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Reid: Boehner will cave in on immigration reform next year
The Hill ^ | December 21, 2013 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 12/21/2013 1:43:06 PM PST by Hojczyk

“I think that John Boehner will conference with the Senate. Why wouldn’t he? He’ll have a lot of pressure from his members now that the election is getting closer,” Reid said in an interview with The Hill. “Some of his members are in very marginal districts where they need to do something on immigration,” he added.

Boehner has vowed he will not let the Senate bill, which spans more than 1,200 pages, reach the negotiating table. The most controversial element of the package is a provision granting a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

“We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill,” Boehner told reporters last month.

A spokesman for Boehner said his boss is sticking to his strategy.

“The Speaker has been very clear that the House will only address immigration reform in a step-by-step common-sense manner,” said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel.

Boehner has been under pressure from conservative members of his conference not to pass even smaller pieces of immigration reform.

They fear being strategically outmaneuvered. Narrowly-tailored legislation on border security or work visas could be combined with the Senate’s comprehensive bill and then returned to the House floor for an up-or-down vote, they fear.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a Tea Party favorite, has organized a group of conservatives pledging to vote against any immigration reform bill to prevent Democrats from using it as a legislative vehicle to enact the pathway to citizenship.

Even Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a co-sponsor of the Senate bill, has backed away from calls to go to conference with the comprehensive measure.

“At this point, the most realistic way to make progress on immigration would be through a series of individual bills,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said in October.

Reid, however, thinks Boehner will eventually take on King and conservative groups on the issue. Last week, Boehner slammed conservative groups for opposing a Senate-House budget deal that reduced the automatic cuts known as sequestration and trimmed the deficit by an additional $23 billion.


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To: upchuck

No, unfortunately the POS was released from the hospital.

Hopefully it is a pre attack.


21 posted on 12/21/2013 2:41:51 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Hojczyk; Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker

don’t look but hes caved now ...


22 posted on 12/21/2013 2:54:40 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Hojczyk

Stopping amnesty is good in a primary and in a general election.

There are not enough potential adult hispanic swing voters in any of these Republican districts.

Even in half hispanic district Blake Farenthold’s district 60 or 70% of the voters who will turnout to vote are white.

If Denham or others vote for amnesty they will lose if enough white Republicans stay at home.


23 posted on 12/21/2013 2:57:02 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Hojczyk

Yes Reid has a photo of weepy and a goat.


24 posted on 12/21/2013 3:02:01 PM PST by DeaconRed (FUBO & DUCK YOU TOO! ! ! ! and a very a special KMA to that queer organization. . .)
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To: Hojczyk
“I think that John Boehner will conference with the Senate. Why wouldn’t he? He’ll have a lot of pressure from his members now that the election is getting closer,” Reid said in an interview with The Hill. “Some of his members are in very marginal districts where they need to do something on immigration,” he added.

Those four sentences spoken by the leader of the U.S. Senate neatly summarize what is wrong with this country. Our elected officials and representatives are motivated by getting elected and staying in office; not by what is needed by the country and its citizenry. Its all about them, not us.

We have been betrayed, played and bamboozled by our elected government. And this has been going on for decades. There is one ultimate solution to this problem; and it seems to be the only one left. “I think that John Boehner will conference with the Senate. Why wouldn’t he? He’ll have a lot of pressure from his members now that the election is getting closer,” Reid said in an interview with The Hill. “Some of his members are in very marginal districts where they need to do something on immigration,” he added.

25 posted on 12/21/2013 4:09:52 PM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

Sorry about the doubling of the text there.... Don’t know what happened. It wasn’t in the preview...


26 posted on 12/21/2013 4:16:16 PM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

Ann Wagner who replaced Todd Akin is for amnesty.

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/31701/ann_wagner_profile_070213

Wagner said “I understand the need for reform. The system is broken and, if we do nothing, it is the de-facto amnesty that we have currently. We need to do something.”


27 posted on 12/21/2013 5:50:04 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Hojczyk

The article assumes the weeper will cave. Not true! How can a supporter cave on a bill he vehemently supports?


