McConnell moves to prevent Homeland Security shutdown

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McConnell moves to prevent Homeland Security shutdown

By Jordain Carney and Mike Lillis at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/233564-mcconnell-moves-to-prevent-homeland-security-shutdown

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took steps Monday to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by splitting off legislation attacking President Obama’s immigration actions from the funding fight.

The Kentucky Republican is seeking to fast-track legislation to eliminate two new immigration programs launched by Obama late last year, while allowing a 2012 initiative targeting younger immigrants to continue as designed.

McConnell’s move sets the stage for separate votes on a measure to fund the Homeland Security Department (DHS) past Friday and to dismantle Obama’s unilateral efforts to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.

A House-passed proposal combining those two efforts had hit a wall in the Senate, where Democrats on Monday united for a fourth time this month to block the measure over their opposition to the provisions undoing Obama’s executive actions.


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[Thinkingabout]

1. Funding HSA is much more important than the GOP trying to short circuit the EO

Obama has issued on immigration. Republicans are too chicken shit to do immigration reform so issuing the EO was needed.

[Major Hogwash]

2. He's got until Friday.

Because the lights will go out on the DHS on Saturday if he is not successful.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Guess he finally realized the corporate media stooges would not give him cover all the way to Friday.

DHS head Jeh Johnson releasing the Al-Sabah video "threat" ended all hope of the GOP and their subservient corporate media pinning any terrorist attack on Obama.....it was all they had left to justify holding immigrstion hostage...the media would not be able to avoid all mention of yet another hostage taking if anything happened.

Well played, Obama, someone had to get dirty by stooping to the level of the GOP, but...well played.

No way the GOP could call Johnson a fearmongerer or downplay the very minimal to non-existent "threat" after all the fear mongering they themselves and the media have been doing...kind of hoisted on their own petard of fear.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Got to Love it Baby when the wheels come off

Rethug Idiot Bus. And to think the Media Propaganda Machine was all tuned up to smash Mr. Obama.

[Fred Sanders]

5. The wheels came off when Jey Johnson released the tape of an impotent and impoverished terrorist organization

that has never operated outside of Kenya and Somalia.

The Media Machine indeed was all oiled up to blame Obama....who is always one step ahead of them because they are SO fucking predictable.

“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War