Again, there is so much happening that it’s necessary to deal separately with the CRomnibus debacle [MERRY CHRISTMAS: House approves $1.1 trillion bill financing government], and then to update myriad observations [personal and otherwise]; most of the news isn’t uplifting, however, as reflected in Rush’s unprecedented perseveration [in anguish]. First, it is necessary to debunk the cinema created by the reportage of a Dem-split, for BHO got his priority and will, later-on, pay-off the lesser-concerns if possible; he has done everything possible to transform America ASAP. Dem-Hypocrisy has been amply documented, so a media-portrayal of “balance” was created by efforts to claim the two major insertions by Boehner “slighted” libs [If the Government Shuts Down, Blame Nancy Pelosi for protesting liberalization of Dodd-Frank banking rules] and truly angered conservatives [Tea party movement joined Dems in fuming over campaign finance plan].

The structure of this “Blast” e-mail is to distill the electoral-import of what BHO has done [grossly under-reported], then to provide the perceptions received overnight c/o two readers [and my instant-reactions thereto], then to distill my postings aimed @ Mike Fitzpatrick [inclusive of destroying meek counter-arguments], next to summarize what happened [from three disinterested perspectives] and, finally, to explore the repercussions of what transpired.

Senator Mike Lee explained how Obama’s Amnesty Gives Illegals A Fast-Track To the Voting Booth

Obama’s amnesty allows illegals with U.S.-born children to briefly leave the country, perhaps for a business meeting in Canada, and then be given “advanced parole” by border officials that lets them legally return to the United States.

Once they have legally returned under “advanced parole,” they can be immediately sponsored for a green card and citizenship by their adult child, he said.

That process bypasses U.S. law that requires illegals to leave the country for 10 years before their U.S.-born adult children can sponsor them for citizenship.

My increasingly-fevered e-mails started [chronologically] with how I “set the table” in the prior “Blast” e-mail:

All those people who refused last year even to CONSIDER a primary-challenge [because of their “friendship” with Fitz] must now confront their consciences [and how he has abused their senses of loyalty]. When I saw him a year ago @ the $-raising banquet for the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, he muttered to me [sotto voce] that I should not do anything I would later regret; I have no regrets for predicting he would betray the “base” when voting to fund ObamaDon’tCare and, now, when poised to vote to fund Amnesty. [We politely chatted a few months ago @ an event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition at which he, alas, demurred instead of adopting a pre-election forthright posture on Illegals.] Hope he can be salvaged is fading rapidly, notwithstanding privately-received reassurances that he has “heard” us.

I then remitted a series of communications focused on Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick to people who might be able to help him to “see the light.” People on the “bcc”-list could invoke these data as inspiration for whatever they might do, and people on the “cc”-list were derived from my having dusted-off a “Blast” e-mail list that had been cobbled-together more than a year ago; it had led to generation of

three Press-Releases that had reflected the conjoint-view [unique nationally] of the leaders [locally, regionally, statewide, and nationally] of the major components of the TEA [Taxed Enough Already] Party Movement regarding the initiative to defund ObamaDon’tCare (with Mike Vereb and Lois Kaneshiki viewed as people others should note as having been recipients thereof). When Mike violated his campaign-pledge to devote total-energies to fighting ObamaDon’tCare [repeal, defund, replace], I was displeased and, frankly, “carried the torch” of this posture consistently and persistently thereafter. Now, as “chickens were returning home to roost,” they were invoked to attempt to influence his behavior, as per my initial salvo [when informed Mike could, perhaps, meet with us … fat chance].

I care not what any other Congress-Person says or does; the focus is solely upon Mike, and it seems there will be insufficient time prior to the vote to meet with him [as was predictable].

Whatever give-and-take opinions that exist regarding last week’s show-vote are IRRELEVANT [as per Heritage Foundation, and others]; the key-intervention is via the PURSE.

He must not fund BHO’s unconstitutional granting of Immunity to Millions of Illegals!

