Did John Boehner trick conservative House members into voting to strengthen Barack Obama’s Executive amnesty?

 HR 5759 was passed by the House with 216 Republican votes. This bill is called the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014 so it is understandable why the conservatives voted for it.

  On the surface it would appear as if John Boehner was making good on his promise to fight Barack Obama’s Executive action on immigration tooth and nail.

  However, did John Boehner actually use a little subterfuge in order to trick the conservatives into voting for a bill which contained a loophole which would actually grant Barack Obama the authority to grant amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants?

  That is what Texas Representative Louie Gohmert is claiming and that is why he voted against it, here is more: 

If you came through the Speaker’s lobby on the way to the House floor as so many people do, there’s tables there in the Speaker’s lobby that have copies of all the official bills we are taking up that day. There was official copies of H.R. 5759 out there—and they were the short page and a half bill that Representative Yoho had originally filed.

  Okay, no problem there; there were official copies of the one and a half page bill there for all members to read, however Louie Gohmert is claiming that later that night the Rules Committee changed the language in a manner which cut the heart out of the legislation and provided Barack Obama with the aforementioned loophole, and this version of the bill was not made available to House members before they were asked to vote on the legislation.

But the night before there was an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5759—what that means is that it’s a new bill. It’s different but it’s going to substitute in its entirety the original bill. It had some of Yoho’s original language in it but they eliminated from the title the word “amnesty” and replaced it with “executive overreach.” Then they had a bunch of ‘findings’ that sounded tough that make it clear the president is not authorized to do what he did. Section One is the short title of the bill. Section Two is the findings that got added, which sounded tough. Section Three is the operative section though.

The third one is “for humanitarian purposes where the aliens are at imminent risk of serious bodily harm or death.” That’s what they added. Well, this president has been arguing for months that the things he’s doing is because these people are at imminent risk of serious bodily harm and that’s why he’s doing them. So actually by adding this exception it gives the president for the first time a solid statutory basis to argue that providing those work permits is now legal.

“By adding that exception to the original bill, we would now give the president the statutory authority to do what he’s doing to issue these work permits,”

Members were not provided the new text of the bill before they were asked to vote on it, either—something that should infuriate Americans, Gohmert said.

  So it turns out that many conservative members of the House were actually voting on a bill which they had not read, and even though they might not have known they had not read the final version of the bill it still sounds eerily familiar to something which happened when the Democrats controlled the House.

When asked if this is getting into “you have to pass it to find out what’s in it” territory—the famous line from then Speaker Nancy Pelosi about Obamacare—Gohmert said, “that’s what concerns me.”

  If all of this is true do you still think that John Boehner is on your side? If this is true it is actually worse than when the Democrats passed Obamacare without reading the bill because in this instance it looks as though the Republican leadership actually pulled the wool over their eyes in an attempt to make it look as though they were doing one thing when in reality they were doing another.

  I have said it many times in the past but it bears repeating: The Republican leadership and the Democratic leadership are on the same side–they are all elitist statists–and until they are purged from the government they will continue to play this game. This is the Hegelian Dialectic on full display and our overlords know how to play the game perfectly.