Posted on 06/08/2013 8:03:13 PM PDT by Javeth
Ryan, the House GOP budget chief and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, told The Hill that he supported the legislation the House group hopes to introduce this month, despite the departure of conservative Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho).
... While Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has spoken positively of the House group’s efforts, he has made no commitments to their legislation, and on Thursday he again voiced skepticism about the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform in the House.
“I’ve never been a big fan of what I call comprehensive bills,” Boehner said in an appearance on "The Laura Ingraham Show." “They just get to be too big, there’s too much there, and frankly too much for members to digest. And so as we consider this, there’s a big discussion that’s been going on about doing this in chunks, if you will. And the other question that remains to be seen is, I don’t know how much traffic the House can bear on this issue.”
In that interview and in an earlier press conference, he emphasized the need for stronger border security that included “real triggers” that are stronger than the ones in the Senate bill, which provides for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
“We all know that until we have real border security, and the ability to enforce our immigration laws within our country, that all of these additional steps really can't happen until that happens,” Boehner said at his press conference. “The American people will never — will never accept it, otherwise.”
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On another note, I have to credit where it's due here. While I myself have been very critical of John Boehner in the past, he's been hard-nosed about this immigration reform sham enough to stand in the way of this outrage, both from the Senate and the House itself. We'll obviously continue to be keeping an eye on him, but so far he's refused to knuckle under to the liberal media, our home-grown Islamofascist Grover Norquist and other cheap-labor lobbyists as well as the Democrats and their attempt to turn us into a one-party state. Boehner and Bob Goodlatte, on this issue at least, have shown some spine in standing up for the conservative cause and for the intentions of the American people. My liberal and independent neighbors hate this immigration bill as much as we do, for their own reasons, in fact just about everyone outside the capital who has to work for a living really hates this bill. So if anything Boehner and Goodlatte, in standing firm with the will of the people, are doing a lot to help elect conservative candidates to Congress in 2014.
Remember- call and write to your representatives in Congress at every opportunity, with every ounce of political pressure you can apply. This is how we defeated this filthy anti-American “immigration reform bill” garbage in 2006 and 2007 when we shut down the switchboards. We’ll be doing it again. Contact your representatives daily if you can, put out letters to the editor, any way you can make your voice heard.
Labradors usually do what they are told,
Ryan is now officially an idiot
Props to Labrador. He did the right thing.
Ryan was once such a promising figure... shame.
This is why Ryan isn’t the vice president right now. No balls, three strikes.
The immigration debate should be tied to this domestic spying crap.
If they really wanted to protect us from terrorists, they would protect the borders and stop importing terrorists.
And don’t give Boner too much credit. He’s trying to fend off a possible coup in the future. If he violated the Hastert Rule on major legislation again, he’d be deposed.
Ryan is a nice guy, but not a leader with guts.
Not at the top of my list for anything, other than Mayor of Milwaukee, perhaps.
“This is why Ryan isn’t the vice president right now. No balls, three strikes.”
Nailed it. Should be material for bumper-stickers and tall, public and very humiliating billboards like the ones skewering Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham in Georgia recently, to shame him and the other RINO sell-outs on this.
I think Ryan is one of those idiots who has bought into the “media’s” BS that if the Republicans pass amnesty, all of the Mexicans will vote for them. LOL! Idiots. Sorry boys. It ain’t happening.
Totally, and in fact there’s also a substantive link between the immigration reform bill and the domestic spying over-reach. There’s a reason that the Senate bill is over 1,000 pages long, with maybe no one truly up on what’s in it- the bill is full of extra oversight sections, tracking requirements for both American citizens and immigrants, all kinds of other junk designed to give the federal government even more power to spy on us and collect data on “potential domestic enemies”.
He was an idiot for running with Romney. He sealed the deal with is support of gay adoption.
But who cares! Better all this than a Dem doing the same thing!!! YAY lesser evil!!! /s
Could Ryan be scared of his own meta data?
Good job with your post. Color me surprised, but pleased, that Labrador is walking away from this bill. He’s an open borders guy. Ryan’s a nothing. Overrated.
Ryan is turning out to be terrible.
Paul Ryan was so full of promise and courage not so long ago. I think back to how he dismantled Plugs Biden with logic and passion during the VP debates and now we have this mewing little man caving to La Raza lobby.
Maybe I give Ryan too much credit. Besting Biden in a debate is a relatively easy task. And as good as Ryan did, he was no match for the timeless performance of Sarah Palin in 2008.
Agreed. Or they’d want to close the border so that there isn’t a thriving underclass without documentation or fake documentation, working without paying taxes, essentially providing a huge population which the natives could then emulate.
People want to believe so badly that they grasp any straw. We are human after all. But we all have to stop ‘believing’ in something that just isn’t true and ‘accepting’ that the GOP and the Dems are wings on the same bird.
A grotesque camel with over 300 humps is a horse made by CONgress!!!
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