Posted on 11/14/2014 6:10:29 AM PST by xzins
As our friend Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review said, "It’s as if the November 4 elections never occurred."
Today, the new House membership met in a private conclave and reelected every one of their top leaders by voice vote. This includes John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Majority Leader, Steve Scalise (R-LA) as Majority Whip, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) as Conference Chair.
And as Horowitz observed, "At a time of one of the worst constitutional crises in our nation’s history, when the president is threatening to imminently remake our society with immigration amnesty – a policy over which Congress holds absolute power – Republican leadership elections lacked any debate on strategy to stop this crisis. None of these people had to provide a platform or a commitment as to how they will deal with this dangerously imperial president. None of them had to make commitments to defund any and all lawless activity. They were all reelected by voice vote."
Just hours before winning reelection to his speakership, Breitbart reported that Boehner said the following to Obama about paying his ransom on immigration:
After a White House meeting last week, Republicans described Speaker John Boehner aggressively confronting President Obama over the president's planned executive amnesty, prompting an extended period of a defensive Obama attempting to justify his actions. But a key moment of the meeting, left out from those accounts, was unveiled by Boehner himself, when according to Horowitz, in an exuberant moment of boasting in a closed-door meeting with GOP colleagues minutes ago. Boehner recalled telling Obama, “Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can't, then do what you gotta do.”
So Boehner is telling Obama that he will have the green light to pass amnesty, but asked for permission to try one more time to pass it legislatively? Horowitz had this quote mentioned by Breitbart confirmed by several people in the room when Boehner said it.
Read that again. Boehner told the GOP conference behind closed doors that he told Obama he has the green light to shred our constitution and destroy our sovereignty if Republicans don’t do it through regular order. And then he was reelected Speaker just hours later!
This fight is not over, not by a long shot. Game on. Conservatives will be watching.
To read Daniel Horowitz's complete report on Boehner's comments about amnesty click this link
Call or write your legislator today (the Capitol switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) tell Capitol Hill Republicans that you voted for them to stand tall and fight the Obama – Reid plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and that you future support of the Republican Party will stand or fall on their opposition to granting amnesty to illegal aliens..
From Article: Boehner recalled telling Obama, “Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can’t, then do what you gotta do.””
It’s time
We send ever more American manufacturing plants to the Peoples Republic of China, yet hire illegals to work at American plants.
How about we return American manufacturing, to America, and hire Americans.
Just saying.
They didn’t reelect Eric Cantor as minority whip...
Bonehead doesn’t want the president to pass amnesty by EO because he would be under pressure to stop him. And he doesn’t want to.
Pardon me, MAJORITY whip...
He’s pushing our button.
Instead of reelecting him speaker of the house of reprehensibles, they SHOULD have forced his sorry, back-stabbing ass to caucus with the f---ing democrats.
THE SPEAKER VOTE IS IN JANUARY AFTER THE NEW HOUSE CONVENES.
Ignorance is not strength.
Obama “does what he has to do” and Congress better do what they got to do to stop him.
The last time I heard that line was from "The Sopranos" where the NY gang washed their hands over the fate of their boss.
Bonehead doesn’t want the president to pass amnesty by EO because he would be under pressure to stop him. And he doesn’t want to.Truer words were never spoken.
I’ve been telling y’all, for the past two years, BOEHNER IS COMPROMISED.
How do We the People have this corrupt man removed as Speaker of OUR House of Representatives?
The whole federal gub mint is an expensive freaken joke.
Boehner ought be drug behind a pick em up truck.
John Boehner, the Jonathan Gruber of the Republican Party.
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