Thus, here is how I replied to Dave Sommers, Mike’s confidant:

To: sommers35 [mailto:sommers35@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:35 AMFrom: Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D.; 'mikefitzpatrickpa08'Cc: 'Rep Mike Vereb'; 'diana reimer'; 'Don Reimer'; 'Robert Boysen'; 'Lil Boysen'; uspatriot741776@yahoo.com; freedomwatcher1949@comcast.net; 'Linda Rosen'; 'Bob Guzzardi'; 'Jim Devlin'; 'Jaime Faucette'; 'Bill Harper'; 'Lois Kaneshiki'; 'Jamie Cox'; Subject: RE: it's crunch-time, and details have been provided via multiple "Blast" e-mails in follow-up during the past week.

This is B.S.

Comments interspersed…[recognizing the tendency to engage in misdirection which, on a certain level, is DISGUSTING in-and-of-itself]:

It is difficult if not impossible to force the Executive to enforce immigration laws by cutting or rearranging the budget process.

Even if it’s “difficult,” it can be done; the key, here, is to STOP him from creating laws that he wants to enforce [although it really would be nice to get him to uphold his oath-of-office].

"Cutting" money from various ICE functions would only diminish their capacity, would it not.

The only $ to be subject to "Cutting" would be that focused on one ICE function, implementation of the unconstitutional Executive Order.

The only exception would be if Obama's budget specifically earmarks money to, for example, help illegals cross the border .... or to violate their visa.

Fine, I’ll accept that “exception” that explicitly bans financing BHO’s Amnesty [work-cards being printed, etc.].

Congress has already (in previous budgets) designated set amounts of $ to Homeland Security - ICE .... and those agencies have capacity to spend and move that designated $ around.

Yes, but THIS budget need not fund NEW cost-centers related specifically to implementation of the Amnesty for MILLIONS.

I would suggest the way to stop these rogue ICE employees (and the ICE administrators) from refusing to enforce our immigration laws would be to threaten them with: firing ... impeachment .... contempt of Congress

This is a classic “straw-dog” argument; do anything else your heart desires, but DO NOT FUND BHO’S IMMUNITY!!!

Lastly, the continuing resolution passed today, regardless of what the House Republicans can force thru, is a wholly inadequate platform with which to stop this rogue President.

This argument is trite, used each time GOP-Leadership wanted to kick-the-can-down-the-road; the time to act is NOW, for a House-initiated funding-bill is THE perfectly-“adequate platform” to accomplish what most Americans want, notwithstanding the rhetoric that he’s a “rogue” [or worse].

Senate Democrats/Harry Reid are still able (until next month) to hold this nation hostage by refusing to include GOP laws.

Fine, let’s bring it on, with Americans totally behind us [as per the encyclical issued a month ago, via a plebiscite that most viewed as a tsunami].

In January, it will become clear that it is Obama, and Obama alone, who is the destructive force in this sordid scenario.

I care not about January and postulates related to the blame-game; the time to act is NOW!

This was how Dave replied [and how I reacted thereto]:

We are envisioning a fire-storm from the GOP-base which could even yield dethroning the Speaker….

It may be recalled that, one fine Friday in October, 2013 [if memory serves], there was a universal cheer emanating from the House-GOP after it initially passed bills that would defund ObamaDon’tCare; although eroded [when the faux-“Debt Ceiling Deadline” was deviously admixed and when I therefore argued that Congress could do nothing…and then allow all the tax-$ collected for ObamaDon’tCare to fund the debt], such an atmosphere CAN be re-created IF Boehner reflects the “will of the people” and unifies the GOP [perhaps, as never before] to DO THE RIGHT THING!

In response to input from David Sommers [via three distinct e-mails]:

"B.S." -- are you saying my comments are Bob Sklaroff ... or bull s***t

Your comments [presumably channeling what Mike had told you, so you’re not being held responsible] were indeed the LATTER.

What specifically should congress cut .... or add .... that would force Obama to enforce the law?

The House should ADD an amendment that explicitly precludes funding any element of what BHO [via ICE] has mandated via his Unconstitutional Executive Order [including, in particular, the printing of work-permits].

Yes, does the budget resolution specifically authorize the printing of ss cards for illegals?If not, the only thing to do would be to add a rider specifically prohibiting yhe printing of new green cards or ss cards.

As per my “Blast” e-mail that emerged @ 8:57 a.m., “Boehner Omnibus Gives Social Security Benefits To Illegal Aliens Under Obama Amnesty.”I’m open to whatever rider you would envision that would accomplish these specific purposes.

