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Senate Dems blast Boehner over vote
The Hill ^ | February 27, 2015 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 02/27/2015 3:39:26 PM PST by maggief

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) slammed House Republicans Friday after lawmakers failed to pass a short-term bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which runs out of money at midnight.

"The Republican Congress has shown that it simply cannot govern. Two months into the Republican Congress, we are already staring a Homeland Security shutdown square in the face, even as terrorists around the world threaten to strike America," the Nevada Democrat said in a statement after the House vote.

The bill failed 203-224. More than 50 Republicans voted against the legislation, which would have funded the department through March 19.

Reid wasn't wasn't alone in his criticism.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) suggested that the failure to pass the DHS bill created a bleak outlook for how House lawmakers would handle larger budget debates expected this year.

“The DHS funding fight is the first test of the new Republican Congress, and so far they’re failing," the New York Democrat said in a statement. "If the Republicans can’t even fund something as simple as Homeland Security, we shudder to think what will happen when it’s time to fund the whole government or raise the debt ceiling.”

Schumer and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the failed vote left Boehner with only one option: pass a "clean" bill to fully fund the department through September. The Senate passed similar legislation Friday morning.

"Speaker Boehner is out of cards to play here—he must put the clean, Senate-passed bill on the floor now or risk a homeland security shutdown," Durbin said in a statement.

But what the next step is for funding the department, or if a partial shutdown would be avoided, wasn't immediately clear. The Senate recessed Friday afternoon waiting for the short-term funding bill to be taken up in the House. Senators were expected to pass the legislation, if it had passed the House.

Schumer, as well as Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), spoke to reporters ahead of the House vote on Friday. Though they all criticized House Republicans for taking up the stopgap legislation, they also said they would "reluctantly" support it in the Senate.

"We'd much prefer they pass full funding," Schumer said. "Obviously, we're not going to shut down the government. ... We'll support it, but very reluctantly."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; americansinwaiting; balkanizeamerica; boehner; dhsfundingbill; dickdurbin; executiveamnesty
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To: Pietro

Boner has one right answer and that is to come up with something his own republicans including TP can support and stop worrying about the blame game.


41 posted on 02/27/2015 4:14:07 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: maggief

Marshmallow b*lls will fold.

You know it.

I know it.

And whorehouse Harry knows it.


42 posted on 02/27/2015 4:14:31 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Windy City Conservative

Does the Kraut know that the whole gov’t is shut down for at least the next two days?


43 posted on 02/27/2015 4:14:41 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: maggief

Maybe Reid will get another beating I mean fall over his exercise equipment again.


44 posted on 02/27/2015 4:15:09 PM PST by funfan
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To: RatRipper

Great short speech by Louie Gomert.

Stand with us for the Constitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmKpHBYzlL0


45 posted on 02/27/2015 4:17:07 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Yogafist

“but the Republicans have had 50+ years to formulate a way to deal with them, and they haven’t.”

Well, my Republican, pro-2nd Amendment, constitutional sheriff has sent a half-dozen Rats to state prison. He also has an armed battalion of auxiliary deputy sheriffs he can call out for “emergencies.”

Tell us how your sheriff is doing.


46 posted on 02/27/2015 4:19:40 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: cripplecreek

And Gohmert voted for the 3 week CR - is he a traitor?


47 posted on 02/27/2015 4:20:21 PM PST by 11th_VA (where's Brutus?)
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To: wmfights

I count about 5 GOP Senators on the side of the citizens.


48 posted on 02/27/2015 4:24:01 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 11th_VA

My bad - Gomert voted against - wtf .,,


49 posted on 02/27/2015 4:24:49 PM PST by 11th_VA (where's Brutus?)
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To: Zathras

170+ idiots who need to be tried for treason.


50 posted on 02/27/2015 4:24:49 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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To: cripplecreek

Louie rocks it.


51 posted on 02/27/2015 4:25:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: thouworm; Whenifhow; crosslink; hoosiermama; LucyT; SE Mom; WildHighlander57

Well, we know where Gowdy stands.


52 posted on 02/27/2015 4:28:58 PM PST by maggief
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To: 11th_VA

Gohmert is one of the good guys.
Definitely not a traitor. Probably thought a three week CR was the way to go as a temporary measure.

My Rep.Dave Brat voted no.

