Posted on 11/20/2014 6:30:17 AM PST by jimbo123
With only hours before President Obama is expected to announce a major unilateral amnesty for illegal immigrants, Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear flummoxed at what they might do to stop him from going forward.
“We’ve been trying to figure out what leverage we have. And we’re all finding it very difficult to actually stop the president in the next two months,” said Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN).
Iowa Republican Steve King, however, did not lack ideas. Speaking to a scrum of reporters off the House floor, he offered a a specific, three-step plan on how to respond in the weeks following the announcement.
The first step, King proposes, would be a resolution expressing disapproval of Obama’s order and his authority to issue it. “Then, we’ll see how the president acts. If he reacts to that and decides that Congress is actually going to control the president, then maybe we don’t need to do anything else,” he said.
With Obama presumably unswayed by the non-binding legislation, the House would then move to censure the president, a formal act of reprobation short of impeachment. Censure has no formal articulation in the Constitution but has been used a handful of times throughout U.S. History.
“That’s more personal, it’s more direct. It holds him accountable for the anticipation that he will again violate the oath office,” King said.
The third step is to use Congress’ power of the purse to “cut off all funding to implement or enforce any unconstitutional executive decision,” something that presumably must come in January once the next Congress has convened and Republicans control the Senate.
King said that a funding battle needn’t occur over the entire swath of appropriations bills: “It would be possible for the House to go forward on some of the appropriation bills that don’t effect
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Has Boner heard about this yet?
Boehner is in on it.
Try contacting the guy– you can’t unless you live in his district.
I think that is a great idea. BO is daring GOP to act. Give him both barrels and reload.
Listen up!
Immediately use all the resources in the Constitution available to you to maintain our constitutional republic, or resign your position to someone who will.
It is that simple.
This approach has all the power of a “sternly worded letter.”
Kids who are late for high school get more forceful treatment than this.
Then, they'll send an even MORE strongly worded disapproval.
Then, they'll send a third, and it will be ALL IN CAPS, so that they're absolutely sure that the prez knows they REALLY, REALLY, MEAN IT.
Spineless cretins, all of them.
I disagree Triple.
I think that the approach that continually makes 0bama stomp his feet in a tantrum is better - it continually makes him look petulant AND it continually shows the Rs are trying to do things right.
We’ll get to the funding cut off. 0bama can’t help himself - hold the phone. Chillax - avoid precipitously getting pulled into the trap.
Sometimes you have to build a case, before you act. It's called politics. Then when you give a floor speech, you can say, "we did this, we did that, and still you didn't listen."
It's like getting rid of the dirtball at work. You have to have a year's worth of 'documented' failures before HR will even hear the case.
Besides, there's a lot in the EO the illegals aren't going to get, so I'm beginning to hear they will still be pissed with him.
The reason they do not have a response to the dictator is that the only thing that will stop him is physical force. They know it, the people know it, and the dictator knows it. It is high time to arrest the outlaw and lock him up. You have to start at the top and work your way down. What good is it to keep proposing laws or resolutions with an outlaw doing what he damn pleases? Is it not better to arrest him than have him terrorize the entire country. If you use the appropriation approach, the dictator will stop government operations only in the areas that hurt his enemies.
I hope they make it a Strongly Worded resolution...
Pfft...nothing. we’re screwed, yet again. Two years from now we’ll probably find they paid Jon Gruber a few million to create this crap, and everyone will bee all outraged...
1) Injunction
2) Defunding
3) Impeachment
4) Revolution
There are four ideas off the top of my head you timorous quislings.
Grow a pair.
Check the bars.
I couldn’t care less about how Obama looks.
This is not a beauty contest. You favor a ‘playing politics’ response to the actions that overtly destroy the system of our government.
This is a fight to save our constitutional republic. Sternly worded letters is exactly what Obama and his crowd want.
He cannot be allowed to break our republic in this manner.
following the law is:
MORAL HAZARD
Obama (and Jarrett) don’t believe in voting as significant. They are just banana republic dictators.
“1) Injunction
2) Defunding
3) Impeachment
4) Revolution
There are four ideas off the top of my head you timorous quislings.
Grow a pair.” - IJ
That is more like it - agree!.
True.
Censure is a good play, IMHO. While non-binding it would gain a lot of media attention and allow the GOP to draw public attention to and really emphasize the Constitutional violations, and put Congressional Dems on record as supporting them.
“The first two steps are completely useless with an ideologue like Obama unless they are just messaging to the voters at large. McConnell must be persuaded or somehow forced to only go along with a short term CR and not an Omnibus bill for the entire fiscal year that will make any efforts to stop Obama much more difficult.”
Great idea. Now how do you intend to persuade Reid and Obama to go along with a short term CR? The republicans cannot pass by themselves. Without Reid’s and Obama’s approval, a short term CR will not pass.
Please explain why Reid and Obama would agree to a short term CR knowing that will box them into a corner after the new GOP Congress assumes power.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. For nothing will protect it but downright force, and whenever you give up that force you are inevitably ruined.” - Patrick Henry
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