WH Newspeak: Republicans Who Voted To Cut Off Funds For Obama's Executive Amnesty Are "Essentially Voting FOR Amnesty"

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Emperor Obama Brags He's About To Put America On The Auction Block Again: More Executive Order Mind Control Coming

Via Weekly Standard:

The White House is accusing Republicans intent on stopping President Obama’s executive amnesty as “essentially” voting for amnesty. “This vote is bad policy. It is essentially a vote for amnesty. It is also bad politics,” the White House spokesman told reporters aboard Air Force One.

“House Republicans … are mucking around with DHS funding just weeks before the funding deadline. There’s never a good time to muck around with the funding of the department of homeland security, but given the events of the last week, this seems like a particularly bad time to do so,” Earnest added, according to the White House pool report.

Earnest is referring to this vote, held earlier today in the House of Representatives:

The House voted 236-191 to approve a measure funding the Homeland Security Department while simultaneously defunding President Obama’s unilateral action to provide temporary deportation deferrals and work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants.

Thank You Weekly Standard and Zip. 

So Now Whose Nutz? Pelosi Fear Mongers Using Paris Massacre To Support Obama's Executive Amnesty

As you read Former Speaker of the House Pelosi (doesn't Former have a nice ring to it?) imagine yourself as a High School English Teacher correcting her grammar. What type of Disordered mind thinks like this?

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by MATTHEW BOYLE14 Jan 2015Washington, DC56

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is fear mongering against congressional Republicans’ efforts to block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, citing the Paris terrorist attacks in an attempt to scare Americans.

“We take an oath to protect and defend the American people,” Pelosi said on the House floor on Tuesday evening, while railing against then-forthcoming GOP efforts to block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty order from November 2014 and other immigration actions he’s taken as president.

“Their safety is essential to everything else and Homeland Security is a very big place where we protect and defend the American people,” Pelosi continued.

Pelosi said she and her fellow Democrats were “disappointed” that Republicans split Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding out from the full 1,774-page $1.1 trillion “cromnibus” spending bill, and are now aiming to block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty in it. The House passed a bill aimed at doing so on Wednesday.

Pelosi pointed to the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo in Paris:

That’s why we were so disappointed that of all bills, the Republicans would pull that one bill out of the pack and say we’re just doing this for a matter of weeks. It came with the promise that after the first of the year, that of course we would pass a Homeland Security bill. That was December, in December Republicans said no we don’t want to have that certainty—not just yet. Then along came January. Paris. Je Suis Charlie, around the world it is echoed. Everybody coming together. Heads of state. Leaders of countries.

Pelosi nearly criticized President Obama in the speech—since Obama didn’t travel to Paris for a rally with world leaders last weekend—but caught herself a moment later and provided an excuse for him.

“Whether the president was there or not, everybody [is] present in the moment and the time since for protecting people throughout the world from terrorism,” Pelosi said. “It seems like that affected almost everybody, except it didn’t penetrate the walls of this chamber because here we are once again putting off by other distractions how we would pass as quickly as possible a Homeland Security bill.”

Pelosi then proceeded to—for nearly a half hour—detail why she thinks the president has the authority to grant his executive amnesty, and she cited as the Obama White House has done the executive actions that were taken by previous presidents on immigration:

What’s interesting to me is that our colleagues are using immigration—some of our colleagues are using immigration—as the excuse, but what further is interesting is now they’re saying it’s not about immigration, which of course it’s always been about—pass an immigration bill and we won’t even have to have this discussion—they’re saying it’s about the Constitution. I don’t remember, and I’ve been here since President Reagan was president, I don’t remember anybody calling up the Constitution when President Reagan used his executive authority on the family fairness executive action. I don’t remember anyone bringing up the Constitution when President George Herbert Walker Bush further expanded protections for people in our country. President Clinton and President George Herbert Walker Bush. So this is very interesting to hear that, so I do want to put this in perspective and it will take a little time. There’s a strong legal and historical precedent to support executive action—we’re just talking about deferred action here—to a broad category of people who have strong equities to our country.

Pelosi didn’t mention, though, that those executive actions were all taken to enact the will of Congress—and help the implementation of congressionally-approved directives and legislation. The executive actions taken by this president are outside the purview of Congress. Congress rejected these exact policies over the past two years, as no such legislation ever passed both chambers.

Later in the speech, Pelosi brought everything back around to her point that Republicans are somehow enabling the Paris terrorist attack:

December, [Republicans said] we’re not going to protect and defend [the United States] by extending this bill with certainty for Homeland Security.  Paris, the whole world is in unity, galvanized by wanting to stop terrorism and to do everything in our power to do so. And we in this House are hesitating to do that? If we want to take up an immigration bill and argue that the president doesn’t have the authority to do what he has done—but with an intention to act ourselves—that would be the appropriate place to have this debate. When we say Je Suis Charlie, we’re not just identifying with a magazine office in Paris—that would be important enough, but we’re identifying with the entire effort to protect people from terrorism.

Pelosi also urged her colleagues to support an amnesty bill—and to block the efforts to stop Obama’s amnesty. “That’s what the Homeland Security Committee was established to do. That’s what this legislation will fund. Let’s remove all doubt that we will do it as soon as possible.”

The House as a whole rejected Pelosi’s rhetoric on Wednesday, passing all the amendments aimed at blocking Obama’s amnesty funds–for everything from the November 2014 executive amnesty to the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to the Morton Memos and other Obama policies–into the DHS funding bill, then passing the full bill through the House.

Conservatives praised House GOP leadership for fighting against Obama on this, but some Republicans did vote against the amendments blocking Obama’s immigration actions–joining with all Democrats to do so.

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Thank You Mr Boyle and Breitbart.

