Posted on 07/13/2015 6:42:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is putting the blame for Congress's failure to move immigration reform squarely on the shoulders of President Obama.
The House Speaker said he's been pushing immigration reform since he took the gavel four years ago, but the president has "poisoned the well" with his executive actions on the issue. "He's stirred up the American people in such a way that it would almost be impossible to do immigration reform, given the environment that we're dealing with," Boehner said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program, which aired Sunday morning.
"I want to do immigration reform and the president knows it. I asked the president about a year ago, gave him some ideas about things that should happen if he wanted to do immigration reform, and some things that he shouldn't do," he added. "Well, the president didn't take my advice. And he doubled down on the executive orders that, frankly, far exceeded his authority, and the courts have got him stopped.
"He's really poisoned the well."
The immigration issue has been a perilous one for Boehner and House GOP leaders, caught between national Republican leaders who want to move legislation to make gains with Hispanic voters and conservatives in their conference who are opposed to any steps to legalize the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to live in the country.
National GOP leaders have long-warned that a failure to act could solidify the Hispanic vote for Democrats and threaten the Republicans' chances in 2016 –– a fear heightened by Obama's 2012 victory, when roughly 70 percent of Hispanic voters chose the president over Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
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Hm. I wish that guy had succeeded in poisoning Boehner. He just so happens to be going to trial for it, today.
Hey Captain Obvious, what about you and your Chamber of Communist buddies who also have had a hand in this as well?
So Boehner is saying they would have gotten “comprehensive immigration reform” (wink, wink) done on the QT if only Obama hadn’t stirred up the rabble.
Seven hrs. And thirteen minutes to Happy Hour,but who’s counting!
As usual, Boehner is full of crap, alcohol, and tanning cream. He’s absolutely worthless when it comes to getting results that are good for the country.
I bet Boehner was drunk and crying when he had to speak out against his hero, Obama. Especially after getting a ride on Airforce One. geez, Boehner just wants to be loved by everyone.
1. This isn't football, where you hire a player or copy plays from another team so you'll score more points. It doesn't matter what jersey someone wears - it matters what they stand for. Or don't stand for. Gaining Hispanic votes by governing like democrats is not victory.
2. Rewarding criminals for their illegal behavior breeds more criminals breaking more laws. We already tried this with the first Amnesty. They made millions of criminals citizens in return for a promise to protect the border after that, and they broke that promise. Only an idiot (meaning Boehner, McCain, Romney, Bush, Christie, Rubio, and the other RINOs) would try that game again. Let's secure the border first, in a clean bill. Then we can discuss how to deal with the criminals who are already here.
No one with half a brain trusts Boehner either. “Oooh, it’s so haarrrd...”. Yeah, we despise you also, Orangeman.
Dear Bonehead,
Please, please drink from a poisoned well of your choosing.
Drink again.
I look forward to taking abodacious Obama on your sorry grave.
You are beneath slime.
Thanks, Barky !
” ... poisoned the well.”
That is what Boehner and his GOPe buddies have don’e with a lot of former loyal republicans.
“undocumented immigrants”—leftist euphemism for criminal invaders.
The man who willfully abdicated the power delegated to him suddenly wants to be seen as standing against the man to whom he turned that power over.
What a jerk.
I guess enforcing CURRENT LAW is out of the question? We need New watered down laws and amnesty that we won’t enforce?
Does this drunk even realize what he says anymore?
THANK GOD this man won reelection! IMAGINE the result of a powerless freshman Dem in the minority vs. a hard leftist running the House GOP!!!
The HORROR!!!
“roughly 70 percent of Hispanic voters chose the president over Republican candidate Mitt Romney”—resulting in what passes for establishment Republican brilliant political strategy: “So we need to bring more of them in so they’ll like us and maybe vote for us. Just think how many more votes we’ll rack up with 30% of another ten million Hispanics!”
Boehner is THE example.
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