Posted on 01/13/2015 9:53:28 AM PST by cotton1706
Speaker John A. Boehner wouldn’t rule out Tuesday the possibility the House may have to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that does not block President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration.
That could dampen the enthusiasm of some hard-line conservatives in the House, who were practically ecstatic on Jan. 9 with an emerging GOP strategy to hold votes to defund the president’s executive action and a number of other immigration provisions. But on Tuesday, the speaker was noncommittal.
“Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security,” the Ohio Republican said. “Our second goal is to stop the president’s executive overreach.”
When Boehner was pressed on whether he would put a “clean” funding bill on the floor before the agency runs out of money at the end of next month, he said Republicans have “this year’s process — fiscal year’s process — and we have next year’s fiscal year process.”
Pressed again, this time with a yes or no ultimatum of whether he would put a straight DHS funding bill on the floor before Feb. 28, Boehner first made a small joke — “Oh, oh, now we have a new question” — and then he refused to give that elusive yes or no answer. Instead, he provided his ordered preference to fund DHS, and then, as a “second goal,” stop Obama’s executive action.
Boehner and Republicans know Obama almost certainly won’t sign a funding bill defunding his executive action, and building a veto-proof majority in both the House and Senate seems improbable. That is, if the Senate could muster 60 votes to pass such a bill in the first place.
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This man is a national travesty!
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Can’t Boner be put in a dunking chair in the Potomac?
That should be the lesson of what happened in Paris.
“Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security,” the Ohio Republican said. “Our second goal is to stop the president’s executive overreach.”
I see he has his priorities in order.
The priorities of the corporate lobbyists that is.
Well, Boehner has more “flexibility” now.
clean when he needs to get “dirty” and dirty when he needs to be clean.
that’s republocrat johnny all over. Lord help us.
He should be defenestrated.
Preferably from something moving fast, and high off the ground.
Ya THINK???
Since the election, the GOP hasn’t once made me regret my decision to vote third party.
Payback is going to be a mother-——r in 2016. I’m taking my Tootsie Pops and staying home. I’m through being a sucker for empty promises from the Pubbies.
Same here. I don’t need a `statist lite’ party.
His own words: the weeping Boner thinks funding the Fatherland Geheim Staatspolizei is more important than defending the Constitution.
Who’da guessed.
Of course the sod will fold.
The GOP is dead, and Bonehead’s name will be at the top of the Wiki article describing the reasons.
He is so deep up Obama’s Obamahole - I don’t know how Obama buttons his pants.
Boehner does not oppose amnesty and he doesn’t really connect amnesty with immigration in his head.
I was visiting someone today and they had the tv on and FOX was airing video of the Boehner/Obama meeting. Obama, rat b*****d that he is, cracked jokes and spoke easily.
Boehner sat next to him in his orange skin, slouching, eyes half closed and was either mumbling, licking his lips or trying to keep from drooling. Granted it was thirty seconds of video I saw but as I don’t have tv myself it made me even more disgusted to see this. Disgusted that the House Republicans voted this obviously disturbed person back in as Speaker!
Why don't they just NOT INCLUDE FUNDING for his stuff?
If Obummer signs it, there is no funding. If he vetoes it, there is no funding?
What am I missing?
Btt
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