John Boehner Reads the Constitution…Declaration… Whatever.
6 11 2009Yesterday, the faux outrage just bubbled over for Rep. John Boehner (whose website goes out of the way to tell you it’s pronounced BAY -ner). To prove his patriotic cred, he whipped out the pocket constitution he carries with him as he addressed the crowd about voting down evil bad health care reform. Little did he know…
Oh dear. John, John, John…. In your zealous passion to be a patriot by carrying around your little pocket constitution, you’ve overlooked one little detail. Knowing what it says.
I believe the document you were quoting was the Declaration of Independence. I mean, they’re both old and they sound good, so I can understand the confusion. But here’s a little device that has helped millions.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Boner, bayner. Same thing.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Heh.. I can still sing that whole preamble by heart. I loved Schoolhouse Rock!
November 6th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Could he just claim “I got caught up in the moment” lol
Am quite concerned about the lack of knowledge by our representatives –
If teachers have to take a certification test to stay in the classroom -
I propose we have our sen’s/congress do the same.
They can take a weekend power crash course of School House Rock.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Thank you for the musical interlude – let’s see – “promote the general welfare” –
Sounds like a health plan to me!
November 6th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Enjay, he was reading from a pre-written speech. There will be no claiming he was under the pressures of the moment. I hope that someone gives him a little lesson…. How about it, Faux “news”?
November 6th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Maybe it was the size of the print? Boehner should just trot his little legs over to the National Archives a couple of blocks away and refresh his memory by viewing the originals…
I thoroughly enjoyed Rep. M. Bachmann (R, Crazytown) mouthing the words right behind him though…
November 6th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
enjay @ 3 – You made me start thinking how well would I do in a civics test. So I found one example of some of the questions on the citizenship test.
Try this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/
I got a whopping 85% and am irritated it wasn’t higher. Reminder to self: Read carefully, and don’t second guess yourself!
Liberty Lover – Now I have to watch again to see that! lol
November 6th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
I scored an 85% as well.
I got a 90%. I blew the name of the naturalization form, and the amendment that didn’t have a voting issue in it. I was tempted to answer “Who has the power to declare war?” differently. I wish I could have written “theoretically” on it before submitting. AKM
November 6th, 2009 at 8:54 AM
none of THOSE people know what they stand for…they had their brain sucked out at some point…it’s a pity that they hold such a valuable job!
November 6th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
What a dick boner is.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:06 AM
what a dipsh*t
November 6th, 2009 at 9:11 AM
As long as freedom’s on the march (from Nazis and Communists) why quibble about the details?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I saw that last night on KO and Rachel and just had to laugh. All those people standing behind him, and not one of them tried to correct him either. So, maybe they don’t know? or they just figure that the people who showed up wouldn’t know the difference, so why bother?
When representatives and senators get elected, do they have to take a civics test before they start serving? Perhaps they should – if they can’t pass, send them back home. That would solve a lot of our problems.
(Bachman still says it’s unconstitutional to make people buy anything. Really? In most states, if not all, people are required to buy auto insurance. So . . . )
November 6th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I scored 90%. Considering that I AM a naturalized citizen (since the age of 7), I’mfeeling rather pleased with myself. : )
November 6th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
How about the guy from MO that said the pledge of allegiance wrong? Is there anyone that blogs here that’s a citizen of the US that doesn’t know the pledge by heart?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Of all people, a congressman, you would think he would be embarrassed and humiliated by his mistake, but then he’s a Republican. It really seems quite natural with Boehner’s arrogance that this would happen. Lately it seems many of the Republican’s have been talking out of the tops of their head and crafting what they say according to what crowd wants to hear. In this case, Boehner thought he would be clever and repeat the “Constitution” to please the crowd, and besides, he wouldn’t have to prepare he would just read from what has already been written.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:02 AM
No, Bystander, John is such a Boehnerhead.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Schoolhouse Rock … rocks!!
Thanks for posting the vid, AKM, brought back memories.
Also, I noticed a little funny.
Near the end where the people are going into the modern voring booth, there’s levers for them to pul with names by them.
Well, those are the names of the people who helped bring you SHR! The first one I noticed was Lyn Ahrens (or Lynn Ahrens) who went on to write lyrics for musicals such as “Ragtime”. Neil Costa is apparently her husband and they probably met working on SHR. George Newall was, I think, a producer and Tom Yohe was one of the animators.
That’s all I Googled, but if you watch it again, pause there and give the artists their credit!
November 6th, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Sauerkraut #16 I stand erected, or rather corrected!
