Congressional Repubs Still Can't Get Their Act Together

Natty Bumpo · Mar 5, 2015

What can the GOP do about their TP nihilistic nutjobs?

Conservative Republican Congressman Peter King provided a glimpse into the attitude of "normals" (a relative term) towards the infestation of berserkers in the House when he exploded,

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Ive had it with this self-righteous, delusional wing of the party!

The wacko birds had attempted to sabotage Boehner's latest last-ditch effort to accommodate reality, of course.

Can congressional Republicans sink below the 22% Approval that Americans currently accord them?

Stay tuned!

It looks increasingly as if Boehner will be morphed into Marshall Applewhite during the 114th Congress.

Natty Bumpo · Mar 6, 2015

Republican Congressman Peter King frequently looks like the kind of jamoke who would be wearing an explosive vest if it didn't make him look fat.

When the House's TP wacko birds see him coming, they must succumb to the vapours.

Natty Bumpo · Mar 7, 2015

Boehner's Angry Wacko Birds are giving him the jim jams.

WASHINGTON (AP) Winners in a bruising struggle with Republicans over homeland security funding and immigration, minority Democrats had unity on their side, along with a politician's understandable fear of terrorist attacks and the Constitution's separation of powers.

The tea party-aligned, bitter-end Republican losers had outrage, and in the House, an unbending unwillingness to compromise that some of their own rank and file judged counterproductive.

The result was a rout that some Republicans say and Democrats no doubt hope portends poorly for their party.

Republicans "have got to find a level of cohesion where we can at least pass legislation that we get to the president's desk," said Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida as the party's attempt to roll back President Barack Obama's immigration directives flamed out. "If we can't do that, we fail to govern and we lose 2016."...

Legislation drafted for the House in January approved funding for the Department of Homeland Security if the president agreed to roll back a directive that eased the threat of deportation of millions of immigrants.

Demanding more, dissidents insisted on a second concession. They changed the measure so it also called for the reversal of a separate Obama directive that had eased the threat of deportation of so-called "dreamers," immigrants who had been brought to the United States illegally as children.

The result was to solidify Democratic opposition in the Senate and expose divisions among Senate Republicans, some of whom recoiled at the prospect of changing the status of Dreamers.

Throughout the struggle, it was a Republican article of faith that Obama had exceeded his constitutional authority in issuing immigration directives. After all, Republicans said the president himself had said he lacked the power.

"This is about trying to defend the Constitution," said Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona.

Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia, a first-term lawmaker, said the House was "is in this mess because of the unconstitutional decisions from the president."

Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona said he was saddened at having to choose between "funding our national security or standing for the Constitution."

However heartfelt the rhetoric, members of Congress don't have the power to rule a presidential act unconstitutional.

Only the courts can do that.

"When there are differences of opinion as to what is constitutional and what is not constitutional, a court makes that determination," said Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, delivering a gentle refresher course on the Constitution to those on his own side of the aisle.

It's been that way, he pointed out, since a case the Supreme Court decided in 1803.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150307/us-congress-homeland-analysis-b6e59fcabf.html
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No, JB, there is no constitutional loophole that would allow Netanyahu's signature on a bill to suffice. It is the leader that Americans elected that you must learn to deal with.

Nice try, though!

PatrickT · Mar 7, 2015

Natty Bumpo said: ↑

When Turtle McConnell scoffed at the TPs, proclaiming that his corporate establishment bimbos would "crush them everywhere!" he may not have been thinking of Boehner's residual infestation.

Turdblossom Rove, in his War Against the TPs may have done a victory dance after November, but they're still wreaking havoc on the establishment's agenda:

Hey, if they can keep this shtick up until November, 2016, more power to them! (Not.)

What's next for the Repubs? Oh, right!

Off-shoring US foreign policy to foreign interests!

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It's true. The Republicans don't have their act together like the Democrats do. Of course, sending rogues to prison helps keep the act together, doesn't it? No one has ever said that the left with it's purges and gulags can't keep an act together...for a long, long time.

Do adolescents outgrow the childish name-calling or do they just turn into middle-aged frat boys?

