Posted on 02/01/2014 8:45:01 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Culberson explains power to stop 'most illegal, unlawful president' ever
The Democrat plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. can be thwarted, despite apparent wavering by House Republican leadership, contends a Texas congressman.
In an interview with Michael Savage on his “Savage Nation” nationally syndicated show Friday, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, insisted, furthermore, that if President Obama tries to advance amnesty or any other initiative through illegal executive orders, he can be stopped, because the House holds the purse strings and can cut off funding for actions that can’t be justified legally.
“The power of the purse is the secret to this guy – the most illegal, unlawful president in American history,” said Culberson, who had just returned from a GOP retreat in Cambridge, Md., where House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, distributed a two-page list of broad principles on immigration.
Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas Seven months after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill with a “path to citizenship,” House Republican leaders Thursday said for the first time they would be open to allowing illegal aliens to live and work legally in the U.S. but would not offer a “special path” to citizenship.
That step in the direction of the Senate plan has many border-security-first advocates, including Savage, worried.
But Culberson emphasized that Boehner told his Republican colleagues in the House that he wouldn’t allow a bill go to the floor unless a majority of the Republican-controlled House is in favor.
Culberson said an overwhelming majority of the members who spoke at the House GOP retreat said “we need to enforce the law first.”
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hear, hear!!!
Disgusted, but very motivated.
Don’t lose hope, freeps..!
Our forefathers didn’t.
??????
I guess his audience doesn't know that a budget was already signed into law.
Oh please, the GOP leadership has no intention of doing anything but complain.
Obamacrat Boehner is always on duty to do Obama’s bidding.
“Boehner told his Republican colleagues in the House that he wouldn’t allow a bill go to the floor unless a majority of the Republican-controlled House is in favor.”
Well, that means it will go to the floor if the dems want it to.
How many times have we heard this? And how many times has this power actually been exercised?
And under which new speaker will this happen
Why is anybody posting to this thread. You all think it’s a lost cause. Give up. Log out.
They can..
They won’t...
But they can.
Many post here are trolls trying to depress the base from fighting .
Like they've done with the IRS?
Ok. Before we log out why don’t you tell us what the GOP is going to do.
Not what they COULD do, but what they WILL do.
Well put.
I support all efforts to enforce our Constitution.
I oppose all defeatist posters.
“...we need to enforce the law first.”
What a novel idea, RINO-Pubbies! Go for it, for once.
I can tell you what they PROBABLY WILL DO but I can't tell you what they WILL do.
Not too complicated a distinction.
Now while a fewpatriots still fight against long odds, tell me why you are still here?
You have just defined the Catch 22 of reducing Federal Spending: it is not possible.
Tell me. I’m waiting. What will Bonehead and the GOP do?
Shoot spitballs? Pass a resolution? Cry like a baby?
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