November 6th, 2009 at 10:28 AM
I’ll bet nobody in that crowd knew the difference. Since to them reality is what they say it is, they can read the phone book and call it the Constitution. What a bonehead Boehner is. Can you imagine if a Dem did that? It would be breaking news on that crazy channel.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Boehner is always good for a few ‘ laughs ‘. This would be OK if he was a Clown with a Big Red Nose performing at Children’s Birthday parties in backyards across America. Hmm… Did Boehner go to College… was it the same one Sarah went to?
One of his other ’slips’ was after the President was sworn in. He announced in the News plans to close GITMO and Gregory from ” Meet the Press ” had the interview.
Boehner was argueing against The President bringing prisoners onto American soil. John proclaimed to Gregory that how about he put them in Alacatraz then….as a solution. I think this was attempt to slam Pelosi as well since he knew it was ‘ near ‘ her district. ( A two-fer for John )
Mr. Gregory… on camera had to lean over and quietly inform/remind Him that Alacatraz was no longer a prison.( Hasn’t been for years ) Great YouTube clip.
It is a Tourist Attraction and part of our Nat’l Park system/government. The same Government he is a part of and that writes him his paycheck.
He knows sooooo little about His Government.
Scary to think that when the GOP was in power THIS was the Guy who was the Majority Leader at that time. He was the one the Dems had to go to to ask questions of and to TRY get things done. Can you imagine negotiating with THIS GUY?
November 6th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
My God, Republicans are such freaking ignorant pathetic hypocritical dopes – and then they elect them to office, also, too!
November 6th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Oh please read Dana Milbank’s column in the Washington Post about this event! My favorite bit is about how “By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care.”
Here’s the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504566.html
November 6th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
rocket,
Also too, perhaps there will be a day when we will all be thanking Winky for opening the politicians pandoras box for all of us bloggers. Gods Own Party site was talking about how they have been providing their assistance and sharing their research in outing a total religious wingnuts on the political scene lately.
People such as ourselves, want a little more accountability in the common sense department and thanks to bloggers, well,
**music maestro -
Times are a changing…
Blog until the Moose come home…lil’ mudpuppers
November 6th, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I know the locals here must have loved these busloads of wingnuts clogging up the morning commute on New York Avenue and the 14th Street bridge. We have kind of a jaundiced view of these sorts of events.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I am surprised nobody picked up on the total nonsequiter nature of his comments. Weird. What he said makes no sense. Think: The sky is blue, therefore I am a patriot. It is like he is taking a page from the Palin Guide to Communication in Writing and Other Speechious Speaks.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:15 PM
I’m a Brit and even I know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Do I get a tea-bag for that? I like Glengettie.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:22 PM
We need to bring all the schoolhouse rock series back for yet another generation. They certainly got through to my daughter’s. She can sing them all.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
And to think THIS is the person all the Rs voted to represent them as Minority Leader. THIS is the best of the bunch?????????????????
November 6th, 2009 at 5:40 PM
AKM- I scored EXACTLY the same as you, missing the same 2 questions!!
Seeing the Schoolhouse Rock video right before helped with the 1787 question!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Honesty, well he doesn’t have a big, red nose but he is orange. Maybe one of his parents was an oompa loompa? And when someone called his office to point out his faux pas, his staffer didn’t see why it was a big deal? I would have asked the staffer what John didn’t pull out his Constitution when Americans were being illegally wiretapped? Or when detainees were being tortured? Or when habeus corpus was suspended? Or when innocent people were being rendered? Or etc, etc. It seems the only time John gets concerened about rights being taken away is when it has to do with big corporations losing money. And like the nuns used to say when I was in grade school “When two nouns go a walking, the first one does the talking, like boat, seat, shout, and BONER. Oh, and the Senator from Idaho, don’t give me that it is pronounced Cray-po. It is pronounced as it is spelled, Crap-o, which is quite funny when you realized that his fellow senator at one time was a guy who liked to hang out in bathrooms.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:52 PM
I got a hundred per cent, but to be honest I guessed my rear end off on the naturalization form question, and managed to get it right. Gotta love multiple choice.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Bucsfan,
Yep. “Mr. Beta-Carotene” Boehner is orange.
Taxonomic classification: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucking Red GOPer. That’s orange….on the color wheel.
Taxonomy is a scary, crazy subject……just like the Constitution.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:22 AM
That’s hilarious! My sister in California took her kids last month to a Schoolhouse Rocks tribute show. I was so jealous. Fond memories.
November 7th, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Typical dumb neocon.