President Obama Perfectly Zings GOP Border Bill Sham
At Friday’s surprise presidential press conference, the press corps tried to inject a little “blame Obama” into the Republicans’ embarrassing failure to pass even its own watered-down, dick-provision-laden bill to deal with the border crisis, but President Obama delivered the perfect response.
After weeks of hair-on-fire complaining about the “border crisis,” which is really a refugee crisis, Republicans have been legislatively shitting the bed like Rip Van Winkle on a prune juice bender. When President Obama immediately requested a $3.7 billion emergency appropriation, along with additional flexibility to deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors, Republicans in the House responded by proposing a bill for about one-sixth that amount, mostly for border security that has nothing to do with this crisis, and conditioned on changing the law to deprive the kids of due process, sending them back to Central America to be murdered. They also somehow managed to work in gutting of environmental protections.
The bill is so shitty that it has no chance of passing the Senate, and the Obama administration has gently signaled that it would veto it anyway, but in a truly revealing twist, that bill wasn’t shitty enough to gain the support of House Republicans, who were forced to pull the bill from the floor Thursday, and work feverishly all day Friday to further enshitify. On top of all that, the same party that is suing President Obama over executive actions, and was also trying and failing to pass a bill forbidding him from acting alone on immigration, issued a statement yesterday complaining that the President should be taking action on his own.
So, naturally, reporters wanted President Obama to explain how this is all his fault. “Do you hold yourself totally blameless in the inability to reach agreement with the Republican-led house?” asked White House correspondent Wendell Goler.
The President first took Goler through a history of the comprehensive immigration reform bill that everyone in the world, including enough House Republicans to pass it if it ever came up for a vote, agree needs to be passed, and said “So the argument is not between me and the House Republicans. It is between the House Republicans and Senate republicans, and House Republicans and the business community. and House Republicans and the evangelical community.”
Then, the President explained the absurd inability of the House to even pass its own border bill, and delivered the punchline…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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NW10 August 1st, 2014 at 18:38
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John Tarter August 1st, 2014 at 18:44
A few weeks ago Obama said he was open to changing the law that was allowing these “kids” to get into the country. Barely a week after that he says no. In video after video Obama says he cannot unilaterally change the immigration laws, but now he threatens to do just that. HE is the one who does not want to do anything about the immigration problem with the people’s representatives.
majii August 1st, 2014 at 18:53
ROTFLMBO! The bi-partisan immigration bill has been setting in the House for over a year, and the president is the problem? I just love hearing from Americans who have little/no real understanding of the Constitution they say they loooove so much! According to Article I, it is the job of Congress to pass legislation. The House republicans refuse to act on immigration reform and couldn’t even pass its own bill on migrant kids on yesterday. Article III of the Constitution identifies the duties and responsibilities of U.S. presidents. It is constitutional for a president to review previous laws to see whether they can be used to act on certain issues. Something I think too many Americans don’t know/think about is that when a president uses existing laws to get things done, he isn’t writing new law. The republicans in Congress have done an excellent job of transforming some Americans into the biggest dumb asses on the planet.
OldLefty August 1st, 2014 at 18:55
Unilaterally changing the law and doing what he can as an the executive are very different things.
It’s about time he is standing up to these juvenile delinquents.
Johnl.102 August 1st, 2014 at 19:50
Sure , Republicans can’t even pass their own bill. So naturally its Obama’s fault..
Denise August 1st, 2014 at 19:53
because the gop added conditions. they now want to deport about 500,000 people whose parents entered the country back to a country they know nothing about. what you should be asking yourself is why did the house agree to sue the president for using exec orders to do the work the house won’t t do, and then the very next day, boehner states the president does not need the house to aide him with this. he can do it on his own.
the only way the prez can do that is by exec order, which the house is now suing him for because they say he abused his power and over reached.
the deportation of the DREAMERS, and the crisis at the border are 2 different things. the children are entering the country because of a law bush signed back in 2003, I think. the gop want that repealed before dealing with the crisis at the border.
the house has been sitting on the immigration bill for a year now. boehner won’t bring it up for a vote, even though the votes are there. the republicans have handled this badly! there is total chaos in the party, and it will hurt them in november. voters are seeing how dysfunctional they are. this is playing badly for boehner and the gop.
they look incompetent, leaderless, weak, divided, and dysfunctional. that is not the position you want your party to be in during an election year
tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 22:05
Please share your source for the incredible psychedelics that you are ingesting.
