(Breitbart) – Conservatives say that Republican leaders,
including House Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, will be “complicit” in President Barack Obama’s planned executive
amnesty if they don’t pull out all the stops to block him.
They warn that chaos is around the corner if that’s how it
goes down, even though they’d much rather have Republican leaders fight the
president alongside them.
“Fight or be complicit in lawlessness,” Judicial Watch
president Tom Fitton told Breitbart News, is the message to congressional GOP
leaders on Obama’s amnesty.
If Republicans move forward with the plan from House
Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to fund the entire
government—including Obama’s executive amnesty, which the president is set to
announce on Thursday night—in an omnibus spending bill, a Senate GOP aide told
Breitbart News conservatives will spread chaos across Washington.
“If Obama announces executive amnesty and the House passes
an omnibus with no language blocking it, there will be no Senate vote, because
conservatives will burn down the Capitol,” the aide said. When asked to clarify
if he was serious they’d burn the building to the ground—or if he was speaking
metaphorically—the aide said “open rebellion.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of many Republicans
conference-wide who will be helping lead the charge to force Boehner to stop
Obama, told Breitbart News that Republicans must stand and fight—and that they
can and must win.
“Even though around three-quarters of voters this year
opposed the idea of executive amnesty, President Obama is apparently going to
announce his new royal amnesty decree before going to Las Vegas to promote it,”
Gohmert said, adding:
Perhaps
‘Caesar’s Palace’ is an appropriate venue for the American Caesar’s regal
proclamation that gambles away jobs for Americans. As an equal branch of
government where legislation must originate, Congress must either fight it or
we will be complicit in this amnesty as royal subjects and the democratic
republic will be gone. Now is the time that Republicans need to stand
strong for the principles for which the majority of American voters sent them
to Washington. Dissatisfaction with the White House and Senate over amnesty
issues was a significant reason the American people added Republican seats in
the House and Republican control of the Senate. Congress must protect the
Constitution and the American public from such a decree from Mt. Olympus that
declares a state of lawlessness in America.
Elsewhere, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote for Politico that
Obama is “not a monarch” and Congress can’t allow him to succeed:
The
Constitution designs a system of checks and balances for our nation, and
executive amnesty for immigrants here illegally unilaterally decreed from the
White House would seriously undermine the rule of law. Our founders repeatedly
warned about the dangers of unlimited power within the executive branch;
Congress should heed those words as the President threatens to grant amnesty to
millions of people who have come to our country illegally.
Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-AL) said that Congress should fund the government while blocking funding for
this “unconstitutional” act by Obama:
President
Obama previously said he could not issue an executive amnesty because ‘I’m the
President of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My
job is to execute laws that are passed.’ Well, apparently we now have an
‘Emperor of the United States.’ President Obama’s immigration order would
provide illegal immigrants with the exact benefits Congress has repeatedly
rejected: Social Security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—which will allow
them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans in every occupation.
Congress must not allow this unconstitutional action. That means Congress
should fund the government while ensuring that no funds can be spent on this
unlawful purpose.
George Rasley, the editor of Viguerie’s ConservativeHQ, told
Breitbart News Republicans have a mandate from the voters to stop Obama.
“Obama’s extra-constitutional attempt to grant amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens flies in the face of the results of the 2014 wave,”
Rasley said. “If the Nov. 4 election was a demand for anything, it was a demand
by grassroots American voters for a return to constitutional government.”
Heritage Action spokesman Dan Holler told Breitbart News that
any long-term funding bill is a “blank check” for Obama’s amnesty.
“Heritage Action welcomes creative thinking from
congressional Republicans so long as creativity is not a synonym for inaction
or delay,” Holler said. “Congress must use every tool at their disposal to
block the President’s executive amnesty. A long-term funding bill is little
more than a blank check for amnesty.”
Glyn Wright, the executive director of Phyllis Schlafly’s
Eagle Forum, told Breitbart News that since immigration is such an important
issue Republicans need to fight this and block Obama. “Immigration is the issue
that defines all other issues, and the American people know it,” Wright said.
“That’s why the President waited until after the midterm elections to take this
action, and why voters gave the GOP a historical majority in the House and
control of the Senate. If the Republicans want to be seen as viable and worthy
of the power they have been given, they must stop this unprecedented and
lawless act.”
Schlafly herself added that Obama is offending Americans
with the executive order.
“Every action Obama is taking on amnesty is illegal,
unconstitutional and offensive to the majority of the American voters,”
Schlafly said.
A letter being circulated around the conservative movement
and sent to all Republican members of Congress—signed by top conservative
luminaries, including Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ed Meese, former Rep.
