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Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration

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Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration

One Republican leader on Sunday held open the possibility that his party could move to shut down the government in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from taking executive action on immigration policy.

A vocal group of conservatives in the House of Representatives is pressing to use government funding as leverage to prevent any White House moves that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States.

In contrast, last time the GOP shut down the government:

Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government - The Washington Post

In the aftermath, eight in 10 Americans say they disapprove of the shutdown. Two in three Republicans or independents who lean Republican share a negative view of the impasse. And even a majority of those who support the tea party movement disapprove.

Polls: Shutdown nightmare for Republicans - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com
Poll shows Republicans taking blame for government shutdown - Los Angeles Times
Boomerang! Poll Reveals GOP's Government Shutdown Bolstered Obamacare's Popularity By 20% - Forbes
Poll: Government Shutdown Damages GOP - Business Insider

I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image. Flight attendants, PR appointees and HS students will support this and it will give the GOP an even bigger majority in 2016. Using the shutdown option will also bring in support from Independents. They seem to be in favor of such things.
 
The implied assumption is that the GOP will shutdown the government. That's not yet happened, and I kinda doubt that's what the GOP leadership will allow to happen, they may not be able to prevent it.

At present, they are only considering it.

Seems that regardless of the situation whenever there's a government shutdown, the rule in DC is to blame the Republicans.

One can only hope that the GOP comes up with something better than this to oppose Obama's unpopular immigration OE plans.
 
Yes, shut the damn government down. Impeach Obama too.

Match your words with action. Bring it on.
 
The GOP House has had more than enough time to work on immigration reform in their four years in power.
They simply can't get 218 votes out of their caucus on this issue, even if they had all 435 seats.

All they know is NO, going on perpetual vacation starting July 31st and politically calculating that NO action is good action .
 
Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government - The Washington Post
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That is why they got elected this time around, huh?
The truth of the matter is that it was the Dems which caused the shutdown.


I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image.
Amnesty isn't that popular amongst the population. So I doubt that it would have that much affect.
It seems to me that they wouldn't even have to shut down the entire government to prevent Obama from harming this country any further, just prohibit any spending or allocation of funds on that which Obama wishes to do.
 
Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration
In contrast, last time the GOP shut down the government:

Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government - The Washington Post



Polls: Shutdown nightmare for Republicans - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com
Poll shows Republicans taking blame for government shutdown - Los Angeles Times
Boomerang! Poll Reveals GOP's Government Shutdown Bolstered Obamacare's Popularity By 20% - Forbes
Poll: Government Shutdown Damages GOP - Business Insider

I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image. Flight attendants, PR appointees and HS students will support this and it will give the GOP an even bigger majority in 2016. Using the shutdown option will also bring in support from Independents. They seem to be in favor of such things.
Too bad the Democrats weren't bright enough to use the last GOP shutdown to their advantage.
The GOP money-men would have smeared them to no end if roles were reversed.

While the Kochs and company were hammering Dem Senators like Hagan with tens of millions of negative ads after the ACA roll-out,
Dems played Dukakis/Horton on steroids and lost the election early and often.

By the time they spent money, it was far too late .
 
It's not decide as of yet.
Republican leaders are hearing from their most conservative members, who want to stop the president from acting alone to perhaps legalize as many as 5 million immigrants now living in the United States illegally.

“If the president does something really substantial, like what we are hearing he will do, I think you would have a sizable uprising from our conference who would be willing to go as far as we need to on defunding,” Rep. John Fleming, R-La., told the Examiner.
. . . .
Both Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have pledged in recent days that the government would not shut down this time, though Boehner promised to fight executive action “tooth and nail.”
. . .
“The power of the purse is the preferred order,” newly re-elected Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Friday on the Laura Ingraham radio
show.
GOP facing internal fight over government funding | WashingtonExaminer.com

So it's far from settled that the GOP is going to shutdown the government. More likely, they'll add provisions to the required funding bill that will defund the EO immigration actions that Obama wants to take, which seems to be a reasonable and not too extreme move to counter.
 
Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration



In contrast, last time the GOP shut down the government:

Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government - The Washington Post



Polls: Shutdown nightmare for Republicans - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com
Poll shows Republicans taking blame for government shutdown - Los Angeles Times
Boomerang! Poll Reveals GOP's Government Shutdown Bolstered Obamacare's Popularity By 20% - Forbes
Poll: Government Shutdown Damages GOP - Business Insider

I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image. Flight attendants, PR appointees and HS students will support this and it will give the GOP an even bigger majority in 2016. Using the shutdown option will also bring in support from Independents. They seem to be in favor of such things.
I think that same "the public will be pissed at the GOP over a shutdown" argument was used about a year ago. Yet the voters punished the GOP for their obstruction by giving them total control of congress. Government shutdowns only send liberals into a frenzy because government is the center of their universe. Most rational people barely notice if the notice at all. And if Obama vetoes legislation passed by both houses of congress, why isn't he the one shutting down government?
 
I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image. Flight attendants, PR appointees and HS students will support this and it will give the GOP an even bigger majority in 2016. Using the shutdown option will also bring in support from Independents. They seem to be in favor of such things.

The shutdowns are not about pleasing the American people, but business partners. You'd think people would realize that already. The GOP doesn't give two ****s about its constituents.
 
