With Obama's Help, House Passes Boehner's Amnesty-Funding Cromnibus Bill

Breitbart ^ | 11 Dec 2014 | Matthew Boyle

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President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to provide the votes to pass it.

“My job tonight is to say thank you and Merry Christmas,” Boehner said in a rare floor appearance after the measure barely passed the House 219-206 after a day of pure chaos in Congress.

Earlier in the say, every Democrat who voted on the rule voted against it. That nearly derailed the bill, as at one point there were enough Republicans to voting against the rule to kill it. Then Reps. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) and Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) switched their votes from nays to yeas on the rule, allowing the House to take up the cromnibus bill after a 214-212 vote. The presiding officer of the House had kept that vote open past the time allotted for the vote to twist arms of those two and more, and once they broke enough members to pass the rule they passed the bill.

It’s worth noting that as the full House debated the rule, Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) was AWOL. Normally the chairman of the Rules Committee will champion a bill on the floor while debating against the Rules Committee’s ranking member, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY). Slaughter showed up for the debate, but since Sessions disappeared amid massive criticism for his role in enabling this bill’s passage, Republicans needed to field Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)—a staunch ally of Boehner’s—to debate Slaughter.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[stephenjohnbanker]

My poor blood pressure.......................

[Nicojones]

Sickening. According to Rush, this can be filibustered and all they need to do is prevent the majority from getting 60 votes on the upcoming cloture vote. All conservatives should be working towards this. Rush said that it was unlikely because Obama/Reid will prevent many defections on the dem side. However, with an organized conservative opposition and a chunk of the Warren left, we may be able to do it. Not likely, but possible according to Rush.

[MtnMan101]

[beelzepug]

Get a rope. No, get a lot of rope.

[jsanders2001]

I bet someone’s bank accounts are fatter today...

[chajin]

"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (George Orwell, Animal Farm)

[nomad]

There`s another thread on this subject and would you believe that the ‘we have to turn the party conservative’ crowd were there selling their usual line of party plantation wares. Break out the straw hats because here they come!

[john mirse]

Executive Order: Has Obama signed it yet, or is he using some law trick to fool the public into believing that he signed it, when he really did not sign it? Sad. Sad. Sad.