Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and the Republican waste squad have no right to lecture the Democrats or the American people about over spending. Given the spend-rant that held up the debt ceiling deal, Boehner’s duplicity is all but too obvious.

The House Speaker led this Congress to recess today, waved goodbye to his pals as they boarded planes heading for home States. All the while tens of thousands of FAA workers were forced into financial turmoil and uncertainty, laid off because Mr. Speaker failed to complete his work, and to add insult to injury, at a cost of over a billion dollars to U.S. taxpayers. Well it gets worse – now he is spending tax money on an attack against the inherent rights of Gay Americans.

This week attorney, Paul Clement, filed a brief on behalf of Boehner, to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, (DOMA,) which has been ruled unconstitutional in the US Courts in the Edie Windsor case, a widow who was compelled to pay exorbitant federal inheritance taxes when her wife of 44 years passed away because the government did not recognize their marriage under DOMA.

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Remember the article that Amanda Terkel wrote a few weeks back about the possibility that signing the DOMA legal defense contract may have violated the law, specifically the Anti-Deficiency Act?

Well, Chris Johnson asked Boehner about it. And, surprise, Boehner thinks it’s all okay because he didn’t break House Rules. Maybe. But, there’s a federal statute at play here — and Boehner doesn’t decide whether that law was broken:

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) asserted on Thursday that a contract executed to hire a private attorney to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court complies with the law — despite earlier reporting that the agreement may be in violation of rules regarding government contracts.

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