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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 01:57 PM Nov 2014

Obama's plan of action on immigration may derail Republican agenda

By LISA MASCARO, MICHAEL A. MEMOLI

Rising Republican hostility toward President Obama's impending immigration plan is as intense as has ever existed between the White House and the GOP.

House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio says the president's executive action — expected to be announced Thursday — will "poison the well" for cooperation with the upcoming Republican-controlled Congress. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky compared it to "waving a red flag in front of a bull." Tea party conservatives have renewed talk of censuring or impeaching the president.

But the strong reaction by Republican leaders has less to do with opposition to the nuts and bolts of the president's immigration policy and more to do with fear and anger that the issue will derail the agenda of the new Republican majority before the next Congress even convenes.

Republican leaders who had hoped to focus on corporate tax reform, fast-track trade pacts, repealing the president's healthcare law and loosening environmental restrictions on coal are instead being dragged into an immigration skirmish that they've tried studiously to avoid for most of the last year.

That's largely because the question of how to handle the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. bitterly divides Republicans, and the party has been unable to agree on an alternative to the president's plan.

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-immigration-fight-20141120-story.html

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Obama's plan of action on immigration may derail Republican agenda (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2014 OP
posted to for later. 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #1
There is only one thing thats going to derail the Republican agenda William769 Nov 2014 #2
You can't poison a toxic well, Boner. GOP poisoned the well before Obama took office. berni_mccoy Nov 2014 #3
Raise your hand, if ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #4
 

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
3. You can't poison a toxic well, Boner. GOP poisoned the well before Obama took office.
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 02:01 PM
Nov 2014

Fucking using the EO for political cover.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
4. Raise your hand, if ...
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 02:50 PM
Nov 2014

you think that this move wasn't planned out on, or about, November 5, 2014 ... with 2016 in mind?

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