Congressional Republican leaders seem hellbent on avoiding a government shutdown over President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, but their right flank is agitating for a fight.
Heritage Action put out a statement Friday urging the GOP to block or preempt the actions, expected to protect up to 5 million people from deportation, or else any long-term funding bill that Congress were to pass would simply be “a blank check for amnesty.”
“The conversation in Washington today is disconnected from the message delivered by voters just ten days ago. President Obama’s amnesty policy was on the ballot and it was thoroughly rejected,” Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham said in the statement. “Unless Congress preempts or blocks the President’s promised executive action, a long-term funding bill is little more than a blank check for amnesty.”
Rank-and-file Republicans are already pressuring their leadership to block any funding for Obama’s pledged actions as part of upcoming government spending bills.
Boehner’s puppet masters have spoken. I wonder whether Demint and the handlers at Heritage can jerk Boehner’s tears and make him cry at will. The orange drunk has seemed more angry, bizarre and mentally unbalanced and emotionally unhinged lately.
As predicted the GOP is gearing up for the stupid trifecta. Adamantly demand all brown/yellow people be expelled from the US, shut down the government in rage and then impeach the President. If lucky they will find the time to gut the ACA and charge Hilary Clinton with the “murders” in Benghazi.
Republicans in full tilt crazy is something to behold. Proceed…
But they always fail to inform the public that a bill from congress on immigration would supersede Obama’s executive action on said subject.
They cry, amnesty, job killer, crime wave, desease wave etc etc but never with the facts.
Bonehead already knows this is going through and any congressional bill will never pass the smell test,aka, the veto pen
Since the election is over, we don’t need to worry about ISIS chucking Ebola-ridden bodies at us, so it’s back to business as usual- impeaching Obama, repealing ACA, and generally looking foolish to the rest of the world.
The leaders may not want a shut down but there’s a bunch of wackos in the House who do…any excuse would do. ANYTHING to screw up anything Obama might want to do. No matter how useful or important or even if it’s something dear to the heart of traditional republicans. It does NOT matter.
There are plaenty of republicans who would like nothing better than to do serious damage to the country if it means damage to democrats. That is how they think. I’m not making this up. I wish I were and for humor’s sake. To show what I mean here’s a quote in context from Rush Limbaugh:
“It is to stop Barack Obama. It is to stop the Democrats,” Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday about Republicans’ agenda. “There is no other reason why Republicans were elected yesterday. Republicans were not elected to govern.”
“How can you govern with a president that is demonstrably lawless when he thinks he has to be?” Limbaugh continued. “The Republican Party was not elected to fix a broken system or to make it work. The Republican Party was not elected to compromise. The Republican Party was not elected to sit down and work together with the Democrats.”
Like I said, I wish I were making this crap up.
There are a lot of Republican House members who take Rush as Gospel truth.