Posted on 02/17/2015 2:14:44 PM PST by cotton1706
Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), a conservative freshman Congressman, tells Breitbart News that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is in effect voting in support of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty by continuing to back Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s filibuster of the House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill. Mooney’s pressure on Manchin comes after a federal judge, Andrew S. Hanen, ordered the Obama administration to immediately halt implementation of its executive amnesty, something the administration has now reluctantly agreed to do.
“Yeah, yeah that would be true,” Mooney said in a phone interview on Tuesday when asked if Manchin’s backing of Reid’s filibuster of the House-passed bill is a vote for Obama’s executive amnesty.
“I’m hoping that in the coming days, he and the others will drop the filibuster,” Mooney said of Manchin.
What President Obama is doing on these executive actions, not just on immigration but also in the war on coal as I mentioned before, those things are very unpopular in West Virginia. I do think the voters of this state—the ones I’m hearing from and talking to—want us to stand up to Obama. [Mitt] Romney won this state by 26 percentage points over Obama. Clearly, the voters of this state want to see a different direction. We have two U.S. Senators. Obviously one [Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)] is voting not to filibuster. The other one is. So, we have an issue there.
Despite Manchin’s voting pattern in support of Obama’s executive amnesty, he has been publicly saying he opposes Obama’s move.
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When in doubt...Follow the money!
Manchin is a hardcore leftist nut who has fooled enough dolts in WV that he is one of them. Shame on them all!
Manchin and the filibuster should be irrelevant. McConnell can erase it with a wave of his wand.
Joey is a phoney baloney. He likes to present himself as a moderate middle of the roader. But if it’s illegal invaders, the Second Amendment, whatever, when the sociopath in the White House snaps his fingers, little Joey comes yipping.
Despite Manchin’s voting pattern in support of Obama’s executive amnesty, he has been publicly saying he opposes Obama’s move.
Say one thing, do another. It’s not just for Democrats, you know....
What have most of the GOP Senators done other than wet their pants and complain that the House won’t give Obama his way?
You can only fool people so much. Joey grabbing the third rail (gun control) may have damaged him permanently. Let’s hope. He’s being sued by a relative that he borrowed money from.
Let’s hope Joey gets lots of bad press.
SSSSSSHHHHHH! Don’t tell anybody! We aren’t supposed to know this!
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