Forget about a comprehensive immigration bill. And so much for a bipartison bill out of the House.

A reality check.

That’s what the Republican tactic on immigration reform, announced last Wednesday by the Speaker of the House after a much-publicized closed-door meeting with his party, was for all those who had claimed victory after the Senate passed its immigration bill.

“Today House Republicans affirmed that rather than take up the flawed legislation rushed through the Senate, House committees will continue their work on a step-by-step, common-sense approach to fixing what has long been a broken system,” the House Republicans said in a joint statement. “The American people want our border secured, our laws enforced, and the problems in our immigration system fixed to strengthen our economy. But they don’t trust a Democratic-controlled Washington . . .”

That is, forget about a comprehensive bill. Tellingly, there is not a word in the statement about a path to citizenship, without which President Obama won’t sign any legislation. So much for a bipartisan bill coming out of the House any time soon. Actually, if anything at all is ever going to move through the House, it won’t happen, at least, until September.

“It’s going to be difficult. Many Republicans believe, or say they believe, that because the undocumented broke the law they should not be granted citizenship ever,” said Rep. José Serrano (D-Bronx). “And that’s a deal breaker.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/comp...3#ixzz2Z2j4sh5F

Oh, ye of little faith!

Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2

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I remember the House Republicans making other claims in the past...

Eric Cantor: GOP will defund health care law

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49104.html

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the bill to fund the government for the rest of the year will have language to withhold funding from the health care law by the time it passes the House next week.

It was a message to the party’s conservative base that, no, Republicans haven’t forgotten about defunding the health care law. But Cantor still didn’t promise that the defunding language would be in the bill from the beginning — as tea partiers and other opponents of the law want.

Instead, Cantor referred to the likelihood that Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana will offer the defunding amendment on the House floor — noting Rehberg’s “insistence” that the bill should not have any money to implement the law.

"I expect to see, one way or the other, the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for that,” Cantor said.

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This is the dawn of a new era, Frank, an era of GOP supremacy!