Posted on 12/13/2013 7:16:30 AM PST by cotton1706
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is picking a fight with outside conservative groups to clear the way for immigration reform, Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham charged on Friday.
“The Speaker is trying to turn this into a boring fight between outside groups and himself so we are not having a policy debate about whether or not this is a good deal,” Needham said of the budget deal approve by the House on Thursday.
“The Speaker also wants to clear the way for immigration reform next year,” Needham added in an interview on MSNBC. He said Boehner wanted to divert attention from the substance of the two-year budget deal by picking the fight. Heritage and other conservative groups harshly criticized the deal, saying it actually increased spending instead of cutting it.
The groups also “key-voted” the bill, meaning votes in favor of the legislation will be negatively scored.
Despite the pressure, most Republicans in the House supported the measure, handing Boehner and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who drew up the deal, a significant victory.
During a press conference Thursday, Boehner said outside groups had lost credibility by coming out against the deal before the final details had been released.
He also said they had little credibility because their pressure to tie the defunding of the healthcare law to a government funding bill had led to a government shutdown earlier this year.
The shutdown fight badly hurt Republicans, according to polls at the time. They party has made a comeback since the shutdown ended, partly because of the problems of political focus on the healthcare law.
Boehner also took a shot specifically at Needham, referring to the conservative strategy that led to the government shutdown in October.
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Boner’s like the Bush family.
Owned by the Globalists, always kicking the Base, figures we got nowhere to go but with him.
See Ya Johnny. Can you say.....”Primary”.
You can score points with the MSM off of some other door mat.
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