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Boehner warns House GOP will be weaker without immigration reform
The Hill ^ | 7/10/13 | Russell Berman, Molly K. Hooper and Erik Wasson

Posted on 07/10/2013 4:05:56 PM PDT by jimbo123

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing his conference would be “in a much weaker position” if it failed to act.

A divided House Republican conference met for more than two hours in the basement of the Capitol to begin hashing out a response to the sweeping immigration bill the Senate passed last month.

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He (Issa) said the House would deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants, but that the conference viewed them not as a uniform block, but in three distinct categories: “Those who should remain, those who should not remain, and those who would fall within guest workers or other programs.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: amnesty; boehner; dreamact; gopamnestyday; gopdreamact; johnboehner; noamnesty; noamnestynodreamact; nodreamact; ohio; sayno2gopdreamact; wisconsin
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To: jimbo123

Boehner and Ryan have to GO. Those two weak scumbags are an embarrassment.
A dangerous embarrassment.


61 posted on 07/10/2013 10:37:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jimbo123
He (Issa) said the House would deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants, but that the conference viewed them not as a uniform block, but in three distinct categories

Issa is filthy dirty, and I don't trust him as far as I can kick him.

62 posted on 07/10/2013 10:38:37 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jimbo123

This Speaker is ignorant and unwilling to use the power of his position.

A true gutless wonder selling out our nation.


63 posted on 07/10/2013 10:42:29 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

All congress has to do is pass a law that says illegals can’t send their children to tax payer funded schools, no welfare, no food stamps, no section 8 housing and exempt it from judicial review. Yes they can do this and it is constitutional.


64 posted on 07/10/2013 10:42:52 PM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: jimbo123

Vote BoneHead out of Speakership NOW !!!


65 posted on 07/10/2013 10:43:41 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: metalurgist
All congress has to do is pass a law that says illegals can’t send their children to tax payer funded schools, no welfare, no food stamps, no section 8 housing and exempt it from judicial review. Yes they can do this and it is constitutional.

But Plyler overturned what seemed to be a constitutional state law. The Judicial bramch is like black magic.

66 posted on 07/10/2013 11:55:48 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: jimbo123
Only the RINO majority will be weaker. The Conservatives will be much stronger and quite possibly on it's way to ousting dip***ts like boehner and his Marxist leaning anti-American scumbags.

JMHO

67 posted on 07/11/2013 6:41:09 AM PDT by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth
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To: jimbo123

A “much weaker position” to do WHAT? If they aren’t there to stop things like this bill, why are they there at all?


68 posted on 07/11/2013 7:10:08 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: jimbo123
That blubbering crybaby is so weak and spineless it's sickening. I guess he's suffering from the "please like me Democrats and media" syndrome that affects so many Republicans.

What a bunch of gutless wonders we send up there every year that just abandon their principles on arrival.

69 posted on 07/11/2013 7:11:02 AM PDT by Reagan is King
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To: jimbo123

This guy is a Judas, a Benedict Arnold traitor to America. BOEHNER IS JUST AS MUCH THE ENEMY AS BARACK OBAMA.


70 posted on 07/11/2013 7:12:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: Reagan is King
That blubbering crybaby is so weak and spineless it's sickening. I guess he's suffering from the "please like me Democrats and media" syndrome that affects so many Republicans. What a bunch of gutless wonders we send up there every year that just abandon their principles on arrival.

GOP plutocrats are driving amnesty. People like Murdoch and the Koch brothers and large corporate interests want it. In the end, though, I don't see that they have an alternative to the GOP for defending their interests.

71 posted on 07/11/2013 9:31:55 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Alex in chains

Why does any illegal invader get any special consideration?

What other laws, that they’ve already broken, makes one ‘those who should remain’ vs. ‘not’, let alone the 14%+ unemployment and those that get grouped into ‘guest worker’??

Exactly how is any of this NOT a slap in the face of 1) Law-abiding Citizens 2) those lawfully IN line to become Citizens?


72 posted on 07/11/2013 9:35:58 AM PDT by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: Whats-wrong-with-the-truth

Really? And the spineless wonder was unknown to be so already??? If not, the GOP is too stupid (but I repeat myself) or too inept to see the forest for the trees.

If so, why did not ANYONE else step up to the plate to challenge the seat?

IMHO, they ALL should be tossed as ineffective, go-along-to-get-along, cork-soakers (OK, MAYBE one/two can stay). They sure as shit don’t care about those that put them in D.C., let alone about the Constitution (how fast was that last bill re: “Show me the clause on every bill”??)


73 posted on 07/11/2013 9:41:06 AM PDT by i_robot73 (We hold that all individuals have the Right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives - LP.org)
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To: Lakeshark; RedMDer; stephenjohnbanker; onyx; Borax Queen; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; zeestephen

We know what Boeher is....a cowardly drunk.


74 posted on 07/11/2013 9:45:37 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; All

Here’s the actual statement of the House leadership, it’s NOT what the Hill reported in this article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3041685/posts


75 posted on 07/11/2013 9:48:18 AM PDT by Lakeshark (I steal taglines - KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Lazamataz; jimbo123

” This guy is a Judas, a Benedict Arnold traitor to America. BOEHNER IS JUST AS MUCH THE ENEMY AS BARACK OBAMA.”

I see no distinction either.


76 posted on 07/11/2013 9:48:54 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: jimbo123

Yet everybody we really need to listen to him... or he might cry.


77 posted on 07/11/2013 9:52:10 AM PDT by swampthang77
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To: Lakeshark

” pursuing a step-by-step, common-sense approach to actually fix the problem. “

Don’t want any bill. Enforce the law.


78 posted on 07/11/2013 9:52:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; onyx; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; zeestephen; Ohioan; Borax Queen
My take: One of two things is going on.

The first one would be a betrayal, it's what we fear, the passing of a bill that would be the Trojan Horse to go to conference with the Senate bill.

The second: He IS killing the bill, while defusing the media/democrat demagoguery by making it look like he's giving it a chance. The reason I'm thinking this is his likely method: He won't allow ANY vote on something the majority of the House GOP wants to bring up, otherwise known as the Hastert rule.

I'm not trusting enough to believe we've won, I just think it's leaning our way as long as we keep the pressure on. I hope this is true, see some evidence of it being true, just don't trust it yet.....

79 posted on 07/11/2013 10:02:19 AM PDT by Lakeshark (I steal taglines - KILL THE BILL!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Oh, and there’s actually NOTHING the House can do about enforcement, sad but true.


80 posted on 07/11/2013 10:04:06 AM PDT by Lakeshark (I steal taglines - KILL THE BILL!)
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