I am so relieved to be rid of the weasel, Eric Cantor.


53 posted on 02/27/2015 4:29:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zenjitsuman

I’m just fearful he’ll go full cave and have enough sniveling weasels to join w/ the dimmis and give McConnell his “clean” bill.


54 posted on 02/27/2015 4:29:20 PM PST by Pietro
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To: maggief

I always liked Curt Gowdy.....


55 posted on 02/27/2015 4:30:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RatRipper

Were all going to die if a few thousand paper pushers aren’t at work on Monday. Great job Boehner. Send it back to the dirtbag.

Pray America is waking


56 posted on 02/27/2015 4:31:52 PM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: maggief
The bill failed 203-224. More than 50 Republicans voted against the legislation

And why does The Hill not mention that 170 Dems votesd against, three times as many as the GOP?

Thus, the Dems had a much larger role in "shutting the Gov't down".

I think I need to write a note to the Hill asking why they don't give the number of Dem votes who voted to shut the gov't down,

57 posted on 02/27/2015 4:32:32 PM PST by what's up
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To: Paladin2

Chaffetz’s vote is no surprise.

On the other hand, Jordan’s nay vote stands out.


58 posted on 02/27/2015 4:36:50 PM PST by maggief
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To: Zathras
170+ RATS voted against it. Reid wasn’t mad at them.

Exactly. 3 times as many Dems voted to shut the gov't down. Why no mention of them? Huh?

59 posted on 02/27/2015 4:39:24 PM PST by what's up
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To: Paladin2

White House Amnesty Conference Call Reveals Insidious Plan: Balkanize America Using Taxpayer Monies

IslamicHorse

 A White House conference call to supporters of Obama’s Amnesty reveals plans to create ‘a country within a country’ at taxpayer expense.  These “New Americans” will “Navigate, not assimilate”.

What we have taking place right under our noses and accelerating is what I assert is an ongoing velvet coup.  Today we lost the Internet and I just posted news about the feds using the same tactic they used to take over the internet to ban a popular caliber of ammunition by having it reclassified so as to put it under purview of the Regime and regulate it.

For a triple whammy of what is being planned against us, is no less than the orchestrated invasion of America by flooding it with “New Americans”.  South Americans, Syrian refugees, the entire third world poor being flown, driven and herded in here to get a ticket of your wealth – which Joe Biden said – needs to be “emancipated”.

On the Mark Levin Show Thursday evening, Sue Paine of WCBM revealed that she was accidentally invited to take part in a White House Conference call about Obama’s ‘Executive Amnesty’ orders.  What she heard on this call by officials in the White House and radical Amnesty planners was frightening.  It is no less than an insidious plan to use American citizen’s own money to fund our own national suicide and demise.  Sue revealed that the White House plans that these ‘New Americans’ will be subsidized by you and me, the taxpayer.  That they will be given immediate access and priority for Social Security benefits and provided other ‘benefits’ she quotes the White House says these “new Americans” are “ENTITLED TO”.  Plans involve creating a separate enclave of a ‘country within a country’ of these ‘New Americans’ and then EXPAND them outward even further, until they simply take over and conquer us.

As I listened to what Sue Paine described, I could not help but think of this scripture that pertains to a people that abandon God and their foundational principles:

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.  They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.  All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. – Deuteronomy 28:43-45

We have the so-called president of the country ( I will never refer to him in that title BTW), orchestrating the invasion of the country to achieve his ‘fundamental transformation’.

Here is the transcript of her call to the Mark Levin show which I typed up.  You can listen to the show here.  Click on Thursday 2-26-15.

Begin Transcript:

Mark Levin: Yesterday you may recall we had a call from a lady named Sue who was invited (apparently unbeknownst to the President’s folks) to listen in on a discussion.. a phone discussion… at a rally that was taking place of some sort about immigration – Sue how are you?

Sue Paine: I’m very good Mark, thank you for having me on the show.

ML: Now Sue, who can also be heard on WCBM on the weekends I learned, Sue Paine – Sue we don’t have a lot of time so go ahead and summarize what took place on that call.

