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Republican Congress Gears for Epic Battle With Obama---Sen. Jeff Sessions has set up a war room
talkingpointsmemo ^ | Fri Nov 7 2014

Posted on 11/07/2014 4:24:04 AM PST by dennisw

Thickening the plot is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has set up an active war room dedicated to undermining Obama's plans on immigration, and is next in line to chair the Budget Committee. From that perch, he would have the power to set spending parameters that undermine the president's moves.

The GOP's victory afterglow had barely faded before the first major post-election battle between the President Barack Obama and the new Republican Congress began to take shape — on the explosive issue of immigration.

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), striking an otherwise conciliatory tone, made amply clear that Republicans will fight Obama's planned moves to ease the threat of deportation for up to millions of migrants who are low on the priority list for removal.

"It’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say, 'If you guys don’t do what I want, I’m going to do it on my own,'" McConnell said "I think it poisons the well" for legislative action.

The same afternoon, Obama was equally clear he won't back down on his promise to act on immigration "before the end of the year." He stressed that the new Republican Congress could supersede his actions by passing immigration reform, which he said he prefers, but vowed not to wait as problems linger.

"I've shown a lot of patience," he said, calling it "a commitment I've made."

Congressional Republicans won't take that lying down. The issue is a powerful one for the immigration-weary GOP base, which now feels it has a mandate to fight Obama's plans after Republicans campaigned against them and won.

McConnell pledged to use government spending bills to rein in Obama's immigration actions, "the way that you push back on executive overreach is through the funding process."

(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; obama; sessions
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1 posted on 11/07/2014 4:24:04 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw
IMPORTANT:


Thickening the plot is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has set up an active war room dedicated to undermining Obama's plans on immigration, and is next in line to chair the Budget Committee. From that perch, he would have the power to set spending parameters that undermine the president's moves.

2 posted on 11/07/2014 4:25:24 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle isI am ap to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

What epic battle? Just pass bills and put them on his desk. Lather, rinse, repeat.


3 posted on 11/07/2014 4:27:32 AM PST by glorgau
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To: dennisw
Ya wanna cut him off at the knees!

Declare him ineligible for the office! It's your constitutional DUTY!

4 posted on 11/07/2014 4:28:57 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: dennisw

You go Jeff.

Just the other day I heard some conservative say how great Sessions would be as a President.....but...he couldn’t win with that accent.

I consider that BS.


5 posted on 11/07/2014 4:30:36 AM PST by dforest
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To: dennisw
The same afternoon, Obama was equally clear he won't back down on his promise to act on immigration "before the end of the year." He stressed that the new Republican Congress could supersede his actions by passing immigration reform, which he said he prefers, but vowed not to wait as problems linger.

You know it is really funny to read this junk. The new congress can't act until after they are sworn in, which is like in Jan. 2015. It is so very sad our own President is too dumb to understand this and that there is a voting base that is even dumber to believe him!

6 posted on 11/07/2014 4:32:00 AM PST by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: dennisw

Sessions, Lee, and Cruz are going to make Mitch’s life a misery.


7 posted on 11/07/2014 4:41:03 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: dennisw

GOD BLESS JEFF SESSIONS!!!!!

Please keep him in prayer!!!!!


8 posted on 11/07/2014 4:46:23 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: dennisw

I still don’t understand why immigration needs to be reformed in the first place. What is wrong with the policy on the books now? (besides some people don’t want it enforced)


9 posted on 11/07/2014 4:46:53 AM PST by kevslisababy
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To: dennisw

I think your font is too small.


10 posted on 11/07/2014 4:49:08 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: rawcatslyentist

Ya wanna cut him off at the knees!
Declare him ineligible for the office! It’s your constitutional DUTY!
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A little late for that..the so-called “leadership”, Boehner and McConnell squandered numerous opportunities to get rid of o, and any threats now will be perceived as “racially motivated”. Responsibility for the death of our nation lies at the feet of the republicans in congress..


11 posted on 11/07/2014 4:56:55 AM PST by AFret.
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To: kevslisababy

“I still don’t understand why immigration needs to be reformed in the first place. What is wrong with the policy on the books now? (besides some people don’t want it enforced”

Exactly - the system is NOT broken.

