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Congressmen Excoriate Obama’s Amnesty Plan
‘Incredibly Dangerous To Our National Security,
Health And Economy’
By Garth Kant — WASHINGTON – Republicans immediately blasted leaked details of President Obama’s plan to grant amnesty to some five million illegal immigrants by executive order, but GOP leaders seem unwilling to use the tools available to confront him.
According to an administration source, millions of illegal immigrants would reportedly become eligible for Social Security numbers, government-issued IDs and authorization to work in the United States.
Reaction from conservative lawmakers was swift and scathing.
• Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told WND, “Not only is it unconstitutional, it’s incredibly dangerous – for our national security, public health and our economy.”
• “President Obama’s policies were flatly rejected last week at the polls. Voters didn’t demand that President Obama unilaterally issue work permits to millions of illegal immigrants to take jobs Americans want and need. Republicans need to stand for the American worker and against lawless executive amnesty,” Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., told WND.
• “Just days after claiming he wants to work with Congress … Once again, the president is ignoring the will of the American people by bypassing Congress. It is unacceptable,” said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.
• “Obama’s decision to not enforce the law will drive more parents to send their kids here illegally, fueling sex trafficking and putting cash in the pockets of violent drug lords. Obama is threatening the lives of children and fueling border violence,” Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, told WND.
• A spokesperson for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told WND he has repeatedly said taking executive action on immigration is not only unconstitutional but entirely counterproductive to the goal of fixing the broken immigration system.
• Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said, “The audacity of this president to think he can completely destroy the rule of law with the stroke of a pen is unfathomable to me. It is unconstitutional, it is cynical and it violates the will of the American people. Our republic will not stand if we tolerate a president who is set upon the complete destruction of the rule of law.”
• “The president must abandon his my-way-or-the-highway approach and instead work constructively with Congress. He must reject unilateralism and demonstrate a willingness to enforce the law, even when he may prefer a different policy outcome,” said Sen, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
Obama’s plan reportedly contains 10 points, including increased border security and pay raises for immigration personnel, but the key feature would expand “deferred action” for both illegal immigrants who arrived as children and, significantly, their parents.
Deferred action means the government would not enforce deportation laws against more than 4.5 million parents of illegal immigrants and another 300,000 of their children who arrived in the United States before Jan. 1, 2010. (The previous cut-off date was June 2007.)
An executive order Obama unilaterally imposed on June 15, 2012, called Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals, or DACA, allowed 700,000 illegal immigrants to reside in the country legally, said Leon Rodriguez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in July.
The new order would essentially expand DACA by making more children eligible for amnesty, as well as their parents.
Conservatives in Congress want to stop an amnesty executive order from taking effect by depriving Obama the funding needed to implement his plan, a strategy outlined in detail to WND Wednesday by a key Senate aide.
Republicans would pass a series of short-term continuing resolutions, or CRs, that would fund everything necessary to keep the government running past a Dec. 11 deadline and through the beginning of next year, while not funding the amnesty order.
GOP leaders apparently favor passing a longer-term omnibus spending bill.
They worry Obama would provoke another government shutdown by refusing to sign CRs lacking the funding for amnesty, and fear the GOP would get the blame.
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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., endorsed the CR strategy in a recent op-ed in Politico, writing, “Congress has the power of the purse.
The president cannot spend a dime unless Congress appropriates it,” and pointed out a similar strategy stopped Obama from closing the prison camp for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
Voicing the same sentiment was Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., who asked rhetorically in an interview, “If the president does something that we really don’t like or approve of, we’re thinking about, how do we defund it? What levers do we have available to us … to pull to prevent the president from doing that in the first place, or defunding it if he does take that step?”
Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., organized a letter signed by 50 House Republicans urging lawmakers to insist that spending legislation include language preventing Obama from acting unilaterally on amnesty.
The congressman told the Wall Street Journal, “Everybody had said they want to do something to stop his recklessness. If we have an opportunity to actually do something rather than complain … why shouldn’t we?”
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Did al-Qaeda And ISIS Just Team Up In Syria?
By F. Peter Brown, Western Journalism — Leaders from al-Qaeda and ISIS have just agreed to stop fighting one another in Syria and focus on their common enemies, according to what a high level Syrian-opposition official and a rebel commander told the Associated Press. They reached the agreement in a farmhouse in northern Syria, according to the sources.
This could present real problems for the US and for the moderate rebel groups that the US has backed. ISIS and the al-Nusra front, which is al-Qaeda’s front in Iraq, have fought intensely for more than a year to be the lead group in opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Not only would the new agreement between ISIS and al-Qaeda mean that they stop fighting each other, but they would also work against common enemies in northern Syria.
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Putin Sends Russian Bombers To “Patrol” Near the USA
In The Gulf Of Mexico
By Greg Campbell, TPNN — In November, 1962, the United States hurled closer and closer to the brink of mutually-assured nuclear annihilation with the Soviet Union. Our Democrat president, John F. Kennedy, demonstrated U.S. foreign policy weaknesses with such disasters as the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Soviet Union, noting the inherent weakness in the Kennedy Administration, moved in to establish nuclear missiles 90-miles off our shores in Cuba.
