Thread: Krauthammer: End Filibuster To Block Obama’s Amnesty Grab

9:10 AM 02/22/2015
Neil Munro

The Republican Senate majority should kill the Senate’s traditional 60-vote filibuster, and gain a huge advantage over the rule-breaking, lawless Democratic Party, says syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer.

“I’ve been radicalized. By Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Goodbye moderation and sweet reason,” he wrote in his weekly column.

“In the fourth quarter of his presidency, Obama unbound is abusing presidential authority at will to secure a legacy on everything from environmental regulation to immigration, the laws of which he would unilaterally suspend,” Krauthammer wrote.

And the 46 Senate Democrats are using the filibuster rules to block the GOP’s 54-seat majority to paralyze the GOP’s pushback.

Obama and the Democrats failed to pass his top-priority amnesty in 2013 and 2014, and he’s lost the fight for public opinion on the immigration issue. Without a path forward through Congress, he escalated the fight by declaring in November he has the right to hand out nearly 5 million work-permits to illegal immigrants, even though many Americans don’t have jobs.

Congressional “Republicans find themselves on the sidelines bleating plaintively about violations of the separation of powers,” Krauthammer wrote.

“They thought they found an instrument of resistance in funding for the Department of Homeland Security [until Feb. 27, but]… as the night follows day, Republicans, not the filibustering Democrats, will be blamed for shutting down DHS and jeopardizing the nation’s safety at a time of heightened international terrorism,” he added.

With no way to block Obama’s power-grab, the GOP needs to match the Democrats’ ruthlessness, according to Krauthammer.

“Push the button,” he wrote.

“Abolish the filibuster… immediately pass the House homeland security bill [which bars spending on the amnesty] and send it to the president… the politics will have been radically changed,” Krauthammer stated.

“The current story line is: Republican Congress won’t fund DHS, threatening to shut it down. New story line: Obama vetoes funding for DHS, threatening to shut it down,” he continued. “A presidential veto would lead to a more fair allocation of blame. And it’s blame allocation that determines which side blinks first. The president will have a major incentive to find some face-saving finesse.”

“But filibuster abolition is more than a one-shot proposition. It would radically change the next two years. It would give Republicans full control of the Congress and allow swift passage of a GOP agenda,” he wrote.

“The GOP could be sending bill after bill to the president’s desk — on tax reform, trade, Obamacare and, if it has the guts, immigration,” he said.

“Obama’s choice? Sign, veto or negotiate a compromise. If he vetoes, then Republicans take that issue to the country in 2016,” the conservative columnist wrote.

“Go bold. Go nuclear. Abolish the filibuster.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/22/kr...-amnesty-grab/

I totally disagree. The filibuster is an inherent right of the minority in the US Congress. I don't even have a problem with the 60 vote deal in the Senate. The whole idea of our system is when you're right about something you use your skill set to convince others that it's in their best interest to support the bill. Republicans are finally doing the right thing, but leave it to people like Krauthammer who surprisingly doesn't know enough about the issues at stake to come up with a weekly article that makes no sense and harms our representative rights in the end, to recommend undoing an inherent right of Congress to filibuster.

He should be saying "not a dime, hold the line, stand your ground". This is Obama's fault, his amnesty, his breach of the law, his problem. No one with 2 live brain cells is going to blame Republicans for anything except doing the right thing to stop it, and giving Republicans full credit for doing so. I have absolutely no problem if DHS is defunded for 2 years until we have a new President. Whatever it takes, that's what we must do.

Americans are worn out with this "terror" crap, whether it happens or not, we just don't care any more. We're sick and tired of seeing our liberties taken and our privacy invaded in the name of "terror". And we'll be damn if on top of all that, we're going to submit to Obama Amnesty and legalize 20 million or more illegal aliens in the US because some coward Muslim Murderer with his face covered threatened a mall in Minnesota. Oh that's right, this 5 million number is only the beginning. Hell, Sessions discovered Obama has already legalized 7.4 million since 2009 with his "secret sauce" at USCIS.

So wake up Charles, get with the program. We want to win but not by revoking the inherent right to filibuster.

If Charles Krauthammer has truly been 'radicalized' in the fight against illegal immigration then he should go to his bosses at Fox News like Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and ask them to end the prohibition on truly anti amnesty guests on the network.

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