Posted on 01/10/2015 4:59:52 AM PST by cotton1706
Die-hard House conservatives, after bungling a coup against House Speaker John Boehner, now look like winners who are pushing their Republican caucus farther right.
Rather than punish and isolate those who opposed him as leader, Boehner surprised many on Friday by embracing a major immigration plan that's more stringent and conservative than lawmakers had expected. It not only would block President Barack Obama's recent limits on deportations, but also undo earlier protections for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The House is pushing toward a vote Wednesday.
As the rebellious hard-liners celebrated, mainstream Republicans said Boehner's decision probably portends firmly conservative approaches to other issues, which will complicate life for some of the more moderate Senate Republicans and ensure fierce battles with Obama.
One of the 25 House Republicans who voted to oust the speaker, Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida, praised the Boehner-backed immigration plan.
The dissidents have complained that Boehner is too willing to compromise with Obama and Democrats. But rather than seeing the rebels frozen out during closed-door GOP discussions on immigration strategy, Nugent said, "this time it's a very collaborative approach."
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Well, unlike the lay down and love me again moderate republicans, WE knew!!
I was also encouraged by this:
"It probably makes it more difficult in the Senate, but we shouldn't worry about what the Senate is going to do," said Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, often seen as a voice for Republican House leaders.
The approach, Cole said, "takes a lot of political pressure off House Republicans." One reason 25 Republicans voted against Boehner, he said Friday, "was because they didn't believe we were going to do exactly what we're doing today" on immigration."
For too long the House has "tried to pass something that will get through the Senate." It's about time they use their power and pass what they want and let the senate deal with it.
For those interested in more detail
So they will pass a law that erases all the laws that were supposed to be enforced to begin with?
Invasion by illegals is not ‘immigration’, and we don’t need a ‘policy’ to deal with it. We need a real fence and we need employers who hire illegals to be punished.
I don’t know the author, Charles Babington, but he writes like a teenage girl.
But of course it nudges nothing. This is only agitprop.
Big deal. They are doing something they know won’t pass into law in order to cover their sorry posteriors. When they could have stopped the funding, they didn’t do it. Don’t get bursitis from patting yourselves on the back.
Why does everyone refer to the effort to win an election as an attempted coup?
Is the speakership a lifetime appointment or an elected office?
Is Boehner some sort of Monarch or an elected representative?
Don't count your chickens. Boehner could be supporting this plan knowing it will go nowhere in the Senate. When it gets filibustered to death there, he can come back with his more moderate plan, saying half a loaf is better than none.
They pass it, send it on to the Senate and they pass it and Bowbama veto’s and not enough votes to override veto. Nothing but an exercise in futility!
If I were the writer of this article, I would not get too concerned.
Bonehead, Pelosi, Reid and McConnell rammed through the Cromibus bill that funds 99% of the entire years budget.
Everything after that is just show votes, Kabuki dances and grandstanding,
because Obama will veto.
So the GOP can write ANY bill knowing that it will not become law.
the Propagandist MSM seeks to divide and reconquer
Sewing seeds of dissention is all they can do
Obama will veto this bill. Boehner will say this is because it was too conservative, and he will have to “work with the president” to pass a bill...which the Chamber of Amnesty has written and has been in Boehner’s desk drawer since last year.
The GOPe thinks we are stupid.
'Mainstream' Republicans = progressive Republicans.
As far as immigration? I really hope they're connecting the dots. We had protests all over the US for which city leaders and police chiefs didn't enforce the law. What's to stop terrorists from infiltrating those lovefests? Stopping the invasion of the US is not enough anymore. It has to be reversed.
If I were writing laws, I'd make English the official language in all 50 states. I'd stop bringing in refugees and start removing people who are here illegally. Anyone who's been allowed in the US who commits a crime or associates with a terrorist group should be sent back to their homelands, and that would include revoking the citizenship of any of those who have been granted it.
But I'm not in charge. We didn't learn the correct lesson from 911 and France won't learn the correct lesson from the mayham there. That lesson would be that people who don't and won't assimilate to a country shouldn't be there.
It’s a lie. Boehner and McConnell are just offering conservatives a “moral victory”, not a real one.
What they plan to do is for the house and senate to both vote in favor of marginally different bills, then only allow RINOs to participate in the conference committee that will take out all the conservative stuff and insert what the RINOs want.
Then, back to the house and senate for an *unread* up or down vote, in which the conservatives cannot see the changes before voting for them; then can be savaged by the RINOs in the next election for “voting for what the Democrats wanted”.
And last, but least, there is Obama waiting to veto anything that doesn’t give him everything he wants, but also gives conservatives *nothing* that they want.
Yeah, that’s what conservatives get who voted for Boehner.
The Politicians are driven by one thing: self-interest. Apparently, Boehner’s self-interest caused him to placate the Heroes who opposed him.
If they do keep right they’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Is Boehner some sort of Monarch or an elected representative?
In their elite eyes, yes to both of the former choices. And, any attempt to look conservative is purely for show.
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