'Now look what you did. You hurt my feelings and I am gonna cry!'
Posted on 12/04/2014 4:14:58 AM PST by servo1969
Press reports say House Speaker John Boehner will ask Rep. Nancy Pelosi to help him overcome “snowballing” GOP opposition to the GOP leadership’s draft 2015 government budget bill.
Boehner’s draft bill funds the entire government for 2015, but makes merely token efforts to stop President Barack Obama’s agencies from implementing his unpopular amnesty, according to rank-and-file GOP legislators.
That claim of snowballing opposition was boosted early Wednesday evening, when aides to House Speaker John Boehner said they would change their funding bill to reduce the number of months of funding for Obama’s immigration agencies.
Late Wednesday night, the Washington Post reported that top Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer also said Boehner’s aides had asked him to deliver Democratic votes to ensure passage of the amnesty-funding bill. GOP Rep. Mark Amodei made the same claim to National Review.
Boehner is looking for Democratic help because many of the 234 GOP legislators don’t want to fund the business-backed amnesty. Boehner needs at least 218 votes to pass the bill.
Obama’s amnesty, announced Nov. 21, has blocked the enforcement of immigration law for 12 million illegals, will grant work-permits to five million illegals, will provide government benefits to millions of illegals and will make it cheaper for companies to hire illegals instead of Americans.
“Right now, it is just snowballing opposition,” Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp told The Daily Caller Wednesday.
“Twenty-four hours ago, there was little [opposition] there… [but] more and and more folks are learning the issue and asking ‘Why would I be voting for this?’” he said, citing quiet conversations he’s had with GOP members. “It is hard to put numbers on it,” he said, adding that legislators are responding to their voters’ phone calls and complaints.
In the run-up to the November election, Gallup reported the highest priority for GOP voters was not Obamacare or the economy, but stopping Obama’s planned amnesty.
Boehner promised to fight the amnesty “tooth and nail,” and on Dec. 1 he proposed a 2015 budget plan he said would block Obama’s amnesty.
His 2015 budget plan would provide only four months of funding to the agency that will implement the amnesty. Once the funding runs out, the new GOP majorities in the Senate and House can block the amnesty, Boehner’s deputies promised.
Boehner’s allies say that plan will avoid the “government shutdown” political defeat expected once Obama blocks the spending plan with the anti-amnesty language. The budget plan has to be drafted and approved by Dec. 12.
GOP members say Boehner’s plan can’t actually stop the immigration agency from printing work permits and Social Security cards for millions of illegal immigrants. The agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, can accomplish Obama’s amnesty even without federal funding because it is mostly funded with fees paid by would-be immigrants.
So even if Congress appropriates no money to fund the agency after March 2015, it can use the fees to keep handing out work permits to illegals.
Boehner and GOP leaders can’t stop the agency’s operations once they pass the 2015 budget in December. That’s because they would need to pass a new law through the Senate in 2015, where there will be enough Democrats to block any GOP bill, and more than enough Democrats to sustain the presidential veto of any anti-amnesty bill that does get passed.
The only way to stop the amnesty, say GOP members, including Huelskamp, is to add “rider” language to Boehner’s pending appropriations bill.
The rider language would bar the immigration agency from spending any funds to implement the amnesty for the next 12 months.
The so-called “rider” language is similar to many other funding limitations inserted into the annual appropriations bills — except that Obama’s aides are suggesting he will shut down the government unless the GOP funds his amnesty.
The amnesty will cost a lot of money to implement. On Dec. 3, Sen. Jeff Sessions announced that the administration has secretly made preparations to hire 1,000 people to rapidly distribute work permits to illegals in Virginia.
“This action will mean that American workers, their sons, their daughters, their parents, will now have to compete directly for jobs, wages, and benefits with millions of illegal immigrants,” Sessions said.
Many GOP legislators will oppose Boehner’s budget plan, but only when they’re pressured by voters, said Iowa Rep. Steve King.
