The House cleared legislation Tuesday that will keep the agency operating through the end of September after a standoff last week threatened to shutter the agency and furlough thousands of workers. The 257-167 vote sends the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who rarely casts votes, backed the bill, along with his top lieutenants. A majority of House Republicans opposed the bill. Just 75 GOP lawmakers joined with 182 Democrats to push it across the finish line.
The legislation does nothing to rein in Obama's immigration executive orders -- a top priority of conservatives. That issue was a sticking point for weeks as Republicans tried to tie DHS funding to the repeal of the orders but the party couldn't overcome Democratic filibusters in the Senate.
Seriously who didn't know that eventually the Republicans were going to have to cave on this?
I mean how did the so-called "party of fighting terrorism" think they were going to be able to justify refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security?
But you know this is REALLY going to piss off the teabaggers and they are going to work non-stop to remove Boehner from his leadership position.
Infighting by inbreds. Does that mean the voters are inbred?
ReplyDeleteIf they voted for these clowns, yes.
DeleteJohn Boehner must be the dumbest DMF'ers in the history of this nation. He had the whole thing answered for him 2 days ago and he snatched defeat from the hands of victory. Chalk another one up for our brilliant president, Barack O' Bama. St. Patricks day is comin' up.
ReplyDeleteI was afraid that if the Department of Homeland Security ran out of money, when we went to the airport we'd have to feel our own butts!
ReplyDelete>>> Tom, in FL
I know a family who would enjoy that.
DeleteDemocrats and moderate (intelligent) Repubilcans. Is this the reasonable partnership that will finally kill Sister Sarah and her follower-Teabagger-cretins?
ReplyDeleteThe emergence of The Rational Majority?
DeleteBoehner you dumbfuck, but thanks anyway.
ReplyDeleteot what a fing grafter!
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Do you never get enough of Palin?
DeleteHasn't been a good week for Mr Tanning Salon:
ReplyDeleteAmericans Rally Around The President As Obama Approval Jumps 5 Points Thanks To Netanyahu
Since Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu arrived in the U.S., President Obama’s approval rating has increased by 5 points in the Gallup poll.....
....The Netanyahu speech has not worked out the way that Republicans had hoped it would. Speaker Boehner invited Netanyahu as a power play that was designed to get congressional Republicans back on track after a disastrous first few months in the majority. It appears that the speech has done the exact opposite.
Instead of making Obama look weak, the Republican behavior has helped to solidify some support behind the president. Bringing in the leader of a foreign country, even one with such broad support as Israel, to attack the President Of The United States doesn’t appear to sit well with many Americans.
The intensity of the Republican dislike of this president will always hold down his poll numbers, but the last thing that Republicans expected when they invited Netanyahu to speak is that his presence in the U.S. would boost the president’s popularity.
The Netanyahu speech is quickly becoming another Republican attempt to humiliate this president that is blowing up in their faces.
Hey, do you think we could have a bill that says our great president can serve another term while Hillary gets ready? Please
DeleteFuck Boehner, Netanyahu and the other Republicans in the U.S. Congress. We need to replace as many as possible in 2016 and also need to elect Hillary Clinton as our next POTUS.
DeleteSo wish President Obama could serve another term! He's done an outstanding job in spite of the asshole Republicans!
attribution when you cut and paste...please...
DeleteYes, I can Google, but it's good manners
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These dipsticks have been getting away with intimidation for so long they still believe they are fooling everyone.
ReplyDeleteThey are getting called and a taste of their own medicine.
Its aboot ducking time I say.
Go duck yourself Boehner!😊traitor.i
O/T How can the Rethugs and Boner celebrate that Israeli SOB lambasting our efforts? Did they listen or have they forgotten that:
ReplyDeleteSharon proclaimed, "We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Netanyahu said. "We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the twin towers and Pentagon."
June 8, 1967 the rogue state of Israel perpetrated an attack on the USS Liberty
US Aid to Israel costs about 275,000 jobs yearly due to sanctions and unfair trade balances with Israel's enemies, and something in excess of 20 billion per year goes to Israel. Often their loans are forgiven and there is much money that goes without being tracked to the Israeli's - DOD and other organizations in the US send money that is not easily traced.
Israel's health care system is provided as a fundamental right and entitlement and was ranked 4th in the world in terms of efficiency in 2013. That's US donations funding free health care for Israeli citizens - not for US citizens!
Christopher Bollyn's books collect damning evidence in "Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed The World."
Short excerpts herein came from http://thebilzerianreport.com/how-much-does-israel-cost-the-average-american/ and http://www.wrmea.com/us_aid_to_israel/in...and http://theinfounderground.com/smf/index.php?topic=5367.0
America needs to stop giving aid to Israel. They don't need it! We need to take care of America!
ReplyDeleteFor their next trick, Boehner and McConnell will invite Vladdy Putin to explain to congress the best way to deal with rivals.
ReplyDeleteThey already know -- they just can't get a clear shot.
DeleteAs Andrew Sullivan would have said re Obama's game plan: "Meep. Meep."
DeleteI'd rather see Boehner stay in office, than be overthrown and a Tea Party crazy take his place.
ReplyDeleteThe Orange Man provides good entertainment value and is relatively harmless, but the TPers in congress may actually be dangerous.
Finally, some sanity in the House. It would really nice to see Congress pass next year's budget prior to October 1. I am very tired of all this budget drama.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Rep Young voted against this, "“Today, Congress voted to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. I voted against this measure..."
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