Posted on 12/08/2014 5:49:43 AM PST by bestintxas
In a lengthy interview on Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposed how House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise strengthened President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty with procedural trickery former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber would envy—and they did it all in the name of pushing a bill that they told Republicans would block Obama’s executive amnesty.
What’s more is that a series of interviews and recent developments indicate that Boehner’s gambit here is placing several of his top lieutenants—including at least two committee chairmen—at political risk of serious primary challenges just a few months after newly elected Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) beat now former House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a Republican primary.
Gohmert said most members had no idea what they were actually voting for when 219 members—216 of which were Republicans—approved a measure, H.R. 5759, first put forward by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), but subsequently dramatically altered by leadership officials in the Rules Committee process.
“I was a cosponsor of the original Yoho bill. I thought it was a very decent bill, it was very short—it was only about a page and a half—and it basically said that anything the president did in violation of current law including what he’s done with ordering work permits for people who are illegally here, it’s illegal,” Gohmert said.
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Time to start burning down the phone lines....dialing...
GREAT idea! How can we do that? They’ve already voted for Speaker for this Congress, haven’t they?
I want to know who the three were that caught it, and why they aren't new leadership.
It needs to be brought back up for reconsideration by someone that was duped.
We have 216 reps who can be tricked to vote against their principles?
They can’t have read it before the final vote.
Boehner’s gonna need a lot of Vaseline in the upcoming days and I don’t mean for his boss...
NEW LEADERSHIP. Or I should say LEADERSHIP. Because now there is none.
....a pack of lying lowlifes!!
Great. Now EVERY illiegal immigrant will be in imminent danger and get an exception, especially his Muslim pals flying the black and white flags...
Scumbags sliding that exception in under the rug during the night behind closed doors...
Near as I can this is just a “House Resolution” and not passage of a new law.
Recall S.R. 511 declaring John Sydney McCain to be a true and “Natural Born Citizen”, of two American Parents and such is eligible to become president.
It carried and has Zero, Nada, No force of law.
listen the newly elected guys havent even assumed office yet, can we please knock off these endless rants about how they have already messed up!?
“You have to pass it, to see what’s in it”.
Zactly!!
Not sure why they even voted on a resolution.
It created no new law.
The incoming house is free to make this resolution moot or Null and Void, as it were.
Yeah, I’d like to know what Boner said in the caucus that morning before the vote...if anything.
Well then...abstain until you get a chance to read it and understand what you are voting for. Seems like pretty simple logic. A lot simpler than just voting for something that Boehner told you to vote for. Morons.
Ever since I heard that phrase years ago from that witch, I cannot understand for one moment how the American people are allowing this crap to go on Washington.
There must be some legal requirement that forces our reps to read these bills.
Probably squinted his eyes very tightly and threatened to release the Kracken, with extreme prejudice, from out of his ass...
Like a turd?
Just “Deem it”...
Recall that one?
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