Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) took another swipe at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for suggesting that the House border crisis bill may be used as a vehicle for bicameral conference negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform.
“Instead of addressing the crisis at hand Senate Democrats are talking up some nutso scheme to jam through the Senate immigration bill, even though they know it will never happen,” he told reporters on Thursday, repeating that the House won’t consider the Senate-passed immigration legislation no matter the context.
Reid’s spokesman Adam Jentleson called Boehner’s comment “[s]trange” and noted that he was once a proponent of overhauling immigration.
Strange for @SpeakerBoehner to call conferencing CIR “nutso” since he assured Sen. Reid he’s personally committed to passing CIR @sahilkapur
— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) July 31, 2014
So says the hostage to the lunatic caucus…if there’s a nutso scheme to be found, we know where to look for it…coming out of the House.
It’s amazing to me that Boehner so regularly gets rope-a-doped by Harry Reid and still manages to hold onto his Speakership. If I were among his psychotic Tea-billies members, he’d have been bounced out on his utterly ineffectual ass months ago. Since I’m not one of his caucus, I’ll just say “well played, Mr Speaker! No retreat, no surrender!”
I never tire of that stock photo, showing the iconic grandeur of Mrs. Parks towering over the small, sheepish figures of McConnell and Boehner.
It even looks like she’s holding them by the scruff of the neck, before a long-overdue trip to the woodshed.
The only time John talked to Harry about comprehensive immigration reform, he was offering the Senator a rum and Coke.
Aw c’mon Orangie. you know it doesn’t matter if it passes. It doesn’t matter if it fails.
What MATTERS is that you be seen as the racist do-nothings that you are.