Minority Leader of House John Boehner Makes Major Gaffe at Tea Party Rally
You would think that being one of the highest ranking members in the House of Representatives would ensure you of knowing all the documents of America's founding fathers backwards and forwards. Wrong!
John Boehner, the Republican from Ohio serving as Minority Leader of the House, went on a rant at a recent "Tea Party Rally" and stuck his foot in his mouth in a big way. Boehner stated he would read a passage from the Constitution and declared:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!"
Problem is, that passage is from the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution. And on a partisan note, I think the pursuit of happiness would be a lot easier to achieve if we had universal health care.
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Nitpicking- But I do agree with the last statement
Very nit-picky article from liberal biased poster. Waste of time reading this garbage.
Dear Silly,
You back water Repoobs are always ready to dismiss the truth. The truth here is that Boner, (and that's really the correct pronounciation of his "Silly" name ) did misquote his lines and should do some fact checking, or should I say have his asistants to do some fact checking before he tries to make a point. A man of his station should know where he is reading from. I mean, shouldn't we and don't we hold these people ie: "leaders of our country" in a higher standing. I mean, the problem with Bush was that he was dumber than the AVERAGE American. Do you really want someone whos dumber than a 5th grader running things. Hence, Boner should know better and that's the point of the article. What should the point be, how great a speaker he is.
Next time you decide to think, do us all a favor and jump off a bridge. Moron. One less leech to have to support with your "free" health care. Tool.
What a waste an education is. Look at this article, author and company you represent. Extremely biased, very liberal and might I say socialistic. I am sure in collage journalism class you were instructed in the 3 W's. Let me remind you it's Who, What, Where and maybe a 4th Why.
My question is Why, why do we care at all if it's in the Constitution or in the Declaration of Independence.
What we do care is, what the founding fathers meant in both documents. What they were saying is GOVERNMENT STAY OUT OF OUR BUSINESS.
Now what the people are saying to all of those so called newsagents is, STICK TO REPORTING THE NEWS !
Regarding "why do we care which document it was in?" - probably if you had studied civics or political science in "collage," you'd have learned that the Declaration of Independence is not a binding legal document, and that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land - providing the absolute limits and authority for the legislative body in which Boehner finds himself.
Now as far as the founding fathers saying "stay out of our business," it seems they thought this was permissiable, giving Congress broad authority to "provide for the ... general Welfare of the United States."
It's Five Ws: Who, what, where, when, and maybe why. Get it right.
Big deal... not nearly as much of a GAFFE than our big eared dumbo of a lunatic fakir president who thinks there are 57 states!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY
Confusing the Declaration with the Constitution is hardly a small gaffe. A basic mistake like this leaves the guy with zero cred. I shudder to think what other mistakes he would make, given his lofty position and propensity toward presenting inaccuracy as historic fact. The Constitution is a legal document approved by the U.S. government; the Declaration is an historic document written before we were a nation.
And for whichever poster mentioned "collage education," well, apparently your COLLEGE education was of the COLLAGE variety. Education and accuracy are vital in running a powerful nation like the U.S.
This is a perfect example of Liberal bias. So what? He misspoke, everyone understood what he meant.
Sheesh!
....Boehner is part of the narrow-minded repubs who simply thrive on half-truths because of their tunnel vision on everything from foreign policy to the economy.
Tax-and-spend liberal president Clinton created 22.6 million jobs net in his 96 months as president and while tax-cutting, war-without-end Bush created less than 2 million jobs net in 96 months and we are supposed to believe anything from a repub? If repubs don't like health care reform, they can go back to "Bushland" where they came from!
Some of you are being very nit picky - especially in light of Al Gore's "inventing the internet" and Bill Clinton being unable to keep his pants on and arguing "what does character have to do with running the country". Talk about stupid!
More stupid talk is the need for health care reform - it's idealists, free loaders and stupid people that think the government should be the all providing sugar daddy - heck, why not - its free. Talk about stupid people!! Start thinking and get a job!! I'm tired of supporting you. Whatever happened to people being self sufficient and too proud to take hand outs?
I don't know what the big deal about not knowing the difference between the Declaration and the Constitution is! Just because he is a proffessional politician who doesn't know about the basics. He is still able to make a great living being in Washington where he is perfectly able to sit on his arse, do nothing and make hipocritical statements all day and still have people like him! I have to hand it to him, he sets the standards for being a politician very high. It's like trying to figure out a David Blaine magic trick!!
Yeah, but check out his tan.