So some on the far right in the GOP are calling for a shutdown to get into a Mexican stand-off with Obama over amnesty and that is translated into being a foregone conclusion of it happening by some in the press and some here?

Right...
 
The shutdowns are not about pleasing the American people, but business partners. You'd think people would realize that already. The GOP doesn't give two ****s about its constituents.

How in the hell is shutting off the federal dollar spigot supposed to be interpreted as pleasing business partners? I don't know one, not one, business owner that would want to have the federal dollar stop flowing.

Seriously???
 
How in the hell is shutting off the federal dollar spigot supposed to be interpreted as pleasing business partners? I don't know one, not one, business owner that would want to have the federal dollar stop flowing.

Seriously???

Really? You can't figure it out?

The Dems are still right of center so it's not like their policies are that big of a change, but still... they threaten the interests of big businesses. It's advantageous to shut down Congress to serve a few than to keep the spigots running and the nation functional.
 
I think that same "the public will be pissed at the GOP over a shutdown" argument was used about a year ago. Yet the voters punished the GOP for their obstruction by giving them total control of congress. Government shutdowns only send liberals into a frenzy because government is the center of their universe. Most rational people barely notice if the notice at all. And if Obama vetoes legislation passed by both houses of congress, why isn't he the one shutting down government?

Because it's a rule in DC that right, wrong or indifferent, when the government shuts down, it's the Republicans fault.
 
Republicans weigh government shutdown to stop Obama on immigration



In contrast, last time the GOP shut down the government:

Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government - The Washington Post



Polls: Shutdown nightmare for Republicans - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com
Poll shows Republicans taking blame for government shutdown - Los Angeles Times
Boomerang! Poll Reveals GOP's Government Shutdown Bolstered Obamacare's Popularity By 20% - Forbes
Poll: Government Shutdown Damages GOP - Business Insider

I'm sure that this time, a government shutdown will be positive for the GOPs image. Flight attendants, PR appointees and HS students will support this and it will give the GOP an even bigger majority in 2016. Using the shutdown option will also bring in support from Independents. They seem to be in favor of such things.
The only ones I've heard speak of a shutdown are lying demos.

With that said, Congress holds the power of the purse. Deal with it.
 
I think that same "the public will be pissed at the GOP over a shutdown" argument was used about a year ago. Yet the voters punished the GOP for their obstruction by giving them total control of congress. Government shutdowns only send liberals into a frenzy because government is the center of their universe. Most rational people barely notice if the notice at all. And if Obama vetoes legislation passed by both houses of congress, why isn't he the one shutting down government?

Because it is Congress's job to produce bills that will become law. That includes being signed by the President or at least have the votes to override his veto. The Republicans have been unable to do that because they have forgotten how to govern. I expect the public will be fed up by 2016 and they will throw the bums out.
 
Because it is Congress's job to produce bills that will become law. That includes being signed by the President or at least have the votes to override his veto. The Republicans have been unable to do that because they have forgotten how to govern.
Well, no, they had no power in the Senate. Now they do, so their ability to govern will be tested from here forward. That said, the American people don't seem to unhappy with the job repubicans in congress have been doing. Their anger seems to be more directed at the incompetent in the White House.
 
So some on the far right in the GOP are calling for a shutdown to get into a Mexican stand-off with Obama over amnesty and that is translated into being a foregone conclusion of it happening by some in the press and some here?


Right...


its time to cut foreign aid, including that sent to Mexico.
 
Well, no, they had no power in the Senate. Now they do, so their ability to govern will be tested from here forward. That said, the American people don't seem to unhappy with the job repubicans in congress have been doing. Their anger seems to be more directed at the incompetent in the White House.

Right and when Obama vetos their poor excuses for legislation they will be back to the same. Inability to govern is not attractive to voters forever..
 
The GOP House has had more than enough time to work on immigration reform in their four years in power.
They simply can't get 218 votes out of their caucus on this issue, even if they had all 435 seats.

All they know is NO, going on perpetual vacation starting July 31st and politically calculating that NO action is good action .

As long as a pro-illegal is in office No action is good action.Because action on the part of pro-illegals only ensures that the illegal immigration problem gets worse than what it is now.Amnesty/legalization for people here illegally encourages more people to come here illegally, not less.
 
Right and when Obama vetos their poor excuses for legislation they will be back to the same. Inability to govern is not attractive to voters forever..
Why should they take the heat for Obamas vetoes? Or is he still responsible for nothing?
 
Why should they take the heat for Obamas vetoes? Or is he still responsible for nothing?

The veto is a Presidential power included in the Constitution so no Obama will not be blamed for doing his job. But Congress's job is to produce legislation that will become law. If they can't do that they can't govern. How difficult is that to see? If Obama's says he will veto a bill they either must change it or find the votes to override. They are unable to do either and therefore can not govern. Wait and see.
 
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The GOP shutdown? Its never positive. But hey, we reap what we sow.
 
How was the illegal immigration problem doing before Obama came to office?
Do you know off-hand how many illegals were already here--or is there zero overlap on issues when dumped on a DEM President?
And spare me the pro-illegal crap if you want a further conversation .

As long as a pro-illegal is in office No action is good action.Because action on the part of pro-illegals only ensures that the illegal immigration problem gets worse than what it is now.Amnesty/legalization for people here illegally encourages more people to come here illegally, not less.
 
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