Saturday, February 28, 2015

GOP House Members need to hold the line — The GOP needs to show some spine — Pass a Republican-only DHS Funding Bill With No Funding for Obama’s Amnesty for ILLEGALS


GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks like he has surrendered in the fight to stop President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty  —   Now,  McConnell looks to be working WITH Democrat Senator Harry Reid to force American taxpayers to fund the president’s lawlessness through a "CLEAN" DHS Funding Bill

Both House and Senate have passed DHS bills  —  LET THE SYSTEM WORK  —   Send it to Conference  —   Let Democrats in House and Senate try to block the DHS Funding Conference Committee  —   Let Obama veto a Republican-only passed DHS funding bill 


Last week Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a joint press conference, blasted any plan by House Republicans to force negotiations over DHS funding. At that time, they said Senate Democrats would block a conference committee to negotiate a final bill ( See “Reid vows to block DHS conference” by Alexander Bolton, 2/26/15, The Hill [http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/233939-reid-vows-to-block-dhs-conference]).

In his later article that appeared in “The Hill” Alexander Bolton said,  “Senate Republicans are fuming over the House GOP’s decision to extend the standoff over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a move that they say uses up political oxygen and burns precious time on the legislative calendar. ***   GOP senators say it’s time to move on to other issues, such as the budget, trade legislation, and regulatory and tax reform. ***   They must defend 24 seats in the 2016 election and worry that voters could soon start to question their ability to govern unless they can move forward with a more substantive agenda....” (See “House chaos on DHS funding leaves GOP senators fuming” by Alexander Bolton, 2/28/15
[http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/234212-house-chaos-leaves-gop-senators-fuming]).

GOP SENATORS DON’T WANT TO DO ANY HEAVY LIFTING  —  SO THEY GET ANGRY AT GOP CONSERVATIVES IN THE HOUSE FOR MAKING THEM

First, they don’t even vote on the House-passed DHS bill, because the Democrats “threaten” to filibuster. Then the Senate passes a different DHS funding bill, but get angry because some in the House want it to go to a joint conference.  Why, because Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats don’t want that.

According to Bolton’s most recent column in “The Hill”  —   “...House conservatives say they want to pressure Senate Democrats to agree to a bicameral conference, in which the two chambers would hash out a compromise that would both fund homeland security and repeal some of Obama’s orders. *** ‘It’s time for democracy to work and the way our process works is when the House and Senate disagree, they go to conference and work it out,’ said Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.). ***   But Senate Republicans say hopes of going to conference are delusional. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ruled out the possibility Thursday....”   —   So whose side are the Senate Republicans on ?

REPUBLICAN SENATORS SIDE WITH THE ENEMY INSIDE THE GATES  —   FELLOW SENATE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR BOSS,  UNCONSTITUTIONAL-OBAMA

House Republicans say they have their own message for the Senate: the 60-vote threshold for passing bills in the upper chamber is a poor excuse for inaction [on the DHS funding bill that passed the House]. One of Boehner’s necessary allies in the House,  asserted that the move on the temporary DHS funding was to push back against the GOP Senators as much as anything else. “I think this is about holding our own ground and it’s also a message to the Senate. There’s a lot of different levels to this. On some levels it’s Republicans versus Democrats but there’s a lot of House versus Senate....” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said.

Also according to Bolton writing in “The Hill”  —    “Conservative critics have pilloried McConnell this week for moving a funding bill stripped of immigration riders. *** [For example the Senate Conservatives Fund wrote in an email to supporters saying]  ‘Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has surrendered in the fight to stop President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty and now he’s working with Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to force American taxpayers to fund the president’s lawlessness’....”

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did your family come over on the Mayflower?

Anonymous said...

Is there any point to a question like that to a posting that says
Republicans must stand up and defend their superior stake in America and the American government.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE: THE “ ‘TEA PARTY’ REPUBLICAN PATRIOTS” EDITION

FIFTY-TWO (52) REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST BOEHNER’S PROPOSED THREE-WEEK DHS FUNDING EXTENSION

KEY REPUBLICAN VOTES FOR BOEHNER’S HOLD ON THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR APPEAR READY TO CALL FOR A “NO CONFIDENCE” — “VACATE THE CHAIR” VOTE AIMED AT SPEAKER BOEHNER

THIS GROUP OF BOEHNER'S OPPONENTS WERE DESCRIBED AS "ANGRY CONSERVATIVE AND TEA PARTY-BACKED REPUBLICANS"

