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Home Front: Politix
'Enough is enough!': Boehner fills House chamber with high drama as he lashes out against Obama in high-stakes immigration battle
2015-01-15
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  • House speaker mocks Obama for going outside the US Constitution after teaching constitutional law
  • President 'has ignored the people, ignored the Constitution, and even his own past statements'
  • Republicans aim to use Homeland Security funding bill to kill Obama's plan to mainstream 5 million or more illegal immigrants
  • White House promises to veto the plan and most Democrats will support him setting up epic showdown and possibly a DHS shutdown
  • GOP budget amendment that would hamstring Obama passed 237-190
Posted by:Fred

#14  Ugh here we go.
Load!
Posted by: Shipman   2015-01-15 21:22  

#13  If boner keeps this up obama will offer to mix him a drink.
Posted by: Airandee   2015-01-15 20:58  

#12   I do love the ironic position Obama will be in if this bill hits his desk. If he veto's it he will be seen as willingly put homeland security at risk over illegals. He is in a no win situation. This should be fun.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2015-01-15 17:17  

#11  Or will he cave like he's always done in the past?He will fold like a cheap lawn chair with Kate Smith sitting down in it....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-01-15 15:09  

#10  Lashing out, is he? Lashing out? Mr. Speaker's problem here is not amnesty. RINOs want amnesty. They just don't like it when the president ignores them. What's Boner gonna do when Champ vetoes the budget amendment? Will he hold firm? Will there be some tough negotiations? Will there be some reduction in spending? Or will he cave like he's always done in the past?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-01-15 12:30  

#9  Agreed. Just low theater for the gullible. Boehner ***likes*** amnesty, and in the end amnesty will win and we will all lose.
Posted by: Bill Big Foot5644   2015-01-15 11:00  

#8  Kabuki. Make a big noise, pass a bill, El Presidente vetos, not enough votes to cover, inevitable cave.

"Ahaha did you ever feel you're being cheated?" Johnny Rotten Lydon.
Posted by: regular joe   2015-01-15 09:43  

#7  ..well, there's fire from the old party Trunks. Wonder how much of the 'support' he got for keeping his seat was lukewarm at best. Excuse my expression, but this is just Byzantine politics in the Beltway among the inner party (see-Chinese current readjustments). Salt in that it appears that Caesar Prez is definitely in the drain cycle on the other side of the aisle for added effect. It costs nothing to play to the masses (Friends, Romans, Countrymen....).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-01-15 08:55  

#6  Far more smoke than fire here, I suspect.
Posted by: Thrusomble Wittlesbach3867   2015-01-15 08:25  

#5  Well put Bill. There are so many nuances to the whole legislative process, especially with the budget, that it is very hard to know what certain things mean.

Voting for or against things in committee, for example, can depend not on ones feeling about the subject but about when and how it gets sent to the floor. Byzantine ain't the half of it.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-01-15 08:07  

#4  This is what I expected.
To avoid a government shutdown and the associated hand wringing fluffy bunny grandma's in danger crap from the media, Congress passed a spending bill.

After the first of the year and the new congress is sworn in, Congress then begins to appropriate and authorize spending. It is not uncommon to authorize a program in the budget and then to withhold funding in the authorization bills.

This way Congress can cherry pick what to defund or not authorize.

The problem with the budget process is that it is an all or nothing process, the budget has to be approved as a single document and there is no line item veto.

I think what they are doing is similar to what Reagan did with the budget before he got a Republican House to work with him, sign the budget in the fall and then gut it in the appropriations/spending authorization process.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-01-15 04:18  

#3  What an asshole - he passes a spending bill during the lame duck session funding every fucking thing under the sun, and now pulls this completely transparent stunt.

Might as well go rub Obama's balls on the first tee...
Posted by: Raj   2015-01-15 01:52  

#2  I am not convinced by his rhetoric. Boehner will likely be golfing again with the Champ within a fortnight.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-15 01:32  

#1  Is this Boehner or a stunt double?

Did he go to Switzerland and get a testicle transplant?

Or did the palace revolt by the conservative GOP startle him into remembering he is a Republican and not a Democrat?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-01-15 00:33  

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