GOP Self Destructs As Boehner Won’t Let Republicans Leave Until They Pass Border Bill

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/31/gop-destructs-boehner-republicans-leave-pass-border-bill.html

GOP Self Destructs As Boehner Won’t Let Republicans Leave Until They Pass Border Bill
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, July, 31st, 2014, 4:55 pm


The Republican Party is again self destructing in front of the entire country as John Boehner is refusing to let House Republicans go on vacation until after they pass the border bill.

The Hill reported:

House Republicans plan to delay their August recess to stay in Washington until they have enough votes to pass a bill responding to the border crisis.
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But just as it appeared the conference would leave town for the five-week recess having done nothing to respond to the crisis, Republicans held a closed-door conference meeting and emerged staying they would extend their workweek to try to get something done.

“We’ll stay until we vote,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said after the meeting.

It is a shame that grown men and women have to be threatened to do the job that the taxpayers are paying them to do. All of the recent chaos was started by Sen. Ted Cruz, who met with a group of House Republicans and encouraged them to oppose the border bill. House Republican leaders were forced to pull their meager bill dealing with the border crisis after it was clear that they did not have enough votes for passage.

After trying to blame Obama for their inability to pass legislation, Speaker Boehner and the House Republican leadership moved on to Plan B, which is to not let House Republicans go on vacation until he gets his way. The border bill has turned into yet another Republican caused train wreck.

The Republican Party is not fit to govern. They keep proving this point by failing to complete even the most basic tasks associated with legislating. Lawsuits against the president can’t conceal the fact that this is the worst Congress in modern history.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They are eating their own...I LOVE it!

K&R

[hobbit709]

2. Chain them to their seats without food, water, bathroom breaks and access to lobbyists

Until they pass something.

[Dragonfli]

4. The Lobbyist withdrawal symptoms alone might kill such addicts.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. You've got that right.

[alfie]

10. I vote for it to be a kidney stone. Nt

[hopemountain]

17. ....

[LiberalLoner]

23. DUZY!

[riqster]

57. Anything they pass will stink even more than their usual, ahem, "output".

[icnorth]

64. Preventing access to lobbyists

is far more effective than restrictions on food, water and bathroom breaks.

[abakan]

68. They should be required to stay until they do all of the work that's been piling up for 5 years. nt

[justhanginon]

3. All this for the bargain price

of only $174,000 a year each. Must be nice to live on the taxpayers dollar and really do virtually nothing. Oops, I almost forgot about the fundraising. Silly me!

[GoCubsGo]

32. And, for only 113 days of work per year.

Yep. It really must be nice...

[world wide wally]

42. They make over $1000 a day for doing NOTHING ... Amazing

[Skidmore]

52. Many of them think that that salary is their pocket money

because they were millionaires before they got there.

[Peacetrain]

5. Oh my God.. they have gone off the edge

[abakan]

67. Off and over the edge...

These republicans are like rabid dogs that need to be put down (voted out), before they infect the entire country.

[madinmaryland]

6. How can you govern if you want to get rid of government.

The answer is you can't. Fucking teabaggers.

[malaise]

11. Well the plan is to be part of government so that you can

privatize it to yourself and your cronies - as in loot and plunder.

[Plucketeer]

37. You BETCHA!

That's why they're not letting ANYthing go forward so long as Obama's got a say. They wanna fast track every service and fund to private hands. You just wait until they see a clear path. THAT will be the death knell of the USA.

[malaise]

38. +1,000

[Jamaal510]

49. Bingo.

Even some of the RWNJs I've seen in the Yahoo Answers politics section get the idea there, and they're perfectly fine with it.

[randys1]

28. Americans need to understand the teaparty wishes to destroy the United States

completely.


What they want is a lawless country where they pay no taxes, they are guilty of treason.

[nxylas]

48. They hate Mexicams, but love Mexico

Those enclaves of vast wealth surrounded by grinding poverty and lawlessness - it's the Republican dreamland. That or Somalia.

