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| Texas Congressman: How To Defeat Amnesty/Executive Orders |
| 2014-02-02 |
| The Democrat plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. can be thwarted, despite apparent wavering by House Republican leadership, contends a Texas congressman. In an interview with Michael Savage on his “Savage Nation” nationally syndicated show Friday, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, insisted, furthermore, that if President Obama tries to advance amnesty or any other initiative through illegal executive orders, he can be stopped, because the House holds the purse strings and can cut off funding for actions that can’t be justified legally. “The power of the purse is the secret to this guy – the most illegal, unlawful president in American history,” said Culberson, who had just returned from a GOP retreat in Cambridge, Md., where House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, distributed a two-page list of broad principles on immigration. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas Seven months after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill with a “path to citizenship,” House Republican leaders Thursday said for the first time they would be open to allowing illegal aliens to live and work legally in the U.S. but would not offer a “special path” to citizenship. That step in the direction of the Senate plan has many border-security-first advocates, including Savage, worried. But Culberson emphasized that Boehner told his Republican colleagues in the House that he wouldn’t allow a bill go to the floor unless a majority of the Republican-controlled House is in favor. Boehner, according to Culberson, told Republican House members that the outline they were handed, which was issued to the press, was simply for discussion purposes. Savage pointed out that along with Boehner, Republican House leaders support giving legal status to illegals, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan. But Culberson insisted there is hope if citizens contact their representatives and express their opposition to amnesty. Culberson explained that a majority of the House Republican majority is “very conservative,” committed to the Constitution, free markets and limited government – “get the government out of our lives and leave us the heck alone.” “The country doesn’t want it. The Hispanic community doesn’t want it. The Hispanic community wants law and order, safe streets and good schools and a good economy and good jobs like everyone else. It isn’t complicated,” said Culberson. |
| Posted by:Omavising Ebbemp9815 |
| #6 Texas really needs to be its own country. With so many people who now feel the US is no longer their country, many Americans long for their own country. Maybe Texas could be that country's first state. |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-02 14:14 |
| #5 Texas really needs to be its own country. Biggest problem they'll have is the immigration backlog. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-02-02 13:42 |
| #4 the House holds the purse strings and can cut off funding for actions that can't be justified legally. Nah, the AG said the payment of debt is Constitutionally required and Congress has to fund it, and most of the spending is in self-perpetuating categories that can't be unfunded without passing new laws, thus automatically incurring new debt that must be paid. Hence Congress is irrelevant. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-02-02 11:19 |
| #3 As long as the illegal path to citizenship is at least twice as long as the average legal path, I'm OK. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-02-02 08:27 |
| #2 Barack Obama's first known contact with Chicago Democratic Socialists of America occurred in 1992, shortly after he returned to Chicago, from his studies at Harvard. Chicago City Clerk Miguel Del Valle, a long time DSA associate, told the 2008 Democratic Party convention of his first meeting with Barack Obama; I first heard of Barack back in 1992. The year 1992 was a little like 2008. Then, as now, we needed to save the country from the misguided policies of a president named Bush. I was working with my old friend, Lou Pardo, a retired machinist, on an effort to register Latino voters in Chicago. One day, we were talking about how we could reach more voters and cover more ground, but we needed more resources. Lou told me we should go see Barack Obama, who was directing a voter-registration drive called Project Vote. So Lou met with Barack and, without missing a beat, Barack Obama helped us out. Barack Obama made sure that the thousands of Latinos in Chicago were registered to vote. He helped empower the Latino community and ensure that we were full participants in our democracy. Lou Pardo was a confirmed member of Democratic Socialists of America - Key Wiki (Link) An Obama old trick, now national in nature. |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-02 01:00 |
| #1 Since this is Texas you're talking about, I thought the answer was "Secede" |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-02-02 00:30 |