Rep. Lamar Smith Wants Hearings To "Embarrass The President"

[jaxx]

On Thursday, Roll Call reported that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) was planning to use his House Judiciary Committee gavel this fall to promote a "jobs agenda." This would represent a significant shift for a committee that has largely been focused on radical attacks on undocumented immigrants.

But later that day, the Obama administration announced that it would begin reviewing the cases of the 300,000 illegal immigrants currently awaiting deportation and prioritize the expulsion of the more dangerous criminal violators, rather than targeting low-level immigration offenders for deportation.

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Quote:SMITH: As to what our recourse is, what we can do, we can do a couple things, at least in the House where the Republicans are in the majority. We can conduct hearings, oversight hearings, we can pull in administration officials, make them testify under oath, find out what's going on, try to, frankly, embarrass the President and push back and get the American people on our side to push back against the administration. Secondly, the Appropriations Committee can defund any of these efforts, but unfortunately, on the appropriations level, you can only defund it one year at a time, so that's not a long-term solution. Frankly, Joe, the long-term solution is, if you don't like what the President is doing, you have an opportunity in a year and a half to change presidents, and that's ultimately where the answer is going to lie.

Smith's call for hearings to "embarrass the president" comes on the heels of Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) comment that his planned Oversight Committee investigation of trumped-up attacks on Obama's adherence to election law would make "good theater." House Republicans apparently prefer to use their committees to conduct partisan attacks, rather than to attempt to solve America's problems.

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201108220001

There needs to be an ad on this showing the liars and how they lie.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

No surprises here, unfortunately

[Cha]

Ol Lamar is embarrassing himself.

[Treestar]

These hearings would embarrass him instead.

[nofurylike]

build up even more of that debt they shriek about all the time, spending huge sums for their petty games ....



thank you for exposing that, jaxx.

[Andy823]

Republicans don't care about jobs, the economy, or the country, all they care about is making the president look bad so they can "hope" voters will vote for the right wing nuts instead of the president and the democrats! It also goes to show they are dumber than a box of rocks! The people want something done about the lack of jobs, they want the two parties to work together not fight over everything, or block everything for political agenda's.

This kind of BS really shows just how many idiots there are in the republican party in D.C.!

[WIDemsFight]

Proving that the repubs have no sense of doing what's right for the country. And that they have an endless supply of idiots doing the talking.