BILL TO BLOCK OBAMA’S “EXECUTIVE AMNESTY” FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE
|| By ROBERT ROMANO || “We’re going to try to pass it.”
That was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) January 15 take on House-passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security this year while prohibiting the administration of Barack Obama from granting executive amnesty to 4.5 million illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children.
McConnell did offer that passing the House bill would “be our first choice,” but added “if we’re not able to do that, then we’ll let you know what’s next,” indicating the measure might not garner 60 votes needed to reach cloture and overcome a filibuster.
Have Senate Republicans already given in to Obama’s executive amnesty before a single vote has been held in that chamber?
The statement prompted Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) to blast Senate leadership at a January 21 meeting of conservative lawmakers.
“It’s uncanny to me that our leadership… is already sending the message that we’ve already lost this battle,” Labrador said.
Labrador drew distinction from 2014 election campaign promises to what is now taking place on the ground: “Last year the message was, ‘We cannot get our way because we don’t have a Senate [majority].’ Now this year’s message is, ‘We cannot get our way, because we only have 54 votes.’ That’s not leadership. That’s not why the American people voted for us.”
Most recently, on January 22, McConnell told reporters, “It’s an important piece of legislation and we’ll decide in February how to handle it but at the end of the day we’re going to fund the department, obviously.”
In the meantime, this is probably not how now-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) might have approached a similar issue when he ran the Senate.
In 2010, when it came to passing the Dodd-Frank financial legislation, Reid just kept holding cloture votes to get on to the bill as Senate Republicans attempted to mount a filibuster …
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Robert Romano is the Senior Editor of Americans for Limited Government. This piece (reprinted with permission) originally appeared on NetRightDaily.com.
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I liked when they could not for the love of God give a straight answer when asked about a Republican alternative to the ACA. Its going to be fun watching the Democrats just sit back and let these frauds self destruct over the next two years.
The Republicans kept trying to peddle high risk pools as a “solution” to the health care industry’s woes. The same high risk pools that were around before the ACA. The same high risk pools that were unaffordable and exclusionary, and weren’t even available in every state.
But they really do care!
GOP 2015: Just go to the ER. That’s what we do with our gov’t supplied healthcare.
The Democrat Party really doesn’t exist anymore. SCOTUS will finish off ACA in June.
Because SCOTUS totally dealt the ACA a crushing blow last time, right? :)
Fool me once, your fault
Fool me twice, my fault
Roberts reads the newspaper
Bye Bye Obamacare!
Gonna say Justice Roberts is off his meds if he votes the “wrong way” again? :)
Roberts reads the newspapeers because why? He’s running for re-election to the Supreme Court? LMAO.
Please. He is an ‘elitist’ with an ego.
Plus Gruber sealed the deal on ACA-just like Obama sealed the NO immigration reform deal with his E/O.
Vote for us, and we’ll make sure your healthcare benefits are reduced – a winning slogal if I’ve ever heard one.
What benefits would be reduced? The benefits have already been reduced under Obamacare with the higher deductibles and premiums.
Expanded Medicaid is a ‘bust’ as physicians are NOT accepting new patients on Medicaid-especially since reimbursement has been cut.
Why do you think all these ‘mini-clinics’ at drug stores are popping up?
Not enough docs so now you see a nurse.
Obamacare destroyed healthcare.
No lifetime caps to lifetime caps. Annual caps put in place. Reduced coverage for mental health. Kids kicked off at 18 instead of 26. Shall I continue or can you grasp that fact. Oh – no more birth control (will go over well with parents who have daughters). No coverage if pre-existing conditions.
Ok.Republicans are ok with kids mooching off of mom and dad until 26 and pre-existing conditions and a couple of other things that could stay in place
With Obamacare it does no good to have it if you can’t afford to go to the doctor or can’t find a doctor.
Plus Obama changed the 40 hour work week to 29 hours.
I work 40+ hours a week and have an ACA compliant policy. I have the same doctor – his availability hasn’t changed. Still can’t handle admitting your wrong – eh Flip?
The Affordable Care Act requires large employers to offer health insurance to those who work at least 30 hours a week. The bill would change that threshold to 40 hours a week.
Employers are reducing the hours of workers to get them under the 30-hour threshold, which amounts to trying to finance health insurance for some Americans by cutting hours and wages for other Americans.
Wrong?
Except 99.9% of all employers are not reducing hours – except I guess Wal Mart.
Then you’re going to keep ACA. What – you’re going to repeal ACA so you can replace it with ACA? The American people would see that as a waste of time.
And that’s what you have now with BummerCare. Reduced benefits and increased costs. Duh!
“And that’s what you have now with BummerCare. Reduced benefits and increased costs. Duh!”
