Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Monday tore into Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for refusing to act on immigration reform, conceding that there is now “no prospect for reform in the Republican-led House.”
He backed President Barack Obama’s decision to act administratively where he can.
“Speaker Boehner has made it absolutely clear that he won’t lift a finger to fix our broken immigration system so President Obama is right to protect families from being torn apart,” Reid said in a statement.
Reid continued:
“Speaker Boehner is out of excuses and his failure of leadership is enormous. Our broken immigration system is one of the biggest challenges we face as a nation and Speaker Boehner knows that addressing it is the right thing to do, yet the Tea Party spooked him into cowering in a corner. Instead of working with Democrats to forge bipartisan solutions, Speaker Boehner has sunk to suing the President and wasting taxpayer money in a transparent attempt to appease the Tea Party.
He added that “[w]ith no prospect for reform in the Republican-led House, the choice is between taking action and letting hard-working families continue to be torn apart.”
Democrats and Republicans have been playing football on the immigration issue. Yes, Democrats could have fixed it when they had control of both the House and Senate but they chose not to.
Demonstrably false.
No, he didn’t kill it to appease the teabaggers. It was never alive because the teabaggers own him.
Perhaps you didn’t notice that the Dem-led Senate did pass immigration reform. When it got to the Rep-led House it died. Don’t make excuses for the Latino-bashing, racist homophobic sex-crazed scum in the Republican Scum Party.
The Hispanic population will remember this in November as will the women the conservatives male justices screwed today and last week…We will all vote! For the other …not republican candidates!
Bonher knows the Senate bill would pass TODAY but the namby pants cretins would not allow it to come to the floor and boneher chickened out!