Posted on 02/25/2015 12:20:23 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a backlash Wednesday from conservatives after backing off demands that Congress reverse President Obama’s immigration executive actions as a condition for funding the Department of Homeland Security.
Senate Democrats, meanwhile, voiced support for the new plan after initially staying coy. A day earlier, McConnell, R-Ky., effectively gave them what they’ve been demanding – by agreeing to hold a stand-alone vote on a DHS funding bill, with no immigration measures attached.
“We are going to do everything we can to make sure it passes by an overwhelming vote. I think virtually every Democrat will vote for that,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Wednesday.
Reid’s announcement likely helps clear the way for passage in the Senate.
McConnell also earned support from senior members of his caucus, with fellow GOP leaders making clear that the approach may be the only way to fund DHS past a Friday midnight deadline. Four times in a row, Senate Democrats blocked the GOP legislation that would reverse Obama’s immigration actions as a condition for funding DHS. (It is expected to advance later Wednesday, with the understanding that it will be changed to what Democrats want.)
But vocal conservatives bristled at the change in tactics. And the complaints could create turbulence on the House side.
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Because McConnell won't and power abhors a vacuum.
I still say the Conservatives should push to have the Immigration Section of DHS defunded - pass a clean bill that funds Coast Guard, Border Patrol, etc - but not Immigration ...
The Democrats at first refused the offer and the onus of defunding the DHS was on them.
So McConnell begs and pleads with them to accept his capitulation.
Scumbag.
Now we have to hope the House will hold.
Did a majority of Republican senators not elect Mitch McConnell to be their leader?
There might be five GOP Senators on the side of the citizens.
Sessions, Cruz, Lee, Vitter maybe Grassley.
Nowhere near a majority.
85% of GOP voters and 65-70% of the citizens want the laws enforced and the border secured. It could be THE winning issue if the GOP wasn’t opposing the citizens on it.
Amnesty is not the only issue. And it's a rare senator or congressman who will go against the established seniority and leadership at the risk of losing committee assignments and other desired positions in the senate.
And McConnell and Boner both lied, before their reelection, about how they would take a real stand against Obama's illegal amnesty in the new Congress and when funding DHS for the rest of the year.
Only a few are speaking out, but I believe a good majority of GOP senators do oppose amnesty, but that's not much in the senate since every Dim supports it.
McCain, Graham, Ayotte, Collins, Wicker, Cochran, Flake, Cornyn, Burr, Alexander, McConnell, Corker, Paul, Coats, Portman, Capito, Blunt, Heller, Hatch, Hoeven, Isakson, Johnson, Kirk, Shelby, Thune, Tillis, Toomey are all on board The Cheap Labor Express.
I count 27 confirmed sellouts.
Some of the others unnamed are questionable.
You’re wrong about Shelby and probably some of the others. And no one can say how all would vote until after a meaningful vote is taken.
Shelby actually said the Republicans should change the 60 vote rule and pass the restricted DHS budget passed by the House.
Some of those you list are quivering in their panties at the thought of being blamed for a DHS shutdown. That doesn’t mean they’d vote against the House bill if they ever had a chance to vote on it.
trying to keep the FBI from kicking down my door for incitement
It’d be great to tell Mitch McConnell exactly what he can do with this idea, along with his Senate “leadership”.
The GOP-E apologists who post on your site should crawl back under the rocks from whence they came.
Amnesty may not be the only issue, but it is most certainly the issue that is going to render American citizenship meaningless. It is the issue that is going to end any chance this country can return to what it was.
It is the hill that America is going to die on.
Furthermore, these same dishonorable people have failed on every single other issue.
Every single one.
They have no successes at all.
America is going to cease to exist on the dishonorable words of liars and the fools who believed them.
My comments that have drawn most responses have concerned whether or not a majority of Republican senators are for amnesty. I’ve made a distinction between being for amnesty and being afraid of being blamed for a DHS shutdown.
The comment you are responding to related only to why senators might or might not chose to defy the senior members in electing the majority leader. You comment is very tangential and not really a response to what I posted.
There is NO SUCH THING as a DHS shutdown.
So if they are scared about being blamed for something that DOESN’T EXIST AND CAN’T HAPPEN, I do not feel sorry for them or care at all.
And if their “fear” of something that DOESN’T EXIST AND CAN’T HAPPEN is used as an excuse by them to then vote for something that WILL DESTROY AMERICA, then quite frankly they are traitors.
98 for, 2 against.
There are, as of today, 98 senators that voted to destroy this country for no legitimate reason, and 2 senators that voted against these worthless bastards.
Well my actions are to vote only for Conservative Candidates, that`s why I pretty much don`t vote republiCrat, PROUDLY. From your comments I take it you are a republiCrat, well your party can get bent!
No, not a republicrat at all. I see a third party as a guaranteed loser in the electoral politics from the perspective of the far right. A third party splits the right, and the left wins in a cake walk. The best thing to do, is what the communists did with the democrats.
A simple (rhetorical) question: can you name a single national democRAT elected official who’s not a communist? I can’t think of anyone on that side who is not. Even the most “moderate” democRAT is a flaming commie these days.
So, rather than do a party split, we need to force the squishy moderates out. Let them join the democRATS. At least we will know where the battle lines are drawn.
The Tea Party had a chance, and has been reasonably successful but has stumbled badly by falling into the media traps like Romeny did, and Todd Akin, and others. It’s not a lot of candidates, but a few high profile ones who managed to do enough damage to the “brand” in a hostile media environment.
Part of the problem is the right has people who have jobs and families, not rent-a-mobs from the FSA and unions to protest with a flood of positive enemy media coverage. Every one of those protesters is PAID by our tax dollars, either in FSA direct payments or indirect payments via theft by union dues from public employees.
Look at the rallies that the Tea Party had..tens of thousands showed up, the places were spotless when they left, and the media painted them as hateful bigots. Yet the absolute shitbags of “Occupy” were portrayed as hero’s by the media. No mention of the rapes, robberies, assaults, and despicable behavior of these vermin.
No, a third party isn’t the answer. The answer is a “putsch” of the saboteur RINO’s from the right.
The last resort, which it seems is fast approaching, is direct insurrection.
What's the second party?
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