28 posted on 12/21/2013 5:50:37 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Getting some small say in who will get to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

you want akin back


29 posted on 12/21/2013 6:44:26 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; La Lydia; stephenjohnbanker; no-to-illegals; AuntB
Last week, Boehner slammed conservative groups for opposing a Senate-House budget deal that reduced the automatic cuts known as sequestration and trimmed the deficit by an additional $23 billion.

Mmmmmm.....I kinda like it when Boehner gets ballsy---even if he got the courage by swilling down Desperation Shots (straight 180 proof gin).

Boehner's doing the Christie Act---the way Christie told Repubs he won in a landslide in a Dem stronghold.

Pro-life Christie won big, decimating Dems, slapping down liberal teachers, and refusing to finance Planned Parenthood---all at the same time.

Dual messaging---it's kinda like the trick you did as a kid: patting your head and circling your tummy at the same time.

30 posted on 12/22/2013 4:00:19 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz; Tennessee Nana; La Lydia; stephenjohnbanker; no-to-illegals
There's this real fat Hispanic woman Ana Navarro who keeps on coming on ABC This Week and NBC Meet the Press being billed as a ‘Republican strategist’.

But all she does is trash Republicans, and especially conservatives, with a unpleasant accent.

She is one fat young woman. Really annoying woman.

31 posted on 12/22/2013 8:09:54 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs

Of course she’s well-fed——she’s on the US gravy train using multiple identities to buy groceries.

Even more annoying-—these latino spox-whiners are financed w/ our tax dollars, probably chauffeured back and forth..... on an expense account.....all on our dime.


32 posted on 12/23/2013 2:45:19 AM PST by Liz
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To: sickoflibs
Maybe it is the shows I see but seldom do I see someone on TV that is not bashing the republicans. Guess I watch the wrong channels.
33 posted on 12/23/2013 7:00:37 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals
RE :”Maybe it is the shows I see but seldom do I see someone on TV that is not bashing the republicans. Guess I watch the wrong channels

That's slightly off my point.

Someone is putting her on these shows labeled as a Republican strategist, as someone who is supposed to be arguing FOR the Republican party, supposedly to lure Latinos to the GOP with her heavy Mexican-like accent. And she is obese.

If it were a Dem or a media person I wouldn't have noticed.

34 posted on 12/23/2013 9:47:11 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs

guess I was thinking of the duo of mccain / lindsey


35 posted on 12/23/2013 10:11:08 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals; Tennessee Nana; Liz; jimbo123
RE :guess I was thinking of the duo of mccain / lindsey”

Those two were elected and have been in office forever.

But Ana Navarro appears to be a creation of the media (CNN, NBC and ABC) and John McCain's

One minute she can be the most attractive person and the next very disagreeable,” said a chuckling Sen. John McCain, a close friend of Navarro's and her boss during his 2008 presidential campaign. “She's plainspoken and she loves controversy — whatever the topic may be, whether it's Mitt Romney's problems or John McCain's problems.”
Long a behind-the-scenes political player, Navarro these da ys is often showing off her frankness and impeccable fashion style on cable TV. Last year, CNN and CNN en Espanol hired her as a political analyst.

GOP operative Ana Navarro a warrior for the cause (February 1, 2013 )

36 posted on 12/23/2013 10:26:55 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs

Gosh ... johnny boy mccain strikes again. Thank You for the info. Did not realize she was his creation.


37 posted on 12/23/2013 10:28:47 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals

She’s very annoying. Fat too.
Her attacking Rep Steve King on a Sunday network show set-off alarms.

She basically called him a racist and she is labelled a ‘Republican Strategist’


38 posted on 12/23/2013 10:35:19 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs

Maybe am off base and I pray I am but am not hearing good things regarding any of them lately and what really hurts is some of those things are true.


39 posted on 12/23/2013 10:40:40 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals
RE :”Maybe am off base and I pray I am but am not hearing good things regarding any of them lately and what really hurts is some of those things are true.”

Nothing much happening on immigration right now.

I heard a MSM type on a Sunday show speculating next year or after the election, its amazing how they keep get asked about it by the hosts when they know nothing.

They are not repeating ‘Republicans will pass it because they need it.’ as much as they were last summer.
They sure don't need ‘it’ for 2014.

40 posted on 12/23/2013 10:52:28 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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