Your posts never pass the sniff test. You and old Pogo would say anything to slander President Obama.
By the way, how is that push-mower that you keep trying to pass off as a “medical device” working these days?
I do slander Gruber-ment programs that are expensive and out of touch with the will of the taxpayers … and those in gobbler-ment who lie, cheat and steal from that taxpayers.
I finally got around to mowing the front lawn … that is my exer-cycle, physical phitness enhancement device. Beats your gameboy, fur sure.
You tool: its is not the benefits that need to be “reduced”. It is the costs of the extra taxes to pay for those benefits.
The ACA does reduce benefits to the majority, democrats and republicrats and neo-cons and occupiers alike. The ACA does increase the tax burden on the poor and middle classes.
Has anyone been following the news about assisted suicide becoming the law? That is your ACA death panels Gruberizing the way for BummerCare mandates aimed at …
(I am on my way to get my “free” blood tests and a checkup this AM … which now cost me and my health care insurance provider more than $200, double what I paid two years ago. BUT because I have a non-g’ment / ACA subsidized health care insurance provider, I don’t need an appointment for either the tests or the doctor consultations … They actually called me and asked me to come in.)
Good luck, hope all is well.
54 votes won’t override a veto, let alone end a filibuster, but yet again, the point isn’t to actually pass anything. Romano is just encouraging the same GOP behavior of the last 4 years, put up token bills that aren’t expected to pass under any stretch of the imagination and obstruct everything else.
The GOP has no plans outside of “how can we make our mega rich benefactors even more mega rich”.
In case you haven’t noticed the mega rich have already been getting more mega rich under Obama.
At least they throw us peons a bone or two. Republicans fucking despise their base. Look at their policies.
Still doesn’t eliminate the fact that the mega rich are getting more mega rich under Obama.
They need to keep bills on their desk like Reid did.
Whose bills? Their own?
I don’t care “whose bills”, they just need to act like Reid then you would be happy.
I don’t care “whoes bills”, they just need to act like Reid then you would be happy.
You mean like Boehner using the Hastert Rule?
Sorry I edited before you posted.
What ever works for you have them use anything you want.
What ever works for you have them use anything you want.
What gives you any inclination that this is what I want?
Well, if they do what you want they will be acting like Democrats, isn’t that what you want?
We haven’t even established what it is I supposedly want, as if it makes a difference anyways.
you appear to be arguing with a piece of cardboard.
“as if it makes a difference anyways” get use to it common core is coming.
We can agree “as if it makes a difference anyways”.
All they were saying was if they don’t have 60 votes to override veto the next option was the ‘power of the purse’.
There will be NO immigration reform prior to 2016 election.
Governing is a real bitch, ain’t it?!
Funny how some of you are still breaking your necks to find a way to bash Republicans…not saying that some don’t deserve it…but compared to what Obama has done to this country, if you are not 24/7 holding Obama accountable…you need to STFU about the GOP….
In other words: We have a much BIGGER problem w/ the disaster the Democrats have wrought. We’ll deal w/ the GOP later. Right now, until we bid the WORST president since Carter, good riddance…you are stupid to be attacking anyone BUT Obama….
5.6% unemployment, 18,000 DOW, $1.95 gas – it’s a disaster. Shall we including booming auto industry, manufacturing is expanding all over, housing market recovering. Man, it’s so bad out there. Oh yeah, in Crapville it’s not.
If Obama took the $85 billion a month he’s giving to prop up his Wall St. cronies, we would not be suffering. Instead he’s feeding contributors to his campaign…while we do without…
And you unemployment number is a lie, and gas is still WAY too high, and the trillions we’ve paid for $3.35 a gallon for SIX years is GONE. I want it back….
Call Exxon – I’m sure they’ll listen to you.
No, they listen to Obama, because he’s making them Fat and Rich…while he punishes the struggling American family….
We’ll deal w/ the GOP later.
No you won’t. You constantly ask for things to return to 2000-2006 where the GOP loved it some deficit spending.
They’ve Delivered a lot…we just DEMAND much more…
They’ve had the Senate for three weeks and haven’t done anything. Great start.
well they did try and push Keystone again and lets not forget the old abortion itch they just cant seem to scratch..no jobs bills, budget, or alternative to the dreaded ACA but hey, next up..gay marriage for something new
In states, the GOP has accomplished a lot and even the GOP US House has made some assaults on Obama…that would have NEVER been delivered w/ a Democrat House.
That’s why Red States are poorer than Blue states?
The Ignorance of Democrat voters are why the armpits of SC struggle.
Where we have abject poverty is in districts that have voted Democrat, generation after generation, and still do…
Where a majority votes Republican, we prosper in social and economic areas of life…
IOW: It’s your F*#king fault..and you don’t care how much your doltish voters suffer, as long as your greed is fed, and your power maintained…
Current “missing worker” estimates at a glance
Updated January 9, 2015, based on most current data available
Rocky and the other socialists in FITS are living in fantasy land.
