Impeach him would be the answer.
Make it contingent with drafting them to Iraq. See how many stick around.
McConnell preemptively surrendered, there will be no government shutdown no matter how lawless Obama gets.
>> Republican leadership in the House is eager to pass a spending bill through the 2015 fiscal year before the start of the new Congress.
Thereby constraining the new Congress. Heck of a job Johnny.
The House should dialog immediately with selected governors and state AGs (because the latter have standing) to file for a preliminary federal injunction that orders Obama to remain within the existing statutes of immigration law.
If any of Obama’s federal officials, directors, officers or contractors carry out his directives in defiance of the federal court order, the federal court can order US Marshals to arrest and detain such persons until Obama’s lawyers appear in court to explain how their actions are not in violation of the federal court order.
They can't do a CR past Feb 2015, or all bets are off. The GOP-E will have NO leverage.
McConnell and Cornyn are already responsible for REMOVING the debt limit with their cloture votes, ignore the show votes.
/johnny
Oh boy!! Here we going again!!! Gutless idiots. Consider the Republican Party DEAD if they squander this opportunity an opportunity presented to them on a SilverPlatter by the American people! STOP Obama! If they blow it the next two years consider this party finished!!
I always want to scream at this topic. Congress simply defunds or refuses to fund amnesty and it is over. If Obama opts to close the government, that’s his call and his responsibility. The world didn’t end the last time the government shut down and is unlikely to do so the next time it is shut down.
If there are any Republican movers and shakers that lurk here, try this one on for size. Oh, and by the way, you’re welcome.
Propose that this year, 1/3 of the folks on rolls who have legally applied for citizenship, (the third closest to having their citizenship granted), be given immediate citizenship.
The second 1/3 will be granted citizenship the year after that.
Let the Democrats defend why those who enter this country illegally should be granted citizenship first. Don’t let the Democrats control the narrative. Show some leadership and offer a plan that makes your opponent look bad if they disagree and that does not allow them to say that you have no solutions and that you are just an obstructionist.
No need to worry about the last 1/3 as the elections will have taken care of our current administration by then.
As I said before, you’re welcome.
...cutting his funding never crossed their mind?
House GOP split.....who’d a thunk it?
Is it a real split, or is it groundwork for excusing non-action?
half of them do not disapprove of it, really
I have a feeling that his Executive Order is going to be based on his right to grant Presidential Pardons.
There will be political hell to pay, GOP, if the public perceives you are cooperating with Obama on this.
Don’t scroo this up. Not this time.
Doing the right thing over the next two years guarantees Republican domination as far as the eye can see. That’s more than the Chamber of Communists can do for you.
Conversely, failing to live up to expectations guarantees you Whig status, followed by extinction.
McConnell is hell bent on doing as much during the lame duck so that the new congress is not burdened.
This is a great idea!
If they impeach now, it will unburden the new congress from having to do it!
The Republican ‘leadership’ is beyond disgusting. They will never have an issue with more public support than fighting Obama’s threatened illegal executive amnesty for illegal aliens.
It is a perfect setup for the House to block any CR that goes beyond, say, February of next year, and save the next CR as a tool to put financial restrictions on any illegal EOs Obama issues on amnesty. Obama would be blamed for any government shutdown if he refused to accept a CR next year that defunded any amnesty scheme he tried through an EO.
Pathetic Republican cowardice, or maybe ‘leadership’ actually wants an amnesty scheme. Conservatives should smoke them out and really make an issue of this during the lame duck.
It is very easy.
In the budget, appropriate money for:
- the building of the fence / wall
- building of detention centers in the middle of the desert where illegals are permitted to work making compressed earth blocks to build the wall to “work off” their time of administrative detention
- fund the return of illegals to their home country
- require X number of illegals to be deported or X miles of fence built in order for the government to issue work permits
- make the default tax rate for any corporation that uses illegals 35%. Allow a exception for those businesses that use e-verify
Then send the bill as part of the omnibus spending bill and let Obama veto it if he does not like it.
I really don’t understand. It makes sense to put a short leash on the funds and not just due to amnesty. If they have to reconsider the 2015 funding bill in the new Congress, the republicans have much more power. They can actually control things and make Obama be the reason govt. shuts down. The only reasons I can see they wouldn’t want to do this — they’re chicken and don’t want to take control of things. Or they just like everything Obama does.
It could be that no matter how loud ‘We the people’ shout, Boehner and McConnell are just too deaf to hear.