SP: Well what took place on the call was there was the Task Force on “New Americans” which Obama established on November 21st, remember when he went to Las Vegas the media said he was signing an Executive Order for five million illegal aliens to become “deferred”.  In reality what he did was sign a ‘memorandum’ that created the task force on ‘New Americans’ which was going to implement his Amnesty for the five million illegals which I believe is going to be more than that Mark.  I believe he [Obama] he was planning, and on these conference calls it became clear that he’s looking at 13-15 million to give protection and move (them) along to citizenship.

What happened in the conference calls was there was a representative from 16 members of his (Obama’s) Cabinet, so there was 16 representatives there and Cecilia Nunez was on the first call.  And they began to…

ML: Hold on now. And she is a top Advisor to the President on this and a former official with LULAC – err, or LaRaza. LaRaza.

SP: LaRaza. And she is chairing this task force. And so what became clear is that once these illegals come out of the shadows so-to-speak, their communities that they are living in now are going to be REDESIGNATED as ‘Receiving Communities’.  And what this task force is designed to do is to create a ‘welcoming feeling’ among these Receiving Communities’ to bring in these ‘immigrants’, bring them out in the open, but the Receiving Communities will then soon morph into what was established as an ‘emerging immigrant community’. And to do that what they said was that we need to start looking at the ‘immigrant’ as a ‘seedling’, and the ‘seedling’ could grow and the ‘seedling’ needs to be in fertile soil.

ML: Okay let’s hold on, we got the ‘seedling’,  the fertile soil in these ‘new communities’.  Good Lord this sounds like Plato’s Republic.  It sounds like Marxism.  It sounds like Mao’s China.

[commerical break]

ML: So Sue, we have these special little communities, these ‘seedlings’ and fertilizer and then what?

SP: Well eventually the ‘seedlings’ will take over the host and the immigrants will come out of the shadows and what I got from the meetings was that they would be pushing the citizens into the shadows.  They would be taking over the country, in fact one of the members of the Task Force actually said that ‘We would be developing a country WITHIN a country’.  There was a couple of buzz words that were really disturbing to hear, that was one of them.  One was from the White House Spokesman said that “Immigrants need to be made aware of the benefits they are entitled to” which led to another comment saying that this group that Obama is going to pardon or give Amnesty to, would not be interested in assimilating, they would NAVIGATE NOT ASSIMILATE. And go into…

ML: Okay stop there, that is very very important. So these are officials in the White House talking about people not assimilating but ‘navigating’.  And you know Sue, this is, this plays right into what Obama was saying and I played a clip of that, where he’s – he’s…again he’s not talking about assimilation either.  He’s actually talking almost – though he doesn’t use the word about CONQUERING.  Did you get that impression?

SP: Oh yes.  Especially when it became very clear that the ‘Receiving Communities’ would be morphing into the ‘Emergent Immigrant Communities’.  And he also, there was also a couple of things that were very disturbing.  One was that as soon as this decision is pushed through, these ‘immigrants’ need to be treated as refugees.   They need to be given cash; they need medical care; they need to use a credit card to pay for any documents that they need.  And also we need to convince state and local governments to cut these people no interest loans, with taxpayer dollars so they can then pay for their papers, as if we were funding our own destruction here.

ML: This is amazing.  And what amazes me Sue is how this is progressed, how advanced the strategy is.  Obviously it has been in the works for years and years. It’s just incredible.  I mean… and if you hand’t been in on this phone call we wouldn’t even know about this.

SP: No, you wouldn’t.  It was a series of three calls, and Mark also – they said there was going to be a great deal of ‘older immigrants’ in this batch,  and that we needed to make sure that the ‘Receiving Communities’ knew that the older or elderly unskilled that can contribute to these ‘Receiving Communities’ and that the government should understand that immigrants need to “age successfully”… “Immigrants in successful aging” and we need to get them into Social Security as soon as possible, so they can “Age Successfully” within their country within a country.

ML: This is unbelievable what is going on inside this country, inside the gates of the White House without any authority, without any knowledge of the American People.  I feel like this is a completely surreptitious government.  I feel like we’re the one’s in the shadows.  I feel like we’re the ones being cut out of the information flow.

Like I said this is no Republic.  I don’t know what the hell this is.  Now Sue Paine via WCBM…

SP: Well now…

ML: Hold on now, are you posting this information anywhere?

SP: Uhmm no I haven’t done it, the WCBM program I would get Pat McDonough, Mark is a Godsend to the State of Maryland.  He is the guy who…

ML:  I know but Sue, I am trying to find out if people can get this information.  They are going to be contacting us…. are you going to post anything?

