A GOP “strategy” on amnesty | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: Brant Clifton uses the words of others, in part, to bring a possible outcome in the Obama inspired Constitutional crisis in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

    We've learned that there just might be a crony capitalism angle in the amnesty fight for at least one powerful House Republican.

    We've also heard about a letter, circulated by 50 House Republicans, urging that ONLY a short term funding measure be passed and that NO funding for amnesty prep be approved. (Walter Jones is the only local pol signed on to that letter.)

    Now, we're getting word of an alleged strategy being considered by congressional Republicans against Obama's plan to issue an executive order on amnesty:

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    The key point is that no matter what package emerges, there seems to be a consensus emerging among Republicans on Capitol Hill: There will be no funding for Obama's planned executive amnesty. There's a number of different ways that can happen.

    First, there could be a short-term Continuing Resolution passed that funds all of government from Dec. 11-when current funding measures end-until shortly after the newly-elect Senate GOP majority takes office in early 2015. At that point, the Senate and House Republicans would block Obama's planned immigration executive order in some fashion-either in a bill that funds all of the rest of government except for that or by splitting various Appropriations bills into different packages that separates funding the Department of Homeland Security out from the rest of government.

    Another possibility is that there may be some kind of effort to cut the funding for Obama's planned executive amnesty in the lame duck session of Congress now, but that effort would likely be thwarted as one of the last acts of outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

    "House members are looking for a way to stop executive amnesty while passing a partial omnibus that contains some appropriations bills already passed by the House," a House GOP aide close to the negotiations told Breitbart News. "The approach would separate the agencies involved in executive amnesty from the rest of the government funding, perhaps through a short-term CR combined with an omnibus, or a 'cromnibus' as it's been coined in recent days."

    In statements to Politico, both incoming Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn and incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) affirmed that is likely to be the pathway forward for Republicans.

    "I think there is a growing momentum to the idea that Congress would be acting responsibly and modestly if it funds the government but simply bars the president from executing policies that Congress believes shouldn't be executed by denying funding," Sessions, one of the loudest and most aggressive proponents of Congress asserting its authority here, said.

    "It seems to me the two options are to do a temporary CR, for everything and to revisit it at all early next year - or to do something longer term on everything other than" the DHS appropriations, Cornyn said. "But I know there will be controversy about that as well."

    One of the best parts of this strategy for Republicans is that they can have their cake and eat it too-have the government funding fight, and have no risk of a government shutdown at all.[...]