Posted on 09/10/2014 3:18:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Worth posting not because Cruz actually intends to try to shut down the government before the midterms but because Democratic leaders and lefty media will gorge on the mere possibility. Now that amnesty’s dead until November, they need something to goose their base. Another shutdown scare will do nicely.
The tea party hero, who aggressively pushed the anti-Obamacare strategy that spurred last year’s 16-day government shutdown, has seized on immigration executive moves from the Obama administration as the root cause of the border crisis this summer.
Although Obama said this weekend that he would delay any executive actions on immigration until the end of the year, Cruz indicated Tuesday that he still wanted to target the issue this month.
“I think we should use any and all means necessary to prevent the president from illegally granting amnesty,” Cruz said when asked Tuesday whether he wants to include such provisions in a continuing resolution to fund the federal government. “That certainly, I think, would be appropriate to include in the CR, but I think we should use every – every – tool at our disposal.”
In theory, the House would pass a Republican bill demanding the end of DACA as a condition to new funding for the government, Reid’s Democratic Senate majority would shoot it down, and then we’d be stuck a la last October as the clock ticked towards the expiration of the current funding bill. In reality, that’ll never happen. For one thing, even while talking tough today, Cruz wouldn’t say that he’d try to block a House bill that lacked the DACA language. (“I have a habit of waiting to actually see what’s in legislation before I make a decision whether I will support or oppose it.”) A man who’s thinking seriously of running for president isn’t going to mess with another shutdown.
For another thing, if worse came to worst, Boehner would surely defy House tea partiers and agree to pass a clean funding bill without the DACA language to avoid a pre-midterm shutdown. The tea partiers in his caucus might be grumpy about that but they wouldn’t hold much of a grudge knowing what a shutdown could do to their own prospects on election day. The only snag for Boehner is whether House Democrats would help him by voting for a clean bill or whether they’d hold out until a majority of Republicans agreed to vote for it too. That could ensure a shutdown by leaving Boehner far short of 218 votes, but it’d be tricky politically. How would Dems justify opposing Boehner on a bill that gives Obama and Reid exactly what they ask for?
As inconvenient as Cruz’s DACA talk might be for the GOP leadership, one nice thing about it is that it keeps amnesty front and center before the big vote. Obama took a lot of knocks for that over the weekend from Democrats after he announced that he was postponing his executive order. If he’s worried that Republicans will make electoral hay of that order, Dems wondered, how does promising to issue the order once the elections are over ease that worry? Every Republican in the country is now going to be running on the idea that the only way to stop Obama is to elect a GOP Senate, in which case O might as well have issued his order now and accepted the consequences. Making DACA an issue in the coming battle over funding the government forces the media to keep reminding voters that amnesty is on the way later this year. That’s useful for the GOP so long as the standoff doesn’t end in a shutdown. Which, like I say, it won’t.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas): “Off-the-charts brilliant. And you know, liberals make the terrible mistake, including some of my friends and colleagues, of thinking that all conservatives are dumb. And I think one of the reasons that conservatives have been beating liberals in the courts and in public debates is because we underestimate them. Never underestimate Ted Cruz. He is off-the-chart brilliant. I don’t agree with his politics.”
“Although Obama said this weekend that he would delay any executive actions on immigration until the end of the year,”
With the Obamas record on telling the truth, there is a
very slight chance he may be lying about this. Very small
chance. We have to take everything he says as the truth
no matter how often it turns out to be a bald face lie.
“executive actions”? I’m sure they meant illegal dictates
but the term would be too, well, truthful.
I have a hard time believing anything a habitual bald face
liar has to say.
Bttt.......I DO agree with his politics!
From what I can see Obama likes to bypass Congress to do everything he can do by using every executive order he can use.He just does not care what Congress thinks or what the public think’s .It’s all about what Obama wants. Famous words of Obama - it’s the right thing to do and I do have pen and phone.
As much as I loathe the “kicking of the can” down the road, shamnesty would be an even bigger calamity...
I say the above for this reason: The pro-amnesty people demand that President Obama give work visas to at least 8,000,000+ illegals.
But many of these 8,000,000 illegals have husbands/wives and children.
So my point is this: Pro-amnesty people are not really talking about 8,000,000 illegals, because they know in their hearts that they are really talking about more like 24,000,000 illegals----3 times 8,000,000 illegals--- who will eventually get AMNESTY when President Obama takes his pen and quickly signs his executive order in a few weeks.
Why do I use the number of 24,000,000 illegals? I do so for the following reasons:
1. Obviously, illegal immigrant men need their wives and children to keep them company.
2. And illegal immigrant women need their husbands to help them with the children.
3. Also, these illegal immigrants with their new work visas will now have no fear that immigration agents will be coming to their home to check to see how many in the household besides the bread winner are here illegally.<>
4. So I believe that multiplying 8,000,000 illegals by 3 is a conservative estimate---an estimate based on a household with two parents, one child. Of course, many households will be single households with no children, but, as we know, many, many households of illegals who will be given work visas will have two or more children.
5. Again, when President Obama quickly signs his executive order soon after the mid-term elections, he will NOT be giving amnesty to just 8,000,000 illegals as the pro-amnesty people want us to believe.
6. Rather, when the smoke clears, anti-amnesty people will wake up one morning and realize that the pro-amnesty people and President Obama have pulled off one of the biggest scams in history, because President Obama really gave amnesty to 24,000,000 illegals, not 8,000,000 illegals as President Obama will claim when he signs his executive order soon after the mid-term elections.
NOTE: 'Because it was the right thing to do." This is Obama's favorite phrase when he wants to justify his decision on a controversial subject like illegal immigration.
It is as if Obama wants us to believe that his decision is divinely inspired, that is, God himself told him what to do. What a bunch of crap.
So be prepared to hear Obama's phrase---"Because it was the right thing to do"---over and over after Obama signs the worst executive order ever.
It is the worst ever because President Obama will lie to us and give amnesty to not 8,000,000 illegals as Obama will lead us to believe when he signs the executive order, but to an unbelievable number of 24,000,000 illegals. Sick. Sick. Sick.
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