These days it’s hard to know if a newspaper headline is real news or a parody from Mad Magazine. I’m not kidding.
“Obama threatens veto” is a recurring headline lately, and frankly, I like it. But not all veto threats are created equal, and the latest one rings hollow.
The Obama administration quietly told Congress this week that its deportation amnesty programs will, in fact, include a pathway to citizenship, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said that breaks a promise President Obama made to the country when he announced the program.
The GOP House Leadership finally passed some immigration legislation that would be useful if it were actually designed to be implemented. Unfortunately, it’s simply a show for the rubes—the party Establishment has no intention of serious opposition to President Obama’s unilateral Amnesty/Immigration Surge.
House Speaker John Boehner took to the House Floor Wednesday — ahead of a series of votes to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty — to take the president to task for his executive orders on immigration.
President Barack Obama will block 2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security if Republicans includes spending curbs on the president’s executive amnesty, says a top aide.