Posted on 11/13/2014 8:18:47 AM PST by servo1969
After a White House meeting last week, Republicans described Speaker John Boehner aggressively confronting President Obama over the president's planned executive amnesty, prompting an extended period of a defensive Obama attempting to justify his actions.
But a key moment of the meeting, left out from those accounts, was unveiled by Boehner himself in an exuberant moment of boasting in a closed-door meeting with GOP colleagues minutes ago.
Boehner recalled telling Obama, “Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can't, then do what you gotta do.”
The sentiment, recalled by several lawmakers exiting the meeting, angered conservatives not only because the Ohio Republican paired an immigration effort to Obama's plan to brazenly flout his constitutional role, but also because he seemed to have let him off the hook in the event he later went ahead with the plan.
"To me it's unacceptable. We believe what [Obama] is doing is unconstitutional," said one fuming lawmaker leaving the session.
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He has to go
Bonehead is a complete idiot.
Dear bonehead...look up “assume room temp”/
Learn it, do it.
WTF
Why is this @sshole the Speaker??
Yeah...but no one wants the job.
Lot bellyaching but no one challenging him.
Boehner is one of Gruber’s stupid voters.
Worse than useless - Boehner is also our enemy unfortunately
Yay! We won!
His seat was one I was more than willing to give to the rats.
Did he cry too?
How is this man the leader of anything? He pursues courses of action that are futile and can’t accomplish anything.
What’s the point of him getting another chance at amnesty when he doesn’t have the votes to pass it?
DUMP BOEHNER
If Boehner really said that, he has just disqualified himself from any further role in leadership.
We’re doomed. If the begging and weeping of our House leader does soften Obama’s heart, nothing will.
Get it through your THICK SKULL, Boehner: AMERICA WANTS ILLEGALS DEPORTED!!! NO AMNESTY!!!!
Boehner recalled telling Obama, “Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can’t, then do what you gotta do.”
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He might as roll over, so Obama can scratch his belly.
They just reelected Mitch. I expect they will this idiot, too.
Lord please give our speaker .... Oh forget it ....
If there’s any shred of accuracy in this report, then Boehner is preemptively unfit to represent the Majority party…
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