http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349670/-Just-what-message-did-House-Republicans-send-to-President-Obama-with-immigration-nbsp-vote?detail=email
Politico declares in a headline, "House sends Obama message with immigration vote." Well, yes they did, but it might not be a message on immigration at all, as some key paragraphs in the story reveal. The message behind that vote is that the Speaker John Boehner has no more control over his members now than he did before the election.
folks stayed home and all we got was more of the same just a bigger civil war inside the republican tent. all that pre-election rhetoric about working across the isle well they aren't haven't said a word since about it have done nothing but threaten if they don't get their way. nor i might mention have they ever retracted their 2008 promise to not do anything tho help this Pres. which by default is not do anything to help you regardless to the same lies as 6 years ago. Mr. Beohner, where are those 2010 jobs you promised?The question is whether the vote will grease the wheels for a deal on a government-funding measure next week. Some conservatives had wanted to tie Obama’s action on immigration to a funding deal and Speaker of the House John Boehner and his allies in leadership hope the vote today will satisfy them, instead. […]Tea party star Rep. Ted Yoho, a large-animal veterinarian from Florida, drafted the legislation. He explained it's meant to send Obama a message. […]Even the bill's biggest supporters admit the vote is more about symbolism than substance.When asked by a reporter whether Republicans were taking the Yoho bill seriously, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) replied: "I don't even know if Ted [Yoho] is."
"I think people believe that it's a very symbolic gesture," Salmon added. "Everybody knows it's going to end up in Harry Reid's drawer anyway."
