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I thought the same as you at first: a reasonable response to the amnesty.
What about everything else? The IRS abuses, Obamacare, EPA overreach and a dozen other issues.
Why give Obama a year’s budget to do what he wishes on everything else and only sunset the amnesty?
There’s no reason to not pass a short CR now and pass all these appropriation bills in the new congress one at a time.
I agree with a short CR now, except that the Republicans are not now in charge of the Senate. I think the funding runs out Dec 16??? Something like that. That would mean about a month or two of living off of shuffled and reshuffled funds, which I believe in past debt cliff negotiations has proven to be possible.
It will be presented as “Shut down the government”, and the Rinos WILL NOT go for it. They just won’t. Even though Cruz proved that ‘shutting down the government’ has no impact, the Rinos use that as a reason for not advancing.
So, I’d prefer a short CR, but we’re not going to get it.
Will Boehner ignore the Hastert rule and allow rinos and democrats to combine their strength to pass the bill IF he has to?
I’m pretty sure he will. He’ll come back to a new congress, and loyalty pledges were required for election support. Sadly, we’ll have Boehner again. No one will support anyone who challenges him.