4um: About that Glenn Beck 'tube

Seventy House Republicans are planning a politically risky showdown with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to try to force additional debate on an immigration bill they say will mean amnesty for illegal immigrants and have dire consequences for the country.

The 70 members are petitioning for a special Republican conference meeting on the bill, a “highly unusual” move to go head-to-head with the speaker, according to Reps. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Steve King (Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (Texas), who are serving as spokespersons for the group.

Republican House Members Staging Revolt Against Boehner Leadership on Immigration Bill

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Bachmann, King and Gohmert told TheBlaze the group is invoking the Hastert Rule: requiring support from a majority of the majority to bring a bill forward.

The petition is expected to go to the House leadership on Friday, but it’s possible some signatories might remove their names due to political risk, or that Boehner could head off the challenge by striking a deal. Going against leadership in such a way could have harsh political consequences for the signatories, including retaliation such as permanently getting passed over for chairmanship positions.

A Boehner spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Boehner is on a tight schedule for getting immigration reform passed in the House, predicting this week that Congress could finalize a bill for President Barack Obama’s signature by the end of the year. Any major challenge could ignite pushback from the American public that could force lawmakers to scrap the bill, as happened in the 2007 immigration effort.

The three representatives told TheBlaze that more than half of the Republicans in the House were elected after 2007, and have no concept of how strongly the public opposed the bill.

In an interview with World Net Daily this week, Bachmann predicted that if the immigration bill becomes law, “the whole political system will change.”

“This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect. We will perpetually have a progressive, liberal president, probably a Democrat, and we will probably see the House of Representatives go into Democrat hands and the Senate will stay in Democrat hands,” Bachmann said.

She also said that if it passes, the bill will create a permanent progressive class.

“That’s what’s at risk right now. It may sound melodramatic, I don’t mean it that way, but this is that big and that important,” Bachmann said.

Here it is.... It appears the Immigration Bill is a done deal, and these 70 Rs will ask Boehner for "additional debate" on the issue. So there we have it, hype much?(1 image)

Beck said someone is afraid of getting murdered for this, but he didn't say if it might be execution style or gangland style. And style is important.

But if this is what beck was talking about, fork him, he's done. Even his most ardent diehard bootlickers will leave him in droves.

Notice that the implication is that they're risking their careers as whores, clearly that rarely happens which means implicitly that they are all bought off to a great extent.

Bachmann is exactly right. And there are many others that feel the same way. This from democrat Mickey Kaus:

Holding political office is not a career. All those that think to the otherwise have no business holding political office. Volunteering to manage the highest offices of service is not just another job. If taking lobbyist money is how you see yourself earning a living go be a banker not a politician.

Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) (It's a more positive message)

Revolt Among Republicans on Immigration Bill: 70 House Members Risk Careers in Planned Showdown With Leadership