Cruz, Lee Threaten 'Procedural' War on Senate Floor To Stop 'Lawless Amnesty'

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November 5, 2014 - 3:43 PM

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By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) - Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho, and David Vitter of Louisiana sent a letter to lame-duck Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada today saying that if President Obama takes unilateral action to grant amnesty to illegal aliens it "will create a constitutional crisis."

The senators told Reid that they would assist him in enacting a measure to stop Obama from unilaterally granting an amnesty, but that if Reid lets Obama go forward with such an amnesty they "would use all procedural means necessary" to make the Senate focus on the constitutional crisis they say that this "lawless amnesty" would create.

On Dec. 11, the continuing resolution now funding the government will expire. Before that date, both Houses of Congress will need to approve a new continuing resolution to fund the government beyond that date.

If the CR does not permit the Executive Branch to spend money on some action, the Executive Branch cannot take that action.

"We write to express our alarm with President Obama's announced intention to take unilateral executive action by the end of this year to lawlessly grant amnesty to immigrants who have entered the country illegally," the senators wrote Reid.

"The Supreme Court has recognized that 'over no conceivable subject is the power of Congress more complete' than its power over immigration," the senators said. "Therefore, President Obama will be exercising powers properly belonging to Congress if he makes good his threat.

"This will create a constitutional crisis that demands action by Congress to restore the separation of powers," the senators told Reid.

"As majority leader of the Senate, you have the responsibility of not only representing the citizens of your state, but also of protecting the Constitution through vigilant exercise of the checks and balances provided under the Constitution," wrote Cruz, Lee, Sessions, Roberts, Crapo and Vitter.

"Therefore, we write to offer our full assistance in ensuring expeditious Senate debate and passage for a measure that preserves the power of Congress by blocking any action the president may take to violate the Constitution and unilaterally grant amnesty," the senators said.

"[H]owever," they continued, "should you decline to defend the Senate and the Constitution from executive overreach, the undersigned senators will use all procedural means necessary to return the Senate's focus during the lame duck session to resolving the constitutional crisis created by President Obama's lawless amnesty."

Thank You Mr Jeffrey and CNS.

Sebelius: Pass Immigration Bill (Amnesty) To Boost ObamaCare Enrollment

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Sebelius: Pass Immigration Bill To Boost ObamaCare Enrollment

August 23, 2013 - 8:41 AM

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By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - Asked Thursday if the Affordable Care Act will help "undocumented individuals," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said no -- and that's why immigration reform is so important:

"Well, the (Obamacare) bill is crafted in such a way that those who are undocumented will not have access to the tax credits or shopping in the (health insurance) marketplace. That has been limited, which is, frankly, why -- another very keen reason why we need comprehensive immigration reform," Sebelius told a gathering of Latinos in Philadelphia.

[Ed: There's video At the CNS original report.]

The remark drew applause at the Obamacare event hosted by Congreso, a Latino community service group.

"Unfortunately, you can't fix -- we won't fix the immigration system, unfortunately, through the health care bill, but I think having the immigration bill that passed the Senate, pass the House, would be a huge step," Sebelius added.

The Senate-passed immigration bill would put some 11 million illegal aliens on a path to eventual citizenship, first by giving them provisional legal status. House Republicans say border security must come first, and they plan to draft their own bill.

Sebelius recommended that illegal aliens continue to get medical treatment at community health centers, where they will find federally funded, "culturally competent" health care providers "who actually speak the language and can reach out to a neighborhood."

She also noted that the Obama administration has doubled the size of the Public Health Service Corps -- "which, to me, is one of the great, well-kept secrets in America. It's like the Peace Corps for health workers," she said.

"If you agree to serve in an underserved area, the federal government helps pay off the student loans and debt that a lot of health professionals carry. And what we find is that when people actually take up service in the National Health Service Corps, they stay in the communities that they are serving long beyond their assignments. So there will be continued access for undocumented," Sebelius promised.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who joined Sebelius at the event, also addressed the issue of "dealing with folks who may not have all their documentation in order."

And just as Sebelius did, Nutter indicated that illegal aliens and other disadvantaged people already have access to health care in this country.

Nutter said the City of Philadelphia -- "even through the worst of the recession, we did everything we possibly could to minimize any negative impact on our health centers. We have eight health centers across the City of Philadelphia, and they were last, last, last on any list to get any reductions, although we made cuts all over the city government." He said he is committed to maintaining that funding.

Nutter also said he signed an executive order directing city government workers "that you cannot deny someone service...just because you may be in an undocumented status."

"And I signed that executive order specifically to make sure that while folks are trying to deal with their paperwork and dealing with immigration and all those folks over there at the federal side, that's not our responsibility. Our responsibility is to provide service. Anyone who shows up, who's in this city -- (applause) -- and so folks -- and so people should continue to come, certainly, to our health centers."

The mayor said his city is "doing our best in trying to provide services to folks, notwithstanding any language challenges, documentation status. If you are here, it is our job to try to provide the best, high-quality service and care that we can as a local government. That's our commitment."What Obamacare 'really is about'

According to Sebelius, "The Affordable Care Act "really is about a portion of the population (15 percent, she estimated) who is either uninsured or underinsured or in and out of the marketplaces."

She said "the other 85 percent of people" already have relatively affordable coverage, which "has gotten stronger" because of various Obamacare requirements.

"Starting October 1st of this year...for about 15 percent of Americans who don't have health coverage at all, they will have some new opportunities. They will have a new marketplace available to them, and because they don't have an employer paying a share of the coverage, they have some help from the federal government."

She estimated that Latinos comprise about 25 percent of the individuals eligible for new coverage options.

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Thank You CNS and Ms Jones.

pic cred to Chip Bok.

Well, they're certainly up front about it.