Posted on 02/25/2015 5:58:56 PM PST by george76
Thirty House Republicans are calling on their leadership to continue to stand firm against calls for a so-called “clean” Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill — or one free of House-passed riders blocking President Obama’s executive amnesty.
In a letter dispatched Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) the lawmakers, led by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), argued that the House must continue to fight against Obama’s executive actions using the “power of the purse.”
“American voters supported our position of opposing executive overreach during the November elections, and are solely responsible for giving us control of the Senate as well as a historic majority in the House,” the Republicans wrote.
They further thanked leadership for “standing firm and forcing the Senate to act” on the House-passed DHS bill and called on them to continue the fight.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So that means, what, over 200 didn’t sign? Doesn’t bode well.
I’m sure when boehner sobers up in the morning, he’ll take a cursory glance at their letter, and as soon as he has coffee, he’ll vote with Yertle the Turdle over in the senate.
We’re doomed!
They must have listened to George Will
Sadly the bad guys way out number the good guys in the GOP.
Except that the signatories include McCarthy and Scalise -- two members of the House leadership. Which I find rather shocking.
Maybe the House Republicans can fabricate a backbone, after all...
I find that shocking as well.
They better fight or they are finished as a party.
The Whigs disappeared quickly because they refused to deal with the big issue of their day.
I talked to a staffer in Boehner’s office today. I got the impression that they’ll pass whatever the Senate passes using whatever votes they can get.
If they do....GOP-RIP
They will never make it to the weekend.
Pray America is waking
Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Matt Salmon (R-AZ)
Ryan Zinke (R-MT)
Bradley Byrne (R-AL)
Gary Palmer (R-AL)
Jim Bridenstine (R-OK)
Curt Clawson (R-FL)
Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
Randy Weber (R- )
Ted Yoho (R-FL)
Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)
Mo Brooks (R-AL)
John Fleming (R-LA)
Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Steve King (R-IA)
Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Lou Barletta (R-TX)
Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)
Brian Babin (R-TX)
Steven Palazzo (R-MS)
Jeff Miller (R-FL)
David Schweikert (R-AZ)
Martha Roby (R-AL)
John Duncan (R-TN)
Tom McClintock (R-CA)
Walter Jones (R-NC)
Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
all signed the letter.
Oops, that was meant as a response to lurkinanloomin.
I think you are mistaken - McCarthy and Scalise weren’t signatories. They were recipients of the letter along with Boehner. The linked article has the names of the signatories. The sentence about McCarty and Scalise was worded awkwardly.
All the best my FRiend,
Gwjack
Just once I’d like to see the R from PA 8th District’s name listed when a backbone call is made.
And Lou Barletta is an R from PA not TX
Nice tagline, but it made me think... May God give the CONgressional (both House and Senate) Repellicans the guts and fortitude of my CongressMAN, Tom McClintock!!!
Amen!!!
“They must have listened to George Will.”
Are you referring to Geo Will on Fox News Sunday where he scorned the House Republicans for defunding Obozo’s illegal power grab? If so, I saw it and it forever changed my opinion (negatively) of Geo Will - another GOPe supporter; and he is out of touch with what is going on in this country.
You’re right. I should have known better.
Proud of Dave Brat. Booting the weasel Eric Cantor was sweet.
George Will has been on board The Cheap Labor Express for years. He wanted them to pass amnesty back in 2006.
Most of The Ministry Of Propaganda including Fox News is owned by The Cheap Labor Express.
The flooding of our country with Fraudulently Documented Foreigners was not the result of benign neglect. It was planned.
Come on Boehner and House Republicans, FORCE THE TIMID MCCONNELL INTO GOING TO THE NUCLEAR OPTION ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY VOTE. Why is McConnell being such a coward? Is it mere cover to disguise his real goal of actually ENABLING THE OBAMA REGIME’S EXECUTIVE ACTION ON AMNESTY?
George Bush created a Federal agency so large, everyone is afraid, or unable, to defund it to stop it from performing unconstitutional acts opposed by Congress.
America - a nice place while it lasted.
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Is Obama trying to blackmail and create so much panic in the American people and Republicans in Congress that Congress will have no choice but to fund the Homeland Security bill stalled in Congress?
(Obama is such a two-faced hypocrite. On the one hand, he tries to reassure us that ISIS is a jayvee team, and so, according to Obama and his thugs, they really pose no true threat to the United States homeland, while, on the other hand, Obama----in order to try to get his version of the Homeland Security bill passed that grants all types of freebies instantly to 4 to 10 million illegals----warns us of terrible things that terrorists will do to us if Congress doesn't give Homeland Security everything it wants, such as broad powers to hand illegals all kinds of goodies like work permits and access to benefits like Social Security. )
Obama's blackmail attempt goes something like this:
1. Obama says: If you don't fund Homeland Security for the next year by giving it all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism---everyone knows that Obama is referring to Islamic terrorists, but he won't use the word "Islamic". What an idiot---terrorists will run wild over the United States, attacking such sites as malls and other buildings to the point that Americans will live in constant fear and terror for their lives.
2. On the other hand, according to Obama's blackmail attempt, if you give Homeland Security all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism, and, at the same time, also give it money and unlimited power to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to such things as work permits, housing, and benefits like Social Security, the United States will be a much safer and greater nation forever and ever. What a bunch of horse manure.
3. Hogwash: I say Hogwash. I say that it will slowly destroy the United States as we know it if we give Homeland Security broad powers to quickly process 4 to 10 million illegal aliens so that the illegals have instant access to such things as jobs, housing and benefits like Social Security.
Giving all those illegals all that they demand will do more irreversible and lasting damage to our towns and cities than any terrorists' attacks will ever do.
4. To Republican Congressmen: I say that we take our chances with terrorists. That is, I say that we take our chances for the next year that terrorist attacks will not be as terrible as Obama and his thugs paint them out to be, if, according to Obama, we don't give Homeland Security all the money it needs to fight terrorism and to legalize 4 to 10 + million illegals and those so-called "Dreamers".
(I believe it is safe to say that most illegals don't care about Islamic terrorists. In fact, I doubt if many illegals have any idea what Islam and ISIS are about. They are probably puzzled why Americans are so scared of this ISIS, a group far, far away on another continent nobody cares about. They only care about themselves. And the rest of America be damned.)
5. The following is more threatening to the United States way of life than terrorist attacks: Giving 4 to 10 million illegals easy and instant access to jobs and benefits like Social Security will destroy more of the United States as we know it than any ISIS terrorists attacks ever will.
6. To the Republicans in Congress: Don't fall for Obama's blackmail attempt as he tries to persuade you to pass the Homeland Security bill the way he wants you to pass it.
7. Handing Homeland Security almost unlimited broad powers this year to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and to such social benefits as Social Security benefits without a fight would be a horrible mistake, because such a surrender will do more severe damage to what we know as the American way of life than any ISIS terrorist attack that may hit the United States in the next year.
8. Again, I hope that Congress does not surrender to Obama's blackmail attempt when it comes to this horrible Homeland Security bill that gives Homeland Security almost unlimited powers to legalize 4 to 10+ million illegal aliens.
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