Posted on 07/30/2013 5:52:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Keeping immigration on the back-burner helps avoid a recess filled with angry town-hall meetings reminiscent of the heated August 2009 protests where the backlash against health care reform coalesced. Doing nothing also starves Democrats of a target, Republicans argue.
But for Boehner, who by all accounts wants to see some kind of immigration reform pass, that raised serious strategic problems.
First, passing tougher enforcement measures before August would take all the momentum away from other more divisive measures, such as giving “Dreamers,” the children brought to the United States illegally, a legal option for staying in the country. While House leaders publicly insist on dealing with the immigration issues separately, they privately are wary of letting their piecemeal approach be taken out of context.
So Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy have privately discussed holding off on immigration until October. (September has only nine legislative days that will be jammed with fiscal negotiations as House Republicans and Senate Democrats scramble to fund the government after the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.) The August break gives Republicans time to chart a course on immigration ahead of a packed fall schedule that leaves little time for strategizing.
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Boehner does not fear the American People.
Nor does he obey his Oath to the Constitution.
Boehner has a boner for Communism, power, and Obama.
The GOP knew this, but —like Romney and Rove and McCain —
agree. They want power for themselves, power for Obama,
and a separation of themselves from the unprotected
[because of the THEM] ‘little people’
for whom they are supposed to actually be working.
The GOPe plotting a strategy to screw over their own constituents.
They fight harder against their own base than they do the Democrats.
The GOP is dead. Its gone corporate.
When Crist was governor of Florida he was Republican.
REPUBLICANS are BALLLESS!!!
My new BUMPER STICKER.
Illegals are owned by communist lawyers and Mexican Suedeten land strategy. What is the GOPe thinking they can get votes from that? Treason, whores, beheading fun material for EBT foreign government sponsorship.
This is no relationship, it’s abuse.
America, the new Vietnam surrender to communist madness has come home. Yeah, cool nationalists they are... and our constitution is? Well, not for intellectual cowards who wallow in shallow murderous companies thinking it makes them look cool gangsta.
Understandable... and I'm doing the same thing wherever possible, but that doesn't always pan out either. *COUGH* Rubio *COUGH*
And they wonder why the working class distrusts the GOP. This could be an opportunity to bring in more blue collar workers into the GOP and erode even further the dominance of Democrats over unions instead they are doing something that when it goes south the Democrats will blame the GOP. Big Donors are killing the GOP. We don’t need them. When candidates are loved by the grassroots they have no problem attracting small donors which is exactly what many in leadership don’t like.
Please. Speak with more respect for our leadershit.
New idiot MBA Corporate... the GOpe is only good at disorganizing the right behind the veil of some gangsta organization feel in DC called bipatisanship, a single dismembered wailing prozak-viagra child.
In these gay marriages, the gayer party always drives the other to greater gayness, and via nudges and msm BS prevents forms of Apostasies.
It’s a Madrassa thing.
LOL!!!!
Dupont Circle.... lets Boehner bar hop with friends
Thanks. I suspect he was as much a Republican as Michael Bloomberg or Lincoln Chaffee.
“I would like to see Limbaugh and Levin publicly call for his political head. “
Today Limbaugh was saying that “no one is calling for the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens”.
He wasn’t criticizing this refusal of the political class to enforce our law, he obviously approves of this defacto amnesty for the foreign nationals squatting in our country.
I had started to think that Rush had become a border patriot but he put that to rest today. He’s still a GOP waterboy, toting their “border security first” lie. He’s still a Rubio Republican.
I agree
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