Fun times ahead.
Welcome to House Speaker John Boehner's hell, Mitch McConnell. Now that you have to actually lead the Senate, with a Republican conference chock-full of extremists with presidential ambitions, you get to figure out how to simultaneously appease your crazies without destroying your party in 2016.
Obama plans to use his executive authority to change the enforcement of immigration laws by the end of the year, a move that top Republicans warn could derail efforts to pass a long-term spending bill by a Dec. 11 deadline. Increasingly, some top Republicans believe that it will be difficult to pass the year-long spending package that they originally envisioned, and are refocusing on a shorter term bill. Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and their top aides and deputies are mulling several options that would give Capitol Hill Republicans the opportunity to vent their frustration with what they view as an unconstitutional power grab by the White House—without jeopardizing the government financing bill.
In other words, the rabble rousers in the party are itching for another government shutdown, and believe that executive action on immigration gives them their opening. It's not just the Ted Cruzes of the Senate, either. Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III is among the loudest proponents of brinksmanship with Obama over the issue, and there are nearly 60 House Republicans pushing it as well.
Republican leadership wants a long-term funding bill, but will have to try for a shorter-term bill because of the pressure. The lawmakers who most want confrontation with Obama like short-term funding bills—they give more opportunities to try to force these fights and more shutdown threats. Meanwhile, McConnell and Boehner have to actually put up some semblance of governing, now that Republicans are fully in control of Congress. Lurching from crisis to crisis with short-term funding bills isn't governing. McConnell, in fact, promised the day after the election,"[t]here will be no government shutdowns and no default of the national debt."
they lied schemed and finagled their way in to both houses but did they ever stop to consider though we have heard little of the tea people Cruz their boy wonder has been speaking opposite of the traditionalist they denied civil war within their ranks another lie now the Dems really don't have to be them in order for disorder to prevail, the fight will now be between them and them, will they come together or demand THAT THE OTHER COME TO THEM WHILE THE OTHER MAKES THE SAME DEMAND. see what staying home gets you this will not be good viewing must see TV this will be thee turning of the screwer's on each other and who suffers everyone does even the rich can be subject to their own creations. to quote Yogi Berra, "deja vu all over again" same crap different combatants different day
