Posted on 01/06/2015 8:22:43 AM PST by maggief
Republican aides say House Speaker John Boehner was “elated” after he worked with President Barack Obama to push through the amnesty-funding 2015 budget in December, according to a profile in Politico, an establishment media outlet in Northern Virginia.
Sixty-seven GOP members voted against the budget, which funds Obama’s effort to provide five million foreign migrants with work permits, despite the historically low percentage of Americans who are working in the Obama economy. The budget deal split the GOP caucus, repudiated its November voters and rewarded Wall Street donors.
“Obama personally called Boehner to say thanks. … Boehner was elated over the deal, and offered praise for White House chief of staff Denis McDonough,” said the fawning profile, which hides the deep ideological split between the GOP’s anti-establishment and corporatist wings.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Yeh...right
Boner is going to be re-elected and McConman will be formally crowned Senate Majority Leader.
The GOP establishment is not going to brook dissent.
The RINO’s will sell us down the river over amnesty and 0bamacare .... just to make nice with the Dem’s and the MSM who still will ridicule them ....
White House considered inviting GOP leaders to Camp David summit
By Justin Sink - 01/06/15 08:30 AM EST
The White House considered inviting congressional leaders to a Camp David retreat to help improve relations with Capitol Hill following the midterm elections.
The idea was ultimately scrapped because of logistical conflicts during the short lame-duck session, although the president did host Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and their Democratic counterparts for a lengthy meeting at the White House.
President Obama’s team, though, still hopes to revive the idea of a getaway summit sometime early in the new Congress, according to a report in Politico.
On Monday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said he anticipated “that the president will have an opportunity to sit down with congressional leaders in the first couple of weeks that they’re back here.”
“I don’t have a specific date at this point, but I would anticipate that that’s something that will happen if not this week, then the week or two after that,” Earnest said.
At a press conference following Democrats’ across-the-board midterm defeat, the president pledged he would do what was necessary to reach across the aisle to Republican leaders in hopes of striking compromise agreements on trade and tax deals.
“If the ways that we’re approaching the Republicans in Congress isn’t working, I’m going to try different things — whether it’s having a drink with Mitch McConnell or letting John Boehner beat me again at golf,” Obama said.
On Sunday, McConnell told CNN that the highly anticipated “bourbon summit” between the two would occur.
“Well, I think it will happen. The people in the industry in our state are sure hoping it’s going to happen,” he said.
The Kentucky lawmaker said they would need “to have some kind of draw it out of a hat selection for the bourbon” because choosing a brand would be like selecting a favorite child.
One possibility is that President Obama could make an appearance at the annual Republican retreat, which House and Senate lawmakers are holding next week in Hershey, Pa.
Earnest said Monday he did not know whether the president had been invited or would attend. Democrats will hold their own annual retreat at the end of the month.
Then in that case they will rule over a rotting corpse.
Boehner & McConnell must be in heaven right now.. Their overlords demanded amnesty and Obamacare, and they got Obama to do their dirty work for them.
The GOP makes me utterly ****ing sick ;/
Grrrr...
(I emailed my Representative this morning requesting that he vote against Boehner and gave him a brief list of reasons why he should do so.)
The cryin Cheeto sucks donkey balls.
Our little RINO rep Woodall just posted on Facebook his outrage over Obama’s unconstitutional immigration but he eagerly voted to pass the cromnibus bill which funds it through Sept 2015. What a joke!
I have voted FAITHFULLY GOP all of my life, held my nose and figured it was BETTER than a DEM!!!!! NEVER AGAIN 2013 was my LAST vote
for a national election!!!!! I am just SICK!!!!!!!
Rhino schmino....
These SOBs have suckered most everyone...Rename the GD party, create some cute names like rhino, create a party within the same party and rename them too, and tell all they must save the party because it’s the end and the begging of everything, and without them America dies...
Why, we have different factions of the same party...How dare you be against this or that faction..on and on...BS top to bottom...
Gak...
Read where McCain is trashing the Tea Party members ....
Tea party??
Ya mean that faction of the same flipping party?
Got it.
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