The GOP Civil War continues apace. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) told World Net Daily radio that Speaker John Boehner should be ousted if he rams through an immigration bill without majority Republican support. LOL, well, that is the only way an immigration of any kind can get passed through the House of Representatives, and that is if Boehner allows another violation of the Hastert Rule, which provides that the only bills that will be voted on on the floor of the House of Representatives while under Republican control are bills that are supported by a majority of the Republican caucus. But Boehner has allowed several bills to be passed this year and last with minimal support from Republicans and majority support from the Democrats, including the Fiscal Cliff deal and Hurricane Sandy relief. I guess the GOP is so racist that they will not allow Boehner and the Dems to save their asses again, and instead want to go down in a hail of bigoted flames.
Said Rohrabacher: “If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though the majority of the Republicans in the House-and that’s if they do-oppose whatever it is that’s coming to a vote, he should be removed as Speaker.”
[…] “I would consider that a betrayal of the Republican members of the House and a betrayal of the Republicans throughout the country.”
Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sound positively sane recently, at least when talking about immigration reform and its prospects in the House and Senate and the GOP’s prospects without it. Here he is on the supreme flipfloppery of one Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), one of the architects of the Senate Bill:
“How do we put together a bill and then the guy who put it together says that he may not vote for it? “I just don’t get what we’re doing here.”
I don’t understand either, Lindsey. Sounds like Rubio is a little scared of his base conservatives. And then here is Lindsey on the GOP’s electoral future if those base conservatives scuttle immigration reform:
“[C]onservatives who are trying to block the measure will doom the party and all but guarantee a Democrat will remain in the White House after 2016’s election.”
“If we don’t pass immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016. We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community in my view is pass comprehensive immigration reform. If you don’t do that, it really doesn’t matter who we run in my view.”
Polling Goodness…
FLORIDA–GOVERNOR–Quinnipiac” Former Governor Charlie Crist (D) 47, Gov. Rick Scott (R) 37.