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Boehner: Cantor doesn?t change immigration - POLITICO.com
Asked at his weekly news conference whether the prospects of an overhaul were dead in light of House Majority Leader Eric Cantors primary loss on Tuesday, Boehner responded: The issue of immigration reform has not changed.
The reason: President Barack Obama has still not gained the trust from House Republicans that the GOP says is necessary to do immigration reform, Boehner said.
The president continues to ignore laws that he signed into law, violating his oath of office, he did it again with the release of these Taliban five, the Ohio Republican said, referring to Guantanamo Bay prisoners Obama recently released in exchange for an American prisoner of war. Every time he does this, it makes it harder to gain the trust of our members to do the big things that need to be done around here.
Doesn't the Speaker of the House have a sworn duty to the Republic to reign in lawless behavior on the part of the President?
So why isn't Obama being impeached?
That isn't either a possibility nor the answer.
65 million people put him back after he proved he was a failure.
And the people are the ultimate authority.
As Ed Koch said after he lost an election: "The people have made a mistake, and now they must be punished."
Obama is the nation's punishment.
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.
Milton Friedman