According to an earlier Saturday report on CNN, with text posted on the CNN blog, “... Two senior House Republican sources tell CNN there's a serious concern among those close to the Speaker that if he allowed a vote on a clean DHS funding bill, conservatives would make a motion to vacate the chair, a direct challenge to his job.... Moderate Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Charlie Dent acknowledged he has also heard about conservatives using the fight over this DHS bill to try to remove Boehner.... Boehner last survived an attempt to oust him at the start of the new Congress, when a handful of conservatives voted against him for speaker but failed to coalesce around an alternative.” (See “Hill fight features rumblings of Boehner coup” by Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh & Alexandra Jaffe, 2/28/15, CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/politics/conservative-boehner-coup-plot/]).

The Newsmax reiteration of the CNN newsbreak included this: “... Two senior House GOP sources told CNN that they feared conservatives could take the step after Congress approved a one-week stopgap measure late Friday for the agency just hours before a partial shutdown would have occurred.... The one-week measure came after 52 angry conservative and tea party-backed Republicans joined with Democrats to reject a bill Boehner put forth to extend Homeland Security's funding for three weeks.... The 224-203 vote proved to be a stinging rebuke to [Speaker Boehner]....” (See “Report: Boehner Faces Conservative Coup Over DHS Funding” by Todd Beamon, 2/28/15, Newsmax [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/coup-House-DHS-Boehner/2015/02/28/id/627497/]).

Todd Beamon’s Newsmax article also noted that a separate Senate measure to defund Obama's orders, granting deportation deferrals and work permits to as many as five million illegals, failed on a procedural vote.

Anonymous said...

The Tea Party is anti-women and they do not believe in women's equality. No one takes them seriously. When Hillary becomes President the Tea Party will be completely inconsequential.

Anonymous said...

Now that's just a HYSTERICAL comment in every possible way, literally, figuratively, philosophically, biologically, psychologically, sociologically, politically, rhetorically and comically.

What the comment maker above needs to do is have some of the more exotic Freudian treatments for her hysteria.

Anonymous said...

For Anonymous at 6:18, the Tea Party and many of its endorsed office holders at various levels of the government are women, so just stf-up with all your lying anti-Tea Party and Pro-Hillary Clinton propaganda

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE: THE “SPEAKER SORT OF PUSHES BACK” EDITION

BOEHNER SAY THAT “...REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED...” AGAINST POTUS’ EXCEEDING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

“BOEHNER’S” GOP MAJORITY LEADER TELLS U.S. SENATE TO CHANGE IT’S RULES AND ABOLISH THE DEMOCRATS’ RIGHT TO FILIBUSTER THE HOUSE-PASSED GOP DHS BILL

On “Face The Nation” — “U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner played down any possible risk to his continuing leadership on Sunday, saying that disagreements with fellow Republicans were over tactics and not goals. *** ‘We do have some members who disagree from time to time over the tactics that we decide to employ. But remember that Republicans are united in this idea that the president has far exceeded his constitutional authority,’ he said in an interview on the CBS program ‘Face the Nation.’ *** The House narrowly averted a shutdown of funding to the Department of Homeland Security on Friday after Boehner failed to rein in conservative Republicans....” (See “Boehner: GOP United in Bid to Stop Obama's Amnesty” by Newsmax Staff, 3/1/15, Newsmax [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/boehner-obama-immigration-homeland/2015/03/01/id/627568/]).

Meanwhile on “Meet the Press” — “House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called for Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster on Sunday’s 'Meet the Press' on NBC. *** Host Chuck Todd asked McCarthy, 'one way that this could change is, since Republicans do have the majority, is if Mitch McConnell invoked the so-called nuclear option. Right now there are no filibusters for any executive appointments, judicial or into the executive branch, but on legislation, the filibuster [is] still there. Do you want Senate Republicans to go nuclear?' in a discussion on the funding battle over the president’s executive action on immigration. *** McCarthy responded, 'I don’t think [it's going nuclear] when you have 57% of the Senate [that]voted for, to call this amendment that would take away the president’s action, that’s not nuclear when 57% of the American representation says it’s wrong. That’s not in the Constitution. I think they should change the rules.'...” (See “McCarty: GOP Should Abolish” by Ian Hanchett, 3/1/15, Breitbart News/ Breitbart TV [http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/03/01/mccarthy-gop-should-abolish-filibuster/]).

