Posted on 01/22/2015 5:04:52 AM PST by cotton1706
House conservatives are taking aim at a new target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Tea Party lawmakers on Wednesday directed their ire at the Kentucky Republican after Senate leaders signaled they don’t have the votes to pass a House-approved bill that would fight President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
It’s a new tack for the Tea Party members in the House, who have repeatedly criticized Obama, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). House lawmakers say their conservative allies in the Senate have a responsibility to force the upper chamber to aggressively challenge Obama’s actions. But the most pointed attacks were directed at McConnell, who took over the top Senate job just two weeks ago.
Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), a Tea Party favorite, went so far as to suggest that if McConnell and Senate Republicans aren’t willing to stand up to Obama, maybe they should hand back power to Reid.
“It’s uncanny to me that our leadership … is already sending the message that we’ve already lost this battle,” Labrador said Wednesday at a gathering of conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“It’s high time that Mitch McConnell stand up and say, ‘this is what we are fighting for in the Senate,’ ” he added. “That’s definitely what he said during his campaign, so let’s make sure he does it now as the majority leader.”
At a bicameral GOP retreat last week, McConnell said Senate Republicans would “try” to pass the aggressive House bill, but made no promises. In fact, in a closed-door meeting at the Hershey, Pa., retreat, McConnell told Republicans that the political reality was that the House bill could not win the 60 Senate votes needed to defeat a Democratic-led filibuster, said lawmakers who were in the room.
Republicans control 54 seats in the Senate.
What is especially galling to Tea Party lawmakers is that McConnell acknowledged defeat before the fight had really begun.
I don’t care if they don’t have enough votes. Get them on the record mcco
“All right contestants. We’re down to Final Jeopardy and the category is ‘Hard Choices’.
Please remember to phrase your answer in the form of a question!”
“Here is the clue: ‘Voting Republican or wiping Michelle Obama’s a** with my bare hand.’”
(Theme song)
Your answers please!
Yes tumblindice, that is correct: “What is, ‘The Wookie, if I were strapped naked to steel mattress springs connected to a dozen car batteries and commanded to choose one or the other in 2016’.”
More breakfast TEA!
Here was our first cup this morning:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3249415/posts?page=4
South Carolina Tea Party Convention Shows Growing Power Of Movement
Turtles pull into their shells when attacked. Expect to see this from McConnell. Boehner is not fit to lead the House, and McConnell is not fit to lead the Senate. If your congressman or senator voted for these weak characters, let them know they voted for failure and you are disgusted with their premature surrender.
No wonder Obama can strut around like he was the winner last November. He knows he will get whatever he wants from the cowardly GOP.
Obama was photoed signing "memos" on AF One---not an "executive action." Why? B/c an E/O comes w/ legal baggage that the conniving Boobamba wanted to evade. Both "memos" are now on the Whitehouse website.
The scam works this way: signed Boobamba memos "delegate" to federal agencies orders to come up with plans (that must advance Boobamba's global conspiracy to overthrow the US govt w/ Third World federales and their cadres jumping the US border).
The federal agencies then "invent" Committees to do this (the better to overthrow the US govt). Then "Administrative Rules," after a comment period, will be published in the "Code of Federal Regulations," which magically turns them into law........ using federal fairy dust.
So Boobamba is shielded from responsibility---he doesn't have to take the hit. Behind closed doors, he tells federal factotums what he wants.....and faster than you can say "the combo plate w/ extra hot sauce".....the overthrow of the US govt commences.
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THE "DELEGATION" HORROR STORY--A Federal agency MO since 1946. It's down to a science: (1) publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), (2) make the comment period really short, (3) stonewall any negative comments, and, (4) publish the rule, which (5) NOW has the force of US law. No Congressman was ever involved, and Boobamba doesn't leave his DNA on it. Yet again, why "Delegation" is ominous for liberty---why the writing of administrative law by federal agencies - is un- Constitutional. (Thanks to FReeper Regulator's info.)
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FREEPER ACTION NOW: Write your governor; call your state attorney general. Nullification means power to the states and power to the people.
The judiciary has consistently ruled against the nullification doctrine, asserting its unique, judicial right to declare laws unconstitutional. But this executive order isn’t a law. And given its extremely shaky legal footing, it isn’t difficult to imagine a federal bench recognizing the states’ right to disregard federal orders that don’t clearly have the force of law.
And that would be a tremendous — tremendous — blow against the executive’s assumption of legislative powers.
But in the shorter, more direct term: It would force the Obama administration to go on offense, perhaps suing the states to enforce a law........ that isn’t a law.
AS OF TODAY---25 states have joined in the nullification action.
Obama sucks-up to illegals---signs "amnesty memos" on AF One.
Both "memos" are now on the Whitehouse website.
The first of Obama's presidential action memos is entitled: “Creating Welcoming Communities Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees,” filed Nov. 26 in the Federal Register at Vol. 79, No. 228, (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-11-26/html/2014-28191.htm).
In the category “Presidential Documents” at page 70769, Obama ordered a White House Task Force on New Americans to “engage with community, business, and faith leaders, as well as State and local elected officials.” The task force is designed to “help determine additional steps the Federal Government can take to ensure its programs and policies are serving diverse communities that include new Americans.”
The second of the presidential actions entitled, “Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigration Visa System for the 21st Century,” filed Nov. 26 in the Federal Register at Vol. 79, No. 228, in the category “Presidential Documents” at page 70765 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-11-26/html/2014-28191.htm).
This empowered the secretaries of State and Homeland Security, in consultation with the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the director of the National Economic Council, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, the director of the Domestic Policy Council, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the attorney general, and the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor and Education.
The order was to make a series of recommendations “to reduce government costs, improve services for applicants, reduce burdens on employers, and combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the system” of issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visas.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/amnesty-shocker-the-secret-behind-obamas-order/#4OPdzIoJFRwXopUU.99
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ABOUT THOSE "WELCOMING COMMUNITIES"
DHS' JEH JOHNSON AND SECY OF STATE JOHN KERRY SIGN OFF ON OBAMA'S ORDER to welcome into the US, immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Go LIZ! Go LIZ!
TEAmentum is building again... drown the RINOs.
What McConnell, Boehner RINOS, ROVE, and that ilk, think is totally irrelevant.
THE SINGLE MOST IMPOTRTANT THING is what we, the people, think.
Bullschit Mitch. Over 60% of Americans oppose amnesty and even more oppose Obama’s executive order. If he makes it an issue and forces the debate, he can very well get the 60 votes or draw some serious democrat blood trying. Fact is, Mitch won’t try because he doesn’t want it to pass.
We need to mini-tsunami these jerks at every opportunity. I think I see the plan now, appear to the LIVers to be working together, so as not to alienate them, while cutting the legs out from under them underwater.
For every ‘conciliatory’ thread that makes my blood boil, two or three pop up that indicate the RINOs are taking heavy fire and are on the defensive.
Slow, steady, invisible pressure. That’s how your break their backs.
N-i-c-e take——glad to have your input.
Good to know you’re keeping score.
> Bullschit Mitch. Over 60% of Americans oppose amnesty and even more oppose Obama’s executive order. If he makes it an issue and forces the debate, he can very well get the 60 votes or draw some serious democrat blood trying. Fact is, Mitch won’t try because he doesn’t want it to pass.
The 40 % in favor are illegal aliens and corporate America that wants cheap labor...
Step 1. Bring the GOPe to the table.
Step 2. Start to fix what 85% of the people in the country want fixed.
So, Raul ... who'd ya vote for as Speaker of the House?
“Mitch McCon-job” or “Mitch McCon-man” — both have a nice ring to them.
Thanks Liz
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