This is what he really said.
Posted on 01/08/2015 12:04:45 PM PST by jazusamo
48 second Video at link.
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight “tooth and nail” against President Obama’s unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner’s House permitted funding of it. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that Boehner pushed through a lame-duck Republican-controlled House last month put no prohibition on Obama using government funds to implement the amnesty. That omnibus funded almost all the government through the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27.
“The House will soon take action aimed at stopping the president’s unilateral action when it comes to immigration,” Boehner said at his press briefing today. “Republicans are in agreement that this is a gravely serious matter.”
“The president's unilateral actions were an affront to the rule of law and our system of government,” Boehner said. “The American people don't support it and as their representatives we cannot let it stand.”
“I said we'd fight it tooth and nail when we had two majorities in the House and Senate and I meant it,” Boehner said. “What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America’s Constitution. The president has taken action that is beyond the scope of his ability and the Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action.”
Because last month’s omnibus put no restriction on Obama using money to implement his amnesty, the president is free to do so at this time. Had the Republican-controlled House attached language to last month’s omnibus prohibiting spending on the amnesty, Obama would have needed to shut down the entire government (by vetoing the bill) to try to force the Republican House to give him the money.
Now, the only funding bill the Republicans in Congress can use to stop Obama’s amnesty is the bill that will be needed to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Feb. 27. If the Republicans attach language to that bill prohibiting Obama from spending money to implement his amnesty, Obama will only need to shutdown DHS to try to force the Republicans to give him the money to implement it.
At his briefing, Boehner said he did not think the funding of DHS was "at risk" and said that Republicans wanted to fund the department.
A reporter asked: "Is this a wise time to be putting the budget of the Homeland Security Department at risk? The head of the department said it poses a real risk to have a continuing resolution without any certainty. Does he have any validity to his argument?"
"I don't believe that the funding of the department is in fact at risk," Boehner responded. "What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America's Constitution. The president has taken actions that are beyond the scope of his ability. And Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action, and we will."
The reporter, who made no mention of the fact that it would take a presidential veto to stop the DHS funding bill, followed up, saying: "Can you imagine something like this happening after 9/11 though. Given the attacks yesterday in Paris can you imagine the Homeland Security budget being up for debate a month after, or a day after, something like that happened here."
Boehner responded: "The issue isn't about funding the Department of Homeland Security. Members of Congress support funding the department. But we cannot continue to allow the president to go around the Congress and go around the law and take unilateral action as he has."
Another reporter asked if the House would "never pass a DHS funding bill that doesn't include some sort of provision" to stop Obama's unilateral amnesty.
"The House is going to work its will," Boehner said. "The way the process works is once the House works its will, the Senate will work its will. And then we have options. We can go to conference. We can take the Senate bill. There are a lot of options available to us. When we pass our bill, we'll see what the Senate can do with it and then we will act."
A third reporter asked if Boehner would allow an "open rule" on the DHS bill, which would let members freely offer amendments to the bill.
"I don't know what the Rules Committee will decide," Boehner said. "But I've got my doubts that it will be a truly open rule. But I do suspect that there will be amendments allowed."
If the Republicans pass a stand-alone bill to stop Obama’s amnesty, the president can simply veto that stand-alone bill. It would then take a two-thirds majority in both houses to enact it.
That's a perfect analogy. Right on point.
He/they all KNOW it Windy. they do what they do and say what they say because they are the problem itself.
This guy no more cares about America than a cat does. He cares about the GOP. He claims TEA Party. OK. Who now owns the leadership of the TEA Party?
GOP money and GOP board members of TEA groups.
So there is one logical conclusion as to why these posts happen.
Folks get ready for the two Extortion Speaks:
1. “Bipartisan” and
2. “Working Together”
“Omni-Everything” (derivative backstopping and all)....Meaning, the Quasi Bank-Insurance Lobby controlling everything, just like the last hour lobby calls to get “Omni-Everything” forced through.
Note, even Maxine Waters jumped on board after this last hour Lobby call.
“Representatives” mean nothing resembling what the designed deception means anymore. You think Boehner or any of the rest of the newbies, had anything to do with a 1,600+ page signing? That all tidy up after just being sworn in?
They, “Representatives”, are only there now to rubber stamp what the players of Extortion-Care darkness principles, and so called “banking” (means nothing traditional)
The Quasi—Write what they want, Extortion Lobby, Bureaus and Agencies, as we’ve said before, want only Congressmen/woman as culpable, incapacitated, and unread as possible, with as little to do with legislation at all. And including the “Executive” branch from Bush right on through the Undocumented One.
The “Bipartisan” will be just like the RomneyExtortionCare float, (cancel, BUT, pass another)
So here it is:
“amnesty” “we’ve reached as fully bipartisan agreement working together” Meaning register as many Mexican squatters for loans at 0% for “X” changing terms). They’re desperate, as the pensions have no backstop.
The political establishment ain't stupid. They began infiltrating Tea Party groups almost from the beginning of the movement. I witnessed it with my own eyes in my local group in Allen, TX.
It's also a matter of record that they employ armies of GOP-e bots to roam the right-wing blogosphere, injecting their talking points and twisted logic into as many critical conversations as possible.
Free Republic is a lightning rod for such vermin.
And yet the hands off policy on them remains.
Boehner setup the phony crisis where in September "we need to avoid a shutdown" we need a short-term CR until after the election. And what happens after the election? CRomnibus.
Why push things off until after the election? Why give up leverage? Because he's Obama's point-man.
Leave him alone they voted 32 time so repeal ObamaCare, what more did you expect him to do, defund it?
This is what he really said.
It's as obvious as the nose on your face, yet we have so-called Freepers here, defending the traitor.
Amazing, isn't it?
I don't know if it's a 'policy', or a failure to observe and act. Fact is, too many of them are here. Far too many for my taste.
Whatever its called or not called, it happens daily on every thread remotely like this one. It defies belief that it is not being obviously accepted. Which is the PTB call to make. But it is what it is.
You and I only have to sit back and watch conservatism destroyed by GOP sycophants here daily. Oh and more RINOs empowered then otherwise would be. The one positive is that we get to fight back hard as well. But ultimately that means less time to be effective doing anything positive for America. Not when we have to fight ‘our own’.
We shouldn’t have to be upholding FR’s stated principles as combatants.
You are not serious. You cannot be.
Your idea defies logic. You want to give Obama what he wants because you are mad at Boehner? That pretty much sums up the static on this thread.
Says the man that handed Obama the Republican party on a plate.
Well stated. I've felt like a 'combatant' for far too long around here. I sometimes wish I could hold the zot gun for just one day. This place would smell springtime fresh overnight.
Ever notice the rise in GOP activity during fundraisers?
“Rather have Obama as President than a Rino?”
What difference does it make?
Amen ...
Can't say that I have. What I really notice is how they come out of the woodwork during elections. The site literally drips with them when the GOP is trying to sway our votes.
i have talked with a few Freepers about it. They see it as well. Everytime a fundraiser starts, it sure seems to me the trolls emerge from bridges. I have noted it in various posts about it over the last couple years. This time there was the silence by many after the elecction that lasted well into late December.
Odd that that happens. Almost like they were trying to cause a problem with it, getting people upset over fighting with them.
My confession for this evening Gentlemen. Am guilty of having done as was stated by you Windflier. My apology to both of you. Should I step out to be guilty of the charge as stated every again, please correct me Gentlemen.
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