Jarrett reiterated the regime’s determination to pass amnesty before the end of summer. She told those gathered that she believes House Speaker John Boehner will find a way to get an amnesty bill or several smaller bills to the floor of the House for a vote. She indicated it would likely take place after the primary elections in order to insulate turncoat Republican candidates from their constituencies and possible negative political consequences.Jarrett said, “I think we have a window this summer, between now and August, to get something done.” We have a commitment from Speaker Boehner, who’s very frustrated with his caucus.”
Jarrett reiterated the regime’s determination to pass amnesty before the end of summer. She told those gathered that she believes House Speaker John Boehner will find a way to get an amnesty bill or several smaller bills to the floor of the House for a vote. She indicated it would likely take place after the primary elections in order to insulate turncoat Republican candidates from their constituencies and possible negative political consequences.Jarrett said, “I think we have a window this summer, between now and August, to get something done.” We have a commitment from Speaker Boehner, who’s very frustrated with his caucus.”
sheesh... no rest for the weary... what a gigantic mistake to let this guy become Speaker... so many people had their doubts about him...
Uniparty Ping!
It’s no secret that the result of granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants would be a disaster for the Republicans for years to come. I just can’t keep myself from wondering what the Dems have on Boehner that would cause him to continue giving his support. It must be pretty big.
He should understand the problems with bringing this issue up at all; if he does his base will be dispirited and many will stay home (like 2006), that the dems will be forever empowered if this legislation passes, and that the party he supposedly represents will become a genuine minority as a result.
Not to mention, the bill really won't secure the border, continuing to deepen the problem, that this administration wouldn't enforce the law if it did, that as Sarah Palin says: Coming across the border as they do is ILLEGAL FOR GOOD REASON!
I hope these stories are wrong about his willingness to bring this up, but fear they are not.
I think the urgent push for amnesty by Boehner and the Republican left is an effort to get it off the table before Jeb starts his campaign. They know amnesty is a losing issue for the campaign, and centrist conservatives will beat their golden boy over the head with it.
Jeb cares more about illegals than he does jobless Americans, and he knows that won’t sit well with voters. If he can run on the premise that amnesty is a done deal that he didn’t have a vote for, some of the pressure is off.
The issues that his conduct has raised go to the very essence of whether we can preserve the America, that all of us who have taken an oath to preserve the Constitution, are sworn to uphold. While he easily won renomination in the Primary ten days ago, he is simply no longer acceptable--indeed, an outright menace as Speaker.
I do not want to speculate whether certain things in his personal life are to blame. But his behavior, both in selling out on funding the attack on private medicine & on immigration, say all that needs to be said.
William Flax
When will the GOP dump this jerk. He is a damn boat anchor.
Just received this from NumbersUSA, all of it is scary, but look at item #2...
NumbersUSA has never lost an amnesty battle in Congress in 15 years. But this year, the open borders coalition is fighting us on three different fronts. We absolutely must win all three battles, or the largest Illegal Alien Amnesty in history could become law.
How would you feel personally about 12 million illegal aliens voting in our elections, collecting public benefits, and bringing millions more family members to America within a few short years? Disaster, right?
Our opponents in Big Business, Big Labor, Organized Religion, Elite Media, and just about every politician with a “For Sale” sign around his neck is working day and night to pass a total amnesty and DOUBLE legal immigration. Double disaster! The other side has spent around $2 BILLION since 2008 to force this amnesty down American throats. But with our modest budget and enormous people power, we’ve held them off....
Let me tell you the three battles we’re fighting at once.
1) Amnesty tacked on to the Defense bill
Our opponents are desperately working to stick a get-out-of-jail-free amnesty on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amnesty, known as the ENLIST Act, gives certain illegal aliens the right to join our military and a path to citizenship if they do. The proposed amnesty is outrageous enough on its own: at a time when our military is drastically scaling back its personnel and turning away highly qualified American recruits, Congress is seriously considering rewarding illegal aliens with citizenship if they take Americans’ places in the military. Could any sane person really think that replacing our own soldiers with foreign citizens is good for national security?
Last week, after being deluged by messages from our members, the House Armed Services Committee REFUSED to add the military amnesty to the defense bill. GREAT!! Congratulations, members! This is a significant victory. HOWEVER, we can’t rest a second. The House Rules Committee, chaired by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), is considering allowing the military amendment to be offered when the bill hits the House floor. This would happen as early as NEXT WEEK. We must force the Rules Committee to hold its ground. If we don’t succeed there, then we have to wage war to stop the amendment on the floor.
But that’s not all! Simultaneously, Sen. Harry Reid is considering attaching the military amnesty to the defense bill on the Senate side. Our long-time opponent Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is championing that effort. That decision will be made in the next two weeks. Then, the battle goes to the Senate floor. And even THAT isn’t the end of it. Once the NDAA has been passed (in whatever form) by House and Senate, it would go to a House-Senate conference committee to add more goodies onto it. If one chamber attaches a military amnesty onto the underlying bill, the conference could ramp the amnesty way up—maybe even to resemble S.744, which triples life-time immigrant work permits over the first decade. Obviously, WE HAVE TO WIN THIS BATTLE!
Fortunately, our activists’ early response has been strong. We’ve sent 700,000 faxes to Congress in the past few weeks. As the battlefront continues to expand, we need to send Congress two million or more faxes. We need all our members to clear their Action Boards, and keep a look-out for further alerts from us.
The military amnesty is only the FIRST of THREE battles this year. Very briefly, here are the other two. They’re both so scary they make my skin crawl.
2) The second battle will be an August Surprise.
House Speaker John Boehner told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week in San Antonio that he is wanting to pass several small immigration bills this year if his GOP Representatives will let him. Republican House leader Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers said that House leaders want immigration legislation to pass by August. These bills will include an illegal alien amnesty and a huge hike in legal immigration. This would be a total disaster.
The only thing to stop the August surprise is you! NumbersUSA has legions of grassroots activists ready to swat the August Surprise down. But that only works if we have the money to pay for the millions of free faxes and the hundreds of thousands of free phone calls to Congress that probably will be required by year’s end. H J, need your financial support to stop it.
3) The third battle this year is the Lame Duck Disaster.
For me, this the scariest battle of all. News reports out yesterday quote top open borders business leaders Tom Donahue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers as saying that Boehner’s secret plan is to hold a Lame Duck (after the election) session of Congress in December and push through the giant immigration-increasing bill (amnesty plus doubling of legal immigration) as the last bill of the Lame Duck Session!
Can you imagine? Since Boehner is now broadly hinting that this will be his last term as Speaker of the House, a Lame Duck Session would be the perfect time to plant the knife in America’s back and saunter away into the twilight. Outrageous, YES!!