{"id":4222,"date":"2011-03-05T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2011-03-05T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T14:19:16","slug":"republicans-defend-doma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/republicans-defend-doma\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Defend DOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans are moving to defend DOMA in the courts in the wake of Obama\u2019s decision not to do so, because the law is unconstitutional.  Part of the irony here is that Republicans keep calling themselves the party of limited government and freedom, while they would extend government into your bedroom.  Their freedom applies only to the freedom of corporate criminals to rip you off without restriction.  You get no freedom to choose your mate.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Speaker John A. Boehner announced Friday that the House would fight to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act in court<\/strong>, a little more than a week after President Obama’s Justice Department said it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the law, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

The move marks another detour into contentious cultural issues for the House Republican leadership as it tries to whittle down the federal deficit, and with polls showing Americans most concerned about the economy.<\/p>\n

But Boehner (R., Ohio) said in a statement that the president had shirked the executive branch’s constitutional obligation to defend all the laws Congress has enacted.<\/p>\n

"It is regrettable that the Obama administration has opened this divisive issue at a time when Americans want their leaders to focus on jobs and the challenges facing our economy<\/strong>," he said. "The constitutionality of this law should be determined by the courts – not by the president unilaterally."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Agent Orange must be three sheets to the wind to think we\u2019ll believe that!  When the Republican Regime took the House, and ever since, Republicans have ignored jobs and focused almost exclusively on either culture wars or transfer of wealth to the super-rich.  They have done nothing to stimulate one job, but plenty to destroy thousands of them.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow covers this issue and and expands on the intrusiveness of Republican rule.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Freedom is for people, but Republicans would limit it to corporate criminals.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans are moving to defend DOMA in the courts in the wake of Obama\u2019s decision not to do so, because the law is unconstitutional.  Part of the irony here is that Republicans keep calling themselves the party of limited government and freedom, while they would extend government into your bedroom.  Their freedom applies only to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}