Bad Month for the Administration?

[Don]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/boehner-house-wont-negotiate-senate-immigration/

Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that House Republicans will not enter into negotiations with the Senate on a massive immigration bill, effectively killing chances this year for a broad deal that would legalize illegal immigrants and rewrite the legal immigration system.

Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the House will operate on its own timetable and won’t be rushed by President Obama’s suggested year-end deadline or the looming 2014 elections — though he said he does still want to take some action on immigration.

“We’ve made it clear that we’re going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration,” Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, told reporters Wednesday. “The idea that we’re going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I’ll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.”

I found the bolded statement amusing; since that's exactly what the House did in passing the ACA.

However, I have to wonder how the Administration is feeling right now; healthcare.gov is a disaster and probably will NOT be fixed by the deadline of November 30; the publicity from the cancellation of millions of insurance policies is killing approval ratings; and now the immigration issue is on hold (yes, we can blame the Republican House for that one, but it's still a set-back for the Administration's promises to the American people).

 

[InTheLight]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/boehner-house-wont-negotiate-senate-immigration/



I found the bolded statement amusing; since that's exactly what the House did in passing the ACA.

However, I have to wonder how the Administration is feeling right now; healthcare.gov is a disaster and probably will NOT be fixed by the deadline of November 30; the publicity from the cancellation of millions of insurance policies is killing approval ratings; and now the immigration issue is on hold (yes, we can blame the Republican House for that one, but it's still a set-back for the Administration's promises to the American people).

I think it's going to be like what TND said in another post--Obama will be a lame duck president even before the mid-term elections of 2014. I can't remember that ever happening in my lifetime.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

... since that's exactly what the House did in passing the ACA.

Yeah, when the Great Pretender clones were in control of that chamber, as well as the Senate. The Republicans wanted to read it into the record, all 2,800 pages. Of course Nancy "We've got to pass the bill to see what's in the bill" Pelosi overruled that idea.