G. O.
.Posted on 04/13/2013 2:18:30 PM PDT by AuntB
Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said at a Thursday press conference that House Republicans will rise up against GOP leadership if House Speaker John Boehner tries to rush any immigration reform bill through his chamber of Congress.
“There would be a revolt among Republicans” if Boehner abandoned regular order on this issue, Rohrabacher said in response to a question from Breitbart News at the presser.
According to a recent Politico report, Boehner is seriously considering abandoning regular order to rush through immigration reform. Regular orders is the process by which a bill is supposed to come up through the respective committees of jurisdiction and allow members of those committees to offer amendments, an open and transparent process that then is supposed to continue on the House floor.
“The GOP is also mulling skipping the committee process and instead having lengthy discussions among Republicans to work out the legislation’s kinks,” Politico’s Jake Sherman wrote in the report. “This would allow leading conservatives who are crafting the deal with Democrats to explain the policy. That seems to be the preferred path, according to conversations with several GOP aides.”
If Boehner follows this strategy, he would be abandoning one of the key promises he made to get re-elected as Speaker just a few months ago while several conservative members tried to unseat him. At the time, he guaranteed he would return the House to regular order on all legislation, a promise that ended up helping him turn some who had planned to oppose his re-election as Speaker back into supporters.
In the end, only 12 of the 17 members needed to derail his reelection did not vote for Boehner, allowing him to squeak by in his re-election.
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Everything has to be rushed through Congress before Americans wake up and figure out that they are being shafted by their public servants. Look at how long it took for them to figure out they really are going to get the shaft through ObamaCare. We’re all going to feel like we’ve been through a “gay marriage” honeymoon night once Barry’s Commie “Care” gets rolling.
Here's the word from a member of the base to the GOP members in the House. The existence of the GOP is on the razor's edge. All its going to take is one more act of betrayal. So, if you want to protect your crummy little careers, remove Boehner as Speaker. He's a failure and a loser. He's dragging you down.
Removing Boehner and replacing him with a principled constitutionalist, you'll save your careers, you'll save your party and you'll actually take a step in saving the country.
Throw Boehner out NOW. There's no time to lose.
How did Rohrabacher vote in the election for Speaker? Is he only recognizing a problem now? Or only now willing to do something? Doesn't matter, better late than never.
Send the Weeper home to cry.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
And I doubt I will ever see it.
The last “revolt” in November 2012 didn’t go to well.
They’re still waiting to pick a “battle” to fight. LOL!
You got that right. The entire RNC establishment has death wish.
And he can do it.
He just uses 100% Democrat votes and a few Republicans and it’s a done deal.
“Why wait??? Throw him out now!”
Hear hear...
Sucks, doesn't it. Boehner's doing to his peers what politicians do to their constituents - and they don't like it. Imagine how we feel, guys? Maybe they'll get as fed up as the voters are.
The "regular orders" process has always been a problem for legislation that contains the word "comprehensive" in its title. "Comprehensive" means the bill is loaded with all kinds of repugnant crap provisions that would NEVER pass on their own merit, and so it's best to bury them in one gigantic "comprehensive" bill.
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What is this, “Revolt” #273?? The Republicans will do what they do best: bend over and take it.
At this point I do not believe anything any of these “politicians say about anything
Empty rhetoric. Bawlin' Boehner knows that the "conservatives" won't do anything but make noise.
We are watching America being sold out by the very people charged with safegaurding our country and no one has the courage to say "enough is enough"!
The thought of what is happening to America makes me ill!
Very simple...if Gun Control or Illegal Alien Amnesty pass...I am done with the GOOP
Agreed!
“At this point I do not believe anything any of these “politicians say about anything”
See
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007546/posts
They had their chance, but they voted the POS back in. At least with the likes of Pe-lousy, what you see is what you get.
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