Posted on 12/29/2014 9:20:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Leaders of the GOP-led Congress that will be sworn in next month are facing a large question: whether or not to defund President Obama’s unilateral executive amnesty. But as 2015 dawns, it isn’t clear whether they’ll be willing to take up the fight.
During December’s lame duck session, Republicans surrendered by passing a 1,774-page, $1.1 trillion so-called “cromnibus” spending bill. That measure funds most of the federal government through September, and the Department of Homeland Security for the next two months. Conservatives wanted Republicans to attempt to roll back Obama’s amnesty by defunding DHS this month.
But the incoming, bicameral congressional GOP leadership team may be working out a plan to fund President Obama’s executive amnesty in totality through 2015 and even beyond, therefore enabling its implementation once and for all. While GOP leaders and their aides haven’t said on the record that they’re going to fund Obama’s amnesty, recent reporting indicates that’s a very real possibility despite a resounding midterm election where voters sent more Republicans to Washington, in large part, to push back against Obama’s power grabs.
“He’s consulting with his members and the Speaker on how best to proceed,” Don Stewart, a spokesman for incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Breitbart News of his boss’s role in these matters—while explicitly not answering whether funding for executive amnesty would be blocked or not.
When asked if incoming Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn is planning to go along with whatever McConnell and Boehner develop, a Cornyn aide emailed that “members are still discussing the best way to proceed.” That aide adds: “Last week, Sen. McConnell said he is consulting with the Speaker and other members on how to best proceed.”
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From the headline I thought it was going to be about Senator Warren.
I have very low expectations for the current crop of GOP losers. Any surprises from them will be pleasant.
There’s a lot of speculation in that article.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Republicans came up with some type of reform plan, but this story is just trying to push conservative buttons.
IMO.
IF this happens I hope someone will step up as and lead us to DC to throw these bums out. I mean someone like Palin.
For some reason, I expect total betrayal. It seems like Repubs are either blackmailed or sold out, and the few freshmen with some courage will be beaten into submission. I hate to be so pessimistic but it sure seems there’s a pitiful lack of evidence to the contrary. Wish it was different. Maybe a few clones of Trey Goudy and Ted Cruz would help?
I sincerely hope this article does push conservative buttons, and cause one ‘H’ of a reaction.
Screw the “bastards”, do they not teach the meaning of illegal in school anymore? I live in California where there is absolutely no hope (excepting Freeper), Boxer, Pelosi, and Feinstein.
All I can do is phone & write to the so called leaders. Most of us have to work and pay little attention to politics. Maybe is politics were a sport people would pay more attention.
They are all bastards right behind the bastard in chief who has no real father and no real mother either and is and alwways been out for revenge!
Ordinarily I would think as you do.
But then you need to ask yourself WHY Boehner and McConnell allowed funding to go to September 2015 and not March 1, 2015.
And you know that a simple stopgap funding measure to carry through to March 1, 2015 would have allowed the new Congress to take it up starting next week.
And you know there is absolutely no excuse for what they did in a lameduck session that could not wait for the new Congress to be seated.
And in my view, defunding Obama’s Executive Actions for ‘Discretionary Enforcement’ aka amnesty while funding all other measures would have been a key requirement of what the public immediately demanded and yet Boehner and McConnell would have nothing of it. So are they representing the People of the United States? No.
The article is not so much speculating and pushing conservative buttons as it is noting that the GOP leadership is not committed to defunding Obama’s Executive Amnesty; they are equivocal in their language and intentions, they are keeping their plans hidden from view. That is revealing, very. It means they are trying to find a way to keep it funded without incurring a tremendous public backlash.
McConnell and Boehner are deliberating distractions and other urgent priorities, things that Obama must sign. Executive amnesty will be rammed through on the back of something else because of a threat of Obama’s veto and the other urgent priority things that can’t be risked to a veto. They will kick the can down the road while talking Border Security and the need to screen for terrorists; anything to take the focus off their true intentions.
They will find a way fund it. Because if they were intending to defund it, they would come out and say right now this minute that it will be defunded. There would be no holding back on revealing their intentions. But they are choosing to equivocate, that’s all conservatives need to know and that’s why Breitbart reported this.
That would be the last straw for me.
Boehner has allied himself with the Executive and aids in its usurpation of Congressional authority, he should be expelled from the House of Representatives.
bttt
We really ought to make these guys take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution before we let them take office. Oh, wait...
Good analysis. Past GOPE history points to a total sellout. Should that happen, it will be vindication for those who warned that elections are increasingly just courtesies that let the gullible feel we still have a republic.
In our once federal republic, power was diffused across all the states and three horizontal branches. Now, it is rapidly swirling into the executive branch vortex.
Every day, more events point toward the absolute necessity of an Article V convention to restore our republic.
It is already pretty clear they will be unwilling...if past is prologue.
I'm expecting them to put the knife in our backs but refrain from twisting so they can claim they "did what they could under impossible conditions"....
It’s not called the “establishment” for nothing....
“Last week, Sen. McConnell said he is consulting with the Speaker and other members on how to best proceed.”
“Last week, Sen. McConnell said he is consulting with the Speaker and other members on how to best deceive.”
Fixed it.
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