First-time unemployment claims were up over 300,000 again last week.
Any recovery in economy is 100% gas prices-it is a huge tax break for consumers.
Flip – you still don’t get it. You’re wasting time trying to cry the numbers are false because you don’t like them. You don’t have average GDP growth Q2 and Q3 combined of 4.7% if you have 10% unemployment. See buddy – back in 2009 – when we did have 10% unemployment – GDP growth was negative. Next thing you’re going to tell us is that GDP growth was actually negative, but there’s a big black helicopter over your house and you can’t provide the details because guys in black suits are sitting in sedans outside your house. I might suggest they’re really wearing white suits.
http://www.epi.org/publication/missing-workers/
I prefer getting my information from the experts-NOT socialists.
Oh. Half of that GDP growth in the 4th quarter you love to quote is from the GOVERNMENT ORDERED OBAMACARE PAYMENTS!
Go ahead, give Obama your salute…”Heil Hitler!”
Now last week you said it was 92 million, now it’s 6.8 million. Oh, and as I read the assumptions (of which there are many) – it’s still a guess and doesn’t really say why those 7 million aren’t working (BTW – 1 million are college age and another 1 million could be stay at home Mom’s and another 1 million late middle-age wives who now don’t have to work). So unless you can get some real research done on exactly why those 7 million aren’t working – it’s fairly worthless. Assuming though, for the minute, that the students and older Mom’s and stay-at-home Mom’s are counted as having viable reasons not to work – then it’s really only 4 million, and with 300K jobs a month created – most will be happily employed shortly. Nice try though.
92 million is the number of adults unemployed. 6.8 million are the ones they can’t find.
You are dyslexic, aren’t you? GED and still can’t read? :-)
Did you see the other article on that website that talked about Right To Work ensures lower wages and hurts the middle class? Probably did right? That was a good article.
I did.It is a LIBERAL website and why I used it to debunk the fiction you post.
You didn’t debunk anything. YOu have one article that makes broad assumptions about labor participation in a pool of 6.8 million – that isn’t supported by any factual empirical evidence. Now once they go out and talk to a reasonable sample of that 6.8 million to validate their assumptions – their article is about as valuable as TG’s rants. God if you’re a lawyer please post your real name incase I ever need a new attorney for something. I’d hate to walk into your office and accidently hire you.
BTW – ever hear of that great divorce attorney – Carmine Notyours.
Gas prices started falling in October. How does that explain Q2 and Q3 which ended in September. Never mind, you wouldn’t know a bag of doughnuts if it came up and bit you on the ass.
Lets see. Q2-TAX REFUNDS for people that didn’t pay ANY income tax (EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT).
Q3.SUMMER VACATIONS and BACK TO SCHOOL SPENDING.
Rocky, do you need a tutor? For a guy that says he makes over a $100 GRAND a year and travels the world from his couch and Starbucks-you are awfully fucking stupid. :-)
So what’s your excuse going to be for Q4 – you won’t have tax refunds excuse, or government spending excuse. Oh – that will be the gas price excuse. Hey idiot – economy is on fire – maybe not in Crapville – but hey – we can’t all live in poor, undereducated little Crapville. You’re now free to return to Fox and Limbaugh for new talking points for today.
gas price!!!! Bingo!!!
Of course they’re going to cave. The real HLS bill will include $30 billion for increased border enforcement. Then they’ll quickly pass the three bills getting crafted in the House – 1) Expanded border security with no real hard triggers 2) Expanded visa’s for tech workers from India 3) amnesty for the illegals with a pathway to citizenship (because you can’t give them Green Cards but say they rules for their green cards are different – meaning pay your fines and apply for citizenshp after 5 years).
The conservative wing of the GOP has been played once again – they’re so silly. Give them some katknip and they’ll vote Establishment – then act surprised when they get nailed with the “fine print.”
Here’s the problem with Republicans and it’s really simple. “When Your In a Hole, Stop Digging.
Nice site – did you see this article too on that site:
RTW is associated with lower wages and benefits for both union and nonunion workers. In a RTW state, the average worker makes 3.2 percent less than a similar worker in a non-RTW state.
Through weakening unions, RTW hurts the middle class. As union membership has declined in recent decades, the share of overall income received by the middle class is essentially at a 45-year low.
The GOP has already caved on abortion at 22 weeks. This from the guys who run on “life begins at conception,” and hold midnight vigils at the toilet bowl to pray over the unknown zygote… straining sanitary napkins and tampons for conceived eggs to make death certificates for, and to put into tiny coffins.