Posted on 11/18/2014 9:29:25 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Republican leaders have intensified their planning to prevent a government funding shutdown, weighing legislative options that would redirect GOP anger at Barack Obama's expected action on immigration and stave off a political disaster, according to sources involved with the sessions.
Obama plans to use his executive authority to change the enforcement of immigration laws by the end of the year, a move that top Republicans warn could derail efforts to pass a long-term spending bill by a Dec. 11 deadline. Increasingly, some top Republicans believe that it will be difficult to pass the year-long spending package that they originally envisioned, and are focusing on a shorter term bill.
Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and their top aides and deputies are mulling several options that would give Capitol Hill Republicans the opportunity to vent their frustration with what they view as an unconstitutional power grab by the White House - without jeopardizing the government financing bill. ...
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What say you?
Limbaugh isn’t going to like this, but I imagine that he knows what Boehner and McConnell are all about.
I wonder if Obama’s use of executive action will take some heat off of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio on this issue.
The unconstitutional doesn’t bother them so much as being blamed for shutting down the government. Now there’s something to really be afraid of.
Eunuchs!
In other words Boehner and McConnell will do nothing to stop Obama.
No need to conflate the influx of illegals as “immigration” as the liberal media is so fond of doing.
No conflating on my part. I just took the 23-27th words in the first sentence and replaced “expected” with “executive” - concerning the words “expected action on immigration”
Yes and Rush will still a loyal country club blue blood RINO in good standing. JMHO
Ah, thanks.
You’re welcome.
We need to get back to funding each department and agency individually. That would avoid a full government shutdown, and allow retaliation to be surgical in nature.
The ironic thing here is that US Immigration is fundedby fees, not appropriated money. So even in a general shutdown it stays open and it’s employees and contractors still get paid.
“We need to get back to funding each department and agency individually. That would avoid a full government shutdown, and allow retaliation to be surgical in nature.”
You are correct. If the House and Senate would start passing and sending individual 2016 spending bills to the President early in 2015, after the Republicans take over, Obama would be forced to either sign or veto the individual bills. If he threatens to veto, or does veto, Republicans should scream he is eliminating the Department of Labor, Department of Education, or whatever department he is vetoing. If he says spending isn’t enough, the Republicans should say he needs to sign the “base” bill and if he has other programs he’d like to fund, have one of his Democrat representatives propose a supplemental spending bill which the GOP leadership will be glad to consider through the normal legislative process.
Unless the Republicans start using their power, and play the PR game in a way that makes them look reasonable, they might as well lay down and let Pelosi run the House and Reid run the Senate.
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Now that’s an idea whose time has come.
The last gov shut down was such a joke.
There was no government shut down, there was an extra paid vacation for a bunch of political drones.
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