Tea Party favorite defects from DHS funding compromise

thehill.com ^ | 2/26/15 | Ben Kamisar

[cotton1706]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will not vote for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill because it funds President Obama’s controversial immigration actions, he told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday.

“Our laws don’t authorize this action so if it’s carried out, if its implemented, this action will have the effect of undoing something that Congress has done and doing so in a way that circumvents the Constitution,” he said. “We have to use the power of the purse, we have to withhold funding when the president does that.”

Senate Democrats have repeatedly filibustered to block a funding measure that would halt Obama’s immigration actions, so Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decided to hold two votes — one on defunding those actions, and the other on a “clean” bill that funds the agency in its entirely.

But some conservative lawmakers are pushing back against that plan and Heritage Action, the prominent conservative group, said it will score a clean bill as an affirmative vote for immigration “amnesty.”

“If the question is whether I will vote to fund the president’s executive amnesty program, no I will not, and I’d ask my colleagues to stand with me,” Lee said at CPAC.

[Andyman]

I <3 Mike Lee

[TexasCajun]

What compromise?

Mich 'The Rat' McConnell gave the Senate Dems a clean funding bill that INCLUDES funding for Executive Amnesty!

[cripplecreek]

Its funny how “clean” includes funding for something that the courts have blocked.

This is an easy win if the GOP would seize it.

[zerosix]

Corrected copy should read, “Senate Democrats ‘threaten and pretend’ to filibuster but as the GOP don’t make them actually do it, it’s really a joke on the American people!”

[cripplecreek]

I just tell them that if they do the right thing the democrats will blame them but the people will be with them.

The democrats are going to blame the GOP no matter what they do so they might as well do the right thing.

[SharpRightTurn]

Excellent. Lee is one of the few stalwarts.

Most of the Republican senators are mush (I'm trying to be nice here).

[novemberslady]

Our laws don’t authorize this action

IMO, people involved that dare to show their face on the streets after this big charade should be caned.
Every time they show their face.

[zerosix]

The court hasn't blocked it if they vote yes on it.

The judge only blocked what had never been voted for.

McConnell will now make Obama's illegal actions legal.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Mush is putting it kindly...

[MaxMax]

Defects? Of course the evil Tea Party "Working Americans not on the dole" must
always have a derogatory tag associated with the name in any headline.

[Servant of the Cross]

God bless Mike Lee. He, unlike Mitch McConnell, McQueeg, Graham, et. al., meant it when he swore the following .....

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

[cuban leaf]

This is an easy win if the GOP would seize it.

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And if they don’t, it tells you what you need to know about them - That the whole thing is a sham.

Let us watch and learn.

[bonehead4freedom]

I was told during the election by some on this board that I had to support the Republicans or the Democrats would get their way. I said that the current leadership was only interested in reaching across the aisle to “get things done in Washington” and I was pretty much told I was selling out and surrendering to Obama’s agenda. Where are you guys now? Let's hear from you! We knew all along the immigration sell out along with more work visas was going to happen didn't we? We elected the Republicans to stop Obama they have told us that they are there to look for ways to work with him and the Democrats.
It's time to go third party if you want conservatism represented period.

[bray]

One the Repubs could surrender on an issue a large majority wants.

Pray America is waking

[Timber Rattler]

Yeah, I remember getting yelled at too by some of the "party-first" folks who didn't like it when I said I hoped that Grimes would clean McConnell's clock.

So where has that gotten us?

[Ray76]

Theater

[Ray76]

Ditch Mitch. Lee for majority leader!

[Chainsawj]

AND mike lee VOTED FOR IT!!!!

the vote was 98-2 and MIKE LEE was part of the 98.

WHY do these morons vote for something they SAY they are against when they don’t need to?

Mike Lee is a LIAR, this is why WORDS MEAN NOTHING!!!!

WATCH what they DO, DON’T LISTEN to what THEY SAY!!!!

ACTIONS MATTER..................WORDS DON’T

[Chainsawj]

HE IS A LIAR!!!!

He voted FOR the bill to move forward, the vote was 98-2.

DON’T BE FOOLED by his WORDS!!!!

WORDS MEAN NOTHING!!!!

ACTIONS MATTER!!!!