John Tarter August 1st, 2014 at 18:44
A few weeks ago Obama said he was open to changing the law that was allowing these “kids” to get into the country. Barely a week after that he says no. In video after video Obama says he cannot unilaterally change the immigration laws, but now he threatens to do just that. HE is the one who does not want to do anything about the immigration problem with the people’s representatives.
majii August 1st, 2014 at 18:53
ROTFLMBO! The bi-partisan immigration bill has been setting in the House for over a year, and the president is the problem? I just love hearing from Americans who have little/no real understanding of the Constitution they say they loooove so much! According to Article I, it is the job of Congress to pass legislation. The House republicans refuse to act on immigration reform and couldn’t even pass its own bill on migrant kids on yesterday. Article III of the Constitution identifies the duties and responsibilities of U.S. presidents. It is constitutional for a president to review previous laws to see whether they can be used to act on certain issues. Something I think too many Americans don’t know/think about is that when a president uses existing laws to get things done, he isn’t writing new law. The republicans in Congress have done an excellent job of transforming some Americans into the biggest dumb asses on the planet.
OldLefty August 1st, 2014 at 18:55
Unilaterally changing the law and doing what he can as an the executive are very different things.
It’s about time he is standing up to these juvenile delinquents.
Johnl.102 August 1st, 2014 at 19:50
Sure , Republicans can’t even pass their own bill. So naturally its Obama’s fault..
Denise August 1st, 2014 at 19:53
because the gop added conditions. they now want to deport about 500,000 people whose parents entered the country back to a country they know nothing about. what you should be asking yourself is why did the house agree to sue the president for using exec orders to do the work the house won’t t do, and then the very next day, boehner states the president does not need the house to aide him with this. he can do it on his own.
the only way the prez can do that is by exec order, which the house is now suing him for because they say he abused his power and over reached.
the deportation of the DREAMERS, and the crisis at the border are 2 different things. the children are entering the country because of a law bush signed back in 2003, I think. the gop want that repealed before dealing with the crisis at the border.
the house has been sitting on the immigration bill for a year now. boehner won’t bring it up for a vote, even though the votes are there. the republicans have handled this badly! there is total chaos in the party, and it will hurt them in november. voters are seeing how dysfunctional they are. this is playing badly for boehner and the gop.
they look incompetent, leaderless, weak, divided, and dysfunctional. that is not the position you want your party to be in during an election year
tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 22:05
Please share your source for the incredible psychedelics that you are ingesting.
Suzanne McFly August 1st, 2014 at 18:59
I loooove this Obama, he is finally calling these asswipes out on the mat.
Obewon August 1st, 2014 at 21:42
The GOP at 8:40 PM EST finally passed the first $694 M immigration spending bill of two. It passed 223-189 late Friday, with only four Republicans voting “no” and one Democrat voting “yes.” via (AP.)
A vote on the second measure was expected later in the night… The Senate adjourned on-time Thursday saying ‘good luck burning the midnight oil kids. Call us back when you get the full $3.7 billion for the December 2008 funding…’ http://www.waff.com/story/26176184/house-oks-bill-to-address-border-crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNJQZxZMeA
Suzanne McFly August 1st, 2014 at 18:59
I loooove this Obama, he is finally calling these asswipes out on the mat.
Obewon August 1st, 2014 at 21:42
The GOP at 8:40 PM EST finally passed the first $694 M immigration spending bill of two. It passed 223-189 late Friday, with only four Republicans voting “no” and one Democrat voting “yes.” via (AP.)
A vote on the second measure was expected later in the night… The Senate adjourned on-time Thursday saying ‘good luck burning the midnight oil kids. Call us back when you get the full $3.7 billion for the December 2008 law funding…’ http://www.waff.com/story/26176184/house-oks-bill-to-address-border-crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNJQZxZMeA
tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 22:03
“Republicans have been legislatively shitting the bed like Rip Van Winkle on a prune juice bender”. I admire your restraint in not citing our favorite wannabe rock imitation, Teddy the dirty pants boy.
tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 22:03
“Republicans have been legislatively shitting the bed like Rip Van Winkle on a prune juice bender”. I admire your restraint in not citing our favorite wannabe rock imitation, Teddy the dirty pants boy.
labman57 August 1st, 2014 at 22:34
The new version of the House border bill has all of the characteristics … and inherent value … of a freshly-generated, steaming turd.
labman57 August 2nd, 2014 at 00:14
Boehner to Obama:
“We can’t seem to get anything done here in Congress — as demonstrated by the wholly symbolic and completely untenable POS border bill just passed by the House GOP, so you’re going to have to use Executive Action to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the nation …
… but, of course, we’ll sue your ass if you do.”
labman57 August 2nd, 2014 at 00:14
Boehner to Obama:
“We can’t seem to get anything done here in Congress — as demonstrated by the wholly symbolic and completely untenable POS border bill just passed by the House GOP, so you’re going to have to use Executive Action to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the nation …
… but, of course, we’ll sue your ass if you do.”