Funding deportations would block the law (inadequate funding is Obama’s rationale for this) and could not be filibustered. Obama could not veto it without taking blame for the resultant shutdown.
Of course the GOPe does not want to do this LOL!
Funding deportations would block the EO!
RE: Funding deportations would block the law (inadequate funding is Obama’s rationale for this) and could not be filibustered. Obama could not veto it without taking blame for the resultant shutdown.
Of course the GOPe does not want to do this LOL!
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I’ve been thinking of all the options that Congress has in this siutation and I can think of only the following:
1) IMPEACH ( which will be useless sicne we do not have the numbers to convict and remove ).
2) POWER OF THE PURSE, which will again result in a test of wills ultimately resulting in another government shutdown.
Other than those two, I can only think of a third option....
A type of under-reaction (yes you read it right). It is simply a detached acknowledgment of the president’s ploy, coupled with a tone that suggests Congress’ intention to make it irrelevant.
Draft an immigration bill that makes sense, and do it very early in 2015 so every GOP presidential candidate can run on it.
Newly elected and incumbent Republicans should be working on it right now and straight through the holidays so that the first big story of the new year can be the best response conservatives can muster— not the doomed drama of impeachment or a flurry of well-intentioned but probably equally doomed lawsuits, but a POSITIVE AGENDA that will bring additional Americans on board for a Republican wave lasting the rest of the decade.
It can be phrased with a simplicity that will resonate with even the least-informed voter: Confirmable border security first, then a gradual non-amnesty path toward legal status for non-criminals with a willingness to assimilate.
This will means English fluency in addition to fines and back taxes. BUT ONLY AFTER BORDERS HAVE BEEN MADE SECURE.
Not one of them moves one day toward legal status until we get that full year of demonstrable border security. No deals, and no surrender. No legal status in return for the promise of border security— we have been hosed too many times. Secure border first, then we begin step one of the path to legal status.
Barack Obama will veto this, invoking as many heart-rending anecdotes as he can pack into his terse refusal. He will thus become The President of No, obstructing the first immigration reforms real majorities of Americans— and both houses of Congress— can embrace.
LET HIM. At least the American people shall have been given a clear and discernible choice.
Other than that, I can’t think of any better option short of revolution.