{"id":14693,"date":"2015-02-11T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:14:31","slug":"the-impasse-is-no-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/the-impasse-is-no-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impasse Is No Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixteen days from now, on February 27, funding runs out on on the Department of Homeland Security.  Republicans claim that the impasse is a mystery, because they don\u2019t understand why Democrats refuse to compromise.  The impasse is no mystery.  Republicans refuse to offer a clean bill.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0211HS\"With a little over two weeks until the Department of Homeland Security runs out of money, Republican leaders in Congress publicly announced Tuesday what had become a grim, if private, truth in the Capitol \u2014 they are at an impasse, with no easy way out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s clearly stuck in the Senate,\u201d said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. \u201cWe can\u2019t get on it, we can\u2019t offer amendments to it. And the next step is obviously up to the House.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have failed three times so far to pass a bill to finance the department, which runs out of money on Feb. 27, in what has become a larger proxy fight over President Obama\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

The House last month passed a bill to the pay for department operations, but the legislation included provisions that would have gutted the president\u2019s executive actions on immigration, rolling back legal protections for as many as five million undocumented immigrants, including children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats, united against anything other than a \u201cclean\u201d spending bill, filibustered to prevent Republicans from taking up the legislation \u2014 a maneuver they decried when they were in the minority \u2014 and Mr. Obama has promised to veto any bill that undoes his executive actions\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For the most part, the media are parroting Republican talking points, instead of explaining that Republicans are attempting to usurp Obama\u2019s executive authority.  Passing the bill in it\u2019s current form makes no sense, because Republicans do not have the numbers to overcome a presidential veto.<\/font><\/p>\n

What we need is a clean bill, which would pass the Senate and the House, if Bought Bitch Mitch and Agent Orange would bring a clean bill to the floor.  Instead, they are catering to their anti-Latino base, for whom racism trumps the security of our nation.  Them we can deal with immigration as the separate issue that it is.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixteen days from now, on February 27, funding runs out on on the Department of Homeland Security.  Republicans claim that the impasse is a mystery, because they don\u2019t understand why Democrats refuse to compromise.  The impasse is no mystery.  Republicans refuse to offer a clean bill. With a little over two weeks until the Department […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}