Posted on 02/23/2015 4:05:57 PM PST by cotton1706
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday took steps to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by splitting off legislation attacking President Obama’s immigration actions from the funding fight.
McConnell’s actions would bring to the floor a bill blocking Obama’s actions late last year to shield millions from deportation.
The new bill would not be connected to legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security, however, and it would not attack Obama’s earlier executive actions in 2012 to shield certain young people from deportation. Those actions are more popular than the steps Obama took last year. McConnell said he wanted to take away Democratic excuses for not voting against Obama’s actions in his floor comments, which he said several centrist Democrats had previously criticized.
“Some Democrats give the impression they want Congress to address the overreach. But when they vote, they always seem to have an excuse for supporting actions they once criticized,” he said. “So I’m going to begin proceedings on targeted legislation that would only address the most recent overreach from November.
“It isn’t tied to DHS’ funding. It removes their excuse,” he added.
McConnell's decision could mark a step forward from the stalemate over funding the Department of Homeland Security, which has threatened a shutdown of the agency at the end of this week.
McConnell's remarks come after Senate Democrats blocked a fourth attempt to start debate on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and reverse Obama’s immigration orders from 2012 and 2014.
Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office expressed support for the move.
“This vote will highlight the irresponsible hypocrisy of any Senate Democrat who claims to oppose President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration, but refuses to vote to stop it,”
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““This vote will highlight the irresponsible hypocrisy of any Senate Democrat who claims to oppose President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration, but refuses to vote to stop it,”
But what about the irresponsible hypocrisy of any Senate Republican who claims to oppose President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration, but refuses to vote to stop it,
” Our central government has become more heinous and injurious to the liberties of the people, than that of King George III.”
No kidding.
Sounds like Luis ‘greaseball’ Gutierez gave the Turkey a hot sauce anal basting. We have no leaders damn it!
“We have no leaders damn it!”
You are right, but that statement does not convey at all the calamity of the situation.
The Republicans have no conservative agenda domestic or foreign.
After 9/11 the tough talk of Bush was not backed up by World War 2 style mobilization and conquest of nations where the enemy was rooted in.
The ideology of Al-Quaeda was developed in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban was created by Pakistan’s intelligence agency.
Its all about doing business with Arab nations right now just like it was all about doing business with Communist nations when Nixon and Kissinger were around.
The interests of business demand no total war against enemies but limited war, negotiations and co-existence with economic relations. The D’s and R’s of Uniparty accommodate the big money contributors.
The twist of the knife by Mitch here is that he’s not just decoupling the DHS funding from the amnesty bill, he’s decoupling the Nov. Executive action memos from the illegal implementation of the Dream Act that isn’t the Dream Act because it never passed Congress.
It’s a double disconnect double cross.
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