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Support Builds in GOP for Government Shutdown Over Obama Immigration Orders
http://minutemennews.com ^ | November 16, 2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 11/16/2014 12:58:41 PM PST by forbushalltheway

Momentum is building in the House in the GOP caucus to attach a rider to the Continuing Resolution that would fund the government until the end of the fiscal year that would defund agencies charged with implementing President Obama’s coming executive orders on immigration.

The amendment would almost certainly be unacceptable to Democrats in the Senate. This would set up a showdown with the White House, giving President Obama and the Democrats the option of failing to fund the government past December 12, leading to a shutdown.

The Hill:

“I am insisting on that [rider] because the president is violating his executive privilege,” GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, who represents the border state of Arizona, said in an interview Friday.

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) called the plan to block the executive action through the government-funding bill “a great idea.” Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), who defeated then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the June GOP primary in part by accusing his opponent of supporting “amnesty,” said he also backed the proposal.

Asked if a government shutdown would be worth halting Obama’s immigration action, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) replied: “When you take an oath to uphold the Constitution, it is not appropriate to contemplate the political consequences. You should uphold the Constitution come what may.”

The call to arms by conservatives is a challenge for GOP leaders in both chambers, who also oppose executive action by Obama but acknowledge they have not settled on a plan to stop it.

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To: forbushalltheway

Britt Hume on Fox Sunday said no way on this proposal. He said that it is vetoed, the GOP/Whigs will get blamed for it. In other words, get elected, go to Versailles on the Potomac, collect your paycheck, do and say nothing, get reelected, repeat process.


21 posted on 11/16/2014 1:19:20 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: depenzz

In a way I like what Reid did and wish there were 10 more like him. Less bills = more freedom. There are already enough bills out there to over rule 10 countries worth of citizens. The last thing needed is thousands of more bills/laws. We’ve got more than enough already.


22 posted on 11/16/2014 1:21:31 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Then if there is a problem, and government shuts down, all we can do is shrug and say, "He'll sign it eventually.""

Or maybe he won't. He would be happy to see the country burn, so the GOP needs to think this through to the bloody end and what they might have to do to save the country from the tyrant.

23 posted on 11/16/2014 1:22:14 PM PST by Truth29
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To: forbushalltheway
Prancing around, mincing words, playing games, calling Zero's bluff. Damned people elected to represent THE PEOPLE have NO b@**s to do what SHOULD BE DONE. What a bunch of woosies.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “When you take an oath to uphold the Constitution, it is not appropriate to contemplate the political consequences. You should uphold the Constitution come what may.”

Well, at least one person seems to own a pair.

SO -- FILE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT!


24 posted on 11/16/2014 1:22:43 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA - giving us two more years of living hell.)
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To: forbushalltheway

only in the beltway is the idiotic notion that the gummint shutdown was either real or harmful to Republicans. They are so obsessed with their little crony city.


25 posted on 11/16/2014 1:23:48 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: depenzz
It's outrageous on every level...

Instead of meeting with and having luncheons at the White House, the round the clock demands for the removal of this individual from office should be deafening.

26 posted on 11/16/2014 1:30:51 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jarhead9297

Harry Reid putting them in his desk drawer, never to see the light of day, is not the way to do business.


27 posted on 11/16/2014 1:31:00 PM PST by depenzz ("it isn't a chance you take, its a choice you make")
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To: C. Edmund Wright
in the beltway is the idiotic notion that the gummint shutdown was either real or harmful to Republicans. They are so obsessed with their little crony city.

And isn't it like 80% of the government remains open anyway.

28 posted on 11/16/2014 1:31:05 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Only the President can shut down the government.


29 posted on 11/16/2014 1:32:50 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: forbushalltheway

Just go ahead and cut the head off the snake. Impeach him already. He is without a doubt the worst president to have ruled over the United States; the other ones served in that capacity... : )


30 posted on 11/16/2014 1:34:15 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ClearCase_guy
We cannot let the media frame the issue this way.

DING DING DING!! WINNER WINNER!!

31 posted on 11/16/2014 1:35:01 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: forbushalltheway

I wouldn’t call it a shutdown. It’s funding the necessary branches of government. The candy is extra...


32 posted on 11/16/2014 1:35:05 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: forbushalltheway

EXEMPT Congress is just too busy kissing up
to the Moslem Brotherhood and Wall St. banks, and
they who Demand the EXEMPT Import Diseases.

They should:
Impeach. Demand documentation.
Impeach. Convict.


33 posted on 11/16/2014 1:36:34 PM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: FreeReign
is one of them in this picture??


34 posted on 11/16/2014 1:37:27 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: Caipirabob

exactly

fund everything else (at last years levels)


35 posted on 11/16/2014 1:37:45 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: forbushalltheway

That last government shutdown really hurt the GOP in the election a few weeks ago (sarc).

I think the voters respect politicians who stand up for their principles.


36 posted on 11/16/2014 1:38:01 PM PST by Signalman
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To: dragnet2

Because maybe Gruber was partially right. A large percentage of the American people do seem to be either too stupid or too lazy to do anything about it and the ones who could do something about are living too comfy because of their relationship to the political system that rewards them to do nothing they don’t do anything about it.


37 posted on 11/16/2014 1:38:19 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Because maybe Gruber was partially right. A large percentage of the American people do seem to be either too stupid or too lazy to do anything about it and the ones who could do something about are living too comfy because of their relationship to the political system that rewards them to do nothing so they don’t do anything about it.


38 posted on 11/16/2014 1:39:47 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001
the ones who could do something about are living too comfy because of their relationship to the political system that rewards them to do nothing they don’t do anything about it.

Government is the biggest employer in the entire nation now. There are millions on the government payroll.

So there ya have it.

39 posted on 11/16/2014 1:42:10 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

The American public, in general, do NOT WANT AMNESTY.

Any party who opposes it, by ANY MEANS, will be rewarded.


40 posted on 11/16/2014 1:44:53 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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