President Obama took aim at Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday as he defended his executive action on immigration, saying the Republican leader had stood between giving “millions of people that chance to get right with the law.” “I cajoled and I called and I met. I told John Boehner, ‘I would wash your car, I’ll walk your dog — whatever you need to do, just call the bill,’ ” Obama said. “That’s how democracy is supposed to work. And if the votes hadn’t been there, then we would have had to start over, but at least give it a shot. And he didn’t do it.” Obama said that the actions he announced to the nation Thursday night, which will largely benefit the parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, as well as those brought to the country as children, were “only a temporary first step.”
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:35:56 +0000
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