Obama: Fund My Amnesty Or I’ll Shut Down The Government

dailycaller ^ | Dec. 1, 2014 | Neil Munro

[PROCON]

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama will block a government budget bill if the GOP denies him the funds needed to provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

“Yes,” Earnest said when asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl if Obama would veto a government-wide budget that defunded the amnesty program.

If Obama blocks the budget to help the illegals, large sections of the federal government would shut down on Dec. 12.

But Earnest equivocated when he was asked if Obama would shut down the government if the GOP denies amnesty just for the immigration agency.

“I don’t believe that members of Congress or the majority of members of Congress, will go along with efforts to shut down the govern in protest over the president’s executive actions on immigration,” he said.

Any veto would be a high-risk step by Obama, because it would brand the Democratic Party as willing to shut down the government to aid several million illegal immigrants.

[PROCON]

Any veto would be a high-risk step by Obama, because it would brand the Democratic Party as willing to shut down the government to aid several million illegal immigrants.

Yeah, I'm sure the drivebys will report it that way. </sarc>

[Da Coyote]

OK, Repubs.

Now comes your final chance to survive as a party.

Blow this one and you’re outta there.

Tell the Obamadork to shove his silly little threat up his very large and smelly Obamahole.

And say it LOUD and CLEAR.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Dear Santa,

PLEASE LET HIM DO THIS THING!

INBN

[Wolfie]

Sounds like a win-win to me.

[b4its2late]

Shut it down! The less damage he can do, the better!

[Jim Robinson]

So shut it down. The longer the better.

[DonaldC]

I say shut it down.

[Slyfox]

If Bathhouse Barry causes a shutdown there should be non-stop ads proclaiming that fact, so all the people will know exactly why it is happening.

Just go to the people.

[ozarkgirl]

I agree with you, media will portray it as all the Republicans shutting down the government AGAIN.

[ConorMacNessa]

This is just precious - there was some Kerry flack on Fox News earlier today yammering about how the Republicans wanted to shut down the government.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[skeeter]

The public slammed the democrats in spite of their nonstop wailing about the GOP shutdown last time.

Obama is in an even less tenable situation now. There is NO WAY the MSM can sell the 'GOP shutdown the government and denied granny her SSI' this time. No way.

Let em try.

[sten]

then... shut down the govt

WITH NO BACK PAY

[bray]

If it wasn’t for the Obamamedia the Dems would have never won the midterms. What?

Pray America is waking

[rfreedom4u]

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!

I always feel safer when the government is shut down.

[austinaero]

It’s almost like Obama is ‘blinking’,,,that he has no other threat to use.

NICE!!!!!!

[elhombrelibre]

Shut it down. We don’t have a dictatorship where the president gets to decide to fund illegal activity.

[Hugin]

Yep. Every “Republican shutdown” has actually been a Democrat veto. When did the media ever put it that way?

[chopperman]

The first thing Congress should defund is White House security.

[JudyinCanada]

What a great opportunity! He’s admitted that he’ll be the one shutting down the government. Don’t fund him and let the chips fall where they may!

For the life of me, I don’t see why everyone is so nervous to shut down the government.

[MrB]

Obama is “agitating to the point of conflict”.

As for the GOP, they know there’s no “conflict” as long as they don’t say “no” or attempt to thwart him in any way.

This is very similar to groups of “teens” taunting YT as s/he walks by to try to get a reaction in order to “justify” a beatdown. If YT doesn’t respond, the “teens” get a sense of supremacy. It’s a win-win.