House To Pass "Clean" DHS Bill Today

by JASmius



But don't worry, my friends, it's all the Senate's fault for Mitch McConnell not nuking the filibuster according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who wouldn't have done so either in the elderly Campbell's Soup Kid's shoes:

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH8) announced that the House will vote on a "clean" Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which marks the conclusion of the Republican attempt to block funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty orders. Boehner told the Republican conference that the bill will get a vote on Tuesday. “He said Pelosi could [force a vote] but he hoped it would be done by a GOP appropriator,” a Republican congressman in the meeting tells National Review Online.

Because why wouldn't the GOP want their fingerprints conspicuously on the outside of an illegal, unconstitutional amnesty that their own base and three-quarters of the voting public detests with a fiery passion?  Can't let Crazy Nancy get all the "credit," now can they?

The GOP lawmaker is referring to a little-known rule, known as Rule 22, that allows any House member to force a vote on a bill if the Senate refuses to create a conference committee. Senate Democrats filibustered the creation of a conference committee on Monday evening, thwarting the process by which the House and Senate might have ironed out the differences between the DHS appropriations bills passed by the two chambers. The original House bill blocked funding for the implementation of Obama’s 2012 and 2014 executive orders on immigration. The Senate bill did not block funding for the president’s amnesty.

And somehow the House Republican leadership didn't think of that rule until it was too late to avoid House Democrats embarrassing them with it, so they've decided that making themselves look like toe-sucking sellouts is a better PR angle than letting themselves look like incompetent boobs.  Man, that Johnny Boehner, what a mind, what a mind, age and defeat fetishes don't affect it all all, do they?

Exit question: Does the fact that the Speaker decided to get the surrender over with three days early and save all the pointless faux "drama" constitute "legislative efficiency"?