Posted on 03/03/2015 7:01:04 AM PST by GIdget2004
Updated 9:54 a.m. | Speaker John A. Boehner told his restive flock Tuesday that he will allow a vote on a clean Homeland Security spending bill later today, citing concerns about terrorism and pinning blame on the Senate for failing to pass limits on President Barack Obama’s immigration actions.
The Ohio Republican told his members the Senate’s DHS bill would be brought up for a vote after it arrives back in the House later today, according to a source in the room. That effectively leaves it up to the courts to rein in Obama — or not.
“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president,” Boehner said. “…I believe this decision – considering where we are – is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country. The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now. This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”
Boehner explained his thinking, putting the onus for what amounts to a cave after months of pledging to fight “tooth and nail” on the Senate.
“Unfortunately, the fight was never won in the other chamber. Democrats stayed united and blocked our bill, and our Republican colleagues in the Senate never found a way to win this fight,” Boehner said. “The three-week CR we offered would have kept this fight going and allowed us to continue to put pressure on Senate Democrats to do the right thing. Unfortunately, that plan was rejected.”
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100% spot on. GOP voters seriously need to check their patriotism.
What’s new. Congress is basically irrelevant to all except the lobbyists.
The fix has been in all along.
Smart folk like you and I have known this...for years now. It's the ignorant idiots who insist on voting GOP because somehow, the GOP is "better" than the D's. Morons, every one of them - and they really need to be treated as such.
And now Obama wants to prove the point more by raising taxes by executive order. Congress has been reduced to a relic.
Yes, but this time it is McConnell’s fault more than Boehner. McConnell had chips he refused to play.
He could have nuked the filibuster, passed the House bill, and then made it clear for all to see that Obama was the one shutting down part of DHS for the sake of illegal aliens. Even the media would have had a hard time spinning out of that simple truth.
Or McConnel could have simply done nothing. He could have kept trying to pass the House bill, and let the Senate Dems keep filibustering it until the partial shutdown occurred. This time it would have been obvious that it was the Senate Democrats who were shutting down (part of) DHS, all for the sake of protecting illegal aliens.
But he did neither. He could have kept a united front with Boehner and the House, but McConnell caved first, and put Boehner in a tough position. This is on McConnell. He is either a bufffoon who got played by Reid and Obama, or he is a spineless coward, or he cleverly orchestrated this whole cave at the behest of his Chamber of Commerce masters. It’s probably a combination, but whatever the case, this is McConnell’s fault.
Having said that, I certainly do entertain the idea that it was a coordinated cave between these two cretins. I’m sure Boehner wants most to please his Chamber masters just like McConnell, and perhaps he and McConnell came up with this ruse, this pretend fight against the executive amnesty.
Whatever the case, it doesn’t matter now. The Court decision will be overturned, and at least five million illegal aliens will be on their way to receiving more public benefits and eventual Democrat voting.
A third party couldn’t be any worse.
It looks like he will go down as the worst and most cowardly House Speaker in American history.
“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president,”
I don’t think so, and not to mention my outrage and frustration I have for our republican “leadership”. I have been loyal to the republican party for over fifty years, I should have known better, when Senator Everett Dirksen said “Republicans and Democrats have the same goals, just a different way of achieving them” I should have taken him literally and understood that he meant the republicans would be in collusion with democrats and that they would lie to and mislead their Conservative constituants and move us down the path to socialism. The republicans have been regulating the temperature on the pot of boiling frogs to keep them us jumping out.
I waiting to see what Poliquin does (R??? ME-2)
“keep them us jumping out.”
should be “keep us from jumping out”.
Took a phone call while editing, I have difficulty with multi and sometimes single tasking these days, especially when I’m furious.
This talk of “clean” funding bills is a fairly new creation. Its predicate is that Congress has NO role in budgeting for the country. There were always fights over components of program funding. Boner/Mcconnel is signaling it wants no part in the actual role of Congress.
Republican “leaders” always fight on democrat battlegrounds under democrat rules and terminology. Once you concede the terms and terminology, it’s just a matter of time before you lose the PR battle. That’s all this ever was, after all.
I thought that the previous status had been that there had been no deal promised to the democrats. I wonder how, in effect, this is any different.
It's not any different. It just proves that there really was a deal.
I am disgusted by it.
America as a Constitutional Republic is dead. Long Live The King!
Maybe this is when Palin stands up, and starts a new party.
Just maybe.
Praying that happens.
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