Next, I summarized a reformulated viewpoint, directed @ Mike:

I’m going to be as direct as possible, gratified at the fact that a response was smoked-out [perhaps from Boehner’s cigar-filled room].

We KNOW we can’t force ICE to enforce the law, we KNOW the Senate is still Dem-controlled, we KNOW BHO will blame the GOP for a governmental “mini”-slow-down [of ~14% of governmental operations].

All of that is irrelevant; the focus is trained SOLELY on the Unconstitutional Executive Order and the RESPONSIBILITY of Congress [specifically, the House] to initiate spending-bills.

We wanted to defund ObamaDon’tCare, and subsequent events vindicated our rectitude, as even Dems claim it’s been a disaster; NOW, armed with the voters’ verdict,

we want to defund the avalanche of $-sucking Illegals, with implications on all levels of American History hanging in the balance.

Mike, DO THE RIGHT THING!!!

Finally, I attempted to invoke nostalgia so as to provide a paradigm for how Mike might achieve a sense of redemption:

You requested specificity, you will get specificity:

Note this excerpt from Politico: "Congress Is About to Block the Feds from Cracking Down on Medical Marijuana," by Tim Burger (!) for VICE: "Tucked at the bottom of page 213 of the latest omnibus appropriations bill, a provision states that '[n]one of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used... to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana,' listing 32 states, as well as the District of Columbia, where the amendment would apply. ... Nearly 50 percent of Americans now live in a state or territory where medical marijuana is legal in some form."

Thus, an amendment could invoke identical lingo [“None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Homeland Security may be used...”]; I’m certain that Rep. Trey Gowdy or Sen. Jeff Sessions could easily complete the sentence.

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{Correction: The House passed the bill to defund ObamaCare in September, after which time a celebratory atmosphere erupted [note photo (vide infra) and 2-minute video].}

Know that those on the “bcc”-list can perceive these e-mails as providing the desired “Intel” that, undoubtedly, is not isolated to the colloquy between Dave and Fitz…and then can strategize accordingly.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, celebrates….

Subsequently, Dave remitted two flawed hyperlinks.

First, he claimed a Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration; the focus was on defunding. Second, he claimed, If you're gonna start a bar fight, why

wouldn’t you wait till you have all your people there to help; he forgot that irreversible events could transpire in the interim.

A reader remitted overnight an e-mail focused on precisely what served as my target throughout yesterday [vide infra], not having received any of the above:

Fitz is most likely smirking over his bamboozling of the local, spectacularly ineffective Bucks County Tea Parties. Same for Boehner and the Republicans who are far too liberal and therefore closer to Obama than they publically admit. The Republicans are not the friends some people think they are. They are just not interested in being right-wing or supporting Israel. Plus they really like Obamacare. It’s socialist like they are. Liberals like liberalism. It’s a tautology but that means it’s correct and that the Republicans are Liberals except for abortion. Anyhow, the Left is still running and ruining America.

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A reader captured the effect of overall proceedings, in an e-mail received overnight:

What the f*%# just happened in the House tonight! The Repubs had a chance to defund this illegal amnesty travesty (our voices were heard in November, or so I thought) and what do they do...vote for the 1.1T "ominous" bill. This is another goodie bag filled bill (for both sides) that was not given proper time to be read or debated. The long-term projection is going to be dire for conservatives and for the rest of the country. We are not going to see another conservative dominated House/Senate, and any Repub that will be nominated by the party for the Presidency will be a RINO. The conservatives who expected our representatives to fight the progressive agenda in this bill should be enraged that we did not defund the govt. until the bill was amended (after Jan. 2015). Additionally, there is no chance in hell that the ACA will be repealed now. Our elected representatives no longer represent their constituency or the constitution. How can we have a President making ad hoc legislation via the executive pen and allow this to pass for a government for the people, by the people? Our leadership has been corrupted, our political process has been corrupted and our constitution is being corrupted. I have lost faith in the ability of the American people to awaken from their slumber and get fully incensed with their government! “People Magazine”-reading douche bags procreating the next generation of People e-magazine subscribers has created the situation we find ourselves, because we elect idiots on both sides of the aisle to govern us.

John Adams and the rest of the Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves because the experiment they were willing to sacrifice their lives for is dying, simply because their progeny became lazy and apathetic. I am fucking pissed!

