Posted on 01/08/2015 12:04:45 PM PST by jazusamo
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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight “tooth and nail” against President Obama’s unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner’s House permitted funding of it. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that Boehner pushed through a lame-duck Republican-controlled House last month put no prohibition on Obama using government funds to implement the amnesty. That omnibus funded almost all the government through the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27.
“The House will soon take action aimed at stopping the president’s unilateral action when it comes to immigration,” Boehner said at his press briefing today. “Republicans are in agreement that this is a gravely serious matter.”
“The president's unilateral actions were an affront to the rule of law and our system of government,” Boehner said. “The American people don't support it and as their representatives we cannot let it stand.”
“I said we'd fight it tooth and nail when we had two majorities in the House and Senate and I meant it,” Boehner said. “What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America’s Constitution. The president has taken action that is beyond the scope of his ability and the Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action.”
Because last month’s omnibus put no restriction on Obama using money to implement his amnesty, the president is free to do so at this time. Had the Republican-controlled House attached language to last month’s omnibus prohibiting spending on the amnesty, Obama would have needed to shut down the entire government (by vetoing the bill) to try to force the Republican House to give him the money.
Now, the only funding bill the Republicans in Congress can use to stop Obama’s amnesty is the bill that will be needed to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Feb. 27. If the Republicans attach language to that bill prohibiting Obama from spending money to implement his amnesty, Obama will only need to shutdown DHS to try to force the Republicans to give him the money to implement it.
At his briefing, Boehner said he did not think the funding of DHS was "at risk" and said that Republicans wanted to fund the department.
A reporter asked: "Is this a wise time to be putting the budget of the Homeland Security Department at risk? The head of the department said it poses a real risk to have a continuing resolution without any certainty. Does he have any validity to his argument?"
"I don't believe that the funding of the department is in fact at risk," Boehner responded. "What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America's Constitution. The president has taken actions that are beyond the scope of his ability. And Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action, and we will."
The reporter, who made no mention of the fact that it would take a presidential veto to stop the DHS funding bill, followed up, saying: "Can you imagine something like this happening after 9/11 though. Given the attacks yesterday in Paris can you imagine the Homeland Security budget being up for debate a month after, or a day after, something like that happened here."
Boehner responded: "The issue isn't about funding the Department of Homeland Security. Members of Congress support funding the department. But we cannot continue to allow the president to go around the Congress and go around the law and take unilateral action as he has."
Another reporter asked if the House would "never pass a DHS funding bill that doesn't include some sort of provision" to stop Obama's unilateral amnesty.
"The House is going to work its will," Boehner said. "The way the process works is once the House works its will, the Senate will work its will. And then we have options. We can go to conference. We can take the Senate bill. There are a lot of options available to us. When we pass our bill, we'll see what the Senate can do with it and then we will act."
A third reporter asked if Boehner would allow an "open rule" on the DHS bill, which would let members freely offer amendments to the bill.
"I don't know what the Rules Committee will decide," Boehner said. "But I've got my doubts that it will be a truly open rule. But I do suspect that there will be amendments allowed."
If the Republicans pass a stand-alone bill to stop Obama’s amnesty, the president can simply veto that stand-alone bill. It would then take a two-thirds majority in both houses to enact it.
I don't believe I've ever seen you shill for the GOP-e, my friend.
Not guilty.
Yup, just so, and boy is murraymom pissed. Lost her troll job, what with the flooded market.
am guilty friend.
Look how shrill the remaining B listers are these days. The biggest guns have gone silent. But they sent plenty of fodder to fill the void.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Your trust has been betrayed by the party you believed in. It's why I pay no attention to party labels anymore. They're a worthless barometer of a person's core convictions.
Thank You Windflier ... May I never stray from the right.
Hear, hear. I've got yer back.
A lot of them have, but too many seem to evade the lightning. The best we can do is call them out for the bots they are.
Thank You ... Couldn’t have a better WingMan!
Boehner was tailor-made for that line in Macbeth:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Boehner has already given Obama everything he needed to continue his communist revolution. Boehner is Obama's lapdog. How did you miss that salient fact?
Check Boehner out in Open Secrets. He is a lobbyist suck up. His “Friends of John Boehner” and other groups get oodles of money from Goldman Sachs, Google and other corporate donors whi have ZERO interest in political philosophy or are actually left of center. He and his groups then redistribute these funds to other Congressmen. He is like a medieval baron redistributing wealth and titles to his underlings and THAT is why he was re-elected. He supported with his lobbyist money politicians running for office and when they got elected, the payoff came in the Speaker’s Vote. The wishes of the majority of Republican voters were diluted by masses of corporate dollars he got from special interest groups in return for supporting legislation THEY wanted.
We are no longer a Demcoratic Republic. We are a plutocratic, oligarchic, socialistic province of a one-world government.
” John Boehner is a traitor to his party and the American people - as proven by DEED!”
A FACT very much in evidence.
” The political establishment ain’t stupid. They began infiltrating Tea Party groups almost from the beginning of the movement. I witnessed it with my own eyes in my local group in Allen, TX. “
I witnessed exactly the same thing here in AZ, when McCain was running for re-election. He sent an army of goons to all of the Tea Party groups, gave them money, and gave those unemployed a job. McCain spent a fortune to beat J.D. Hayworth, while co-opting the Tea groups.
I want everyone here to have a chance to read this. Good job.
“Check Boehner out in Open Secrets. He is a lobbyist suck up. His “Friends of John Boehner” and other groups get oodles of money from Goldman Sachs, Google and other corporate donors whi have ZERO interest in political philosophy or are actually left of center. He and his groups then redistribute these funds to other Congressmen. He is like a medieval baron redistributing wealth and titles to his underlings and THAT is why he was re-elected. He supported with his lobbyist money politicians running for office and when they got elected, the payoff came in the Speaker’s Vote. The wishes of the majority of Republican voters were diluted by masses of corporate dollars he got from special interest groups in return for supporting legislation THEY wanted.Z”
Yep. We had a recently converted Democrat quickly rise to the inner circle of our group. In no time at all, he was part of a committee that was tasked with nominating good candidates for our city council. He also got himself chosen to go to our region's RNC conference.
I remember how much tension the guy caused in our meetings. A couple of members called him a left-wing infiltrator to his face. It got pretty tense, but the guy never budged. I never did sort out whether he was really an infiltrator or not, as I moved across town shortly afterwards.
” I never did sort out whether he was really an infiltrator or not,”
He probably was.
It's dupes like you who pushed Schwarzenegger, who then screwed up so badly that he paved the way to Moonbeam.
The really sad part is that if Republicans in California had voted for McClintock, he would have won, as Arnold was also taking votes from Bustamante.
First there was Landru...
and then came the Borg...
After a while... all collectives look the same...
Howdy gentlemen...
Well with that attitude, CLEARLY you are not Of the Body brother ;)
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