Team Planning Guide for your "National Day of Reckoning" protest against Obama's Illegal Amnesty - (Internet Link)
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Posted on 11/26/2014 10:59:27 PM PST by jackal7163
Republican civil war broke out after Obama's Nov. 20 'amnesty' speech over whether the GOP can stop the White House from issuing green cards and work permits Congress's official fact-checkers now say the new Republican majority on Capitol Hill can legally pull the plug At issue is whether immigration authorities can do whatever they want with fees they collect from immigrants, both legal and illegal One congressional aide proposed a hypothetical situation where the Department of the Interior diverted National Parks entrance fees to give 'tap-dance lessons to grizzly bears' 'If we could stop that, we can stop this,' the staffer insisted
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They can.
But they’ve already said they won’t.
doesn’t matter. They are a bunch of spineless castrated dolts.
My thoughts exactly.
There is no difficulty stopping Obama, if there was a desire to do so.
The GOPe does NOT want to stop Obama. They just want to give the sheeple the impression that they are trying.
Congress has always had the power of the purse, but the challenge is whether they have the will to use it.
Congress has sole constitutional authority to direct spending should they choose to use it. The law, however, would have to be specifically written to prohibit the president from spending any government funds on his immigration amnesty. Congress traditionally gives the executive branch fairly broad discretion on a range of issues. That’s why the EPA is now regulating CO2 as a pollutant for example.
That said, the president retains veto authority over anything passed by Congress, including changes to existing law. If the Republicans are not willing to confront the president on spending—shutting down the government if necessary—then they surrender their trump card, and if Republicans think the president will give up or cooperate, they are sadly mistaken. Holding up the president’s appointments, while important, isn’t going to stop him.
I don’t think moderates like McCain still understand the president is not going to negotiate or cooperate in good faith. We’ve had six years of hope and change, and I think the president sees this as his last chance to wreak havoc on the country. Just like Obamacare, implement as much as possible, and then dare Republicans to try and roll it back. History is on Obama’s side in that regard, because we have no evidence that moderate Republicans have the will to undo it. They like much of what Obama does!
They said this before the election, I believe. In addition to impeachment being off the table.
That’s why I was telling folks, before the election, I had no high expecations because rinos and gop-e are running things. Until this changes nothing major will be done. The rinos and gop-e want things to stay the same, they just want to be in charge.
Boehner and McConnell have financed ALL of Obamas’s doings.. ON PURPOSE...
The whole federal behemoth COULD BE stripped.. easily..
one by one quite quickly too..
Makes you think “somebody” controls BOTH PARTYS..
Playing “good guy” “bad guy” in a scripted PLAY..
Like a childs birthday party.. with a Pinata and clowns..
And the “voters” are the children...
And the adults are wolves with sheep.. there are no children..
BUT the metaphors stand..
I only “WISH” this was hyperbole... it isn’t..
One day soon...... somebody might get ANGRY!....
Grizzly Bears to the rescue, Hallelujah!
Already on the books.
This little gem from Reagan's 1986 immigration bill:
This posted 11/22/14....Hat Tip to xzins
Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986 "NOTICE TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING CHANGES" (Required)
Government Printing Office ^ | 1986 | US Congress Posted on 11/22/2014, 4:03:19 PM by xzins
Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986 "NOTICE TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING CHANGES" (Required) Government Printing Office ^ | 1986 | US Congress
Posted on 11/22/2014, 4:03:19 PM by xzins
"(3) NOTICE TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING CHANGES.—
"(A) IN GENERAL.—The President may not implement any change under paragraph (1) unless at least—
"(i) 60 days,
"(ii) one year, in the case of a major change described in subparagraph (D)(iii), or
"(iii) two years, in the case of a major change described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (D), before the date of implementation of the change, the President has prepared and transmitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a written report setting forth the proposed change.
If the President proposes to make any change regarding social security account number cards, the President shall transmit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Finance of the Senate a written report setting forth the proposed change.
The President promptly shall cause to have printed in the Federal Register the substance of any major change (described in subparagraph (D)) proposed and reported to Congress.
"(B) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—In any report under subparagraph (A) the President shall include recommendations for the establishment of civil and criminal sanctions for unauthorized use or disclosure of the information or identifiers contained in such system.
"(C) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF MAJOR CHANGES.—
"(i) HEARINGS AND REVIEW.—The Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate shall cause to have printed in the Congressional Record the substance of any major change described in subparagraph (D), shall hold hearings respecting the feasibility and desirability of implementing such a change, and, within the two year period before implementation, shall report to their respective Houses findings on whether or not such a change should be implemented.
"(ii) CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.—No major change may be implemented unless the Congress specifically provides, in an appropriations or other Act, for funds for implementation of the change.
"(D) MAJOR CHANGES REQUIRING TWO YEARS NOTICE AND CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.—As used in this paragraph, the term 'major change' means a change which would—
"(i) require an individual to present a new card or other document (designed specifically for use for this purpose) at the time of hiring, recruitment, or referral,
"(ii) provide for a telephone verification system under which an employer, recruiter, or referrer must transmit to a Federal official information concerning the immigration status of prospective employees and the official transmits to the person, and the person must record, a verification code, or
"(iii) require any change in any card used for accounting purposes under the Social Security Act, 42 USC 301 note. including any change requiring that the only social security account number cards which may be presented in order to comply with subsection (bXlXCXi) are such cards as are in a counterfeit-resistant form consistent with the second sentence of section 205(cX2XD) of the Social ecurity Act. 42 use 405
. Discussion here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3230042/posts?page=83
As I read all that, I pictured the average government drone sitting in their cubicle playing solitaire or viewing porn on their computer, and the likelihood that they’d tear themselves away from it to actually DO these myriad things required to track aliens, etc.
Fuggittaboutit! Obola and the ‘Rats KNOW their people; their unionized lethargic gubmint teatsuckers, and they KNOW that human nature and the way the whole system is set up is ALL stacked in their favor. And why not? They’ve designed it that way over the past 50 years.
Seems to me a few bold and principled leaders in Congress could get the job done. Actual integrity ultimately defeats feigned integrity.
Remember, RINOs are not leaders. They are merely elected officials who have compromised themselves for the sake of securing personal gain. This moral compromise is a severe weakness.
On the other hand, the greatest kind of strength is moral strength. Members of Congress still serious about principle—those who haven’t sold their souls—have an overwhelming advantage over the rest of them.
If you complement a solid moral foundation with the right strategy you can’t lose.
Read my tag......I’m from the Bear Flag Republic... forth generation passing through Colorado and Wisconsin on the way.....California Grizzlies, not as many as before.....but, we few be GRIZZLIES....just ask JR!
DO IT, DAMN IT!
The talk about shutting down the government is a canard. Congress, using regular order, can pass separate appropriation bills, funding parts of the government and shutting down only selective parts. One thing that they could do is drastically cut down spending at the White House.
“White House could legally thumb its nose at Congress by self-funding the agency.”
HogWash,
Congress can, with the stroke of a pen Order All revenues to be deposited to the Treasury Dept. No Agency in Government can spend a single Dime without ‘Approval” from CONgress.
The Main reason they won’t do this is because, if they did, they would no longer have a Valid Excuse for Reigning in Big Government as their “Constituents Demand”.
They can defund IRS and EPA to stop the regulations. But the Republican House has been funding Obama for the last two years. Obama isn’t the problem, the Republicans who give him the money are the problem.
Naturalization Act of 1986 says that anything involving employers and aliens and new social security rules MUST return to Congress for hearings of up to 2 years long.
Why is no one mentioning this?
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