SP: I have not posted anything. If they want to contact me…..

ML: No, no no… slow down now.  If you do post something you will let us know.

SP: Oh yeah….

ML: I don’t want 300,000 people trying to contact you.  It would be much better if you guys post some information that you just told me so we can send people to a link.

SP: Yes I agree with you.  And also Mark one more thing in closing, I just want to say that what is scary about this vote that is going on right now about the Homeland Security (DHS) and funding or defunding Obama’s Executive Order is that they spoke in this call Mark about their willingness to “LEVERAGE FEDERAL FUNDS” , and what I got from that was, if this thing goes through and they fund Homeland Security (DHS), then all these Cabinet offices would be willing to just leverage their funds.

ML:  Yeah, it’s very important that you and Pat McDonough write this up, get it up on a website at WCBM and then you’ll let Mr. Producer know and we will link to it. Can you try and do that?

SP: Yeah, I’ll do that and try to get something to Richard, and I really appreciate you giving us the time to educate the citizens because this is an insidious thing Mark.

ML: Oh, it’s stunning,  Your information is crucial.  I never heard of all this before. All right Sue, give my best to all my brothers and sisters at WCBM and my buddy Tom Marr.

SP: I will and thank you again Mark.  Bless your heart.

ML: Allright, God bless you.  Wow, do you believe this?  We shouldn’t be surprised.  It’s not a question of being surprised, it’s a question of being stunned… at just how extensive these activities are. Just how pervasive they are.  Going on in the shadows.  This isn’t our government.  I don’t know what the hell this is.  The radicals are in control. Well, there you go.

Transcript End.

Corresponding the terms Sue Paine used in that call are confirmed right here From the WH.gov site itself:

Presidential Memorandum — Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees

There is established a White House Task Force on New Americans (Task Force) to develop a coordinated Federal strategy to better integrate new Americans into communities and support State and local efforts to do the same.

Sec. 2Mission and Function of the Task Force. (a) The Task Force shall, consistent with applicable law, work across executive departments and agencies to:

(i) review the policies and programs of all relevant executive departments and agencies to ensure they are responsive to the needs of new Americans and the receiving communities in which they reside, and identify ways in which such programs can be used to increase meaningful engagement between new Americans and the receiving community;

(ii) identify and disseminate best practices at the State and local level;

(iii) provide technical assistance, training, or other support to existing Federal grantees to increase their coordination and capacity to improve long-term integration and foster welcoming community climates;

(iv) collect and disseminate immigrant integration data, policies, and programs that affect numerous executive departments and agencies, as well as State and local governments and nongovernmental actors;

(v) conduct outreach to representatives of nonprofit organizations, State and local government agencies, elected officials, and other interested persons that can assist with the Task Force’s development of recommendations;

(vi) work with Federal, State, and local entities to measure and strengthen equitable access to services and programs for new Americans, consistent with applicable law; and

(vii) share information with and communicate to the American public regarding the benefits that result from integrating new Americans into communities.

Then there is this link of EXTENSIVE information provided by a fellow from Mark Levin’s Facebook site:

There Is No Executive Order! For Amnesty — It Is Far Worse

Translation of Obama’s comments on his ‘executive actions’ on Amnesty: “Even though the United States lets in more legal immigrants per year than almost all the rest of the countries in the world added up…we are going to accelerate the process.” In the second memorandum, “Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees,”7Obama provides an overview of the plan to accelerate legal immigration and to naturalize over 13 million Legal Permanent Residents before the 2016 Presidential election.

From the presidential memorandum signed in Las Vegas:

Section 1.White House Task Force on New Americans

(a) There is established a White House Task Force on New Americans (Task Force) to develop a coordinated Federal strategy to better integrate new Americans into communities and support State and local efforts to do the same. It shall be co-chaired by the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Secretary of Homeland Security, or their designees.

The Director of the Domestic Policy Council is Cecilia Munoz, the former Executive Vice President of La Raza,8 the well-known pro-illegal alien organization.Working with the Co-Chairs will be a Task Force of sixteen separate federal bureaucracies.

There is no amnesty of illegal aliens. What the Obama Administration is doing is worse than an “Executive Order on Amnesty.”


60 posted on 02/27/2015 4:40:27 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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