Posted on 11/28/2014 6:45:01 AM PST by Din Maker
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama announced that Republicans had decided not to impeach President Obama over his plan to allow millions of immigrants to remain in this country without fear of deportation through his executive authority. But that concession is not the end of the matter. He is planning much more serious mischief: using Congresss power of the purse to pressure the White House into backing off.
Condemning the immigration action as unlawful, Mr. Sessions says he and other Republicans may filibuster any attempt to pay for government operations through the full fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1. Instead, he wants to pay for government through a series of short-term bills, possibly month to month, with each one trying to overturn Mr. Obamas actions.
That raises the possibility of a budget shutdown fight every month for nearly a year. And Mr. Sessions voice will count in that fight he is in line to be the new chairman of the Budget Committee.
Some Republican leaders, including the next majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, have tried to take a loftier position, saying they want a full years spending bill to avert a widespread shutdown. Nonetheless, they are seriously considering using short-term bills to pay for immigration enforcement. That approach is an implicit and reckless threat to close down immigration agencies to prevent them from issuing work permits to immigrants.
In the House, Speaker John Boehner has refused to rule out the possibility of threatening either a narrow or a full-scale shutdown to get Mr. Obama to back off his plans.
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“Mischief?”
MISCHIEF??!!?
The NYT can go suck eggs...
No, we are not going to impeach or have a move to impeach. The president has certain powers. We truly believe, and I think it's accurate to say he abused those powers.Well, of course the Senate is not going to impeach Traitorobama, because that is a Constitutional responsibility of the House. And if Sessions is speaking on behalf of all Republicans in the House, that seems to be somewhat presumptuous of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee. Sessions is also quoted as saying:
I cant recall such a massive alteration of the classical understanding of what laws mean in America being wiped out."If Sessions really made these statements, then for him to suggest the House Republicans will not impeach Traitorobama is for him in effect to suggest that House Republicans will gang rape the oath each of them made to support and defend the Constitution against a traitor who has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.He [Obama] undermined, in my view, the moral integrity of immigration law and basically even the constitutional separation of powers.
A BS tactic. It’s like picking a fight with the cable company, refusing to pay your bill, coming to an “agreement” that does next to nothing, and paying the past due amount with all demand fines.
Agree and besides we would wind up with Biden cut the money is a good deal.
You are missing the point.... By doing NOTHING about it, they become ceremonial.
It will not matter what they pass now.. Because he will just shut it down.
This is NOT rocket science. By doing NOTHING about it, the congress is saying the Executive Branch can Break the law.
What you are talking about can be done IN ADDITION............... to impeach and remove.
If they DO NOT..., then THEY ARE IRREALIVANT AND CERIMONIAL.
THERE IS NO CHOICE.
Spot on! Unless the Constitution is followed, honored and faithfully applied it is dead. What a legacy this greedy, and useless bunch will have. Vetting an unknown even though his own biography says he is Kenyan and he used that biography for 16 years and he was selectively certified by Pelosi who knew things were horseshirt. Our once rock solid basis for a Republic that is the strongest nation in the world is systematically being thrashed by crooks, hooligans and power hungry trash. May they sizzle in Hell. I look forward to seeing the hero that emerges and saves our Republic.
Thanks and I agree 100% with everything you said.
Why would the impeachment process take so long?
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Have you EVER known the Government to do ANYTHING expeditiously? The House has to investigate, compile all materials from the investigation and then have a Trial. If they vote to Impeach, then it is a long process transferring the “evidence” for Impeachment to the Senate. Then the Senate debates on whether or not to “convict” with a 2/3 vote. Do a Google Search on Presidential Impeachment Process if you have time and don’t mind being bored.
Come on, sphinx. You’re not playing fair. Your Post #7 makes too much sense. Whassup with that?
Cutting off the federal wallet to a bunch of lazy moochers like the Democrats is long past overdue but then again as long as Bonehead and McCoward are in charge of the GOP all this is a bunch of talk.
‘serious mischief’, ‘loftier position’.
The language is stuck in a time warp. For the NYTs, it will always be 1974.
I did not see the article anywhere and then I did a “Search” using keywords: “Sessions”, “shutdown”, etc. Nothing came up so I went ahead and posted. Sorry.
Why does anyone read the New York Slimes, much less post its’ “articles”?
Well, it would be “mischief” to the DemocRATS, Libs and mainstream media.
I agree with what one FReeper said earlier. We would NEVER get 67 Votes in the Senate to convict, so, we have to resort to other measures. Speaking metaphorically here: If someone is trying to kill you and you can’t physically stop them, get a knife. If that doesn’t stop them, get a gun. Use what you have to use.
It was posted on Yahoo News stories. I don’t read any newspaper since the advent of the internet. I can’t wait until the day they become totally irrelevant.
Masters of Cowardice. And now, for their next trick....
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