Posted on 02/17/2015 2:26:42 PM PST by cotton1706
Updated 3:21 p.m. | The third branch of government has entered the immigration debate with a bang — with potentially profound impacts on President Barack Obama’s legacy, the lives of millions and the rest of this Congress.
The decision by a federal district judge in Texas late Monday to temporarily halt Obama’s executive actions on immigration could also give Republicans a way out of a shutdown showdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
The standoff over the DHS appropriations bill has cast a chill over the start of this Congress, splitting newly empowered Republicans with no easy off-ramp — except, maybe, in the courthouse.
Democrats and the White House have had no incentive to cave on an issue they see as a political and policy slam dunk for their side.
Republicans still aren’t ready to cave, with Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky pressing Senate Democrats in the wake of the ruling to allow the GOP’s DHS funding bill to go forward.
But with Democrats pledging to once again block the bill next week, Republicans will now have to justify potentially shutting down parts of the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to stop a program that already is being blocked by the courts.
“It won’t change the vote Monday,” a senior Democratic aide said, adding that Democrats want to fund the DHS before having a debate with Republicans over immigration.
“The only difference is that now they have an off-ramp to get out of their political jam,” the aide said.
One House senior GOP aide acknowledged the ruling might make it easier to avoid a shutdown.
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Reid changed the 60 vote requirement to get his way. What was fair for the goose, should be fair for the turtle.
Immigration Ruling Casts Shadow on Obama’s Legacy...? No one could see that coming???
Obama’s legacy is a mile high pile o poo!
There will be no change in the vote requirements — RINO leadersip agree with Democratics.
(I spelled it Democratics because DU said it isn’t the Democrat Party, but the Democratic Party)
A shadow? Really? A shadow?
Obama’s legacy is that he and his enablers have done everything possible to plunge our formerly great country into the pitch blackness of the dark ages.
Shadow indeed.
Reading this it would seem no one is the least bit concerned that Presidents can’t make up laws on their own.
That’s what he was trying to do.
He’s not king.
Yet
Poor Barry...
Don’t be so quick to discount this. It’s possible to cast shadows on steaming pools of sh!t.
Obama’s legacy casts a shadow on Obama’s legac.
Obama Legacy
1. He was black
2. Although he was incompetent, he could never rise above being black
(scape goat )
Ok, we’ll fund DHS tomorrow on condition there will be no appeal of this decision.
Of course, that would be minus the funds that now won’t be needed to enact the changes made to immigration law by the executive branch, which are nullified in the judge’s ruling.
Contrast with the hundreds of times he disobeyed the republican will of a sovereign people as expressed through laws Obama swore to faithfully execute.
Obamacare wasn’t enough of a legacy???
Why would this have anything to do with his legacy as
“The Food Stamp President”?
Roll Call is wrong. This gives the Republicans an opening to refuse to fund the amnesty. Roll Call pretends they have the Republican’s best interest at heart who do they think you’re kidding?
Obama’s actions with regards to democracy align with his being raised to see the world from an Islamic point of view. He’ll respect the authority of a judge/imam but he refuses to recognize the authority of an elected legislative body.
Just more proof that this man is, in heart and in deed, a Moslem.
The republicans can finally call their bluff or be satisfied as the leftwing media's b**ch forever.
President Barack Obama’s legacy.
Spit.
The only “legacy” this character has got is coming within a hair’s breadth of destroying American democracy.
And he’s still got two years.
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