Though that crisis thankfully abated with a backroom deal to remove missiles from Turkey, a new Russian threat has emerged: Russian long-range bombers will soon be circling the skies near American airspace in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
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Let Them Hang On Their Own Words:
Liberals Are Liberals!
PJTV: ZoNation
Left-wingers have already squirreled away from their labels--‘progressive,’ ‘socialist,’ and ‘communist’--we shouldn’t let them squirrel away from ‘liberal’.
Muslim Terrorist And Obamacare Navigator
Finally Getting Locked Up
By Ben Barrack, Shoebat Foundation — A woman who committed heinous acts of terrorism years ago and who became an Obamacare navigator years after that had become known, is finally getting locked up. Dominating the news this week are the words of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, who has been caught on video admitting that Democrats had to use deception to help pass the legislation. In several instances, Gruber referred to the American people as “stupid”, which was the apparent reason for the deception. A side story to that has to do with a woman who used to be
an Obamacare navigator. Well, she’s also a terrorist whose past clearly must have been known by whomever granted her navigator status. She’s finally getting locked up.
It would be nice to see if the same people who hired Odeh have the same reaction to this news that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has to the news about Gruber. Today, Pelosi says she doesn’t know who Gruber is and that he didn’t help write the Obamacare law: [video]
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School Replaces ‘Hall Of Heroes’ Murals Honoring Mother Teresa, Others With Oprah, J.K. Rowling
By Todd Starnes, Todd's American Dispatch — For years, boys and girls at South Arbor Charter Academy have been inspired by Heroes Hall – a corridor featuring murals that honored the Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts, Mother Teresa, Betsy Ross and Albert Einstein. But many parents are furious after the principal had the murals replaced with paintings honoring President Obama, J.K. Rowling and Oprah. “This is no longer a hall of heroes,” parent Craig Bergman told me. “Now we have a hall of celebrities.”
The original mural had been a part of the Michigan charter school for years. It included a diverse group of national and global “heroes” – from Gandhi to the astronauts who were killed when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas.
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NewsBusted: November 14, 2014
The Green Light For Conservative Laughter!
Topics for this Edition of NewsBusted
• Vladimir Putin
• Illegal Border Crossers
• TSA
• Heavy Snorers
• Willie Nelson
• Kim Kardashian
• False Eyelashes
USA Today: Obamacare “Accelerates Demise Of Rural Hospitals”
By Katie Pavlich, Townhall — As Gruber-Gate continues and as Obamacare heads back to the Supreme Court over the validity of federal subsidies in states that do not use federal healthcare exchanges, the legislation continues to take an extremely negative toll on the nation's healthcare system and hospitals.
In a piece published yesterday, USA Today writers Jayne O'Donnell and Laura Ungar detail the devastating effect the Affordable Care Act is having on rural hospitals.
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ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi: ‘Erupt Volcanoes Of Jihad’
NBC News — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of extremist group ISIS, called on his supporters to “erupt volcanoes of jihad” in an apparent new audio message released Thursday. The recording, which appeared to be genuine according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm and NBC News counterterrorism consultancy, came days after speculation that Baghdadi had been wounded in an airstrike in Iraq.
"O soldiers of the Islamic State, continue to harvest the soldiers," the recording said. "Erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere. Light the Earth with fire." The extremist leader claimed the bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is failing, saying: “America and its allies are terrified, weak, and powerless.”
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Krauthammer: ‘Impeachable Offense’
America Is A Constitutional Republic - Not A Dictatorship
“We Do Not Rule By Decree In The U.S.”
Fox News: The Kelly File
A flagrant assault on the Constitution… “Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News tonight that amnesty via executive order is an impeachable offense.”
Obama’s Secret Treaty Would Be The Most Important Step Toward
A One World Economic System
By Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse — Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely ignoring it. If this treaty is adopted, it will be the most important step toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. The name of this treaty is "the Trans-Pacific Partnership", and the text of the treaty is so closely guarded that not even members of Congress know what is in it. Right now, there are 12 countries that are part of the negotiations: the United States, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These nations have a combined population of 792 million people and account for an astounding 40 percent of the global economy. And it is hoped that the EU, China and India will eventually join as well. This is potentially the most dangerous economic treaty of our lifetimes, and yet there is very little political debate about it in this country.
Even though
Congress is not being allowed to see what is in the treaty, Barack Obama wants Congress to give him fast track negotiating authority. What that means is that Congress would essentially trust Obama to negotiate a good treaty for us. Congress could vote the treaty up or down, but would not be able to amend or filibuster it.
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GOP Split On Using Shutdown To Stop Obama Amnesty
By Melanie Batley, Newsmax — House Republicans appear to be facing their first test of unity as they grapple with how to respond to President Barack Obama's anticipated executive action on immigration, which could come as early as next week.
According to The Washington Post, the leadership is intent on pursing an approach that would denounce the president's actions but deal with its enactment in the months ahead by making incremental changes to the law.
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Obama’s Illegal Welcome Mat
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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14
