Reports of possible deal on DHS funding reignites chatter about Boehner ouster

Fox News ^ | 3/1/15 | Chad Pergram

[cableguymn]

I am surprised!

I am pretty sure he held out longer than any other time before giving in and doing what he wanted in the first place.

[TurboZamboni]

[Revel]

“There won’t be a coup. Too many of these congressmen were promised inducements, including committee memberships, to vote for Boehner as speaker. They are more afraid of losing their perks than they are of the voters.”

Yes and that should be as illegal as any other kind of blackmail and extortion. Congressional members of the leading party should all vote on who leads the committees.

[duffee]

The present republican leadership is on record as supporting the chamber of commerce illegal immigration plan. I don’t trust them at all to do the right thing on amnesty, I don’t believe they’re above letting obama’s illegal act do it for them. Either kill this illegal amnesty and hopefully the DHS or just change parties and we can see where we really stand.

[Valin]

Should Boehner be fired?
Marc A. Thiessen
March 2 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-fire-boehner-over-the-suicidal-homeland-security-fight/2015/03/02/193a07da-c0f1-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html

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Moreover, having this fight right now is pointless. A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked Obama from implementing his executive action. The conservative-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is expected to hear the Obama administration’s appeal in the coming weeks. So the answer for congressional Republicans should be obvious: Pass a short-term funding bill and see whether the courts rescue them from their ill-fated DHS strategy.

Oh wait, that is precisely what House Speaker John Boehner tried to do. With a shutdown looming, Boehner put forward a bill to fund the agency for three weeks. This would have given the court time to act. It would have given the House and Senate time to negotiate. And it would have prevented the DHS fight from distracting from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Tuesday. A no-brainer, right?

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Now news reports indicate that some Republicans are so mad at Boehner that they are talking about ousting him as speaker. For what? Being insufficiently suicidal?

They have placed Boehner in an unwinnable situation and are mad because he is trying to navigate it intelligently. The fact is there is no way for Republicans to win this fight unless the courts bail them out. The only winning strategy is for the GOP to buy time for the courts to reverse Obama’s unlawful action on immigration, just as they reversed his unlawful recess appointments last year.

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The sad truth is that so long as Democrats are willing to put partisanship ahead of principle, the GOP will not have the votes to force Obama’s hand. Conservatives need to recognize this reality and put the blame where it belongs — with Senate Democrats, not John Boehner.