Discussion: Boehner Slams Obama Immigration Action Delay: It's 'Raw Politics'

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“Either way, we will impeach him,” the Speaker said in an unguarded moment.

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Excuse me,but didn’t you(Boehner)and the house run out of town with a immigration bill that had been sitting there for over a year.and no action ?

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“I want to spend some time, even as we’re getting all our ducks in a row for the executive action, I also want to make sure that the public understands why we’re doing this, why it’s the right thing for the American people, why it’s the right thing for the American economy,”

In other words, I will not touch immigration reform because the American people will never understand.

Because of raw politics.

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“…There is a never a ‘right’ time…”

Especially not during the vacation Republicans took.

This is Boehner trying to hide the fact that he’s been sunning himself in a salon for the past month on the taxpayer’s dime, neglecting America’s urgent problems.

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I wouldn’t count on the President worrying to much in the long run with what the idiots on the right will or will not understand

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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah:

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Obama has the Republicans in a spot where they don’t know whether to shit or go blind… AGAIN.

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Not only that, but ALL of Congress was supposed to be working on district issues this last month. That was the ostensible reason for this break. The last few years, that’s meant town halls and lots of screaming. This time, the GOPhers hid in their holes, because they knew all the yelling would be about THEM!

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Hopefully, the voters won’t suffer the same condition.

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He’s more upset that the President, by delaying action, has taken away a wedge issue the Teapublicans can use in get out the vote efforts.

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This is perfect: “we unflinchingly reject legitimacy of executive action but POTUS’s refusal to employ executive action when we can best use it to damage him is ‘raw politics’.”

Methinks the Speaker is shitting orange bricks over the fact that POTUS has once again proved he’s a better strategist than anybody in the GOP Klown Kar.

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Sure it’s politics, Mr.Speaker. You’re just mad because the President isn’t giving you something more substantial to bitch about before election day.

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Oh Obama, you tease!!

You get Boner all hot and bothered; ready to jump all in between those impeachment sheets and now he has nothing but painful blue balls, wimpering in the corner.

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Well, duh, asshole, of course it is. Now, it wouldn’t be necessary to play it that way but for your party’s naked determination to thwart this president at every turn, no matter how much that thwarting damages your country.

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Coming from the government shutdown expert, that’s rich.

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Of course it’s politics behind the President’s decision to delay the immigration action; just as an Impeachment would be a great political move to get out the the winger for the vote.

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…blurts the OrangePol bereft of the the ability to comprehend irony.

Give the general public a break, Boehner. We aren’t half as stupid as the GOP. prefers to treat us.

The Republicans in Congress would have impeached President Obama if he had taken executive action and shut down the government again. The TeaParty lynch mob said so publicly and were backed up publicly by Boehner and the Republican Establishment.

Don’t come back now saying President Obama is weak and unconcerned about the Dreamers. We’ve seen this “shutdown the government” act before by the Congressional GOP. None of them came to Washington to do the job they were elected to do. They only want to forestall the day when the Silent Majority finally kicks them out for good. In the meantime, they will have temper tantrums and howl like mad dogs at the moon.

Can Boehner please explain to us why conservatives can’t support the immigration bills that Reagan and Bush once pushed? They sure as hell didn’t threaten to impeach either of them for taking appropriate executive actions when a problem had to be addressed in the real world outside of the political arena.

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