Posted on 02/03/2015 12:51:31 PM PST by Mariner
The Senate just failed to pass a bill to fund Department of Homeland Security by forcing President Obama to undo his executive actions to protect unauthorized immigrants from deportation.
One Republican, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), voted with Democrats against the bill.
Congress and the president need to agree on a plan to fund DHS sometime before February 27th, when its current funding runs out.
If they can't agree on a funding bill, DHS will be in a technical shutdown — but around 85 percent of the department will keep coming to work as "essential" government workers or employees of fee-funded agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Paid vacation at that. They WILL get paid, as those hit by every “shutdown” have.
What the hell do you think the Republicans can do?
The problem is where you need 2/3's of both houses. Our forefathers pulled that out of the air.
This was the plan all along. They will piss and moan a bit and then say they can’t shut down DHS, why national security is at stake! Chamber of Crony Fascism gets its way, obama gets his way and the GOPE Republican Party gets its way and we get a new slave class and regulated to permanent minority status and become a third world crap hole.
Tell me again all you FR Republican boot-lickers how your saviors are working out for you. Did you enjoy getting lied to and kicked in the nuts-—again.
The proper DHS is the “unorganized militia”. Repeal 922(o) & NFA, and the purpose for DHS will be fulfilled by organic grassroots.
Let's see about "Plan B"
A PAID vacation. They ALWAYS get retroactive pay.
The Democrats never need 2/3rds to get their agenda through
They were voting on whether to vote on it. You need 60 to stop a filibuster. Not that there’s a real filibuster anymore, it’s just 60 votes to bring it up for a vote. Unless you are Harry Reid, then you use the nuclear option. But of course the pubs would never do that to their “friends” across the isle.
Sessions: ‘We Took an Oath to Defend the Constitution, Not a Political Party’
4:01 PM, FEB 3, 2015 • BY DANIEL HALPER
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Republican senator Jeff Sessions will be releasing this statement responding to the Senate blocking a vote on Homeland Security funding:
“House and Senate Republicans are standing together in defense of our laws, our borders, and our constituents. But Senate Democrats, following their party leaders, blocked debate on this bill—a bill which fully funds every lawful activity of DHS. What the bill does not fund are actions that violate the law. Senate Democrats are voting to protect an imperial overreach and to deny citizens control over their own government. They are advancing an open-borders agenda against the will of the American people.
“When President Obama and a cadre of special interests tried to force his immigration bill through the Congress, the spoke out clearly—and stopped it. Voters sent home many of the lawmakers who voted to support that agenda. So President Obama met with those same immigration lobbyists to craft executive decrees accomplishing by fiat what was denied by the constitutional, legislative process.
“The President himself acknowledged many times his planned action is illegal. Many Senate Democrats even campaigned against the President’s executive amnesty. But now they are lining up in unison to protect their party, and the interest groups they rely upon, rather than the constituents they represent. We took an oath to defend the Constitution, not a political party.
“With this vote, Senate Democrats are supporting presidential actions that strip American workers of their lawful protections. The President’s unlawful amnesty provides work permits, Medicare, Social Security, and free tax credits to 5 million people illegally present in the United States—taking jobs and benefits directly from struggling Americans. A vote against cloture is a vote to promote all of these policies.
“Today’s vote, however, is only the very beginning of the effort to reverse the President’s action. This is day one. What is needed now is a sustained, organized, unified Republican effort to rally the nation against an imperial edict erasing our immigration laws. Such an effort would ultimately succeed. The position of the Democrat Caucus is untenable, insupportable, and unsustainable.
“For decades, the American people have begged and pleaded for a lawful system of immigration that puts their needs first. They are worried, justly, about the impact of uncontrolled immigration on their jobs, wages, schools, hospitals, and communities. Politicians can only ignore those demands for so long before the dam breaks.”
I’m talking about overriding a presidential veto...
Lemme guess, GOP gets blamed for any terrorists attacks because of this.
“GOP FOLDS.”
Indeed.
There is no other solution.
Which is why the GOP is now on official death watch.
If only one R did not vote for it, how did it not pass?"
Palpatine: [Whispering to Queen Amidala] "Enter the bureaucrats, the true rulers of the Republic, and on the payroll of the EDIT:Trade Federation,[Fill in the blank] Lobby I might add."
Lucas might not know how to write dialog but he nailed the truth of the matter on any form of government.
With friends like the GOPe who need enemies.
Next up... “fixing” Barrycare...
“The problem is where you need 2/3’s of both houses. Our forefathers pulled that out of the air.”
I don’t think there is much air where they pulled that from.
Blame the Democrats for shutting down the government.
That's what the Dems did with Obamacare.
Only need 50 + 1
Actually, they don’t. Let it die.
ClearCase solution. Totally agree.
Vox lies. It reads like Pravda.
Sessions again speaks out and tries to rally the forces. He must feel like he’s trying to herd spastic cats.
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