to even attempt this overstep, this egregious usurpation of power and process-this blatant violation of our constitution.

It’s not only what was done, but how it was done. It was a dirty deed, and if it’s overturned, schadenfraude will be justified.

Since Obamacare was the major thrust in what has been a liberal blitzkrieg on the private sector, the Supreme Court’s ruling could be as momentous for those of us in the private sector as the liberation of Paris was for the French in WW2. Many who own businesses won’t think I’m exaggerating.

I think this would be a time to resurrect the great tea-party gatherings of the past. I was there when Nancy Pelosi carried that gavel accross the mall, and I’d like to be there again just to yell and scream at her.

It would feel really good.


36 posted on 06/22/2012 5:08:01 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: wayoverontheright

Oops, the Pelosi march was across the Capitol grounds, not the mall.


37 posted on 06/22/2012 5:10:59 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I will celebrate to be sure. I will celebrate even more if my insurance rates go back down to where they were before Soetorocare was passed. I won’t be holding my breath on that one, though.


38 posted on 06/22/2012 5:15:28 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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