Boehner: A Boner

Immigration vote stirs concern about Boehner

Rep. John A. Boehner's vote last month against a bill cracking down on illegal immigration is sending "tremors" through the House Republican Conference as the Ohio lawmaker pushes his candidacy for House majority leader. *snip*

Mr. Boehner voted the opposite way each time, to the chagrin of those seeking more limits on immigration.

"I know how he feels about the issue -- he is absolutely opposed to what we are trying to accomplish," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and the leader of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.
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After the immigration vote, Mr. Boehner said he "wanted badly to vote for it" but couldn't because it put too many burdens on businesses. *snip*

Angela Kelley, deputy director of the pro-guest-worker and pro-legalization group National Immigration Forum, said Mr. Blunt recently has seemed to become tougher on illegal immigration.

had a different opinion of Mr. Boehner. Although she said the Ohioan hasn't come out as a champion of legalization like Arizona Republican Reps. Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe, she added that this "doesn't mean he couldn't be."

"He's also not in the Tancredo camp, so I have great hope for him if he comes out on top," she said.

If this lady supports him, I don't. That simple.

This just smells bad. Republicans really, really want to fix this problem, but what can we do? Our new majority leader who just hatched from an alien pod in the cloakroom won't let us, whaah! What? dear god no, we didn't vote him in, he just showed up, with beer, what could we possibly do, we love beer!

What this smells like in particular is a fix. As in, the fix is in. I wonder if these guys have any idea the world of hurt waiting for them if they pursue an amnesty program?

I doubt it.

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H/T Smash Left-Wing Scum

Polipundit has some good thoughts on this as well

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