Republicans have choice between caving to Obama and shutting down Homeland Security

[Tony Stark]

The Republican plan to overturn President Obama's executive actions on immigration was to attach legislation overturning those actions on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security. To the surprise of no one with a brain, this plan failed. After passing in the House, the bill was filibustered in the Senate.

Republicans will blame Democrats for this situation and vice versa, but the fact of the matter is that after screaming about the supposed unconstitutionality of Obama's actions, Republicans are now faced with the choice of either allowing them to stand by passing a clean funding bill or shutting down Homeland Security.

As Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), said, this is a “a self-inflicted political wound for Republicans."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/u...and-security-funding-tied-to-immigration.html
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/04/gop...ntly_for_republican_leaders_to_cave_to_obama/

 

[thaiboxerken]

They are going to point and say "see, Democrats don't want to protect our country" but people will see that the Republicans poisoned the bill with the immigration nonsense.

Wow, they sure are clever........

 

[DavidJames]

Adding unrelated riders to bills is old news in Washington and yes, both sides do it*. Sometimes it actually works out.

Republicans have simply taken it to an art form.

*required because that will be brought up by Republicans. Even though Democrats never used it to shut down the government or disable critical organizations.

 

[Kopji]

Oh, they won the election, control both houses of Congress -and now they're just full of excuses and whining now that the shoe's on the other foot.

 

[theprestige]

Shut it down. I never liked the name anyway.

 

[lobosrul]

Please do let the DHS die. Their duties should be done by the FBI and Port Authority domestically, and by the CIA on foreign soil.

 

[Dr. Keith]

Shut it down. I never liked the name anyway.

Is is so Orwellian.

 

[theprestige]

Is is so Orwellian.

I was going to say "fascist", but for the sake of the "Orwellian" canard I'm now inclined to keep it around, with its current name.

 

[Kestrel]

I was going to say "fascist", but for the sake of the "Orwellian" canard I'm now inclined to keep it around, with its current name.

Homeland Security is Orwellian. The fascists would have called it Fatherland Security.

 

[Foolmewunz]

I long for the good old days when "the honorable gentleman from whyomma" would sneak in an article that delivered largesse to his brother-in-law by having the government buy a worthless non-productive mine and setting it aside as national parkland for retired nanny goats and whatnots.

 

[theprestige]

Homeland Security is Orwellian. The fascists would have called it Fatherland Security.

There's more to fascism than the National Socialist Party, you know.

Anyway, it seems like people like to call things "Orwellian" just for the sake of calling them "Orwellian".

 

[casebro]

That sounds like Doublespeak to me.

 

[Foolmewunz]

There's more to fascism than the National Socialist Party, you know.

Anyway, it seems like people like to call things "Orwellian" just for the sake of calling them "Orwellian".

A typically Orwellian post.

 

[Checkmite]

A typically Orwellian post.

An Orwellian would say something like that.

 

[Tony Stark]

GOP Infighting Begins As Clock Ticks To Homeland Security Shutdown

Freaking retards.

 

[epepke]

Please do let the DHS die. Their duties should be done by the FBI and Port Authority domestically, and by the CIA on foreign soil.

And FEMA. They used to be pretty good. Not quite good enough not to make it into the prescient Deus Ex, maybe.

 

[12AX7]

And FEMA. They used to be pretty good.

To be fair, those concentration camps really hurt their public image.

 

[12AX7]

"We've had a week on it. We've had three cloture votes, all of which have not succeeded. It's clear we can't get on the bill. We can't offer amendments to the bill. I think it'd be pretty safe to say we're stuck, because of Democratic obstruction on the Senate side," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters Tuesday.

Man, that "obstruction" thing's gotta suck.



ETA:

Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose demands led to the standoff, said it's only failing because GOP leaders aren't fighting hard enough.

I wonder if conservative Republicans have begun to rue the day they got in bed with the Tea Party?

 

[TragicMonkey]

To be fair, those concentration camps really hurt their public image.

They shouldn't have bickered with the Medicare Death Panels over whose stormtroopers had the better uniforms.

 

[12AX7]

They shouldn't have bickered with the Medicare Death Panels over whose stormtroopers had the better uniforms.

Well they didn't have a whole lot of choice; Obama's private army took all the brown shirts.