David McIntosh, and more—calls on Republicans to use the power of the purse to
block Obama’s amnesty. Other signers of the letter include Heritage Action CEO
Mike Needham, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, ForAmerica
chairman Brent Bozell, RedState’s Erick Erickson, Marjorie Dannenfelser of
Susan B. Anthony List, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of the
Senate Conservatives Fund, Tea Party Patriots’ Jenny Beth Martin, Let Freedom
Ring’s Colin Hanna, Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly, ConservativeHQ’s Richard
Viguerie, Conservative Leadership PAC’s Morton Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary
of State Ken Blackwell, former Reagan advisers Becky Norton Dunlop and Kenneth
Cribb, Jr., Al Regnery, former Rep. Bob McEwen, and others.
“Passage of a long term Continuing Resolution (CR) would rob
newly elected members of the ability to begin making spending decisions and
would remove a key leverage point they will have with President Obama to
further pursue our agenda,” they write.
“Conservatives will be watching these next few weeks very
closely,” they add. “We urge you to begin earning the trust placed in you
by passing a short term CR, stopping President Obama’s planned executive
amnesty, going home, and returning in January to pursue the agenda that the
American people sent you here to enact.”
Blackwell, the former Ohio Secretary of State, and others
from that group have drafted a one-page resolution they hope the House will
pass this week condemning Obama’s amnesty plans.
The Concurrent Resolution Of Congress they are pushing for a
vote on cites Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution which reads: “All
legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of
Representatives.” The resolution reads:
And
whereas it is the Constitutional right and duty of the Congress of the United
States to exercise vigilance in protecting this sovereign legislative power
from any encroachments by other branches of government or any other source
whatsoever; And whereas Barack Obama, the President of the United States, may
issue a purported Executive Order that has the effect of changing the law and
policy of the United States relative to the status of millions of illegal
aliens currently residing within the United States; And whereas his argument
that he must act because the Congress has not acted regarding the status has no
valid standing in law under the Constitution.
The resolution concludes by saying that Congress considers
whatever executive action about to be taken “null and void.”
“It is the sense of Congress that this purported Executive
Order is a usurpation of the legislative power vested solely in the Congress of
the United States and, as such, is null and void,” the resolution says. “And be
it further resolved that the Congress of the United States will use all of its
Constitutional powers, particularly the power of the purse, to prevent the
implementation of the provisions of said Executive Order.”
Gaston Mooney, the executive director of the Conservative
Review, told Breitbart News that when Obama does the executive order,
Republicans should not allow a single dime of taxpayer money to be spent
implementing it.
“Republicans campaigned and overwhelmingly won on the
promise to stop Obama’s agenda; now we will see whether or not they will make
good on that promise or if they try and propose a bait and switch, hoping the
American people won’t notice,” Mooney said in an email. “Stopping Obama’s
lawless amnesty starts first with Republicans standing up.”
The three things Conservative Review is working to ensure
happen are that Republicans use the upcoming budget fight—and they believe that
there shouldn’t even be a short-term continuing resolution that funds the
executive amnesty until the newly elected Senate GOP majority takes over—to
stop him, that they block his judicial nominations and they fight him from
governorships across the country.
Conservatives are making headway in this battle to get
Republicans to fight Obama over this. On Wednesday, Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)
and Mike McCaul (R-TX)—the chairmen, respectively, of the House Judiciary and
House Homeland Security committees—wrote to Obama promising Republicans will
use every power they have to stop this if he goes through with it. They
write:
Instead
of proceeding with ill-advised executive action, we implore you to work with
Congress to enact legislation to address our broken immigration system. We
strongly urge you to respect the Constitution and abandon any unconstitutional,
unilateral executive actions on immigration. Let’s secure the border, enforce
our immigration laws in the interior of the United States, and build a broad
consensus for immigration reform. Otherwise, as the chairmen of the committees
with oversight over border security and our nation’s immigration laws, we will
be forced to use the tools afforded to Congress by the Constitution to stop
your administration from successfully carrying out your plan.
McConnell has said that “it’s always appropriate” for
Congress “use the power of the purse.” He adds he expects House Republicans to
soon deliver a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government until
early next year when his Senate Republicans take over.
“Yeah, we expect the House to go first,” McConnell said.
“And I anticipate supporting whatever the House sends over. And so, I think
we’re going to wait and see how the House handles this…But our goal is to fund
the government.”
Even Boehner has gotten a bit tougher with his rhetoric,
though he’s still not committing to using all options–such as blocking funding—to
stop Obama.
“If ‘Emperor Obama’ ignores the American people and
announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds
his Constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin
the chances for Congressional action on this issue – and many others,” Boehner
spokesman Michael Steel said in an email to reporters on Wednesday that
circulated a post on the Speaker’s website that references 22 separate
times Obama himself said he doesn’t have the authority to do this.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/19/Open-Rebellion-Chaos%20if-Republicans-Dont-Withhold-Funding-for-Obama-Executive-Amnesty
Comments
Passing
the Resolution voiding Obama’s Amnesty and defunding it in the budget are the
minimum Republicans should do. If that
stops his Amnesty Order, fine. If it
doesn’t, immediate action should be taken to include impeachment for this and
all the other reasons that have been recorded.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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