Boehner tells Senate Democrats to "get off their ass" on immigration

[rudeguy]

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, implored Senate Democrats on Wednesday to "get off their ass" and help the Senate Republican majority advance a bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security while de-funding President Obama's recent executive actions on immigration.

Last Month, the House passed a bill allocating $39.7 billion to the Department of Homeland Security, the agency tasked with enforcing the nation's immigration laws. The bill included language to block President Obama's move last year to shelter up to 5 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. from the threat of deportation by granting them temporary work permits. The proposal also undid the president's 2012 decision to defer deportations of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.


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Boehner: The Senate should reject Obama's executive actions on immigration
Now the ball is in the Senate's court, Boehner said Wednesday, insisting no fewer than three times that the House has done its job.

"We won the fight to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the president's unconstitutional actions," he said. "Now it's time for the Senate to do their work."

"You know, in this gift shop out here, they've got these little booklets on how a bill becomes a law," Boehner added. "The House has done its job. Why don't you go ask the Senate Democrats when they're gonna get off their ass and do something other than to vote no."

Senate Democrats, wielding a 46-seat majority, were able to successfully block consideration of the bill three times last week by depriving Republicans of the 60 votes necessary to proceed. They demanded a clean funding bill devoid of any restrictive language on immigration, something GOP conservatives have fiercely opposed.

A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, directed the blame for the impasse squarely at Republicans in a statement on Wednesday.

"We know Speaker Boehner is frustrated but cursing is not going to resolve the squabbling among Republicans that led to this impasse," explained Adam Jentleson. "Democrats have been clear from day one about the way out of this mess: take up the clean Homeland Security funding bill which Republicans signed off on in December - and which is ready to come to the Senate floor - pass it, and move on. If Republicans want to debate immigration policy next, Democrats are happy to have that debate."

"Neither Speaker Boehner nor Senator McConnell appears willing to do the right thing and stand up to the extremists in their caucus," Jentleson added.

Even as he lectured the upper chamber, which came under GOP control in January, Boehner downplayed tensions with Senate Republicans.

"The issue here is not Senate Republicans," he insisted. "The issue here is Senate Democrats -- seven of whom criticized the president's executive overreach on immigration, and yet they continue to block consideration of the bill."

The tug of war between the House and Senate over DHS funding marks one of the first signs of inter-party friction within the GOP since Republicans assumed full control of the Congress. Asked about the standoff on Wednesday, Boehner said the cooperation with the Senate is "working exactly the way I'd envisioned."

"I love Mitch," he later added, grinning as he referred to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "He has a tough job to do, and so do I."

I don't disagree. Stop the pissing contests, secure the borders, fix immigration. Just do your damn jobs.

 

[HomerJS]

 

[shira]

I don't disagree. Stop the pissing contests, secure the borders, fix immigration. Just do your damn jobs.

Democrats are just doing what Republicans have been doing the past four years. But now that it's Republican bills that are getting blocked, Democrats aren't "doing their jobs."

 

[HomerJS]

Obama told Boehner and the House, put up a bill.

Where is it?

 

[maddogchen]

This

 

[fskimospy]

I don't disagree. Stop the pissing contests, secure the borders, fix immigration. Just do your damn jobs.

It seems odd for the guy who sat on a bipartisan immigration bill that would have addressed this to complain that people need to "get off their ass", don't you think?

Boehner could always get off his ass and pass that bill, but what he really means is "do what I want".

 

[blastingcap]

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/5/7978823/congress-secrets

 

[piasabird]

Until someone in the IRS goes to jail I don't give a damn about immigration. Just round em up and put them in refugee camps. I don't care what you do to them, but don't give them one dime of taxpayer money. I don't care if they all starve to death on the street. I didn't invite them and I should not have to pay for them. You can purchase one bullet and put it in their brain as far as I care.

 

[rudeguy]

Until someone in the IRS goes to jail I don't give a damn about immigration. Just round em up and put them in refugee camps. I don't care what you do to them, but don't give them one dime of taxpayer money. I don't care if they all starve to death on the street. I didn't invite them and I should not have to pay for them. You can purchase one bullet and put it in their brain as far as I care.

lol

Someone owes this year

 

[Mxylplyx]

Until someone in the IRS goes to jail I don't give a damn about immigration. Just round em up and put them in refugee camps. I don't care what you do to them, but don't give them one dime of taxpayer money. I don't care if they all starve to death on the street. I didn't invite them and I should not have to pay for them. You can purchase one bullet and put it in their brain as far as I care.

Damn dude, sounds like you need some better tax planning.

 

[First]

lol Republicans.

 

[umbrella39]

Boehner counts on the collective short memories of his faithful and they do not disappoint.

 

[rudeguy]

Boehner counts on the collective short memories of his faithful and they do not disappoint.

I meant to include him in the people that should do their damn jobs. Guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been.

 

[brycejones]

Until someone in the IRS goes to jail I don't give a damn about immigration. Just round em up and put them in refugee camps. I don't care what you do to them, but don't give them one dime of taxpayer money. I don't care if they all starve to death on the street. I didn't invite them and I should not have to pay for them. You can purchase one bullet and put it in their brain as far as I care.

You're pissed off at the wrong bunch. They didn't write the laws.

 

[brycejones]

So very much this.

 

[umbrella39]

I meant to include him in the people that should do their damn jobs. Guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been.

Sadly... it's all just a bunch of lip service no matter who is in charge and who is the minority. We all need to grab pitchforks and torches and go light a collective fire under ALL their asses to do their freaking jobs.

 

[Jhhnn]

Gotta love the posturing & pandering to nativist sentiment.

Don't propose anything remotely practical, just propose something that doesn't have a prayer so things will stay just the way Repub paymasters want it.

They luvs 'em some illegal labor because illegals have no rights & are easily exploited.

 

[glenn1]

Good for Democrats, although would be better if they defunded DHS entirely except for the Coast Guard. Voters would cheer the abolishment of the TSA almost as much as the IRS.

 

[MongGrel]

Good for Democrats, although would be better if they defunded DHS entirely except for the Coast Guard. Voters would cheer the abolishment of the TSA almost as much as the IRS.

+1

 

[rudeguy]

Good for Democrats, although would be better if they defunded DHS entirely except for the Coast Guard. Voters would cheer the abolishment of the TSA almost as much as the IRS.

I really don't mind the TSA. They are window dressing but they serve a purpose.

They found my camera with their scanner when I was sure I'd lost it :awe:

 

[DrDoug]

Gotta love the posturing & pandering to nativist sentiment.

Don't propose anything remotely practical, just propose something that doesn't have a prayer so things will stay just the way Repub paymasters want it.

They luvs 'em some illegal labor because illegals have no rights & are easily exploited.

Yup, and the wingnut rubes line up at the trough to swallow what they are being fed. There's no way in hell that Obama is going to agree to what Republicans want thus this is nothing more than them pandering to their base. Employers keep the cheap labor, Republicans point at Obama so the base can blame him for the problem and then the Republican party/politicians will cash in on it. Wash, rinse, repeat. It's a time-tested formula for success for the GOP.

I wonder why the Republicans didn't get anything done on immigration when they last held the House, Senate and White House?

 

[theeedude]

Boehner needs to pass a bill that has a chance in the Senate. But if he doesn't it's shutdown time. There aren't six democrat senators in competitive districts in 2016, so he got no leverage to end the filibuster.