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Tea Party out-muscles Boehner on border-security funding
Reuters ^ | July 31, 2014 | By Richard Cowan

Posted on 07/31/2014 5:18:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A bill to fund border security blew up in House Speaker John Boehner's face on Thursday, leaving Republicans in disarray and struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border with Mexico.

Tea Party-backed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had his fingerprints all over Thursday's debacle for Boehner. Cruz, a potential 2016 presidential contender, had lobbied his House Republican colleagues to reject the legislation on the grounds that it was too timid.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski tried to contrast her party's approach to that of Republicans when, during Thursday's floor debate, she said she had spoken to a 15-year-old girl whose parents were killed in gang violence in Honduras.

"You're going to send her back?" Mikulski asked.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; border; illegalimmigration; invasion
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The media does not report a word about the content or merits of these bills - all they report is about the money and the politics. Our republic suffers when the media doesn't do its job.
1 posted on 07/31/2014 5:18:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The MSM has treated critical news events like a sports event for decades now.


2 posted on 07/31/2014 5:20:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can look up Boehner, Scalise, McHenry, Wagner, Schock and others views on immigration and contrast them with Sessions, Steve King, Cruz, Vitter, Fleming, Mo Brooks and others.


3 posted on 07/31/2014 5:20:42 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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“struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis “

What humanitarian crisis?
The one Obama created?
Drop the illegals off at the Mexican embassies, prevent them from leaving the embassies except to head back to where they came from.
And why is it our responsibility to “deal” with them?
Send them all the heck home!


4 posted on 07/31/2014 5:22:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Grabbed this off Facebook. Sad and scary if true.
5 posted on 07/31/2014 5:23:06 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“You’re going to send her back?” Mikulski asked.

You are damned right we are.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 5:23:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone believe the girl with the dead parents is real? Another fake story to promote the agenda.

Pray America wakes up


7 posted on 07/31/2014 5:24:32 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Battle is now. Please call . fax email and yell outside in the street. That sorry Boehner/cornyn/rove/bush bunch would sell you for a nickle to get power . Stop them — Halt them. Your congressman must hear from thousands tonight!! They are buying votes to give obama a $ BILLION for his contrived “Crises”. GET THESE ILLEGALS ALIENS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY NOW!! ( only 20% are under 15 and 2% of those are sex trafficked) ((% are returnable NOW!! And get off this no impeachment crap! Why take this off the table?


8 posted on 07/31/2014 5:27:07 PM PDT by rlapuma
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

good. i wish it had literally blown up in his clown kabuki face.


9 posted on 07/31/2014 5:29:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"Someday, Republicans will wise up and stop listening to Ted Cruz," a disgusted Representative Peter King

RINO Peter King speaks out for 0bama and the RATS, nothing new about that.

Go Ted Cruz and Conservatives!

10 posted on 07/31/2014 5:30:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Lurker

she rips us, and not honduras.


11 posted on 07/31/2014 5:30:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lurker

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski tried to contrast her party’s approach to that of Republicans when, during Thursday’s floor debate, she said she had spoken to a 15-year-old girl whose parents were killed in gang violence in Honduras.

“You’re going to send her back?” Mikulski asked.

You bet. Not my problem.


12 posted on 07/31/2014 5:31:53 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” - - - Our republic suffers when the media doesn’t do its job. - - - “

Yup. That is why we have to step up a little more, here on Free Republic!


13 posted on 07/31/2014 5:32:52 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Darksheare

The crisis is not immigration, the crisis is our government. It must be replaced if the nation is to survive.


14 posted on 07/31/2014 5:34:14 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: Darksheare

“Drop the illegals off at the Mexican embassies,”

The governors of the states where illegals were dumped should pack Greyhound buses with them and instruct the chaperon on each bus to leave them on the sidewalk in front of the White House.
The buses drive away, the chaperon goes to gate and tells the guard, “We brought your problem back to you.”

Instead, we’re treating them like they won game shows.
Hey .... what do you get when you reward bad behavior?
Obama and more illegals!


15 posted on 07/31/2014 5:34:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They sent that GOP Rep Salmon out on Fox News this morning to push the bill. Two times he said it would send the national guard to the border. If I didn’t happen to have read the letter Sessions sent around yesterday I would not have known it was an outright lie. The bill gives the President the authority to send the guard to the border if he wants to. We all know he will never do it.


16 posted on 07/31/2014 5:35:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Yep, their meme is “attack Ted Cruz and to h=== with the facts!”.

An informative report:
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/immigration-news-new-border-funding-bill/?dcz=
“... The House GOP initially thought it would be voting on language identical to that contained in a pair of bills sponsored by Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee that would prevent the government from spending any more money on the DACA program. The text of Blackburn’s bill, however, was quietly changed on Wednesday night to only prohibit the government from issuing “guidance, memorandums, policies, or other similar instruments” relating to the initiative...”

IE: Leadership lied and that’s why the bill died.


17 posted on 07/31/2014 5:35:43 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mandaladon

“The crisis is not immigration, the crisis is our government. It must be replaced if the nation is to survive.”

That’s a fact.


18 posted on 07/31/2014 5:36:30 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: tumblindice; mandaladon

Exactly.
We have a predatory government taking advantage of lunacy by our government to foist criminals and undesirables off on Zero.
And us.

Flipside, the solution is as Tumblin and I said, move the problem to the source.
Drop them off in Pelosi’s place, Obamahut central, etc.
Make them deal with it up close and personal.


19 posted on 07/31/2014 5:38:57 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm currently reading General William Tecumseh Sherman's autobiography. And what strikes me most about it is that how venal and partisan the press was to Gen. Sherman even then, 150 years ago. It would seem some things have not changed.

CC

20 posted on 07/31/2014 5:45:57 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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