Posted on 02/25/2015 11:52:07 AM PST by forty_years
Republican leadership seems on the verge of caving in, breaking their November 4, 2014 election promises, and funding President Obama's blatantly unconstitutional executive directives to grant amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants. Did Republicans get the message voters sent in the November 4 election? Republicans took the Senate, strengthened their hold on the House, took a good number of state houses, and won an amazing number of governorships, but voters weren't solely endorsing the GOP -- not by a long-shot. Voters were more concentrated on repudiating President Obama's policies and those of his out-of-control "liberal" establishment. But, before dissecting the intentions of GOP leaders (and many in the rank and file), PLEASE ACT NOW TO STOP OBAMA'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTIVE AMNESTY:
Talking points to use when contacting senators
I urge you to oppose President Obama's executive amnesty for illegal aliens because:
Why are Republicans so convinced that they must "compromise" on amnesty? From Breitbart:
Are a bunch of Republicans simply pandering to the business lobby, looking for cheap labor and/or looking to fill positions in sectors like tech in which there's a deficit of qualified workers (e.g., mobile app developers)? But who cares? Amnesty is not what American voters want as evidenced by many polls and the outcome of the November 4 election. The bottom line is that Republicans -- especially their "leadership" -- have broken promises they made in the run-up to the November 4 election. So is this just about getting re-elected? -- because it sure looks like citizens are more likely to vote for politicians who oppose amnesty. Again, from Breitbart:
Exclusive-Priebus Rallies Base: GOP Will Stop Obama's 'Un-American' Amnesty if We Win Senate
"Not a molecule," huh? So why did this happen yesterday?
"Clean" means funding Obama's amnesty. McConnell is not standing on principle, everything's political calculus for staying in office.
No matter. We only got to this sorry state of affairs because millions of Americans have been disengaged from the political process.
I guarantee you this: If senators get thousands of calls, emails, faxes, petitions, letters, tweets, etc., they'll start getting more responsive to voters. They know that people who take the time to contact them are extremely likely to vote, vote on principle, and to throw out unprincipled legislators as fast as they were voted in. Please act now.
I agree with you, I think the republican party is done. I for one see no reason to vote GOP any more. I have no guilt whatsoever anymore about changing my party registration to the constitution party.
I went Independant yesterday. I won’t give another dime to the republicrats the rest of my life. They will get slaughtered with bush in the general election. Millions are now permenantly OUT. I met several ex “republicans” today at lunch. They were taken over bt liars.
Count me in as an ex repub. I changed my voter registration to no party affiliation. I am done!
Demand your congressman VOTE AGAINST THE RULE. If he won’t, then he has to go.
There is a vote on the rule for considering a bill before there is a vote on the bill.
This is the House version of a filibuster.
” Matt Fuller @MEPFuller
A fun thing to do: Ask a House Republican what’s going to happen on the DHS bill (”I don’t know”), then ask on background (”We’ll cave”).”
Demand your congressman VOTE AGAINST THE RULE. If he wont, then he has to go.That's pragmatic politics. Cheers.
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Is Obama trying to blackmail and create so much panic in the American people and Republicans in Congress that Congress will have no choice but to fund the Homeland Security bill stalled in Congress?
(Obama is such a two-faced hypocrite. On the one hand, he tries to reassure us that ISIS is a jayvee team, and so, according to Obama and his thugs, they really pose no true threat to the United States homeland, while, on the other hand, Obama----in order to try to get his version of the Homeland Security bill passed that grants all types of freebies instantly to 4 to 10 million illegals----warns us of terrible things that terrorists will do to us if Congress doesn't give Homeland Security everything it wants, such as broad powers to hand illegals all kinds of goodies like work permits and access to benefits like Social Security. )
Obama's blackmail attempt goes something like this:
1. Obama says: If you don't fund Homeland Security for the next year by giving it all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism---everyone knows that Obama is referring to Islamic terrorists, but he won't use the word "Islamic". What an idiot---terrorists will run wild over the United States, attacking such sites as malls and other buildings to the point that Americans will live in constant fear and terror for their lives.
2. On the other hand, according to Obama's blackmail attempt, if you give Homeland Security all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism, and, at the same time, also give it money and unlimited power to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to such things as work permits, housing, and benefits like Social Security, the United States will be a much safer and greater nation forever and ever. What a bunch of horse manure.
3. Hogwash: I say Hogwash. I say that it will slowly destroy the United States as we know it if we give Homeland Security broad powers to quickly process 4 to 10 million illegal aliens so that the illegals have instant access to such things as jobs, housing and benefits like Social Security.
Giving all those illegals all that they demand will do more irreversible and lasting damage to our towns and cities than any terrorists' attacks will ever do.
4. To Republican Congressmen: I say that we take our chances with terrorists. That is, I say that we take our chances for the next year that terrorist attacks will not be as terrible as Obama and his thugs paint them out to be, if, according to Obama, we don't give Homeland Security all the money it needs to fight terrorism and to legalize 4 to 10 + million illegals and those so-called "Dreamers".
(I believe it is safe to say that most illegals don't care about Islamic terrorists. In fact, I doubt if many illegals have any idea what Islam and ISIS are about. They are probably puzzled why Americans are so scared of this ISIS, a group far, far away on another continent nobody cares about. They only care about themselves. And the rest of America be damned.)
5. The following is more threatening to the United States way of life than terrorist attacks: Giving 4 to 10 million illegals easy and instant access to jobs and benefits like Social Security will destroy more of the United States as we know it than any ISIS terrorists attacks ever will.
6. To the Republicans in Congress: Don't fall for Obama's blackmail attempt as he tries to persuade you to pass the Homeland Security bill the way he wants you to pass it.
7. Handing Homeland Security almost unlimited broad powers this year to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and to such social benefits as Social Security benefits without a fight would be a horrible mistake, because such a surrender will do more severe damage to what we know as the American way of life than any ISIS terrorist attack that may hit the United States in the next year.
8. Again, I hope that Congress does not surrender to Obama's blackmail attempt when it comes to this horrible Homeland Security bill that gives Homeland Security almost unlimited powers to legalize 4 to 10+ million illegal aliens.
We are legion.
We are legion.
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