Doh!
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (2nd R) addresses reporters after a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 2, 2014. Also pictured are Repuplican House Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) (L), House Majority Leader Kevin McIf  Boehner is really telling audiences that immigration reform is a top priority for the republican cabal, it's certainly going to come as a shock to his wingnut base, not to mention everyone else in America. Maybe that's why he mentioned it while he was abroad—just sort of a slip of tongue while he was overseas. Arthur Beesley reports that Boehner told an Irish audience that immigration reform is at the top of his agenda.
Boehner has told a Dublin audience of his determination to overcome Republican resistance to immigration reform. Mr Boehner also told how Taoiseach Enda Kenny has harangued him on the matter, telling him how the lack of reform has left some Irish immigrants listening to a parent’s funeral by phone. His remarks indicate he may yet move to confront opponents of reform within his own Republican cabal, which is in the vanguard of resistance to it and has a majority in the House. [...]
Although he has consistently refused to put immigration reform to a House vote, he said certain colleagues thought the matter would be resolved by sticking their heads in the sand. “It doesn’t work that way.”
It also doesn't work to go overseas and say you're gonna do something that you could have solved in the previous Congress. Remember that, John, when you watched a perfectly good bipartisan immigration bill die a long, slow death in the House after it had already gained Senate approval? Boehner was apparently shocked to find that white Europeans care about U.S. immigration policy. Here was Boehner's own account of a conversation he had with Kenny.
Mr Boehner said he was seated at lunch between the Taoiseach and President Obama. “The Taoiseach says: ‘John, John, John.’ He says: ‘How’s immigration reform coming?’ ” Mr Boehner replied: “What the hell do you care about immigration reform?”
Mr Kenny: “Oh John, John. You don’t realize there are about 50k of my fellow Irishmen came to the US and never quite made it back across the pond. You know their cousins have got to hold up the cell phone at their parents’ funeral so their kids in Chicago or Detroit or wherever can listen to the funeral. John, John this is a serious problem.”
Actually, John, I think we can just stop at, "What the hell?"