[DhhD]

61. Teddy Tea Cruz-the outspoken, get rid of government, teanut.

Thinks getting rid of the government and shutting government down again, over immigration, will get him elected President. Many people of Texas stood by and let this teanut assume a Senate position.

[calimary]

69. THIS^^^!

NOBODY who hates government should be given a chance to get into it. Because they'll actually try to destroy it.

[kentuck]

7. Theyt do not know how to govern...

...because they do not like government. They like the politics of government. They like the power. They like the game of politics. But they truly suck at governing.

[malaise]

13. They do not want to govern

They want to loot government

[Louisiana1976]

18. True.

[SummerSnow]

31. These Rethugs didn't enter politics to help people...

They entered politics to destroy the American people.

[Louisiana1976]

41. +1 million

[riqster]

58. Absolutely ridiculous. They did not enter politics to destroy the American people.

... They did so in order to enslave us. Get it right!

[freebrew]

63. The Bushes taught them well...

from Prescott(and before, it seems) to W, Neal, Jeb, and on and on.

Every one of them living off(stealing from) the gov't. Every one of them liars and cheats.

[Gothmog]

8. This will be fun to watch

[sheshe2]

9. woohoo!

they all need to go stand in the corner for a time out and reflect on being morans and trying to destroy this country. get a grip and do your gawd damn job!

[Fred Sanders]

14. Where is the freaky media on this, how much longer can they duck and cover for these clowns?

[MagickMuffin]

15. I believe this last sentence needs revising

The Republican Party is not fit to govern. They keep proving this point by failing to complete even the most basic tasks associated with legislating. Lawsuits against the president can’t conceal the fact that this is the worst Congress in all of our history.


With the elections fast approaching we definitely have our work cut out for us, just list ALL the hardships and roadblocks this "do nothing Congress" has accomplished. Suing the POTUS, 50+ times they tried to repeal the ACA, the continuing saga of Benghazi, and other nonproductive stunts that do not improve anyones lives!

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Oh my

Crudz strikes (out) again... He's like the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

[Louisiana1976]

19. Ted Cruz should be deported to Canada.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Exactly and should take his freaky father with him. nt

[Spazito]

24. He's all yours now, he, thank the Goddess, turfed Canada....

Canadians' reaction:

[randys1]

29. A complete idiot, with an education and childish religious beliefs and hates

everyone who doesnt look like him etc


The maturity of a 7 yr old in an adult body with power, lots of power

[Jamaal510]

50. They'd probably

rather have Justin "The Beaver" Bieber instead of TC.

[mwooldri]

60. I'd argue for Cuba over Canada.

By family lineage, he's a Cuban American. IMO those ties are stronger than being regarded a citizen of a country one happens to be born in.

All that aside, Mr. Cruz's philosophies are not in tune with mine, nor are his religious beliefs.

[Spazito]

20. Oh dear.....

It has come down to Boehner vs Cruz and I am laughing my ass off!

[El Shaman]

65. I can see it now:

Boehner weeping and Theodoro reciting 'green eggs & ham'!

[Spazito]

66. LOL!

Perfect!

[valerief]

22. They're promised an annual 38-week vacation. At least, it looks that way.

They just want what they're promised. Those 14 weeks they actually work (with lobbyists, of course) are tough.

[Uncle Joe]

25. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[Lint Head]

26. Nothing like the taste of orange.

[libodem]

27. Such arrogance

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[Cha]

30. Mahalo, babsis.. "Border failure rocks House GOP leadership" by Steve Benen

snip//

"In a statement, Boehner blamed President Obama for Republicans’ inability to pass their own legislation and urged the president to take unilateral action regardless of Congress. The timing is breathtaking: literally yesterday, GOP lawmakers voted to sue Obama for circumventing Congress, and less than 24 hours later, Boehner is publicly urging Obama to circumvent Congress."

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/border-failure-rocks-house-gop-leadership

[redstatebluegirl]

33. Get the beer and popcorn!

[NastyRiffraff]

34. Where's my popcorn??

This is hilarious. Also maddening. But between this, the lawsuit, and the demented calls for impeachment, Dems are gonna have a lot of fun!

