Heritage Action attacked Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night after he mocked his GOP colleagues for shying away from immigration reform.
In a statement Thursday night, Heritage Action chief Michael A. Needham pointed to Boehner’s remarks, reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer, that his colleagues don’t want to resolve immigration and prefer “the path of least resistance.”
“It’s disappointing, but by now not surprising, that the Republican Speaker is attacking conservatives looking to retake the Senate,” Needham said. “The Republican Party should be large enough for fact-based policy debates. Unfortunately, John Boehner is more interested in advancing the agenda of high-powered DC special interests than inspiring Americans with a policy vision that allows freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society to flourish.”
Heritage Action has worked to block immigration reform.
In the Enquirer report, Boehner also attacked “organizations in Washington who raise money purporting to represent the tea party,” saying they’re “using the tea party for their own personal benefit.”
Heritage Action and Boehner have been publicly feuding since last December, when the Speaker publicly attacked them for opposing the Ryan-Murray budget deal before it was final.
What took 'em so long?
“The Republican Party should be large enough for fact-based policy debates.”
Exactly, they should be able to debate whether our planet is 5,800 or 5,950 years old
Uh-oh…Jimbo’s got his purse.
WATCH OUT, CONGRESSMAN!
I think the republican party has a big problem. On the one hand there are the anti immigration groups composed of racist groups and groups that just hate immigrants, the anti government militia groups, and the I love millionaires and big banks groups who want immigration reform. I suppose in the end all these groups are united in the I hate President Obama group composed of those who hate him because he is black, and some for no other reason then he is a democrat, and some who just hate everybody and everyone. I believe that immigration reform will not get done for decades. It won’t happen in my lifetime. Hopefully 20 years down the road the country will have no choice but to do immigration reform.
I think the Hillary Wave in 2016 will sweep out the anti-American, right wing, trash from having any control in Congress, and that can only lead to great things for the country