Posted on 02/19/2015 2:19:51 PM PST by BradtotheBone
Shutting down the Department of Homeland Security will not help Republicans win popular support against Barack Obama's presidential overreach, but could hurt their chances of electing a Republican to the White House in 2016, Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
The veteran GOP strategist argued that Republican lawmakers have been right to obstruct Obama's November 2014 executive orders on immigration.
Democrats in the Senate have blocked debate on a House-passed DHS funding bill that would prohibit the department from carrying out Obama's directive. It would take 60 senators to force a vote on the bill — including six Democrats, Rove said.
While some Democrats agree that Obama overstepped his powers with his 2014 immigration order, no Democratic senator will support the bill the House sent to the Senate. That's because it "unwisely" contains riders to prohibit spending on earlier immigration decisions by Obama made in 2011 and 2012, wrote Rove.
The stalemate has also heightened tensions between House and Senate Republicans, he wrote.
In any event, Obama has promised to veto any DHS budget bill that cuts spending for his immigration policies and there are not enough votes to override.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a preliminary injunction Monday that blocks DHS from implementing Obama's policies while a case filed by 26 states challenging the policy is in progress.
This "gives the GOP an opportunity to extract itself" from pushing ahead with the politically unpopular decision to cut off DHS funding, Rove said.
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This is our chance to defund the illegal amnesty. Oh wait that would take some modicum of courage. Or it would mean Mitch would have to do his job and go with the nuclear option just like Dingy Harry would have done.
Somebody please slap this guy upside his head, what a buffoon.
Americans think the border should be closed tight and that Americans should get jobs before foreign workers whether they are legal or illegal
That’s true, but both parties are on the side of the Fraudulently Documented Foreigners and their employers.
The thought of spending the rest of my life seeing this pudgy sell out is more than I can bear. When he appears on Fox New, I change the channel.
When an article starts with a lie, why read further? The DHS won't shut down. 80% or DHS employees are considered "essential" and will continue to work no matter what.
How come its not the democrats chance to vote for it?
What??! Slap Sean's "good friend", the "architect"? Say it ain't so! < / sarc off >
His mug on every Fox News show is one of the reasons I no longer watch Fox News. When he isn’t on McCain or Graham is.
Which told me that they had joined The Ministry of Propaganda working for the Cheap Labor Express.
Fox is not our friend.
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