Jerry


12 posted on 11/07/2014 5:00:52 AM PST by admiral52 (Admiral52)
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To: dennisw

Go Jeff! $top funding socialist collectives/schemes/programs/ngos/countries/counties/crybabies/etc.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.

You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

To prevent this, you would exclude socialism from entering into the making of laws? You would prevent socialists from entering the Legislative Palace?

/Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org

DEPOPULATE…check

DEFUND...


13 posted on 11/07/2014 5:03:35 AM PST by PGalt
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Thickening the post-election plot is Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has set up an active war room dedicated to undermining Obama's plans on immigration, and is next in line to chair the Budget Committee. From that perch, he would have the power to set spending parameters that undermine the president's moves.

Here's some ammunition for the fight, Senator Jeff:

Americans demand their government and its duly-elected legislators escape the Third World stranglehold burdening us. America belongs to its lawful citizens---not a bunch of greedy criminal invaders salivating to board the US gravy train.

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.....a secret draft solicitation for bids issued Oct 6 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS---a DHS agency) states potential vendors must be capable of handling a “surge” scenario of 9 million ID cards in one year “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements” ..... the Obama administration has quietly begun preparing to issue millions of work authorization permits, suggesting the implementation of a large-scale executive amnesty may have already begun...

ACTION ALERT: USCIS is headed by Obama appointee---Leon Rodrigues--Obama's errand boy. Rodrigues is rubber-stamping undesirables from 144 countries into the US....including those from contagion-ridden Central America and Ebola-stricken countries. During FY 2013, the DHS website showed US Border Patrol agents apprehended 112 immigrants from Guinea, 231 from Liberia and 145 immigrants from Sierra Leone,----three countries currently experiencing the most cases of Ebola.

SIGNIFICANTLY USCIS Rodrigues also oversees EB-5 visas. Under Rodrigues' purview---EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:

ARE OBAMA/RODRIGUES SELLING US CITIZENSHIP TO (a) MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS-(b) ISIS TERRORISTS---(c) CONTAGIOUS ALIENS ?--

In an earlier statement, Sen Charles Grassley (REPUB--IOWA) said ICE identified key vulnerabilities in EB-5 visas

1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.

2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.

3) Use by terrorists.

4) Investment fraud by regional center.

5) Investment fraud by investors.

6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.

7) Illicit finance/money laundering.

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Rodriguez's confirmation hearings revealed he was a board member of Casa Maryland---a latino-centric advocacy group---pushing for unlimited immigration, and has connections to nationwide immigrant groups.

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ACTION--CONTACT FBI TIPS PAGE WEB SITE---YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS---https://tips.fbi.gov

<><> Taxpayers demand Rodriguez, USCIS, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated. Supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.

<><> Taxpayers demand to know if tax-paid Leon Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, (1) are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt, (2) and/or are paid agents of foreign governments.

<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.

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INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY.COM REPORTED Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a new surge of illegals, just as Central America is being hit by a new wave of epidemics. No doubt about it: President Obama's open-borders policy is exposing us to disease, too.

In a background press briefing at the U.N. last Tuesday, a senior State Department official said Secretary of State John Kerry told his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico that the pause in minors coming across our southern border was temporary, and that "we have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this, because we know that those numbers may rise again."

The next wave may be worse than the first, however, because monsoon conditions, a harsh drought and the globalization of transport are ensuring that the 50,000 or so unscreened new entrants will be bringing a raft of new diseases with them.

Though little reported, the Caribbean is on high alert for the spread of chikungunya, known as "the virus of pain." Its Tanzanian-origin Bantu name means "to contort," describing the agony it leaves in joints for years. Some 183,000 cases were detected in the region this year as it spreads from the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue and yellow fever. Central America, according to a report in El Pais, is the epicenter. Puerto Rico has reported 2,000 cases and three deaths.

But the disease has worked its way up to the U.S.; Texas and Florida reported victims who have already contracted it without traveling to the affected regions. (Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...

