White House Calls Ryan's Immigration Remarks 'Preposterous'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

White House Calls Ryan's Immigration Remarks 'Preposterous'

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY AND ERICA WERNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Nov 2, 2015, 3:01 PM ET

The White House accused new House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday of "pandering to the extreme right wing" of his party on immigration.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Ryan's recent comments on immigration reform are "preposterous" and disappointing.

The Wisconsin Republican said Sunday that he's ruled out passing comprehensive immigration legislation while President Barack Obama is in office. He said Obama cannot be trusted on the issue because he went around Congress to take executive actions shielding from deportation millions of people living in the country illegally.

Earnest called the remark "ironic." He said it's Ryan who supported an immigration deal, then failed to push for it to come up for a vote in the House.

The White House criticism comes as Ryan is maneuvering carefully on the issue of immigration, long a priority for him. With most House conservatives wary of anything that could constitute "amnesty" for the 11.5 million immigrants living here illegally, Ryan has offered repeated assurances, before and after becoming speaker last week, that he will not pursue comprehensive immigration legislation as long as Obama is president.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. and nothing has changed since boner left

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Well well,chosing up sides for the

great tug of war games. Ryan is not about to give a inch,the Koch Bros own his ass and they need a wedge issue to get way with the Rethugs.

[Johonny]

3. If he wanted to prevent Obama from creating defacto policy then he should act

if he doesn't act then Obama has no other recourse than to create a policy to fill the void.

Basically Ryan is saying that his current plan as speaker is to do nothing at all because 1) the previous speaker set him up to allow this with his budget deal 2) Obama is willing as a lame duck president to do what it takes to fill the policy void.

That is what passes for good GOP leadership these days. Poor GOP leadership is even worse. Why is Ryan doing this... clearly he doesn't want those mean media pundits mad at him. My guess is Ryan runs for the White House in 2020 and will make his term as speaker a media friendly pundit driven folly.

[lpbk2713]

4. That sort of thing is predictable from Ryan.

Being a pandering doofus comes natural to him.