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The negotiations happened three years ago, Mr. Boehner...

House Speaker and rumored father of Snooki - John Boehner (yes, they're both orange) - has been trying to lay the blame of the government shutdown on President Obama due to his negotiation reluctance. Other Congressional Republicans have followed the orange man's lead, saying things such as, "The president will negotiate with Iran, but not House Republicans?"

What Boehner and the other reality deniers fail to see is that the negotiations took place three years ago in order for the law to pass through Congress and be signed by the president. Remember the Democratic primaries leading up to the 2008 presidential election? Then candidate Obama was in favor of other ways to improve our healthcare system over a mandate. Hillary Clinton was more supportive of such a measure at the time. Once Obama was elected and got to work on healthcare reform, he seemed to be more in favor of a public option than a mandate, but soon realized a public option had no chance of passing through Congress. So he continually had to sacrifice bits and pieces of his ideal vision for healthcare reform and compromise in order to come away with the votes necessary in both the House and the Senate. After this finally happened, the president signed the bill, and slowly but surely, it's becoming the law of the land. Those were the negotiations, Mr. Boehner. They happened three years ago. Obamacare is now the law. Obamacare is here to stay until Republicans can come away with majorities in both the House and Senate, as well as someone in the Oval Office. Republicans have tried repealing Obamacare over 40 times and failed. It got taken to the Supreme Court and was ruled Constitutional. Much of the GOP's attack ads for the 2012 elections centered around Obamacare. They seemed to constantly say, "Vote for me and I'll help to get rid of Obamacare." Guess what? Not only was President Obama re-elected, but Democrats picked up seats in both the House and the Senate as well, which was seen as unlikely by most political pundits.

Get over it permanent prom king wannabe - you lost. The negotiations have come and gone, and the President of the United States shouldn't have to negotiate with Congress just to do the jobs they were voted to do in the first place.

I also find it funny that Republicans are trying to place the president in a bad light due to him being able to negotiate with Iran and not them. As Jon Stewart said last night, "Maybe the president isn't the problem here..."

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