Ulaven_Demorte
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The coming political breakdown between the immovable Republican House and the irresistible GOP Senate on funding for the Department of Homeland Security was both entirely predictable and predicted.
In fact, two weeks after the election this past November I predicted it in this post. I said, “…the sides have already been drawn and the battle – no, the war – among congressional Republicans on the federal budget is well underway.”
The Republican vs. Republican budget war is now wide open for all to see. The House’s intransigence on this particular issue — it insists that the DHS appropriation include language that somehow reverses President Obama’s executive orders on immigration -– is being matched by the Senate’s unwillingness to take the steps needed either to match what the House wants or develop its own alternative.
And, as I also predicted, the unwillingness of Senate Democrats to provide any votes for their GOP colleagues even on issues where there is some agreement has backed Republicans so far into a political corner that it’s not at all clear how they will fight their way out.
This is not an aberration over the very hot button immigration issue: No matter how this showdown ends, it’s virtually certain to be repeated over and over and over again this year on everything budget-related.
More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2015/02/17/gop-congress-on-the-verge-of-a-meltdown/
My comments:
As I've stated before, the Republican House is treating the Republican controlled Senate exactly the same way it treated the Democratic controlled Senate, and is getting the same result. For some reason the House Republicans believe that the Senate's job is to pass whatever the House sends them. The Republican vs. Republican warfare truly broke out into the open last week with everyone from Speaker John Boehner to Rep. Raul Labrador saying it was time for the Senate to grow a pair and act on the DHS appropriation the way the House wants. Proving that the GOP has zero clue what the word compromise means. They keep sending the same bill to the Senate, expecting it to somehow pass when it failed before. Even if they manage to pass the DHS bill in it's current form they won't be able to override an assured Presidential veto, they simply don't have the votes.
I figure by the time the 2016 elections roll around the Republican congress will have proved beyond a doubt that they are incapable of performing their duties as legislators.
In fact, two weeks after the election this past November I predicted it in this post. I said, “…the sides have already been drawn and the battle – no, the war – among congressional Republicans on the federal budget is well underway.”
The Republican vs. Republican budget war is now wide open for all to see. The House’s intransigence on this particular issue — it insists that the DHS appropriation include language that somehow reverses President Obama’s executive orders on immigration -– is being matched by the Senate’s unwillingness to take the steps needed either to match what the House wants or develop its own alternative.
And, as I also predicted, the unwillingness of Senate Democrats to provide any votes for their GOP colleagues even on issues where there is some agreement has backed Republicans so far into a political corner that it’s not at all clear how they will fight their way out.
This is not an aberration over the very hot button immigration issue: No matter how this showdown ends, it’s virtually certain to be repeated over and over and over again this year on everything budget-related.
More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2015/02/17/gop-congress-on-the-verge-of-a-meltdown/
My comments:
As I've stated before, the Republican House is treating the Republican controlled Senate exactly the same way it treated the Democratic controlled Senate, and is getting the same result. For some reason the House Republicans believe that the Senate's job is to pass whatever the House sends them. The Republican vs. Republican warfare truly broke out into the open last week with everyone from Speaker John Boehner to Rep. Raul Labrador saying it was time for the Senate to grow a pair and act on the DHS appropriation the way the House wants. Proving that the GOP has zero clue what the word compromise means. They keep sending the same bill to the Senate, expecting it to somehow pass when it failed before. Even if they manage to pass the DHS bill in it's current form they won't be able to override an assured Presidential veto, they simply don't have the votes.
I figure by the time the 2016 elections roll around the Republican congress will have proved beyond a doubt that they are incapable of performing their duties as legislators.
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