Boehner: Executive Action On Immigration Will 'Poison The Well'

by JASmius



Um, I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, Mr. Speaker, but that "well" was poisoned for good six years ago:

House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday sketched out an agenda for the new, all-Republican Congress, promising approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and changes in the health care law while issuing a warning to President Barack Obama on immigration.

In his first postelection news conference, Boehner cautioned Obama not to act unilaterally to change the immigration system, saying it would poison the well in terms of trying to pass legislation over the next two years on the issue.

"When you play with matches, you run the risk of burning yourself, and he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path," Boehner told reporters.

Well that's funny, Mr. Speaker, because he thinks that by "going down this path," he will end the Republican Party as a nationally, and even locally, viable political entity forever.  And he's right about that.

Given that the law is helpless to stop the Tyrant, I'm open to ideas on how you're going to ensure that The One "gets burned" over something that is so obviously in his and his party's political self-interest. Send the Capitol Police SWAT team to the White House, perhaps?

Because that's what it's going to take:

The president on Wednesday reiterated his vow to act unilaterally before year's end to reduce the number of deportations and grant work permits to millions of immigrants illegally in the United States.

"What I'm not going to do is just wait," Obama said as bipartisan, comprehensive immigration legislation that the Senate passed in June 2013 remained stalled in the House.

Beats me what all the La Raza-oid angst was about.  They need to learn patience as much as the Tea Party does.

When this site's proprietor said this morning that the next two years are going to get "ugly," he was gratuitously underselling what's coming.

I hope you're paying attention, Mr. Speaker.


UPDATE: Video added, naked Obamedia bias and all.  Which ought to earn it a PG-13 rating, actually.



Can Obama trust Boehner? Seriously?  "Mr. Speaker, you and your party clearly won the election Tuesday night, but you still work for his imperial majesty, and don't you forget it!"

Anybody who thinks that Tuesday won't be a big part of the catalyst for the coming Obama coup de tat is stubbornly refusing to pay attention.