Writing at GrasstopUSA Don Feder asks if the time has come for a Republican split. Link to the article title for the full commentary. Bold emphasis ours.
With Amnesty Betrayal, Republicans Reach For Whig-Dom
House Speaker John Boehner called it, “Another in a long line of mindless concessions.” He was referring to Obama’s announcement that we would resume diplomatic relations with Cuba, not his own mindless concession to the president by fully funding Obamnesty. Just weeks ago, Boehner promised to fight Obama’s immigration power-grab “tooth and nail.” He neglected to specify whose tooth and whose nail.
The $1 trillion CRomnibus bill includes full-funding of Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty – $948 million for Homeland Security, an extra $80-million to HHS for the unaccompanied drug-dealers, gang-bangers and cheap labor, and $260 million to the State Department to assist Central American countries that have dumped their refuse on us.
With a perfectly straight face, the Republican establishment tells us that DHS is funded only through the end of February. After that, watch out. Republicans who run away will live to capitulate another day.
This abject surrender came a month after the GOP’s sweeping victory. Polls show only 36% of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of immigration, while 60% disapprove of executive amnesty. Not waiting for Republicans to not act (again), 17 state attorneys general are suing to have the order/memo/imperial decree overturned . . .
A December 8 New York Times story reveals: “Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party’s banner in 2016.” They’ve narrowed the field to Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (whose post-Sandy bear-hug helped to reelect the president) and Mitt Romney, the man who anesthetized the base in 2012. That makes two pro-amnesty candidates and one who pretends to oppose it.
Just before the last election, I did a commentary titled: “Vote Republican, Even If It Hurts.” My profound apologies. I didn’t know the pain would come so soon, and on such a crucial issue.
I’ve consistently cautioned against a conservative third party. The logistics are daunting (raising $100 million for a presidential campaign, replicating the state and local apparatus, etc.). But the time may have come when we have no choice. Boehner, McConnell and the money boys are 21st century Whigs, thinking they can sell out those who care about national identity and not pay the price.