Curmudgeon · Mar 7, 2015

Habana said: ↑

He was responding to me and I don't listen to talk radio but the truth never gets in the way of a good democrat. Well I listen to a couple of local guys in the morning. Why don't you address Obama's illegal actions instead of worrying about my radio listening habits?
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A lot of legal scholars believe that what Obama did was perfectly within his power as President. One federal Judge that was judge shopped by republicans opposed to Obama's actions has enjoined the Immigration dept. from implementing his policies, but that is being appealed to a higher court and it's going to go all the way to the SCOTUS who will be the final arbiter of whether it's legal or not.

Natty Bumpo · Mar 9, 2015

The pissy antics of the TP snivelers in Congress are now empowering the minority party!

Can they persist in befouling government until November, 2016?

Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.

And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.

A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner's commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama's policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.

But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process already limping along to a screeching halt.

I'd probably vote for Boehner [because] who the hell is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho? Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican whos fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.

In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they're going to change the world, Pascrell added.

Liberal Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) agreed that, for Democrats, replacing Boehner could lead to a worse situation.

Then we would get Scalise or somebody? Geez, come on, said Grijalva, who referenced House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). We can be suicidal but not stupid.

Boehner, who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover administration.

Boehner's troubles have only mounted since then, as conservatives have thwarted a number of his early legislative priorities, including a border security bill, an anti-abortion measure and a proposal to limit the federal government's role in public education all considered by GOP leaders to be easy-pass bills that would highlight their new power in Obama's final two years in the White House.

More recently, Boehner's decision this week to pass a clean bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has exacerbated conservatives' concerns about his leadership.

In the midst of that debate, a number of Tea Party Republicans warned that they'd consider an attempt to topple Boehner if he caved to Obama's demand for a clean DHS bill.

If it happened, conservatives would be outraged, said one such conservative who voted against Boehner in January. The lawmaker predicted that the coup attempt might not come immediately but warned the Speaker, It's a long year...

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/234766-dems-would-back-boehner-in-coup-attempt
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Ive had it with this self-righteous, delusional wing of the party!
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Yosh Shmenge · Mar 9, 2015

Why would democrats help get rid of one of the most useful "tools" (and I mean that in every sense) in their tool box? Of course they never would.

And Congressional flotsam and jetsam like Bill Pascrell doesn't want to be bothered by people coming
into congress that want to "change the world" (i.e. try to introduce the novel concept of fiscal responsibility into a body that has a 75% disapproval rating).

But that's the whole problem, isn't it? Bill Pacrell and his buddies represent the dystopic, dysfunctional status quo
and they don't want anyone coming in and screwing things up...I mean making things better. And who would want that? Certainly not the democrat Congress and their buddies like John Bohner.

CourtJester · Mar 9, 2015

Habana said: ↑

Obama's actions are illegal, he even said so. His illegal actions have set up this situation. Since when does Congress not acting give the President the authority to act unilaterally to change laws? It doesn't. If he were half the leader the left claims he is this would never have happened. He's to busy calling the other side terrorist and hostage takes to work with them. You guys claim it's all about compromise but the left never does. You'll take your legalization of illegals now and if it has to be done illegally so be it. I just hope the courts stop this nonsense now or their is no telling what future presidents will do with this new found presidential power.
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Republicans now own Congress but are still incapable of governing. Wonder how long their attempts to blame their own failure on anything but themselves is going to last, or at least be believed by the party faithful.

Face it, there is now two Republican parties and no leadership that both groups will follow. The Republican's own failures will doom them in the next election.

CourtJester · Mar 9, 2015

Curmudgeon said: ↑

A lot of legal scholars believe that what Obama did was perfectly within his power as President. One federal Judge that was judge shopped by republicans opposed to Obama's actions has enjoined the Immigration dept. from implementing his policies, but that is being appealed to a higher court and it's going to go all the way to the SCOTUS who will be the final arbiter of whether it's legal or not.
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And the Republicans had better hope SCOTUS supports Obama or they may be in the unfortunate position of having to deal with immigration themselves. Of course they could do that now if they were actually a unified party.

Curmudgeon · Mar 9, 2015

CourtJester said: ↑

And the Republicans had better hope SCOTUS supports Obama or they may be in the unfortunate position of having to deal with immigration themselves. Of course they could do that now if they were actually a unified party.
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That would just be too simple... were dealing with the Teapublican party here.

CourtJester · Mar 9, 2015

Curmudgeon said: ↑

That would just be too simple... were dealing with the Teapublican party here.
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Maybe shorten to TeaPub although serious drinking might actually help the party. Certainly helps those of us who watch their antics.

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