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Brit Hume Defends Boehner With List Of Obama Wants We Stopped
Brit Hume has his boxers in a wad lately. He’s generally pleased with Republican leadership, but now that the “rump group of backbenchers” [his words] have ruined everything, he’s publicly mourning John Boehner, and he is trumpeting Boehner’s accomplishments. And by the way, since when is the House Majority Leader (Kevin McCarthy) granted automatic succession to the Speakership? His attitude is that Republicans have a few things to be proud of and that should be enough, so get over it. The following is Hume’s on air interview with Bret Baier, October 19, 2015.
Video transcript:
HUME: One reason the job of House Speaker is proving hard to fill is that a significant percentage of the Republican base believes the current GOP leadership has been utterly supine, despite its Congressional majorities. This notion is held dear by members of the Freedom Caucus who helped force John Boehner out and Kevin McCarthy’s succession. A favorite claim of their supporters is that the GOP Congress has “given Obama everything he wants”.
It is utter nonsense.
Here’s a partial list of items Mr. Obama requested from Congress since the GOP took the House back in 2010. The American Jobs Act, The Paycheck Fairness Act, an increase in the minimum wage to 10.10 an hour, an array of gun control measures, universal pre-kindergarten education, a week’s paid sick-leave for all, higher tax rates on the rich, a new minimum tax on multinational companies, overhaul and expansion of unemployment benefits.
These diverse proposals have one thing in common. They went nowhere because congressional Republicans blocked them all. Of course with Senate Democrats willing to filibuster, the president with his veto pen, and plenty of votes to sustain him, the Republican agenda hasn’t gone anywhere either. The House GOP hardliners like to characterize this as ‘surrender’. But a much better word for it would be ‘stalemate’.
The surrender reference is to a government shutdown. We have some courageous House members who would use the power of the purse granted by the Constitution for a reason –– to stop the insane spending. If it’s the only way, then it’s the only way. We have another debt ceiling increase coming at the end of the year and there will be no spending cuts to match the increases.
The American Jobs Act came at a cost of $447 Billion, via temporary tax cuts in Social Security taxes. Grants to local governments to pay for 28,000 teachers, cops and firefighters and modernizing 35,000 public schools. The Act would create a National Infrastructure Bank to modernize roads, bridges, railroads, airports and waterways. And remember this one, if you have been unemployed for a long span of time, an employer could not choose to hire someone with a current work history. Read more here.
Republicans have a job to do, and gosh, we made some strides, and some of it got done. In the meantime, ObamaCare is still alive, Planned Parenthood is still taxpayer-funded, the assault on the Second Amendment is ongoing, our borders are wide open, Syrian male refugees are preferred over Christian refugees, and Obama protects felons, both legal and illegal.
Visit RightScoop for Mark Levin’s answer to Hume.
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