That pretty much rules out anything that doesn’t include moat monsters and a fleet of ED-209s.
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The former vice presidential candidate is the author of budget proposals that many tea party Republicans ran on. If the RNC autopsy was right, having immigration reform off the table could hurt Rubio-or any other Republican nominee, for all the reasons the report’s writers laid out then. If President Obama goes on and does this, this will poison the well. Presidents don’t write laws. Ryan also notes that Obama has been circumventing Congress with executive orders to unilaterally rewrite immigration laws. So, specifically on this issue, you can not trust this president on this issue.
Not every Republican agreed, and numerous party’s grassroots remained (and remain today) strongly opposed.
On Sunday, the Wisconsin lawmaker announced he has no intention of passing immigration legislation while President Obama is in office.
While the process looks pretty straightforward, Speaker Ryan could still encounter a few problems.
Ryan also worked behind the scenes with House members previous year to promote an immigration bill that included a path to citizenship for those here illegally after it had passed in the Senate. He pledged to prevent comprehensive immigration reform from coming to a vote under his leadership as long as Obama is in office, calling the President “untrustworthy” on immigration reform following his use of executive actions to sidestep congress’ inaction.
Again, Ryan makes no logical sense.
Heck, even Obama repeatedly said that until it became politically convenient for him to take action anyway. The six-year Senate bill only included three years of highway funding.
Finding a Senate sponsor or sponsors, on the surface, would not appear to be too hard to accomplish though current relations between the Senate and the House and between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are, to say the least, fraught. It is a job that he initially didn’t want, but he now says as Speaker he can now work to unify an extremely divided Congress. Ryan sat down with our Dana Bash to discuss his decision to take the job and the demands he had for taking it. Take a listen.
But Ryan held out the possibility that congressmen may be able to add defunding amendments to legislation in a less “tightly” controlled House. “We need to do a better job of holding this government accountable, getting more transparency and basically speaking truth to power”.
Here’s What Happened When Paul Ryan Was Asked…
That committee is nearly always stacked with speaker loyalists, in this case, numerous members who were loyal to Boehner are now loyal to Ryan. But give me one thing that the country will be impressed with. So the president and senators worked together. “This issue can not be tackled in one massive piece of legislation”.
Moreover, Ryan made clear that he would let the House work its will, signaling he would not stand in the way of a controversial amendment this week to revive the moribund Export-Import Bank, the nation’s chief export credit agency that is reviled by small-government conservatives. The economy is stale.
But things are going to get a little bumpier than they should.
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KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I’m looking at politics without rose-colored glasses.
