It’s bad enough we have Obama as president…but having to deal with milktoast Republicans just make it all the worse:
BUSINESS INSIDER – Boehner is committing to the Hastert rule on the HOUSE version of the immigration bill, but he won’t commit to the rule when it comes to the House-Senate compromise bill:
House Speaker John Boehner said today that he wouldn’t bring an immigration bill to the floor if it doesn’t have the backing of a majority of the Republican conference.
But he only committed to follow that guideline, commonly referred to as the “Hastert Rule,” for initial passage of a House bill. On a conference bill reflecting a compromise with the Senate — the vote that really counts — he wouldn’t commit.
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Boehner’s remarks today carefully threaded a needle, reflecting the fact that many conservatives will be unhappy about an immigration deal passed mostly with Democratic votes.
“I also suggested to our members today that any immigration reform bill that is going to go into law ought to have a majority of both parties’ support if we’re really serious about making that happen,” Boehner said at a press conference. “And so I don’t see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn’t have a majority support of Republicans.”
But when a reporter asked him if he would require the rule to be applied to a House-Senate compromise bill, he said only, “We’ll see when we get there.”