It seems Chris Wallace on Fox News this morning and evening just doesn’t get the drift or either his underwear was twisted.  John Boehner is the leader of the House and Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Senate.  But Chris continued to badger Boehner and was not happy with the fact that Boehner was willing to cut off Department of Homeland Security Funds.  What is the big deal?  The border is open so what are they protecting?

 The Communist/Muslim Democrats in the Senate are filibustering the bill to keep it from coming to the floor of the Senate in order to protect Obama. But, Chris did  not put any emphasis on this filibuster going on by the Communist/Muslim Democratic Party;  but, yet, when Ted Cruz and Rand Paul – both Republicans –  filibustered – the whole bunch went crazy.

 So what is the difference now  when the Communist/Muslim Democrats are filibustering, I don’t hear a peep from any of the media even Chris Wallace. Chris was raised in a house whose walls were plastered with Democratic wallpaper and today he took a sheet of the playbook out of his Dad’s playbook to rally the Democrats.  

The sticking point for the American people is holding the leader’s nose to the grind stone on immigration and Chris is the one that is creating a scene. Basically, the bill is in limbo because attached to the bill is some glue that will limit the leader on immigration.  So all of you Communist/Muslim Senators, it is time you all are called out because you all are the traitors against the American people.  If Obama vetoes the bill – so be it.  Then the American people will see where the blame should be!

Following is the meat of the problem:

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 10: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference to discuss U.S. President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration, on Capitol Hill, December 10, 2014 in Washington, DC.

President Obama traveled to Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, where he defended his actions on immigration and again called on Congress to pass an immigration bill. (Strange he had to fly to Nashville, TN, to make this announcement?  HO HUM!)

Democrats filibuster Department of Homeland Security bill

As expected, Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday — protesting GOP-written provisions that would gut years of the Obama administration’s directives on immigration.  (The American people want this gutted.  The immigrants are coming out of the wood work.)

The unanswered question remains: What comes next?

Top Republicans strongly indicated that they’ll try to bring up the House-passed DHS funding bill again after it failed to advance on a 51-48 vote Tuesday, but they offered little clarity on how the new GOP-led Congress will ultimately produce legislation that doesn’t prompt a veto threat from the White House.

Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) re-filed cloture on the same bill Tuesday night — a rare procedural move that would effectively allow three more votes to advance the DHS measure and force Democrats to repeatedly block the legislation.

House Republicans have been pushing McConnell to hold multiple votes.  “I think we’ll give them an opportunity to vote on that more than one time,” John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Senate Republican, said before the vote. “Just using the procedural rules to keep us from even debating it I think is just – I mean it’s just a disservice to people who care deeply about this issue on both sides.”

During a weekly party lunch on Tuesday, Republicans engaged in a long and robust discussion about next options — but they reached no consensus on how to proceed.  (Why not?)

A number of senators argued that Democrats were in an untenable position by blocking Homeland Security funding.   Others said it made little sense to push the matter to the brink when the GOP didn’t have the votes to overcome a filibuster, much less a veto.  (We didn’t vote you into office to put yourselves in an untenable position.)

McConnell offered little information about his thinking, senators said. In the room, the two wings of the party seemed to agree on one fallback option: Limit the immigration rider so it targets only the post-election executive action that President Barack Obama took last fall. That would mean dropping the House’s attack on a 2012 directive that deferred deportations for people brought illegally to the country at a young age.

Both moderate Maine Sen. Susan Collins and conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seemed on board with that approach, several senators said.

“It was far more narrow and thus I think arguably more consistent with the executive authority that the president has,” Collins said of the 2012 directive called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

But multiple senior Senate Democratic aides quickly panned that proposal. McConnell has to marshal at least half a dozen Democratic votes to clear legislation through his chamber — yet Democrats don’t plan to give McConnell any votes for a measure short of a so-called clean bill to fund DHS through the end of the fiscal year.   (So they can protect Obama because if they don’t they go to the guillotine.)

To underscore that point, Senate Democrats held a news conference earlier Tuesday at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters — flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and FEMA administrator Craig Fugate — to demand a funding bill for DHS with no riders that would override Obama’s actions on immigration. Johnson was also on the Hill on Tuesday, stopping by the Senate Democrats’ lunch to talk about funding for his department.  (The Communist/Muslim Democrats just don’t get the picture.  The American people want this pen and phone immigration stopped.)

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dismissed Republican arguments that Democrats should take up the bill to change it, saying: “That’s like haggling over the price of ransom with hostage-takers.” (Isn’t that what Obama does haggle with the hostage-takers?)

GOP senators have said little publicly on what their fallback strategy would be when the House-passed DHS funding bill met an inevitable death in the Senate. The possibilities that have been mulled include short-term funding measures, a lawsuit challenging Obama’s actions and the passage of border-security legislation — although that last option has been panned by some conservatives who suspect that it would be a gateway to broader immigration legislation.

The legislation that Democrats blocked Tuesday passed the GOP-controlled House in January. It would give $39.7 billion to DHS, whose funding is scheduled to run out Feb. 27 under a deadline that Congress set so that the new Republican majority could litigate Obama’s immigration actions through the must-pass bill.

