Posted on 02/25/2015 6:28:40 AM PST by GIdget2004
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is back in a familiar spot: between a rock and a hard place.
The Senate appears poised to send the House a “clean” bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), free of any measures attacking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. But it’s not clear the plan could win the support of even a majority of Boehner’s conference.
Bringing legislation to the floor that would only pass with help from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democrats could significantly undermine the Speaker’s credibility with his 245-member caucus — the largest majority the GOP has had in generations. House Republicans will huddle in a private meeting in the Capitol basement on Wednesday morning to discuss their options, and it’s likely to be a tense gathering.
Centrist Republicans have been urging their colleagues to pass a clean funding bill in order to avert the partial shutdown at Homeland Security that is slated to begin on Saturday.
But immigration hardliners are bashing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) plan B, which splits DHS funding from GOP provisions gutting Obama’s 2014 immigration orders. They’re pressuring Boehner and his leadership team to stick with the original House-passed bill that tied funding to GOP immigration riders, even though Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked it.
“What Majority Leader McConnell has isn’t a ‘plan’ but a ‘cop-out,’ said Tristan Daedalus, spokesman for conservative Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.).
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The turtle from KY has again caved to Obama. Sickening. Thanks, KY, for screwing the country by re-electing this sell-out,
YES!
Silly question.That “wrath” is just a little background noise. So long as it does not translate into control it is nothing at all. Control was given up altogether when McConnell and Boehner were elected by their colleagues to their leadership positions. Some will whimper, some will wave their fists and tear their shirts for the voters back home but the Imperial Party will give all to its Sultan in the White House all the same.
Boehner couldn’t care less what the Tea Party thinks. He’s shown that time & time again. In fact, he enjoy doing everything he can to go up against the TP and the voters, IMO.
The turtle from KY has again caved to Obama.
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Not defending McConnell at all but its important to recognize that he is just a symptom of much larger and pervasive problem in the GOP. The party has a real “sell-out” problem but won’t even acknowledge it.
The GOP is lots of talk but no walk.
Am I bad for calling McConnell and Boehner liars and traitors Twitter?
Boehner will follow McCrumble’s lead in 5 4 3 2 1 seconds.
As we are seeing, a vote for a Republican is a vote wasted.
Never again.
One has got to wonder if these dolts play poker like they play politics. If so, let me in that game.
Let me see Mr Bonehead, you have a 2 4 10 and queen from 4 different suits showing in our five card stud game and you raised my bet. Gee, I have aces showing so I think I will re raise you for all your money left on the table.
I would imagine that the Dems must consider themselves very fortunate to have such easy “marks” as the Republicans. Nothing better than having a weak and clueless “opponent”.
Don’t worry guys, keep your powder dry, we are going to fight Obama on....
Yes, he and McConnell are blackmailed; prove me wrong.
Apparently these guys learned nothing from the Great Washout of 2006-2008. Gonna have to send the GOP back to the laundry and wash ‘em out again.
Centrist Republicans = Amnesty
Won’t acknowledge? Hell, how many in both chambers voted AGAINST these two for the leadership??? Too few and too late for any good.
I chalk it up to The Cryer and Turtle being whom they are. Disappointing, to say the least, were the ‘young bloods’ who did NOTHING to right the past wrongs, even with a landslide.
Liberal Republicans=Amnesty. There are no centrist only liberals hiding their true socialist agenda. Unfortunately the Republican party is infested with these turds!
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