Wehner is despicable. He overtly lies in this article in order to cover for his big gov't beliefs.
Here is a link and chart from Powerline on what has happened with immigration since 1900:
Posted on 10/06/2015 3:55:16 PM PDT by robowombat
Throw the author in the ash can.
“Here’s the problem: Mr. Obama passed his legislation when he was president and had control of the House and the Senate. Republicans don’t have control of the presidency, and therefore cannot institutionally undo what he did without veto-proof majorities in both chambers.”
Wrong. Congress controls the purse. Even if we only held the House, we could defund Obamacare. They are all just too afraid of being blamed for a shutdown to do it.
He also conveniently ignores the Iran deal, the harsh treatment of Israel, all the executive orders he is signing, The EPA’s takeover of every puddle and drainage ditch in the country.....
This guy has serious denial problems.
I don’t know if illegal aliens are drug dealers and rapist (many are) but I do know they ALL are lawbreakers.
I reject the author’s premise.
“Shutting down the federal government would not defund Obamacare, which is an entitlement.”
More hogwash. It wasn’t shutting down the government that would defund Obamacare, it would be not passing any spending bills that included funding for it that would defund it. The government shutting down would just be the inevitable consequence of Obama refusing to sign those spending bills.
There is the rub. Without a two thirds majority in both houses of Congress, the only weapon that can be used against the Dictator and his Regime is the power of the purse and shutting down the government until Obama caves. The only thing is Obama has the balls to resist, the GOPe, not so much.
“The net result would be that nothing substantive would be achieve while politically, Republicans would only hurt themselves leading up to a crucial presidential year.”
Guess what? We don’t care that the establishment thinks it would hurt them politically. We didn’t elect them to spend all their time worrying about their re-election prospects, we elected them to REPRESENT US and do what WE TELL THEM to do.
If we tell them to defund Planned Parenthood, they should say “YES SIR” and do it, and not argue with us and tell us why we are wrong.
There’s already mucho Calvinballo going on. Obama has spent non-authorized sums on Obamacare.
I seem to recall that the nuke "deal" with Iran, flaws and all, is now being implemented. First, there was the Corker bill. Then, the Senate tried but declined to use the "nuclear option" to invoke cloture on Democrat filibusters.
That's for a start. I may have missed something important.
Congress controls the money. Congress passes a budget. Congress funds the entire government -- with the exception of Planned Parenthood.
Obama can veto the budget, risking a shutdown of the whole government -- and the media says "Look! The Republicans are shutting down the government!"
And the Republicans say, "Oops! Sorry! We didn't mean to be jerks. We will fund Planned Parenthood."
That makes me angry.
It's not the checks and balances. It's the Republican refusal to use the rightful power which is theirs and which they won through the electoral process. The Republicans do not consider themselves to be in charge of an important branch of government. They seem to think Obama has all the power so [shrug] what can they do?
The Republicans are NOT acting within the framework of government established by the Founders. The Republicans have given up.
THAT'S the problem.
“Those who are furious still have to operate in the real world. And in the real world – in the American system of government, at least – there are institutional and constitutional restraints on what many on the right want to happen.”
The problem with this line of thought is that those restraints are fragile. If this situation continues, the anger will not abate, and if our representatives won’t do what needs to be done, people will take matters into their own hands. Conservatives should not want things to get to that point, because you can’t control that genie once he is out of the bottle.
Yep, and also rubber stamping all of Obama’s radical Marxist appointees...
Wehner is despicable. He overtly lies in this article in order to cover for his big gov't beliefs.
Here is a link and chart from Powerline on what has happened with immigration since 1900:
Ok for the 100th time. You don't have to deport 11 million, 20 million etc. You depart 1 million, make their lives miserable, drag them through court take their assets. Then send them home. When the other 20 million see what is going on they will leave ON THEIR OWN. Why is this so hard for the MSM to understand?
Ah yes, another GOPe RINO heard from.
That’s on him though. Let him cook the books and try to fund it. Congress shouldn’t make his job easier by apportioning funding for it.
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