Posted on 02/27/2015 9:31:33 AM PST by Enlightened1
Congress closed in Friday on approving a short-term spending bill for the Homeland Security Department that would avert a partial agency shutdown hours before it was to begin.
The legislation also leaves intact Obama administration executive actions on immigration that Republicans have vowed to overturn. But Republicans insisted that passing a short-term bill preserved their ability to keep fighting them.
But Senate Republicans had already admitted defeat. As debate proceeded in the House, the Senate voted 68-31 to approve a full-year bill free of contentious immigration provisions. Some House Republicans predicted that they would eventually end up doing the same thing.
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Yep, they’re the White Flag Party. Never approached a political battle they didn’t run away from.
The fact that these two clowns were elected as leaders for their party is proof that the rot runs deep. The problem is far worse than just Boehner and McConnell. They are the symptoms; the disease has infected the entire body.
Lets just face it we have two more years of BHO doing exactly as he pleases
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You’re being optimistic. He’s looking for that one big crisis to justify an “extension” of his term. If the crisis doesn’t happen, he’ll manufacture one. And why not? He knows the Republicans won’t do anything to stop his dictatorial ambitions.
Agree. What is the point of voting Republican? They are nothing but empty talk and meaningless promises.
They should have not passed the cramnebus law during the lame duck, the turkeys...
Some House Republicans predicted that they would eventually end up doing the same thing.
If they do, it’s GOP-RIP
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