Posted on 02/28/2015 1:24:32 PM PST by cotton1706
After having his leadership repudiated by his own caucus yesterday, last night Speaker Boehner turned to his best friend in the House, minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, for a life line. Using a procedural motion to suspend the rules, which required two-thirds vote, Boehner passed the Orwellian named Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act by a vote of 357-60. He did it with Democrat votes. Where he lost 51 GOP members on the earlier vote he lost 55 GOP members the second time around.
The mind boggles.
What is going to happen in one week that fixes this problem?
More to the point, what is going to happen in a week with funding that wouldn’t happen faster in a week without funding?
Right now both Boehner and McConnell are negotiating with themselves over the terms of their own surrender. This did not have to be.
Funding DHS is completely irrelevant to DHS continuing operations to national security is not jeopardized in any way, shape, or form. If you want to have your crotch groped by some mouth-breather at the airport, you secret fetish is not endangered. In a sane world, Boehner and McConnell would see that they can walk away from this farce and let Reid and Obama decide when they want DHS to resume full operations.
While the fallout and downside are minuscule, the stakes are huge. Will Congress acquiesce in letting Obama set his own immigration policy, a policy that runs counter to the law? The only tool Congress has in this battle is the appropriations authority. If it won’t refuse to appropriate money to fund non-essential functions of DHS, it has become irrelevant and we are a dictatorship, not a constitutional republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
The problem is McDumbo does not have a spine, similar to the prognosis for Bonehead. Once again the “stupid party” comes shinning through.
These spineless quisling hacks just don’t get it. In for a penny in for a pound. They should have jammed the House bill through the Senate on the nuclear option and landed the hot potato in Barry’s lap. Let him figure it out. They are so stupid and weak it boggles the mind.
Based on the current scores in Conservative Review, there’s a ton of Texas Republicans that need to be primaried next year.
How Boehner can give Obama his way:
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/house-rule-boehner-dhs-appropriations-shutdown/?dcz=
” ...any House lawmaker, arguing that a conference scenario is moot and won’t be resolved before the clock runs out on the current extension of DHS funding, could take to the floor and move that the House recedes from its previous position and concurs in the Senate amendment.
Because such a motion is “privileged” that would then trigger a vote on sending the Senate-amended full year Homeland Security appropriations bill to Obama’s desk without any of those riders designed to block his executive actions on immigration.”
I think this is blatant and will cost him too much. But with Boehner who knows?
there’s a ton of Texas Republicans that need to be primaried next year.
2016 is the year of ultimate payback for GOPe. They aren’t going to like it when they get put back in the minority by disaffected conservatives.
Bull crap...they just want to make a lot of $$$$ and to be loved (wuved) by the Demoncraps, and they want to be loved by the pResiedent. Both parties are the same, and attend the same cocktail parties, etc. It's just one big club,fraternity,sorority. They win WE LOSE !
It is not a “fetal position”... it is more like “supine” and the GOP “leadership” are catamites assuming that supine posture.
“fetal position” or not, The democrats got their number and they have already surrendered their one trump card so there really isn’t anything they can do but lose or grow a spine and stand their ground in a big way. That means shutdown for many weeks.
If they were really concerned about that they would resign from their position and allow someone else to take their place as Speaker and majority leader someone the Democrats don’t already believe(really know) to be spineless. Even then that person would probably have to lead us to a shut down just to prove they have the resolve John and Mich have always lacked.
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