Showing posts with label Immigration fake out bill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immigration fake out bill. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2014

Republican House thinks you are stupid.

House bill proposed by Ted Yoho to block Obama's authority to remake imigration policy on his own. The U.S. Constitution prevents this, but that's been -- what's the word I'm looking for, shredded? Trampled? Scuffed up? Faded so unreadable? Like over two hundred years ago, Man? Crumpled? Stomped on? Sullied? Shit on! -- That's it. Our Constitution is shit.

Now we know both Houses and Executive branch would all vastly prefer a more pliable, less civic-minded, patron-client population. They are all in it together to actually change the nature of the entire population. They prefer their entire electorate remade to one that accepts corruption as expected of politicians. I can only hope they all bite off way more than they can chew and they all choke on it. And wouldn't it be amazing if all those -- children, is it? -- left for a damn good reason having to do with escaping corruption and grow up to be something akin tea part parties under another name and not the compliant electorate they're all counting on.

The bill hasn't a chance to to pass the Senate and no chance at all of avoiding presidential veto. It is a bluff  intended to show conservative voters that they're trying to do something. To have people on record or whatever.

One thing I cannot stand is insincerity.

Per HotAir
The burning question: With House tea partiers complaining that the bill was meaningless and ineffectual, could Boehner still find a majority to pass it? Yup, as it turns out. Although he needed a little Democratic help to cross the 218 threshold.

Three Democrats voted yes while seven Republicans voted no and another three Republicans voted “present.” The roll isn’t out yet so we’re not sure who those 10 GOPers are but I’ll update as soon as it’s available. The White House, incidentally, has already all but promised to veto this bill. If Boehner had wanted to make Obama choke on it, he could have followed the Lee/Cruz plan by inserting this as a rider to a spending bill that would fund the entire government for a few months. That way, Reid and Obama would have a stark choice of either approving the money with this condition attached or else blocking it and bracing for the resulting shutdown. Instead, by splitting Yoho’s bill off from the “cromnibus” funding bill that’ll be voted on later today (I think), Boehner made it easy for Democrats to oppose Yoho’s language without risking any standoff over government funding.

Allahpundit at Hot Air expands on this further, with the roll now included.

Meanwhile at Red State readers are sending Beohner balls. They've passed 100 orders of balls so far. The conceit is that he doesn't have any.

It's weird. They're racquet balls. Blue ones. That means beginner balls in racquet ball-speak. Softer and squishier. The weird part is the balls come are marketed three to a can. Maybe they keep one for their dog, but it would be odd to send a can of three.  I do not know. Others prefer sending the more realistic your nuts type. More to the point. More on the nose, as it were.

At any rate, should you care to register your disapproval, tell him you're watching, tell them you know what they're doing, make him cry, either with balls, a strongly worded letter, a pop-up of a guillotine with tea-party executioner, what have you, here is Boehner's address.

Rep. John Boehner 
76 East High Street, 3rd Floor
Springfield, OH 45502


Unless the address and those patriotic tears are all fake outs too.