<<< Unless and until this clown decides to follow the laws of the land, some of which he wrote, no more major legislation should be passed. Immigration? He will take the law and rewrite it to suit his desires. No more comprehensive laws until he is gone.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is banking on President Obama’s trustworthiness numbers — poll ratings that plunged after the Obamacare rollout — to keep immigration reform out of the GOP playbook heading into midterm elections.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is banking on President Obama’s trustworthiness numbers — poll ratings that plunged after the Obamacare rollout — to keep immigration reform out of the GOP playbook heading into midterm elections.
“As you all
know, for the last 15 months, I’ve talked about the need to get immigration
reform done,” Boehner told reporters today at his weekly press conference.
“This is an important issue in our country. It’s been kicked around forever,
and it needs to be dealt with.”
“Having said
that, we outlined our principles last week to our members, principles that our
members by-and-large support. It was put together by the leadership team, and
they believe it,” he continued. “But I’ve never underestimated the difficulty
in moving forward this year. The reason I’ve said that we need a step-by-step,
common-sense approach to this is so we can build trust with the American people
that we’re doing this the right way.”
Boehner
added that “frankly, one of the biggest obstacles we face is the one of trust.”
“The
American people, including many of our members, don’t trust that the reform
we’re talking about will be implemented as it was intended to be,” the speaker
said. “The president seems to change the health care law on a whim, whenever he
likes. Now, he is running around the country telling everyone he’s going to
keep acting on his own. He keeps talking about his phone and his pen.”
“And he’s
feeding more distrust about whether he is committed to the rule of law.”
Boehner
stressed that “there’s widespread doubt about whether this administration can
be trusted to enforce our laws.”
“It’s going
to be difficult to move any immigration legislation until that changes,” he
said.
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