If the Republicans were serious about this DHS-Amnesty stuff and they were really "United...", they would do exactly what House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in an instant.

In reality, Senate Majority Leader McConnell and the Republican “Old Bulls” in the Senate have real business, of the “Business as Usual” sort, that they want to do with Harry Reid and the Democrats.

Anonymous said...

The Tea Party is misunderstood.

Its the closest thing to a third party this country will see.

Anonymous said...

Gale, how would Donovan have voted?

Anonymous said...

Except for that loon Michele Bachman, there are no women in leadership positions in the Tea Party. Fact checkers read this blog you know.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER" EDITION

MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY A LIFELINE OR MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE

Or as an assistant to Jim Webb once said to me, "Don't bet your *ssh*le on it, you'll never sh*t again...."

Anonymous said...

Ewwww. Democratic women do not appreciate scatological references. FYI.

Anonymous said...

Then some Democratic women need to see "Fifty Shades of Brown."

Somebody doesn't know all of what it means to be a woman. Try watching Season 1 and 2 of "Girls," Lena Dunham's view of Millennial womanhood. Or as that most famous urban legend answer on "The Newlywed Game" put it "That would be in the butt, Bob"

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE..." EDITION

IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE EVERYBODY GETTING ALONG SO NICELY...

Bob [Eubanks] and Lena Dunham in the same comment... Even I would have been impressed, except for the "Fifty Shades..." and the "...butt..." bit.

Try to color inside the lines, especially if it's with the burnt umber, ochre or sienna crayons. I hate to tell you what that mess looks like if you don't.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE: THE “OMG, I HAVE TO USE THIS HEADLINE AGAIN SO SOON” EDITION

“WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...” — BUT THIS TIME IT’S ABOUT THE GOP CONGRESSIONAL – DARE I SAY IT ? – “LEADERSHIP”

TEN (10) MEMBER “FREEDOM CAUCUS” LEVERAGED FIFTY-TWO (52) VOTES AGAINST BOEHNER’S THREE-WEEK DHS FUNDING BILL

IN THE SENATE, DEMOCRATS WILL FILIBUSTER ANY ATTEMPT TO SEND DHS FUNDING TO A HOUSE-SENATE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

According to the Washington Post, “... House Republican leaders will face a familiar dilemma this week when they try again to approve funding to keep the Department of Homeland Security functioning through the end of September: They know their party is too divided to resolve the crisis on its own but fear the political fallout if they rely on Democrats to get them out of the jam. *** After a humiliating defeat of their original funding plan Friday afternoon, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has just five days to craft a new outline to keep DHS funded or face the politically debilitating prospect of at least temporarily shutting down an agency designed to protect Americans. By late Sunday, Boehner’s House Republicans had no clear path to a solution other than retreating from their demands that the DHS funding measure include provisions that would block [the] implementation of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration....” (See “GOP discord undercuts efforts to fund DHS” by Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane, 3/1/15, The Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-faces-familiar-dilemma-on-homeland-security-funding/2015/03/01/f5f41e5e-c038-11e4-9ec2-b418f57a4a99_story.html]).

THE FREEDOM CAUCUS

According to the WaPo report mentioned above, the House GOP opposition to Boehner on any DHS funding that included funds for Obama’s Amnesty Order is led by a breakaway faction of Republicans working under the banner of the “Freedom Caucus.” That grouping is ten (10) Members of Congress, who have repeatedly objected to GOP Leadership’s moves as insufficiently conservative. This group decided it no longer trusted the original conservative caucus, named the “Republican Study Committee”; so they formed their own smaller and purer conservative Republican caucus.

Closely allied with outside conservative groups who have agitated for an aggressive line against Obama’s Amnesty Order, even if it means shutting down the DHS, the “Freedom Caucus” led the way in rallying fifty-two (52) Republicans in the House GOP Caucus to oppose Boehner’s three-week funding plan and, initially without Democratic support, tanked that vote.

Meanwhile in the U.S. Senate, according to the Washington Post — Monday, Democrats intend to filibuster any Senate action on the House GOP’s request to convene a House-Senate conference to negotiate the two dis-similar DHS funding bills passed by each of the chambers — the House version giving full 2015 DHS funding with the restrictions on Obama’s immigration actions, and the Senate version a “clean bill” with no strings attached.