By DEXTER DUGGAN
There’s no need for Congress to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” any longer. When the Republican-led House voted on March 3 to provide full funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including money for lawless Barack Obama’s November 20 “executive action” on immigration, Obama received all the tools he needs.
The previous week, the Republican-led Senate also passed the full DHS funding.
Obama has been ratified in his freedom to declare lawlessly that anyone he pleases can enter, and remain in, the United States — the tens of millions of aliens already here, and however many more endless tens of millions dash in now to enjoy the taxpayer-funded lifestyle he’ll provide.
Oh, Obama still can say how badly the nation needs a new “immigration reform” law. But that’s just a charade to keep Americans’ eyes off the fact that he already has surrendered their country to endless, overwhelming illegal immigration that spells their figurative and sometimes literal death.
It couldn’t have happened without the National Republican Party leadership’s happy cooperation.
For years conservatives accurately warned that Big Business and the Establishment are every bit as eager as Democrat Party leadership to bury this nation under a tsunami of “cheap votes and cheap labor.”
The middle class is crippled and traditional morality trampled. The Obama Democrats and Jeb Bush Republicans of the world raise their champagne glasses high to celebrate the unrecognizable future they’re imposing on suffering everyone else, while the ruling class expects to enjoy its customary sovereign privileges.
The Republican Party leadership should be dead by its own hand. What further evidence do GOP voters need that they must either throw off or conquer these D.C. dealmakers who’ve exposed that they lie as shamelessly and repeatedly as Obama?
Just give us the majority, the GOP leaders pled during the 2014 campaign season, and everything will be different. So voters gave them an electoral wave.
After Obama announced his lawless executive action on November 20, after the elections — which followed his lawless blessing for “dreamers” in 2012 — national GOP leaders fumed and fulminated that they’d fight him “tooth and nail” over this amnesty.
Of course, they couldn’t do it in December, they added, because the GOP’s Senate majority wouldn’t take hold until January. But just you wait.
January dawns. The Democrats are only a minority in Congress. And they still dictate what the Republicans are allowed to do about massive illegal immigration.
The Senate’s minority Democrats say they favor funding for the executive amnesty, so Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, doing what he really wants anyway, lets them triumph.
The bill goes over to the House. Boehner honors a secret deal with radical Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi to put the bill on the floor, where it passes with less than 30 percent of the Republicans supporting it, but 100 percent support by amnesty-loving House Democrats.
Strangely, as reporter James Arkin pointed out at Real Clear Politics, this March 3 House vote was “unusual because it came days before the deadline rather than in the 11th hour.”
By some remarkable coincidence, March 3 was the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to speak to Congress at the invitation of Boehner, and just one day before the U.S. Supreme Court was to hear arguments in an important case about whether to maintain Obamacare.
Might Boehner have been hoping the other news would overshadow the betrayal he helped engineer against the American people on amnesty? Boehner and his pals may feign hopeless incompetence against their putative Democrat foes, but the GOP leaders are masters at engineering what they really want. Which just happens to coincide with what the Democrats really want.
Conservative national radio host Laura Ingraham told her listeners on March 4, “This is what Boehner always wanted.” But, she added, “things change on a dime.”
Don’t let the defeat get conservatives down, Ingraham said; “let it get you righteously indignant and ready for the next fight.”
That fight has to be nothing less than the end of the Republican establishment, which may talk the talk conservatives want to hear, but delivers the victories leftists hold dear.
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