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Posted on 11/06/2014 8:33:27 AM PST by jimbo123
There were two messages from Republicans on the morning after their sweeping victory in the 2014 midterm elections. One was that voters had elected Republicans to stop President Barack Obama's agenda. The other was that voters had elected Republicans to depose Harry Reid and break the gridlock in Congress. Both messages are correct, and reconciling them will be the toughest task facing new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The first, and decisive, test will be Obama's proposed executive amnesty, through which--it is suggested--he may try to defer indefinitely the deportations of millions of people who broke the law to enter and/or stay in the United States. Alarmingly, McConnell failed to mention to topic of amnesty in his joint op-ed with Speaker of the House John Boehner in his Thursday morning op-ed in the Wall Street Journal setting their new agenda.
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I think 0bama’s real fear is that he will have to do something he has never done; act on a budget passed by both houses of Congress.
McConnell should NOT be the Senate Majority leader!!!
Elect Ted Cruz!
Lame duck damage time in our face right now.
Yes, please. McConnell is too weak and wants to cooperate with the rats. As Rush said in so many words, screw the rat party.
No more Riviera and Aspen vacations and Wagyu beef?
I read that a group of senators actually wrote to Obama requesting that he wait for a bill to be presented. So probably McConnell is awaiting a response.
I think he’s probably going to have to wait a long time, though, or maybe not so long, because Obama sees being able to issue this executive order as a real kick in the teeth to the US and he’s angry enough to do it tomorrow. Charles Krauthammer was right about Obama: he doesn’t care about the future or “working with” the legislature, he just wants to lash out and kick in teeth for as long as he can do so.
There’s definitely a need for immigration reform (to make immigration something that gets us good, working immigrants, not anti-US terrorist “refugees”), and the GOP should be willing to work on this. But Obama’s not interested in that. He has already altered the law significantly with executive actions during his term (more legal immigration from what were specifically called “Muslim countries,” to the detriment of Latin America; non-enforcement of actions against visa-overstayers, etc.). It’s going to be very hard to “reform” this because it wasn’t good to begin with and six years of Obama have only made it worse.
But I think there’s not a hope in heck that he just won’t go ahead and welcome every Ebola-bearing African illegal or TB-infested Asian ever smuggled across the border to full citizenship immediately.
Not entirely. The continuing resolution to fund the budget comes up again on Dec 11. The House can put in language that prohibits spending on any amnesty EO.
McConnell is too much of a statist to defund the WH. He is simply not the slash-and-burn type that we need to do battle with Obola. This article is a pipe dream.
Posted on November 5, 2014 10:16:26 AM PST by ifinnegan
Open Letter to Mitch McConnell
Congratulations on your win. It is commendable that you were able to keep another liberal Democrat from gaining a foothold in the US Senate. For that, you deserve thanks and credit.
Now, though, after the huge Republican win, it’s time for you to recuse yourself from consideration for the Majority Leader position.
Unfortunately you have been too divisive and polarizing over the past year.
Your extreme comments against fellow Republicans make it such that you’ve spent too much goodwill among the whole Big Tent.
Your comments in fact amount to a conflict of interest in leading the whole of the Republican Party in the Senate.
Your being Leader would prove counterproductive and not be the best way forward for efficient and pro-active Conservative movement.
Thank you Senator McConnell, in advance, for doing what is best for the nation and taking yourself out of consideration for Majority Leader.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3223612/posts
#RecuseMitch
They should defund everything Obama wants until he quits. He is stealing the US “blind”. Why give him more money. Only essentials and restock the military. Get rid of Obama’s power of the purse and he will want to leave. I would take Biden to close out the Term. He is clueless anyway.
If anyone expects that pandering, butt-kissing McConnell to do anything that takes “balls” I have something to sell you.
As far as the crybaby “boner” expect the same from him.
I hold both of them responsible for the total lack of action on both houses to do anything that irritated Obama.....and it ain’t gonna change.
Get rid of both of them and nominate a member of Congress who will actually violate Political Correctness and save our country and way of life.
McConnell’s masters favor amnesty.
He will not oppose it unless the politics are overwhelming in the opposite direction.
The GOP would like to do an amnesty and take credit, thinking that will help the GOP make inroads among hispanics and eliminate one direction of Dem attacks.
But they also favor amnesty on its own merits and would be in favor even if it doesn’t help them politically; they would be willing to see it done with Obama taking credit and blame. They could use it as a fund-raising issue.
They won’t oppose it unless the politics against it are overwhelming and that will involve a rebellion against McConnell among the lower ranking Repubs. If Cruz can overthrow McConnell, then I expect them to confront Obama on the issue. I don’t expect McConnell to do anything to stop it except oppose it publicly while enabling it behind the scenes.
That is meaningless. Obama would gladly give that up to achieve a permanent Democrat majority. And go down in the history books as a hero (and he would, remembering who is going to write the history books).
The senate doesn’t “fund”...the House funds. And the Republicans controlled the house...yet no defunding. Boehner talks about killing the regulations...now? Why not defund the EPA before they “outlawed” coal.
Nothing will change. Anyone who thinks the Republicans will challenge anything the kenyan does is delusional.
“Yet it is difficult to see how Obama can be stopped, since impeachment is well off the table ......”
Why?
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