Posted on 01/26/2015 6:35:41 AM PST by cotton1706
Conservatives saw it as raising a white flag when Republican congressional leaders pledged not to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the fight over President Obama’s deportation amnesty, stoking fears that for the next two years House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will consistently surrender.
For the Republican base, Mr. Obama’s unilateral move to grant legal status and work permits for up to 5 million illegal immigrants was an unlawful power grab that created a constitutional crisis.
The anger I see from my audience at the Republican Party cannot become any more palpable,” nationally syndicated talk radio host Steve Deace said. “We have a president who looks for new and unique ways to shred the Constitution on an almost daily basis, and we have a Republican Party leadership that refuses to do anything about it.”
He said Republican incumbents should expect a backlash and primary challenges next year because of their weak attempt to stop the amnesty.
If Republican leaders were not willing to use Congress’ power of the purse — the most potent weapon possessed by lawmakers to restrict a president — to stop a brazen unconstitutional act, conservatives reasoned, would the GOP-controlled Congress ever go to the mat to fight Mr. Obama?
The conservative core of the party has long been leery of Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, who are viewed derisively as establishment stalwarts. The refusal of the leaders to threaten a government shutdown or even close a single agency to force Mr. Obama to revoke his immigration edicts seemed only to confirm the right wing’s worst suspicions.
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We knew all along McBoner would obey their US Chamber of Crony Fascists overlords.
bonehead has a whole month to do as HE pleases
Good reason to fear that, isn't it!
I got hammered for saying that Boner cleared the Netanyahu invite with Obola ahead of time. It was Kabuki theater meant to give the RINOs cover.
politics is a dizzying ride these days ... bonehead invites Israel after obola snubs the world and jets off to suck the new muzzie king’s dick
They are just like the Patriots, playing with deflated balls.
Bone-head and McCon-man are two cowards cut from the same cloth.
did obozo go there to greet the new king?
did he bow again?
In 1973, Sovietologist Richard Pipes noted that as they sought to expand their empire, the Soviets would stop if they struck iron but continue to push if they struck butter. In the Congress led by Bonehead and McCommie, Obama has struck butter, and he knows it, so expect him to keep on pushing.
” The conservative core of the party has long been leery of Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, who are viewed derisively as establishment stalwarts. The refusal of the leaders to threaten a government shutdown or even close a single agency to force Mr. Obama to revoke his immigration edicts seemed only to confirm the right wing’s worst suspicions.”
And ......”15 minutes can save you 15% on your car insurance”
1,000
Makes me wonder exactly what the NSA has on them. With their undoubtedly huge egos, it’s hard to believe their servile attitude is easy to maintain.
Raise your hand if you really thought the Republicans would fight for the Constitution.
For Boehner and McCOnnell and the Gopes it is no retreat.
That word cowards is thrown around too much such that it has become meaningless. Those two are acting to get what they want. They are not giving in to anything. That does not make them cowards. It is the same with ascribing cowardice to Obama for “giving in” to all the country’s enemies. But if one accepts that he is a Moslem which he surely is, working for Islamic goals then what he does is well in accord with that and there is no cowardice there. Not that he is not a coward- I don’t know how he would act if someone credibly threatened him- but that cowardice d0esn’t inhere in his destructive policies. At this point I begin to think that cowardice is more a condition of us, the people, because we the people have not formed a real opposition in the current situation which is irremediable by peaceful means.
You’re right and I stand corrected (and enlightened)!
Mark Levin’s term “mastermind” may more correctly describe this destructive duo.
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