Some downstream effects of the clean DHS funding bill

Some downstream effects of the clean DHS funding bill

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Funding DHS by passing a clean bill means the DHS passport checkers at the airport will continue to be paid. But it means so much more. Here is a short list of outcomes that you probably were not familiar with. 1) This bill, also known as "The bill to give Obama’s illegal amnesty program official sanction" gives Obama's illegal amnesty program official sanction. 2) "The bill to give Obama’s illegal amnesty program official sanction" also fully funds Obama's illegal amnesty program. 3) The Constitution has been shredded. 4) The GOP is now held in disrepute by everyone except the Chamber of Commerce. 5) Barack Obama is on his way to unrestrained power. I learned of all these downstream outcomes from reading Red State, which is my favorite thing to do after Boehner's occasional capitulations to reality.
Tuesday Open Thread [3.3.15]

Tuesday Open Thread [3.3.15]

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From multiple interviews in recent days with party leaders and senior aides, it’s clear the GOP had no real strategy to successfully end the party’s first major standoff with Obama since taking power in January,” Politico reports.
“Republicans had hoped pressure would build on recalcitrant Senate Democrats to ultimately rebel against Obama and force him to capitulate — or at least prompt them to negotiate a compromise. That didn’t happen. They had hoped more public attention to the issue might be spawned by a new outside event, such as more migrant children appearing at the southern border. That didn’t happen. And they had hoped that more time would give their party a fresh opportunity to settle on a coordinated and coherent legislative response to the president. But that certainly didn’t happen.” Said on GOP senator: “Never go into these things without a plan.”
Planning would require thinking and analytical skills beyond the reach of your average tea party congressman.
Kudos to Senator Carper, for once.

Kudos to Senator Carper, for once.

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Today a foreign leader will interfere in the political affairs of the United States, and Senator Tom Carper has decided that he will not be part of it, thank you very much.
Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware will join about 40 Democrats in boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress on Tuesday. Carper called the timing of Netanyahu’s speech “wholly inappropriate,” given that the prime minister is up for re-election in two weeks. He and the other Democrats say House Speaker John Boehner broke protocol by inviting Netanyahu without consulting with the White House. “I cannot imagine an occasion when a U.S. president would invite a foreign leader — even one from some of our closest allies like France, Germany or Canada — to address Congress on the eve of elections in his or her home country,” Carper said in a statement. “Furthermore, this visit came together by completely bypassing President Obama and his administration, which breaks our country’s protocol for visiting heads of state and stands to weaken U.S.-Israel relations.”
I was afraid the good Senator was just going to leave his list of reasons at that, and granted, they are good reasons. But the truest reason to be angry about that bastard Netanyahu's speech has everything to do with the fact that he wants to scuttle any possible deal with Iran and he wants the United States to send more of our American children to die in defense of Israel in an invasion of Iran. And to his credit, Carper says that such direct interference into the foreign policy of the United States is one of his reasons. What about Carney and Coons?