It's really striking that Boehner is treating McConnell no better than he did Harry Reid at least when it comes to funding fights. McConnell has a bill-or 2 bills-to avert any shutdown of the DHS-at a time when the GOP keeps fanning the flames over ISIS and other such threats-and the Boehner is ignoring his fellow Re publican's bill as it it came from the pen of Harry Reid.
"House Republican leaders are refusing to support legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security without imposing immigration policy restrictions, a sign that the department is headed for a partial shutdown Friday night."
"The legislation is all but guaranteed to pass the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) have championed it in an agreement to bring up immigration bills separately. Even conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has signaled he won't hold up the "clean" DHS bill ahead of the Friday midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
But in the House, it's a very different story. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), facing a rebellion from his members, isn't ready to swallow the standalone DHS bill just yet, and is exploring options to continue fighting President Barack Obama's initiatives on immigration."
"We want to stop the president's immigration actions with regard to immigration," Boehner told reporters Thursday. "It's outrageous that Senate Democrats are using Homeland Security funding for blackmail to protect the actions of the president. ... We're waiting to see what the Senate can or can't do, and then we're going to make decisions about how to proceed."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-defiant-dhs-funding
Senate Democrats? It's a Republican Senate now, Speaker. It's Mitch McConnell not Harry Reid you're now kicking in the teeth. So it looks like we will get the partial shutdown of the DHS until Boehner decides the charade has gone far enough and does what he knows he has to do anyway and put McConnell's bill up for a vote-which does have the votes already anyway if you count the House Democrats.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/02/pace-sumner-is-fed-reasoning-from-price.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
It's not hard to figure out why the GOP can't compromise with Democrats: it can't even compromise with itself. I thought giving both Houses of Congress to the GOP was supposed to give us functional government again?
"With the GOP Congress heading towards a shutdown, it’s worth recalling this priceless quote from GOP Rep. Charlie Dent:
"House Republican leaders are refusing to support legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security without imposing immigration policy restrictions, a sign that the department is headed for a partial shutdown Friday night."
"The legislation is all but guaranteed to pass the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) have championed it in an agreement to bring up immigration bills separately. Even conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has signaled he won't hold up the "clean" DHS bill ahead of the Friday midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
But in the House, it's a very different story. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), facing a rebellion from his members, isn't ready to swallow the standalone DHS bill just yet, and is exploring options to continue fighting President Barack Obama's initiatives on immigration."
"We want to stop the president's immigration actions with regard to immigration," Boehner told reporters Thursday. "It's outrageous that Senate Democrats are using Homeland Security funding for blackmail to protect the actions of the president. ... We're waiting to see what the Senate can or can't do, and then we're going to make decisions about how to proceed."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-defiant-dhs-funding
Senate Democrats? It's a Republican Senate now, Speaker. It's Mitch McConnell not Harry Reid you're now kicking in the teeth. So it looks like we will get the partial shutdown of the DHS until Boehner decides the charade has gone far enough and does what he knows he has to do anyway and put McConnell's bill up for a vote-which does have the votes already anyway if you count the House Democrats.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/02/pace-sumner-is-fed-reasoning-from-price.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
It's not hard to figure out why the GOP can't compromise with Democrats: it can't even compromise with itself. I thought giving both Houses of Congress to the GOP was supposed to give us functional government again?
"With the GOP Congress heading towards a shutdown, it’s worth recalling this priceless quote from GOP Rep. Charlie Dent:
“Week one, we had a Speaker election that did not go as well as a lot of us would have liked. Week two, we got into a big fight over deporting children, something that a lot of us didn’t want to have a discussion about. Week three, we are now talking about rape and incest and reportable rapes and incest for minors. … I just can’t wait for week four.”
"Well, we’re now seeing the fruits of week four, Congressman!"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/02/25/morning-plum-poor-john-boehner-is-helpless-in-face-of-conservative-rage/
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