This morning, TPN warned you the House GOP is about to surrender again. They did this with Obamacare and now they are doing this with Amnesty. The GOP had promised to fight Obama’s Amnesty tooth and nail. John Boehner’s idea is to surrender, “tooth and nail.” From National Review: Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) suggested that House Republicans are on the verge of breaking their campaign promise to fight President Obama’s administrative amnesty, as evidenced by the legislative text currently being circulated. Sessions said that the proposed language “fails to meet [the] test” established by Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, who promised earlier this year that the GOP would do everything possible to thwart Obama’s executive orders. “The executive amnesty language is substantially weaker than the language the House adopted this summer, and does not reject the central tenets of the President’s plan: work permits, Social Security and Medicare to 5 million illegal immigrants—reducing wages, jobs and benefits for Americans,” Sessions said in the statement expressing his dissatisfaction with the results of a House Republican conference meeting. In the meeting, “the lawmakers began coalescing around a two-part plan that would allow a symbolic vote to show their frustration with President Obama’s executive action on immigration, before funding the government ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline,” according to the New York Times. Sessions wants Congress to attach a rider to the government funding bill that prohibits Obama from implementing the orders; his office released a list yesterday, compiled with the assistance the Congressional Research Service, of Congress doing just that on a variety of issues last year. Jeff Sessions has been one of the real heroes in this fight. He has stood tall while many Republicans have simply gone squishy. Unfortunately we have John Boehner leading the House GOP. Boehner’s motto is he would rather surrender than fight and that is exactly what he is doing. From the New York Times: House Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed-door meeting determined to avoid a government shutdown. The lawmakers began coalescing around a two-part plan that would allow a symbolic vote to show their frustration with President Obama’s executive action on immigration, before funding the government ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline. The proposal, presented by Speaker John A. Boehner, first calls for House Republicans to vote on a resolution proposed by Representative Ted Yoho, Republican of Florida, that says that the president does not have the power to take the executive action he took last month. The resolution, however, would largely be a way for House Republicans to express their displeasure with the president’s immigration action. Mr. Yoho said that his measure would be a largely “symbolic message” if Senate Democrats do not take up his resolution, which they are unlikely to do. Once again, the Republicans are going to live down to our expectations. They will pass a meaningless resolution. They will come home and say, “See we did something.” What they did was let Obama win. That isn’t why America just voted for the Republicans.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:48:01 +0000
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