The parties have little disagreement on the funding levels for DHS, but Republicans are insisting on provisions that would effectively gut years of Obama’s actions on immigration — including a 2012 initiative that has shielded more than 600,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and given them work permits, and actions last fall that would expand the same protections to millions of more immigrants who are here illegally but have children who are U.S. citizens or green-card holders. The House plan would also override a series of immigration enforcement directives dating back to 2011.

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) broke with his party to filibuster the legislation, along with all Senate Democrats. “Instead of addressing the issue of immigration reform comprehensively, the bill before us today only includes language that complicates the process of finding a solution,” he said in a statement.  (Yes, and I bet he had no ideas to help the situation, just a dig.)

Senate Republicans have also tried to pressure several moderate Democratic senators who have publicly criticized Obama’s immigration actions, but who have indicated they won’t vote with the GOP to overturn them.  (Yes, that is the way it goes, they only carped to get re-elected and now the worm has turned.)

In the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) singled out moderate Senate Democrats such as Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana who opposed the unilateral actions last year but are calling for a clean funding bill this year. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said those moderate Democrats are the “part of the palace guard that protects the president and his unlawful act.”

“That’s precisely what it amounts to,” Sessions added. “A palace guard circling around the White House to protect the president, even though members of this Senate have said he overreached and what he did was wrong.”

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who also criticized Obama’s actions last fall during her reelection bid, said those positions were not inconsistent. She said Congress shouldn’t have an immigration-focused battle tied to funding for a key department.

“The issue that I’m arguing is not the president’s executive action,” Shaheen, who is now the top Democrat on the panel in charge of DHS funding, said Tuesday — a point underscored by McCaskill. “If you want to have a fight about that, let’s have an immigration debate.”

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House Speaker John Boehner made it clear on Fox News Sunday today that he is prepared to shut down funding for the Department of Homeland Security in a GOP game of immigration chicken with President Obama. The news was not received well among Fox Republicans.

Although it might seem that host Chris Wallace’s surprisingly tough questions for Boehner represents a sudden bout of journalistic integrity, I think it more likely a symptom of the divisions among Republicans.

Wallace’s first question for Boehner signaled this was not going to be a typical Fox News GOP love fest:
WALLACE: Haven’t you and House Republicans put the GOP in a box with funding for the Department of Homeland Security about to run out and you are demanding changes to the president’s executive action on immigration that Senate Republicans say they can’t pass?

Later, there was this even sharper exchange:
WALLACE: And what if the Department of Homeland Security funding runs out?

BOEHNER: Well, then, Senate Democrats should to be blame. Very simply.

WALLACE: And you’re prepared to let that happen?

BOEHNER: Certainly. The House has acted. We’ve done our job.

WALLACE: This speaks to a bigger issue. When Republicans took over Congress, you talked about you were going to show how to govern. And yet, we’re more than a month in and the only major piece of legislation that the Republican Congress has passed and sent to the president is the Keystone pipeline legislation, which he’s already said he’s going to veto.  (Chris doesn’t get it.  If it isn’t Obama’s way –  it is no way.)

There was also this, about the GOP’s use of Israel to slap President Obama in the face:
WALLACE: You’ve created quite a controversy by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress without telling the White House.

Now, everyone from Vice President Biden down to 12 congressional Democrats have said they are not going to attend.  (Chris still doesn’t get it. Who cares if those 23 Communist/Muslim Democrats and Biden don’t want to attend because they are not interested in the truth.  The American people want to hear the truth because right now we are not hearing the truth about the war.)

Haven’t you taken one of the few bipartisan issues in this country, support for Israel, and turned it into a political football?

Rather than just the one pro forma tough question, Wallace continued pushing on this matter, just as he had on the DHS funding.

Lastly, there was this, on Benghazi:
WALLACE: Finally, you have set up a select committee to investigate what happened in Benghazi, even though there have been about a half-dozen investigations; the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee basically said there was no there there—like this last year.

Some people have questioned: is all of this an effort to hurt Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign?

It wasn’t just Wallace, either. Later in the show, panelist Dana Perino, a Fox News host and former member of the George W. Bush administration said about funding DHS:
This is not going to end with the Republicans looking like heroes and they will get blamed by the White House, by the media, by Democrats. They will blame each other.  (What’s new Perino – didn’t you get blamed when you worked for Bush?)

…The Democrats do have some blame here. But when the stories are written, that will be a technicality.  (Yes, that is true – but the American people know that the media, White House, and the Communists/Muslim Democrats lie every day.)

And this from conservative Fox News contributor George Will:
The question is, who would be blamed? Whether the Republicans be: (a), yes, they’re always blamed. But, (b), this case, they deserve to be blamed in this sense—the president understands the separation of powers. He just doesn’t like it and rejects it. The Republicans don’t seem to understand it. The House keeps sending to the Senate a bill it knows cannot be passed by the Senate. ( Look how many laws these Democrats and Obama have broken, especially on immigration  and you want to know who is going to be blamed?  The American people know who is the root cause.  So what do you want to do keep pandering to Obama like we have been for six years?)

And when Mr. Boehner said to you the House has to do its work, that’s not its work to send this futile gesture to make the Republican base feel good. We can’t explain to the Republican base how the system works. Well, they better learn how to explain that. That’s called leadership.  (Leadership is when two sides can compromise and these Communist/Muslims/Obama  know nothing about compromise.  And what do you suggest Mr. Will’s?  Are a part of this go along to get along which has been happening for six years!)

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