“These people in here, when you realize how many don’t come out publicly [against the amnesty] because they may hope to be a committee chair one day, maybe looking for a certain appointment, … they want to stay a little more low-key,” and those members will stay quiet until they’re pressured by voters, King said.
The group of winnable legislators could be up to 50, which is enough to deny Boehner a House majority. That would force him to rewrite his funding bill or rely on Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi to provide enough legislators to pass the bill.
Many conservative or immigration-reform groups are trying to rally GOP legislators against the bill. ”The funding bill is really the only angle” to stop the amnesty, said Michael Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee.
Boehner “has to put something in place something that aligns the caucus to get the votes he needs… They should have done better,” he told radio host Laura Ingraham.
Boehner’s team is keeping its deliberations secret from GOP legislators, say Huelskamp and other GOP legislators. But his chief whip, Rep. Steve Scalise, has long worked with conservative GOP legislators, King said. “He’s a pretty good guy, you know,” King said.
During the border security issue in July, Scalise worked with King and other GOP leaders to pass a bill that denied funding for an extension of Obama’s 2012 amnesty for young illegal immigrants.
Boehner and team tried to push through a much weaker bill, but many GOP legislators joined King’s group once their constituents called. Eventually, nearly every GOP legislator — including Boehner — voted for the bill developed by Scalise and King.
“That was a similar scenario to this one… some of the [legislators] had been whipped on this [by Boehner’s team], but they went back and told leadership ‘No,’” because of voter pressure, King said.
“If you look at what I thought we had [open] support then, versus what materialized for support after people made the phone calls to their members of Congress, after they got up to speed on the issue… members begin to learn enough, they get educated and they come around,” he said.
That House defunding bill died when Senate Democrats blocked it in a late-night vote.
However, the bill has put nearly all GOP legislators on the record against Obama’s amnesty actions.
In the Senate, four endangered Democratic Senators voted to support a similar defunding bill when Sessions used complex Senate rules to bypass Democratic opposition to any vote.
The Democratic splits shows the GOP may win an amnesty and government shutdown battle with Obama.
The amnesty could become political poison for the Democratic Party because it grants work permits to 4 million low-wage illegal immigrants during a period when Americans’ wages have stayed flat for 15 years, when roughly 20 million Americans are unemployed or have given up looking for work and when more taxpayer funds are being transferred from retirees to unskilled poor migrant families.
Polls show strong opposition to increased immigration and to Obama’s immigration policies. But public opposition to the amnesty is muted by social pressure to support for the tradition of immigration, and by Americans’ reluctance to been seen as critical of migrants.
Private opposition spikes up to nearly 90 percent whenever the pollsters focus on the fairness of forcing Americans to compete against migrants for jobs in America.
The power of that pushback was underlined Nov. 4, when voters in deep-blue Oregon elected a Democratic governor, a Democratic Senator, added Democrats to the state House and state Senate and also voted two-to-one to withdraw drivers’ licenses from illegal immigrants.
And the rats will pay for it in 16 too.
Let me tell you why. Even the average day working rats don’t like their Schools, Hospitals, Police departments, streets overrun with parasites not wanting to assimilate but rather turn this Country into their own little 3rd world shit hole.
That my friend is an optic we all will get exposed to on a daily basis for the next two years. Even the blacks will catch on that all this did was overload an already flooded system and drive wages down for the average working American.
Yeah....
” It is true that voting Republican each election cycle is much like an abused spouse “
I posted this yesterday. You nailed it.
We are still batting 1,000.
We will finish out the year batting 1,000.
'Now look what you did. You hurt my feelings and I am gonna cry!'
: ).
Look how stinking drunk he is at photo (post 38)
Even Cruz. He voted for McConnell. And isn’t his wife working for Goldman Sachs?
