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Posted on 02/25/2015 10:25:08 AM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker John Boehner isn’t following his fellow Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s cave-in yesterday on a Department of Homeland Security spending bill, and the distance between them is becoming more clear.
The Ohio Republican told colleagues he hadn’t spoken to McConnell in two weeks, and while some lawmakers attempted to downplay the rift, the chasm between the two chambers is growing wider.
“In November, people thought Harry Reid was going to be dethroned and the Senate was going to be controlled by Republicans. I’m sad to say that hasn’t happened,” said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), a key conservative, underscoring the growing enmity between the House and Senate GOP.
Tuesday, McConnell said he would remove language from a DHS funding bill aimed at stopping President Obama from enacting the executive amnesty he announced in November. An unhappy GOP senator describes McConnell’s approach as a “total victory for the Obama position.”
But in addressing his House colleagues Wednesday morning, Boehner did not budge from the House position.
“He said to keep yourselves very flexible for the weekend. It sounds to me like he’s hunkering down. This was his strategy to begin with. He was the one who talked us out of fighting this fight during the cromnibus. So this is his strategy and I’m glad he’s showing some backbone on this,” Salmon said.
Behind the standoff is the real sense that Boehner’s leadership could be on the line if he follows McConnell’s lead.
“This is very, very delicate territory for our leadership,” said Rep. John Fleming (R-LA).
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I’d like to see a change in Boehner. If he stands firm with no wavering, he’d actually get a credit from me.
I'm with you.
I think it’s pretty obvious there is significant disagreement within the Republican Party. It may all be a trick, of course, but I think it’s far more likely that there are ongoing battles between moderates and conservatives. Our role should be to steadily increase the number of conservatives and put pressure on the moderates.
I’m not claiming there aren’t pro-amnesty folks within the Republican Party. We know there are. If those folks thought they could get away with it, they could simply join with Democrats right now to create a voting majority. They’ve done it before. The fact that they haven’t implies either a carefully crafted conspiracy against the party base or actual disagreement. The latter is more likely in my opinion.
Voting for a Progressive Republican is no different than voting for any other tyrant.
If Boehner were really going to stand firm he would have all the gop house members nodding in agreement with him. If they are not, that means he’ll cave when the time is right. All this sudden division within gop Congress is such bull. There’s no division. Only the ones playing the good guys and those playing the bad guys. There’s no hope in Congress outside of Ted Cruz and mike Lee and the rest of a handful more.
Mitch knows exactly what he is doing, he told us before the last election what he would do, all we had to do was listen.
We have the Majority in Both Houses are you feeling like you have more power now? Did Mitch flex his Majority Muscles today?
Thanks.
If I know someone isn’t ever going to vote for me again no matter what I do, then why care what that person thinks?
It’s like a neighborhood ball game. If a kid walks away in a huff, the game goes on. The exception, of course, is the kid with the ball. So long as there’s a ball, the rest keep playing. The disgruntled kid? He loses his ability to shape the game.
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