{"id":16839,"date":"2013-01-03T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16839"},"modified":"2013-01-03T18:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T23:02:52","slug":"boehner-reelected-speaker-vows-to-follow-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16839\/boehner-reelected-speaker-vows-to-follow-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Reelected Speaker, Vows to Follow Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After House Speaker John Boehner was narrowly reelected Speaker today, his spokesman promised that there would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/01\/03\/boehner-elected-second-term\/ \" target=\"_blank\">no more end-runs<\/a> around the constitutional process for making laws; even those that seek so-called \u201cgrand bargains\u201d behind closed doors with the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, said the spokesman of Boehner, \u201che is recommitting himself and the House to what we\u2019ve done, which is working through regular order and letting the House work its will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is welcome news.\u00a0 Conservatives have long argued that many of the Obama Administration\u2019s signature achievements \u2013 such as Obamacare\u2019s abuse of the budget reconciliation process, failure to defend the border or the Defense of Marriage Act, and backdoor amnesty through deferred action, among others \u2013 have violated the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>But those criticisms ring hollow when Republicans in Congress go outside the legislative process to negotiate in secret.\u00a0 It\u2019s even worse when what\u2019s produced would never be passed if it had been floated during the normal hearing and debate process.<\/p>\n<p>Honoring the rule of law should be a natural and fundamental principle for the Republican Party.\u00a0 Those wanting a conservative comeback should keep Speaker Boehner to his word.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After House Speaker John Boehner was narrowly reelected Speaker today, his spokesman promised that there would be no more end-runs around the constitutional process for making laws; even those that seek so-called \u201cgrand bargains\u201d behind closed doors with the President of the United States. Instead, said the spokesman of Boehner, \u201che is recommitting himself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[790,1057,2594,1058],"class_list":["post-16839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-house-republicans","tag-john-boehner","tag-rule-of-law","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16839\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}