Thread: House votes to overturn Obama immigration actions; bill now goes to Senate

. . . U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, said in a speech Tuesday that legislative efforts are nothing more than "well-intentioned political theater" and that the only avenue to stop Obama's plans on immigration are to take the president to court. . .

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201..._obama_im.html

Obama has threatened to veto the House bill, and Democrats roundly denounced it, even as immigrant advocates warned Republicans they risked alienating Latino voters who will be crucial to the 2016 presidential election.

"Just two weeks into this new Congress, Republicans have turned a bipartisan issue, funding our Department of Homeland Security, into a cesspool of despicable amendments that cater to the most extremist anti-immigrant fringe," Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., said in a House debate.

Were Latino voters not crucial to the 2014 elections? It seems that worked out quite well for the "extremist anti-immigrant fringe."

Everyone needs to remember that this isn't an issue about voters. The majority of voters including Hispanic/Latino and other Minority groups have no affinity at all for this massive immigration, not the legal kind and most certainly not the illegal kind. American voters are sick and tired of the deceit, the lies, the special attention, the cost, and the aggravation and daily expense associated with dealing with this illegal alien population and yes even much of this extraordinarily excessive legal immigrant population. This issue is about donors, not voters. These crazy Democrats are collecting billions a year for campaigns not from voters, but donors, many of them probably in the country illegally or in the country on a visa or green card or in the country from a previous amnesty and of course and it must be said money from the drug cartels who need a large alien population devoted to their drug business as well as a steady stream of carriers hauling the drugs in and the money out.

by Charlie Spiering
14 Jan 2015

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest used a bit of colorful language aboard Air Force One this afternoon, calling on Republicans to stop “mucking around” with the Department of Homeland Security funding bill.
“House Republicans … are mucking around with DHS funding just weeks before the funding deadline,” Earnest said.
“There’s never a good time to muck around with the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, but given the events of the last week, this seems like a particularly bad time to do so,” he added alluding to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, passed the funding bill earlier today. It includes an amendment to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. House Republicans also passed an amendment killing Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Earnest argued that the bill passed by the House was unlikely to get enough Democrat support in the Senate.

By restricting funds to the DHS, Earnest argued that Republicans were effectively blocking funding for border enforcement and returning to a broken immigration system.

“This vote is bad policy. It is essentially a vote for amnesty. It is also bad politics,” he said.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...e-for-amnesty/

5:07 PM 01/14/2015
Al Weaver

On his Wednesday program, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh questioned whether Speaker John Boehner’s recent tough talk on President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is “just for show” or if he’s actually “following through” on his rhetoric.

On the House floor Wednesday morning prior to their vote on the Department of Homeland Security, Boehner read aloud for nearly five minutes the 22 times Obama intimated that he was unable to go it alone on immigration reform via executive reforms.

“To think that the president of the United States studied constitutional law!” Boehner said lambasting Obama. “He didn’t just learn constitutional law. He taught it himself.”

“Enough is enough!” Boehner added.

However, Limbaugh was skeptical of Boehner’s sudden anti-amnesty rhetoric. The conservative titan told his audience that what happens after either Obama vetoes the bill or it dies in the Senate, which does not fund segments of DHS that deal with Obama’s executive action, will be “the moment of truth.”

“I think the House is gonna pass a bill. I don’t know what the Senate’s gonna do, but I know Obama’s gonna veto it, and I know that that will then be the moment of truth,” Limbaugh said.

“That’s when we’re gonna find out what the House Republican leadership is all about, after Obama vetoes it. In other words, is all of this just for show for us?” Limbaugh explained.

“It won’t be long before we find out. By ‘us’ I mean conservatives who keep electing Republicans, keep demanding that they finally get in gear and stop this stuff,” Limbaugh said. “Are they just playing games with us or do they really now understand what we want and are prepared to act on it? There’s a lot of doubt about that.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/14/li...just-for-show/

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

John Boehner is doing this by way of amendment to funding bills because that is the least exciting and least attention getting way for him to fake his resistance to Obama.
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To paraphrase Billy Shakespeare, it's a tale told by a treacherous sellout, signifying nothing.

If the media would do their job - compare words to actions, explore consequences - it would be easy to see that 'Bama is selling out Americans, to get the votes of his precious Undocumented Democrats. In his 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
'Bama said, “The number of immigrants added to the labor force everyyear is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.". If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides somebenefits to the economy as a whole... it alsothreatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans andput strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

The Repub leadership is using 'Bama as cover, to get their big money donors the surplus labor and open borders that those donors covet.

Again, easy to expose, if the mainstream media actually wanted to do their jobs.
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By restricting funds to the DHS, Earnest argued that Republicans were effectively blocking funding for border enforcement and returning to a broken immigration system.

Uuuh no, we're blocking funding for anti-border enforcement, money paid to agencies to do the opposite of enforcing law, and restricting funds from agencies instructed by the President to ignore the law.

Our immigration system isn't broken, our politicians and White House are broken, they've broken their word, violated their oaths, usurped our law, and betrayed the very hard-working Americans who elected them to their high offices and who pay for their high-flying livelihoods and pensions.

It's at moments like this that my mind wanders to the French Revolution, and I can actually understand why they were so tough on their nobles and elites.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I still want to know how legislation is supposed to reign in a President that refuses to honor existing legislation?

John Boehner is doing this by way of amendment to funding bills because that is the least exciting and least attention getting way for him to fake his resistance to Obama.

If impeachment proceedings were begun it would attract a great deal of attention and Republicans would find themselves winning against Obama with a large majority of the American population.

But that correct course of action would also shut down and cancel all attempts to give illegals amnesty because most Americans oppose that too!

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MR GHEEN
IM SO SICK OF ALL THIS THEY COULD IMPEACHED OBAMA LONG BEFOR THIS NOT ONE GOV HAVE THE BACK BONE TO DO IT
YOU DON'T NEED A PINK SLIP AT ALL JUST A PAPER & HAND IT OVER TO OBAMA & SAY YOUR NOT DOING YOUR JOB AT ALL OUR COUNTRY IS I ONE HELL OF A MESS THEY KNOW THIS . WHY THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE EVERY THING .LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING THE OTHER DAY THE HOSPITAL CALL * ASK WHEN ARE WE PAYING OUR BILL .WELL I SAID WHEN THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS START & PAY . I WILL PAY MY BILL NOT UNTILL THEY GET EVERY THING & WE HAVE TO PAY I DON'T THINK SO

2/3/2015

http://www.alipac.us/f9/bill-undo-ob...t-vote-317280/