14 posted on 11/07/2014 5:05:23 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: glorgau
What epic battle? Just pass bills and put them on his desk. Lather, rinse, repeat.

More than that. The GOP must define the narrative, by getting out in front of every bill and shepherding it through the media. We can't force Obama to sign anything, but we may be able to force Dem votes for overrides on some bills, such as Keystone.

The 2016 election campaign starts today.

15 posted on 11/07/2014 5:14:24 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: dennisw

What does it mean to set up a war room?

You get a conference room and put battle signs up?
I don’t get it.

Or does this mean they have allocated a tiny office as get rid of Obamacare office?


16 posted on 11/07/2014 5:21:26 AM PST by RummyChick
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Americans demand US history be properly taught in all education setting---K-!2 to college---and that students be taught to respect the foundations of our country. Moreover we demand those in education positions who tamper w/ US history, who denigrate our country's history, be shown the door...... and be penalized when necessary.

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THE NAME OF THE IMMIGRATION REFORM GAME ---
decimate US culture and history---establish a separatist Third World on US soil
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Vote-crazed Obama's obsession w/ emptying out the Third World into the US is turning US schools into refugee camps........w/ big plans to inculcate the savage illiterates w/ hate-America, anti-American ideology....IOW reliable Democrat voters.

REALITY CHECK A primetime network news segment focused on an "impoverished" latino mother who paid big bucks to get her/ son coached to take the College Boards---but he was so stupid, he still couldn't pass them. So the C/B decided to "change" them so that Pedro could pass using subversive Third World hate-filled US history.

Subversive Texas Textbooks---distributed nationwide--- vilify conservative groups
Breitbart Texas | 09/10/2014 | Merrill Hope / FR Posted by Rusty0604

In 2006, uber-liberal "Texas Rising" stated its mission: "developing an emerging generation of social justice-minded, informed and engaged leaders is essential to the long-term health of our communities and the development of progressive public policy in Texas."

...a sneak peak at the preliminary Social Studies textbook findings TTT has found including distortions, omissions and half- truths all passing for accurate high school history..."The radical right consists of groups that sometimes gather under the flag of militant anticommunism."

"Often known as reactionaries, they denounce most forms of government regulation, including progressive taxation and restrictions and industry. Strangely enough, these radicals would not hesitate to use the government's police power to enforce the changes they desire. Examples of political groups on the radical right are the John Birch Society, the National States & Rights party, The Christian Crusade, and the Tea Party movement." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

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THIRD WORLD INFILTRATION College Board exams changed history answers... revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....

NOTE WELL: This terrifying Third World revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.

The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.

REFERENCE Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:

<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;

<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,

<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;

<><> using teaching as brainwashing;

<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy ideology.

17 posted on 11/07/2014 5:24:36 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: EBH

I think what Osatan means is that he is demanding that the current Congress pass the CIR bill before the end of the year or he will declare amnesty.

And if he does that, he will allow the new Congress to set up a CIR bill legalizing his illegal decree.

I have never seen a person more worthy of impeachment. That said, I understand the political aspect may not make it worth it due to the fact he will be gone in two years.

Hmmm, but will he be gone? He might decide he is staying on. The law and the Constitution mean little to him.


18 posted on 11/07/2014 5:33:31 AM PST by dforest
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To: rawcatslyentist

I’m still hoping Sheriff Joe’s investigation will, as promised, soon reveal “universe shattering” information that devastates Obama and dislodges him from the White House. I want Obama and all those who helped him illegally usurp the presidency arrested and frogmarched to a boat bound for Gitmo. I’d be satisfied if he fled and spent his remaining years living ignominiously in a cold golfless country without an extradition treaty with the U.S.


19 posted on 11/07/2014 5:43:54 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: kevslisababy

We don’t need immigration reform.
We need immigration enforcement of existing laws
What we need is deportation enforcement and e-verify and no illegals sucking down welfare. No free education either

End birthright citizenship! End anchor babies born here to illegals being automatic US citizens


20 posted on 11/07/2014 5:53:26 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle isI am ap to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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