Posted on 09/19/2014 4:13:17 AM PDT by markomalley
Skip to 24:30 for the key bit. Admittedly, admittedly, this is as rote and innocuous a statement of support for amnesty as you’ll ever hear from a GOP leader — he even stresses that we need to secure the border first — but the closer we get to the lame-duck session, the more righties are going to parse his every belch for signs of a deal on immigration. And not just righties: The LA Times perked up upon hearing this today too. As the man himself says, the sooner we get this done, the better it’ll be for the GOP donor class America. Why not November?
This caught my attention too:
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is backing off its demand that President Barack Obama act by Thanksgiving on executive action aimed at repairing the immigration system. Instead, the group is set to approve a resolution calling for action by the end of the holiday season, a timetable in line with what Mr. Obama is now promising.
The Hispanic lawmakers met this month with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to complain about Mr. Obama’s decision to punt executive action, which is to include a ratcheting back of deportations, until after the midterm elections. They asked that Mr. Obama act by Thanksgiving, but were told instead that the new deadline was by the end of the holiday season. That’s in line with what Mr. Obama had initially said.
Why did the CHC back down and decide to give Obama another month when he already screwed them a few weeks ago by postponing executive amnesty until winter? One theory is that it has to do with Mary Landrieu’s race in Louisiana. If neither she nor her GOP opponent, Bill Cassidy, hit 51 percent on election day in November, they’ll head to a runoff on December 6. And it’s quite possible that neither will: There’s a tea-party longshot also in the race who’s polling in the single digits, which won’t keep Cassidy out of the runoff but might keep him from hitting the 51 percent he needs to seal the deal in November. (A Fox News poll released a few days ago has Cassidy leading 51/38 but most surveys this year have him ahead by low single digits.) If that happens and then O drops an amnesty bomb around Thanksgiving, the outrage among Louisiana conservatives might be enough to sink Landrieu in December. Postponing the order until Christmas would keep this issue off the table until after they vote, which is in keeping with the White House’s strategy of avoiding the consent of the governed on immigration by all means.
There’s another possibility, though. By waiting until the very end of the year to issue an executive order on amnesty, Obama will leave Boehner more time during the lame-duck session to make a deal with Harry Reid on some sort of bill. I don’t think Boehner would do that, not because he doesn’t want to but because it’d be such a knee to the groin of conservative voters who turned out big for the GOP on election day that the party would spend the next year trying to recover from it. (Conservatives would dutifully line up for the nominee in 2016, though, needless to say.) But if you’re O, why not stand pat for awhile and give him a chance? Boehner desperately wants this issue off the table and the White House knows it, which is why Obama held off all summer on issuing his order. He knows that once he makes his move, it’ll kill any chance Boehner has to bring House GOPers on board. Better to wait as long as you can and see what Boehner’s willing to do. And if you’re willing to wait all summer, wait not wait until the end of the year too?
Idiot to even say this. what did bonehead get sucked into Obamaville. The many rounds of golf with the anointed one has gone to his head or maybe Obama did to him what Tiger Woods wife did to him - golf club to the head.
We do not need the dregs of the third world as new citizens...The ones who are coming here are not here to make a better life, they are here for the free stuff and a life of leisure.
So, reform meaning:
Closing the borders, an immediate end to ALL immigration, and vigorous mass deportation of illegals and moslems?
Get-er done Boner.
He did not get sucked into Obamaville, he has more baggage than Samsonite. Until Obama, all the swamp (DC) critters covered for each other and played the parlor games in both houses so all could suck from the lobbyists. Obama doesn’t play by the same rules and obviously used Hitlary’s FBI files to marginalize everyone in the swamp. I’m sure that Soros had the goods on Hitlary in order for her to go along with the game as well.
At this point, everyone in the swamp is marginalized with only a handful who have managed not to fall out of the only swamp boat for 100 miles.
Is Everybody in this gub mint an F-ing idiot?
No, just many of the Republicans. Many of the Dims know what they are doing and don’t care about the country, only about personal power.
The polls have always shown that a large majority of Americans are against amnesty, yet the Dims keep telling the Republicans the opposite and they believe it.
The only thing that will help our economy is a lot less government.
He was bought off long ago if this is what he’s pushing. Getting rid of about 40 million illegals would help our economy, not to mention put the massive welfare budget probably back in the black if we did that.
Not gonna happen though.
I wish the corrupt Boehner would resign and join his fellow puppet of the moneyed special interests Eric Cantor in private industry where he could honestly sell his soul
I used to like Boehner, but now I think he has been blackmailed or else he is drinking far to much or both, as his decisions have all become questionable the last couple of years.
“Puppet” yes...and we may be surprised whose puppet he is, the world is a large game of players with control issues.
I don’t understand how immigration reform would improve the economy. How can this be? What is the rationale?
Maroon.
Of all the things for him to get up in arms about, he picks the last one on anyone but Democrats’ minds.
And/or sold out. Just about.
You know what would help our economy?
Eliminate the majority of congress.
U think Boehner has been riding a horse with only one rocker.
Getting rid of the House Republican majority would help?
Boner..Boner....Boner...Boner...Boner...
Such a friggin Boner...
Who woulda thunk it?
“Turban” Durbin already told us that Amnesty is the solution for Ebola and now Crybaby Boehner tells us that Amnesty will fix our economy.
Amnesty, is there anything it can’t do?
/sarc, just in case.
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