Boehner: "So anyhow, this is what Barry did to me after that Leadership meeting. He grabbed me from behind, whispered something about spreading the wealth around and the next thing I know I wake up with Michelle threatening me with a curtain rod. I jumped up and realized someone had dressed me up in a two piece Victoria's secret outfit which the bottom half was at my knees. I took off running and tripped and hit my head because I just can't run in high heels with a hang over. Thankfully the SS came in and convinced Michelle and her mother to move to another room. It was at that time that I noticed The President and Reggie passed out on the sofa."
It doesn’t matter who you vote for or don’t vote for. There are not enough people in the country who won’t vote for one of the two parties “just to be safe.”I am done with voting above the state level. I don’t want to again have to realize that “Damn! I voted for that bastard!”
It is better to vote for the Republican on the ticket so that the guy who knifes you at least isn’t a Democrat. no?
Yeah......THAT picture!
Good dialogue : )
Where did you get anything about voting from my post?
Bonor is a worthless RINO.
Time to vote Boehner out.
Boehner and Obama are vying for worst politician of the century.
Oh, and Pelosi looks horrid. Her face is going to peel off any minute.
I’ve always said that if a third party was formed and the majority of the gop switched Boner and the rest of the rinos would caucus with the democrats if not outright switch parties.
Maybe if we melt the phone lines Boner will be removed from the speakership. /s
Mmmmmmm.......sounds an awful lot like Madoff's tactics---to shrug off the suckers he was ripping off......
REALITY CHECK The WH con artist screwed-up---and is resorting to Chicago gangland parlance to cover his ***.
He stupidly backed himself into a corner, so he did what any practiced conman would do.......he blamed his victims.
We just "heard wrong."
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AS FREEPER KENNYBUNK INSIGHTFULLY (and hilariously) POSTED: The Mombasa MF in the WH was supposed to have signed the "Executive Order" ---- but there is no such thing. "Kid Kenya" pulled a head- fake on the gullible GOPe, that even now is hurriedly stooping to osculate his imperial gluteal regions.
Even Barry Soetoro---erstwhile adjunct instructor in Constitutional law (before leaving the Illinois Bar permanently)----knew that an 'Executive Order' would not hold water. So, he faked it...and set up a Cabinet Secy as the fall guy.
JEH SET UP AS FALL GUY DHS Secy Jeh Johnson, with an IQ of a boulder, is the perfect Affirmative Action Anus fall guy, because he is covered under the 'Melanin Clause," and will never be prosecuted for anything.
Apparently none of the octogenarian ani that form the GOPe old boys club in Congress ... or their uniformly Left Wing staffers ... deigned to notice that ... or what day it is.
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Adding to Kenny's delightful rant---- from experience, we know conmen do not put their shyster plans in writing. So all of the "E/O memo" crap about "welcoming communities" is nothing but BS on steroids, worthy of Gruber's Imprimatur.
Americans are not buying it---we're onto him.
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NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS (/SNIX) According to the Wash/Po, The White House and congressional Democrats are teaming up to form an "Immigration Strike Team" to serve as a better- organized rapid response force to counter whatever Republicans do or say about immigration reform in the coming months.
The goal, according to several congressional aides familiar with the plans, is to ensure that lawmakers and administration officials are more closely coordinating talking points and media appearances and using all outlets at their disposal to highlight incendiary comments or controversial legislation introduced by Republicans. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Go figure ---a-n-o-t-h-e-r "Congressional rapid response team"...... like the one that got Obamacre passed?
Progressives have to be mentally defective---they keep repeating their failures over and over.
(Groan) Get ready for another Schumer look-back.
SOURCE: http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?id=D2201CA4-B81C-4BE2-9A15-6C7457AC9DF4
- Loopholes ensure no illegal group (like drug cartels) is a govt priority for removal:
- Fugitives from justice no longer a priority for removal:
- Sentences issued by judges are ignored
- Violent Gang members can stay:
- Identity theft and document fraud not a priority:
- Obama Administration turns a blind eye to misdemeanors:
- Membership in violent organizations not a problem:
- Membership in organizations advocating the over throw of the US govt no problem.
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