One eye or two, minority or majority, I call the shots! Ya got that, Mitch?
Posted on 02/24/2015 1:17:00 PM PST by cotton1706
Republican leadership in the Senate is fully caving to the demands of Democratic lawmakers calling for a so-called “clean” Department of Homeland Security funding bill that leaves President Obama’s executive amnesty intact, but Democrats are still balking at the plan.
“I’ve indicated to the Democratic leader that I’d be happy to have his cooperation to advance consideration of a clean DHS bill, which would carry us through September 30,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters Tuesday. “With Democratic cooperation on a position they have been advocating for the last two months, we could have that vote very quickly.”
“This is a total victory for the Obama position,” said a GOP senator unhappy with McConnell’s plan. “The House hasn’t passed it yet, so they might could come up with something. But that’s a grim prospect.”
But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid balked at the offer, saying Democrats would continue to filibuster the bill until House Speaker John Boehner indicated he was willing to also pass it through the House.
“The problem is everybody, I’m waiting to hear from the Speaker. We have to make sure people understand the bicameral nature of this Congress that we serve in. So to have Sen. McConnell just pass the ball over to the House isn’t going to do the trick. I’m waiting to hear from the Speaker,” Reid said.
According to Reid, until he hears from Boehner, the issue remains “where we were.”
“We’re willing to debate anything they want dealing with immigration, after we fund homeland security,” Reid said.
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We all know that Reid and McConnell were in cahoots all along to put the pressure on weak-kneed Boehner.
Give it a minute and he’ll get it.
Reid just rubbing McConnell’s nose in the turd pile.
They want the Senate to hold the power of the purse, the power to decide what will be funded and what will not, not the House.
This has been a power play since 2011.
FUMM!!
One eye or two, minority or majority, I call the shots! Ya got that, Mitch?
“Reid just rubbing McConnell’s nose in the turd pile.”
C’mon! They both want amnesty!
Don’t fund either the DHS or the Immigration.
We don’t need either of them so it’s a no brainer, squash’em both.
They probably got tax breaks for their corporate benefactors in return for selling out.
Mitch McCon-all is a worthless coward.
Mitch McConnell has sold out long ago on immigration and all the rest is merely theater. His constituency is not the people who dutifully go to the polls and pull Republican levers in the expectation of electing good government. His constituency are the millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires who write checks. They want open borders and cheap labor and, by God, Mitch McConnell is going to sell it to them.
When the GOP is in the minority, the GOP gets steamrolled.
When the GOP is in the majority, the GOP gets steamrolled.
Who needs the GOP?
You are right but I think Reid is doing his I am the alpha dog of the pack routine to humiliate McConnell.
Old Marble Mouth caves again. Snares defeat from the jaws of victory.
Pray America is waking
” Mitch McCon-all is a worthless coward.”
And has become a multimillionaire in the last few years. McConnell is a loyal, dutiful whore, by any definition.
McConnell had the power and sold out to the crony corporatists. Reid should insist on a BJ too.
I don’t belive it!!!
What the Hell was the point of winning *control* of the Senate if Harry Reid is still running the show!?
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