Make my day: Let Obama close down DHS
Article subtitle:
Tom Tancredo sees 'cynical game of CYA' in Washington
Article publisher:
World Net Daily
Article date:
20 February 2015
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
These days it’s hard to know if a newspaper headline is real news or a parody from Mad Magazine. I’m not kidding.
“Obama threatens veto” is a recurring headline lately, and frankly, I like it. But not all veto threats are created equal, and the latest one rings hollow.
Now he is promising to veto the Republican budget bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which cuts off funds for his executive amnesty. A presidential veto would leave that department without funding and thus shut down all of its programs if alternative legislation is not passed by Congress by Feb. 28.
Republicans are terrified of being blamed for shutting down the government and so are worried about the “fallout” and the “optics” of an Obama veto. There are two good reasons why this worry is misplaced. First, it would be Obama shutting down the government agency if he vetoes funding, not the Republicans. And secondly, a veto would trigger a shutdown of one single agency, not “the government.”...
If Homeland Security shuts down, the Border Patrol will have to stop not patrolling the border and will have to stop releasing intruders after giving them their “walking papers.” And, horror of horrors, if Homeland Security closes down, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will have to stop not issuing fines to employers of illegal workers, stop not deporting foreign students who have overstayed their visas, and will have to stop not deporting criminal aliens as they are released from our jails and prisons.
...So, go ahead, President Barack Hussein Obama: Make my day; close down DHS.
Of course, there will be no veto and no Homeland Security shut down. The little drama being played out in Washington this month over Homeland Security funding is a cynical game of “CYA” with all the politicians emerging as winners and only the American people on the losing end of the stick...
... Senate Majority Leader McConnell could have decided to do what Harry Reid would have done – suspend the filibuster rule, bring the bill to a vote, pass it and send it to the White House.
But McConnell chose not to do that, and House Speaker John Boehner and the Washington political establishment, including the conservative establishment for the most part, thanked him for that.
Thus, Republican leaders chose to protect the filibuster rule instead of protecting the Constitution...
My friends, our “living Constitution” is on life support