Boehner Encourages Obama To Take Executive Action, One Day After Voting To Sue Obama Over It
Source: ThinkProgress
Hours before Congress broke for the August recess, House Republicans claimed that the President could use executive action to fix the border situation with unaccompanied children fleeing violence in the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. In a press statement released Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other House Republican leaders indicated that President Obama could address the crisis “without the need for congressional action,” a statement tinged with some irony given that just the day before, House Republicans had slammed the President with a lawsuit claiming executive overreach.
“This situation shows the intense concern within our conference – and among the American people – about the need to ensure the security of our borders and the president’s refusal to faithfully execute our laws,” the House Republican leadership press release stated. “There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries.”
Boehner made the statement even though the House still had time Thursday before it broke for the August recess to vote through a $659 million supplemental emergency bill to deal with the child arrivals at the border. The House could still potentially offer up a fix to the border situation when the GOP holds an emergency meeting on Friday morning. Still, Republican leaders are struggling to reach the necessary 218 vote threshold, with some calling on a vote for a separate measure that would defund a 2012 presidential initiative that grants temporary deportation reprieve and work authorization for some undocumented immigrants.
At odds with Boehner’s statement is a lawsuit that House Republicans had authorized Wednesday, which criticizes the President over claims that he had unlawfully overused executive orders. The lawsuit enumerates a number of areas in which they allege Obama had employed executive overreach, but they especially targeted the President for not fully implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Their lawsuit does not specifically mention immigration. Republicans often cite a 2012 executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as a prime example of executive overreach.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/31/3466389/boehner-tells-obama-take-executive-action-but-lawsuit/
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...if the gun nuts can figure out what the fuck he is talking about.
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is the Guitar Hero guitar. Not that the whole photo isn't a dumpster fire already, but why put a video game guitar in there? 
FDR did it at least once.
They have bowed to the prople a bit:
House GOP leaders spike border bill rather than see it defeated
House Republican leaders pulled Speaker John A. Boehner’s slimmed-down legislation to address the brewing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border amid a revolt by conservatives, who said the $659 million proposal did not address the core causes of unaccompanied Central American minors arriving at the border.
Faced with certain defeat, Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled the legislation from consideration Thursday afternoon as Senate Democrats struggled to find enough support for their own slimmed-down response to President Obama’s more robust $3.7 billion proposal.
Rank-and-file members emerging from an emergency closed-door meeting said they had been instructed to stay in Washington overnight, with plans to meet again Friday morning to determine how to proceed.
“It might be that we’re here for a significant number of days, it might be we’re here just through tomorrow,” said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.). “Flight plans, travel plans, (congressional delegation) plans have been cancelled indefinitely until we get this issue resolved.”
Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-leaders-spike-border-bill-rather-than-see-it-defeated/2014/07/31/1b720ff2-18e0-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html
to alp227:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014859829
Oh, and 
on the cancelled flight plans. Boo hoo!
Check out the panic from the link:
“You can’t go home!” Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) shouted in an interview after the closed-door huddle. He suggested such a move would send a terrible message to Obama: “You’re right, we’re a do-nothing Congress.”
So even Blake of the 'Duckie PJs' heard the words of *That Man* this week:
The only two significant measures approved by Congress as of Thursday were bills authorizing broad reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a nine-month extension of federal highway construction funding.
The Do-Nothings did as little as they could, but they did do something...
