Posted on 02/26/2015 9:29:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Last November, President Barack Obama issued a highly controversial executive order on immigration. By seemingly circumventing Congress to push a political agenda, many have called the President’s tactics a gross abuse of power.
The Republican-controlled House passed a bill, largely on party lines, to defund the executive order, through the funding budget of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Democrats in the Senate have repeatedly not approved the bill, in an effort to block defunding efforts.
With just hours to go until the DHS could face a shutdown, Sen. Mitch McConell (R-KY), offered a compromise. His plan would keep the DHS fully-funded, while still cracking down on what his GOP colleagues view as a Presidential overreach:
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80% of this unconstitutional federal government NEEDS to shut down permanently. The one thing the feds are legitimately tasked by We the People via the Constitution to do is protect us from attack from without and within. Our national defense is about the only legitimate and constitutional part of the federal government that should remain open.
Let it go broke for all I care.
I’d rather be shot in the face by an ISIS goon, than in the back by federal tyrants.
OMG no - funding it makes it legal.
My god my god
+1
I’m an old man and I’ve come to the conclusion that there is damned little this Federal government does or can do for me.
Outside the odd instance when somehow our military gets to waste multiple Muslim Terrorists, there aren’t really any other instances where what this Federal purports to do for me that cannot actually be done by agencies of my own state. You could probably add keep our borders secure, but apparently this SOB President won’t even do that - to the contrary ENCOURAGES invasion by illegals and any other terrorists that may slip in.
If you were to ask me about a Civil War II, my only question would be is “What place will be the Ft. Sumter of today?” I’m done with these people. No allegiance, no support, and no pity.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
This occurred to me this morning. There's no escape. We've been set up.
Yep
Defund the whole damn thing. I’ll load up and take my chances.
I'd agree. We're dead either way and the first is at least cheaper.
(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.
Surrendering to Obama and illegal aliens demands will do more irreversible damage to our towns and cities than any terrorists' attacks will ever do.
4. So I say this to Republican Congressmen: We take our chances with terrorists and we shutdown Homeland Security. That is, I say that we take our chances for the next year with a stripped-down Homeland Security and hope that terrorists attacks will not be as horrible as Obama and his thugs paint them out to be.
(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. Most of the illegals only care about themselves. And the rest of America be damned.)
5. My point is this: Giving 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and benefits like Social Security will destroy more of the United States as we know it than any ISIS terrorist attacks in the coming year will ever destroy, even if we have to fight Islamic terrorists with a shutdown or stripped -down Homeland Security.
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 so that he can legalize 4 to 10+ million illegals. Don't fall for Obama's scare tactics.
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.
We have a ONE PARTY system.
Stick that finger where the sun don’t shine...!
“Just shut up and listen you stupid taxpaying American citizens. You’ve had your time. Just pay your taxes and shut up. We don’t care about you and we don’t like you. You’re the past. You ol’ school. We new school. This our generation. Illegals are noble and you’re going to pay for whatever we entitle them to.” -Baroke Obama.
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