Posted on 09/25/2015 10:42:08 AM PDT by jazusamo
Immigrant-rights advocates scrambled Friday to plead with House Speaker John A. Boehner to bring an immigration legalization bill to the floor before he leaves office next month, fearing his replacement will show even more antipathy toward their agenda.
Mr. Boehner had long been pressing his party to tackle immigration, and in the days after President Obama’s 2012 re-election the Ohio Republican set one major goal: The House would pass a bill to legalize those in the country without authorization.
But House GOP conservatives threatened a revolt, and Mr. Boehner and his fellow leaders backed off, instead blaming President Obama for ruining chances for cooperation.
Now that he’s unshackled by the need to keep his own troops in line, immigration advocates said Mr. Boehner should try again, relying on Democrats to deliver the votes to pass a bill.
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Boner is now officially a lame duck. I hope the republicans in the house do their best to run out the clock.
THANK GOD we elected all those lesser evils to make sure they get their wish. . Why, just imagine if the Dems had been elected and done exactly the same thing? The horror!
No. THIS type of thing is EXACTLY why we want Boehner gone....
He will do his damnedest to oblige them.
Took words out of my mouth. As a lame duck speaker, I doubt he will try to work with Dems. To push illegal alien amnesty.
As a lame duck, he really has no power at all even though he’s still officially going to be speaker till the end of October.
Stephen Dinan is the Washington Times reporter who covers immigration.
He is pro-amnesty and makes sure that his stories are all weighted with pro-amnesty, pro-illegal alien comments and dubious statistics.
You can take anything he writes with the proverbial half-grain of salt.
Amen, if he tries to pull a stunt like this he should be very careful.
If Bonehead try’s that crap.
A motion to vacate the chair vote would be called immediately
before Bonehead can screw the country.
And he will be removed immediately from leadership.
“...we elected all those lesser evils to make sure they get their wish...”
You still on that? That is what the wrath is all about; we elected people who promised to stop Obama. They lied. According to your logic, we should have surrendered at the start, a democrat speaker would be in, and he would never be forced to resign.
Might as well just cut to the chase and declare that every human on the planet is a US citizen. Set up a web site so they all can sign up for their monthly benefit checks.
Oh gee golly gosh whiskers, here’s the real fight.
This....
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34355043
Ted Cruz quote:
After his speech today, Cruz expressed concern that Mr Boehner may be ending his tenure with one more effort at negotiation with Democrats.
“If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal - and then, presumably, to land in a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama’s priorities, that is not the behaviour one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House,” he said.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".
Lt. Gov Thomas Hutchinson, regarded by the colonists as much too cozy with the Crown agents, and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
There’s little that would surprise me when it comes to the Weeper.
Stephen Dinan is the Washington Times reporter who covers immigration.
He is pro-amnesty and makes sure that his stories are all weighted with pro-amnesty, pro-illegal alien comments and dubious statistics.
You can take anything he writes with the proverbial half-grain of salt.
Regardless....
I PUT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING PAST BONER, AT THIS TIME.
I’ll be on that until every lesser evil idiot either wakes the hell up or is shouted down by sane people.
Get used to it.
Pass legislation? Boner couldn’t pass Gas! Good riddance Mr. Ineffective!
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