BRB..Gotta go get that popcorn.

[blkmusclmachine]

35. The GOP Ship of Fools

[Tarheel_Dem]

36. "The Republican Party is not fit to govern". Amen to that, but how do you get the American people..

to pay attention, and send these fools packing?

[obxhead]

39. Boner just wants the only news to come out of DC for 5 weeks to be Obama

using his veto on a watered down "kick em all out" immigration bill.

We lose on this one as far as the media is concerned.

[wordpix]

40. haha, NOW Issa & Boner get tough with their own!

The repuke "leadership" has let the T party run wild since 2010 and NOW they think they'll get control?

[customerserviceguy]

43. So, had they managed to eke out enough votes for this

Would either the Senate or the President go along with it? No, I don't think so.

What 'failed' here is Boehner's attempt to get the tea party to vote against their own interests. I know you can imagine embarrassed moderate Republicans standing in front of a town meeting, with egg on their faces about not being able to persuade enough of their (usually rural) colleagues into signing on to this, but that's not going to happen as often as you might think. What I can imagine is tea party Rethugs being able to go back to their districts and thunder, "We stopped the Democrats and the President, and the RINOs from rolling out a red carpet and a welcome mat to the invaders!"

Boehner had no chance of persuading more than maybe a couple of tea partiers to go along with his bill. They really don't give a damn about what he looks like, in fact, if they had the chance (and they just might) they'd surely put in one of their own.

Also, no compromise was possible, as both sides are completely dug in. In the old days, when poli-sci professors talked about politics being the art of the possible, and everybody knew that the final bill wouldn't give them everything they wanted, something would have indeed been worked out. I didn't see the Senate putting its bill up for a vote, either. Today, it's not even about making your opponent look bad for 'not doing his job', it's about being sent to Congress to stop the other side, even if nothing gets done. It's been that way at least since the Nixon Administration.

If the House had passed that bill, and even peeled away some possible border state Democratic representatives to go along with their majority, we'd be clamoring for its total death in the Senate, and there would be a lot of distress if the President signed it. Repukes would have used the "dysfunctional" label on our party, but we wouldn't care, as long as a bad law got stopped.

The American public really doesn't care about the optics, either. They will vote for whom they fear the least, and when one side or the other persuades the mushy middle that the other side is scarier, they win.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. Cracks me up to see their temper tantrum over their MONTH LONG VACATION.

[C Moon]

45. Is it possible they are the worst Congress—period? Not just in modern history?

[Beartracks]

46. Proving once more (as if we needed more proof) that...

...



Doing It Wrong

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[Jamaal510]

51. I'm going to steal that

and make it into a shirt someday.

[Beartracks]

70. Click the image. :)

It's already a shirt.



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[gwheezie]

47. I hope they don't pass anything

if they wind up passing something in the house, it would include trying to make the dreamers illegal and if it got through the senate Obama would have to refuse to sign it. In the words of the great Nancy Pelosi "thank god"

[pansypoo53219]

53. why does boner always go rite? if he COMPROMISED with the left, we could pass something.

worst speaker ever. he can turn in rite circles.

[riqster]

59. All too often, that has been the only way he HAS been able to pass anything.

[ReRe]

54. Their constituents need to sue...

... THEM.

[Corey_Baker08]

71. Im A Boehner Constituent...Pay For My Lawyer & I'll Sue Him

[B Calm]

55. GOP is the party of Bozo's. .

[autorank]

56. They will find a way

...to lose this election. They will have to work very hard but I have faith that they'll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Republicans were warned to not turn racist on immigration. But, they are who they are.

[busterbrown]

62. We live in a country chock full of ignorant people..

Take a look at the new disapproval numbers released today..

Sometimes it all feels so hopeless to me..

Too much money going to the republican hate mongers from corporate greed,

[Major Hogwash]

72. I can't wait to vote this November!!

The Republicans have proved that they can't govern, and that they won't compromise, and the only thing they stand for is the status quo.
"More of the same" is not a good campaign slogan for the worst Congress in the history of the United States.