Posted on 01/17/2014 5:41:45 AM PST by cotton1706
President Obama has told Senate Democrats he expects Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to pass immigration reform this year, defying predictions the issue is dead for 2014.
Obama believes Republicans will feel politically vulnerable if they fail to advance the issue, a high priority among Hispanic voters, according to Democratic senators who met with the president this week.
Obama sees immigration reform as a source for optimism in what has otherwise shaped up as a tough year for Democrats. “He predicted the House would pass something this year,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who attended the meeting.
Obama cautioned senators to brace themselves for difficult negotiations with House Republicans later this year.
“He said we’re then all going to have a challenging conversation,” Kaine added. “He said it was more likely than not the House would do something.”
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the lead sponsor of the Senate-passed immigration bill, described Obama as “cautiously optimistic” after the meeting.
ADVERTISEMENT “I think our Republican colleagues realize that to be blocking immigration reform is not good for them,” Schumer added. Boehner has made several recent moves giving Obama and his Democratic allies hope, such as hiring Rebecca Tallent to serve as his new director of immigration policy. She previously worked for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a co-sponsor of the Senate immigration bill.
Boehner plans to unveil a set of Republican principles for immigration reform before Obama’s Jan. 28 State of the Union address.
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There is a lot of truth to what you are saying . But, still when you lower taxes for the corporates and then they still recieve corporate welfare, contracts, subsidies etc it is natural that they are going to protect high governement spending. That is the thing we missed when we demanded lower taxes. We thought that they would then lessen governement spending but it has not worked out like that.
I don’t know what to think. I keep hearing and seeing on the internet how they are about to sell out. But, when I call the offices of the congressmen (including leadership) and other who have been listed as weak links they say they are adamantly opposed to amnesty and they will not support it under any circyumstances. So, I do not know what is going on.
The picture generally given of the relative position of the three parties (ed: socialism, conservatism, classical liberism) does more to obscure than to elucidate their true relations. They are usually represented as different positions on a line, with the socialists on the left, the conservatives on the right, and the liberals somewhere in the middle. Nothing could be more misleading. If we want a diagram, it would be more appropriate to arrange them in a triangle with the conservatives occupying one corner, with the socialists pulling toward the second and the liberals toward the third. But, as the socialists have for a long time been able to pull harder, the conservatives have tended to follow the socialist rather than the liberal direction and have adopted at appropriate intervals of time those ideas made respectable by radical propaganda. It has been regularly the conservatives who have compromised with socialism and stolen its thunder.The entire article at the link is food for thought. We need a party of liberty.[Conservatism] by its very nature it cannot offer an alternative to the direction in which we are moving. It may succeed by its resistance to current tendencies in slowing down undesirable developments, but, since it does not indicate another direction, it cannot prevent their continuance. It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing. The tug of war between conservatives and progressives can only affect the speed, not the direction, of contemporary developments.
Barry the Blackmailer owns Boner.
vote conservative (especially in the primaries)...that’s all. We will take over the party as time goes by...you see the trend, already.
“Every time I think of Boehner I say GURRRRRRRRRR!!!”
It is not what a politician says, it is what he does that is important.
I can even remember, back in the day, when Obama said “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period.”
The base has been burned beyond recognition. They are now screwed.
“Why does the GOP consider it their number one issue? “
Because it’s the number one issue to their corporate masters.
“And what party will that be other than a permanent minority one? “
The GOPe loves to be in the minority. They can make back room deals with the corporatists in the Dem party and don’t have to take responsibility for anything.
Screw the middle class.
The GOP has never been in a better political position in years with an extremely lame duck president and they are getting involved with horsesh** like this.
No coherent message or strategy for victory. Instead, they would rather be whores to the highest bidder. This will be the end of them. Stupid bastards.
HIGHLY unlikely. They did what they did because it was their will. Sorry to say, but it's true.
It's much easier for them that way. Today's GOP would prefer to sit back as a minority and win by the opposition's failures. Notice they always run against something and not for anything. They use ObamaCare, Benghazi as campaign issues but never any ideas of their own such as drilling...etc. They are too afraid and embarrassed about their own ideas to run on them so they hope to win elections by default. It ain't gonna happen. Deep down inside they know it ain't gonna happen. It's so much easier to be the minority party. That's how they think. Sad but true.
This is not going to happen. This is not going to happen. If you want to try it. We will meet with you. Bring your children.
The domestic spies got something on Boehner.
He’s being blackmailed into oblivion.
Traitor.
As everywhere else in life, follow the money. And determine who benefits. There's your answer.
there is one of these “dems say boner will pass amnesty” rumors every week. And the same people fall for this crap every week, running around in circles like two year old girls.
The dems are laughing at you. It’s embarrassing.
I think this comment omits the most important issue - the primaries.
IF we do all we can in primaries to get the right candidate, then you should most certainly vote R. The fundamental problem we have on this site is that nearly ALL of us do not include the primaries in our thinking. Most of us do not consider pre-primary work in our process. Indeed, I assert that the majority of our work is in primaries.
Notwithstanding the issue above, I do think you should vote R because the damage will be far worse should we have even more dems.
BUT please do not mistake me - I am not encouraging a vote in favor of rinos. I am encouraging that we spend our resources in the primary battles and only then voting R.
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