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Republicans on Capitol Hill began to lash out at President Obama Wednesday after he announced plans to unveil executive actions on immigration in a primetime address Thursday evening.
“The president is throwing this nation into a crisis and we have an obligation to do our duty, here, and in the Senate,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told reporters.
Obama purposely timed the announcement, King said, to coincide with lawmakers leaving Washington Thursday for Thanksgiving recess. King said he’s staying behind in Washington to deal with the issue.
“I decided in an instant, I’m staying,” he said.
King laid out three steps the House could take to respond to Obama, including a resolution of rejection, censuring Obama and defunding the order to prevent its implementation. He stopped short of supporting impeachment.
“I don’t want to go down that path. We have lived through that and it put the nation through a lot of trauma,” he added.
Some Republicans expressed frustration that Obama invited only Senate and House Democrats to dinner Wednesday evening to huddle before the announcement.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the fact that Republicans were not invited signals that Obama is creating “the beginning of a political campaign” that provokes “partisan warfare” and not a bipartisan agreement.
“Why would you do this on the eve of Thanksgiving, going into holidays, unless you want to create a political fight?" Cole asked. "I mean I’m mystified by the political calculus."
Republicans should have been included in Wednesday’s dinner, said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
“I think that’s endemic of how the president has run his office,” she said. “He has been unwilling to reach out to Republicans.”
Bachmann called Obama “cynical” for issuing the order after the midterm elections when so many Democrats faced tight reelection races.
“He chose not to do this before the election because he knew his party would take an absolute drubbing at the polls,” she said. “In all likelihood, Scott Brown would have won his race in New Hampshire. In all likelihood, that would have caused Ed Gillespie to win in Virginia.”
Bachmann and King both support the push to defund Obama’s immigration action through legislation that’s separate from a main government spending bill to avert a full government shutdown.
While Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) said he’s “bothered when somebody tries to pass laws through executive actions,” he said it’s not worth another government shutdown.
I'd like to see them at least seriously discuss it.I dares ya!
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What is the MinC doing to stop that?Why, ignoring it helps their rich constituency continue to hire them with tax breaks, low wages, no benefits and immediate disposal when finished...I'd like to see them at least seriously discuss it.I dares ya!
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The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
No they are not, they started on day one to ruin this president. It's fine to dislike the president but to punish America for voting for him is not fine. By refusing to govern they have created a power vacuum that the president has stepped into.The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
No they are not, they started on day one to ruin this president. It's fine to dislike the president but to punish America for voting for him is not fine. By refusing to govern they have created a power vacuum that the president has stepped into.The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
What they said when the GOP was in power in Congress can be made null and void?No they are not, they started on day one to ruin this president. It's fine to dislike the president but to punish America for voting for him is not fine. By refusing to govern they have created a power vacuum that the president has stepped into.The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
Wow, what color is the sky in your world.
What exactly is "refusing to govern?" Is "governing" only doing what Obama wants?
Would you look at the results of this month's elections?
That's not the people of this country saying they want what Obama wants.
Wake up! They WANT Republicans to put a brake on Obama.
Psst! That's "governing" too!
Republicans are not voting on things they used to like simply because the president might actually sign it. They are purposely not going to send him anything he would sign, that's the perversion here, not the president. They have turned our congress into nothing but a political weapon, the government shutdown proves they do not give a fuck.Obama is doing nothing but dividing this country even further. Dimocrats just don't give a fuck.
Obama created the vacuum himself. The GOP know what Obama is up to and they're trying to prevent it. Problem is, you on the left have no clue of the damage Obama has been doing and will be doing to you personally.No they are not, they started on day one to ruin this president. It's fine to dislike the president but to punish America for voting for him is not fine. By refusing to govern they have created a power vacuum that the president has stepped into.The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
Obama is doing nothing but dividing this country even further. Dimocrats just don't give a fuck.
No they are not, they started on day one to ruin this president. It's fine to dislike the president but to punish America for voting for him is not fine. By refusing to govern they have created a power vacuum that the president has stepped into.The problem is they are, you just forgot what that is.The only crisis is the Republican refusal to govern in the spirit that this country's government was founded on.
Republicans are not voting on things they used to like simply because the president might actually sign it. They are purposely not going to send him anything he would sign, that's the perversion here, not the president. They have turned our congress into nothing but a political weapon, the government shutdown proves they do not give a fuck.Obama is doing nothing but dividing this country even further. Dimocrats just don't give a fuck.