He channeled my angst, but he over-reached while ventilating disgust; it is now even more mandatory to nominate Cruz/Walker [assuming Cruz approves of his foreign policy] for POTUS-‘16, an achievement that can reasonably be anticipated; remember that the panoply of RINO’s can easily be viewed as [individually] inherently flawed [Bush, Christie, Martinez, Romney, Rubio, Ryan] and that other competitors are has-beens [Huckabee, Santorum] and/or obscure [Brewer, Corker, Fiorina, Gilmore, Graham, Jindal, King, Martinez, Perry, Pataki, Snyder]. Carson is inexperienced and bad on 2 nd

Amendment, Bolton would be a great SoState, and Rand Paul is terrible on foreign policy [and has that unshakable “crazy father in the attic” problem]; Walker can probably dominate two other governors [although people tell me Pence is great and Kasich is OK] in the early “semifinals” component of the race. One hopes that the field can be winnowed-down rapidly; once the “establishment” settles-in upon its stalking-horse, it will be necessary to KO that individual and then breathe easier.

Otherwise, he was totally on-point, particularly with regard to how totally detached the political parties have become from what the Founders/Framers had envisioned.

This is what transpired [c/o the National Journal, the National Review, and The Hill (respectively)]:

House Republican [LEADERSHIP] narrowly cleared a major hurdle Thursday morning in their race for the exits, winning a key procedural vote on a massive spending bill to keep the government afloat. Passage of the rule governing debate for the "CROmnibus" bill by a razor-thin 214-212 margin means that the measure can come up for what should be an easier final vote Thursday afternoon. The rule passed only after two Republicans, Reps. Kerry Bentivolio and Marlin Stutzman, were persuaded by leaders to switch their votes from no to yes. Every Democrat voted against the rule, but several are expected to back the underlying bill. Still, GOP leaders are considering a fallback plan to bring up a shorter continuing resolution if the larger bill fails to pass Thursday.

Earlier today, House Republican Leaders barely escaped having the procedural "rule" setting up debate on the CRomnibus voted down. Conservative stalwarts refused to enable this flawed legislation from coming to the floor. Unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding that vote are now suspect. National Review is reporting that certain Representatives were promised that the cromnibus would be pulled immediately if they voted with their Leadership. That promise appears to have been discarded and Barack Obama is now personally calling lawmakers asking for their support. This is no way to run the House of Representatives.

The White House backs the bill and has mounted an intense campaign to save it that included a trip by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough to Capitol Hill. President Obama and members of his administration have been furiously working the phones to try and save the funding bill ahead of a government shutdown at midnight.

This is how an organizer for Philly’s “Tea Party Patriots” concisely conceptualized the situation:

There is nothing in this bill that limits the executive amnesty action.

The Department of Homeland Security is being funded through February 27, 2015.

The administration will take quick steps to award contracts for execution of executive amnesty and begin the process before February.

The administration has already contracted for a facility in Crystal City and advertized 1000 positions to manage the amnesty program.

Once there is a structure in place and registration begins, there is no way of reversing it.

Here is how a Lib expressed approval for this event [to which I replied “Your stance creates USA as magnet”]:

So the question, assuming you have a short-term perspective of 2016, is whether they are being fast-tracked from green card to citizenship. If your concern truly is elections, you can't vote with just a green card. What exactly does the language in the bill say? Also, while it is a lot of people, apparently the policy is limited to adults who have kids with green cards or citizenship.

I can support actions that strongly enforce the border moving forward. But, rational policies must be adopted to deal with the clear reality of the people already here. I do not favor deporting them all. Forget the social (family and humanitarian) issues for now - it is not a practical solution. I understand (although I do not fully agree with) the desire not to fast-track citizenship.

Perhaps a compromise is making the path from green card to citizenship different / harder. Maybe, there are tweaks in what benefits are permissible under a green card. All of that is different from a stance that favors mass deportation.

Here are a few expressions of anguish from RedState [seriatim]:

Republicans Must Oppose the Rule on the CRomnibus

The Choice for Republicans: With Their Base or With Obama

Our rock stars in the House are under intense pressure to go along with Boehner’s spending bill surrender to Obama.

The Heroes in the House of RepresentativesCongressman Amash of MichiganCongresswoman Bachmann of MinnesotaCongressman Brat of VirginaCongressman Brooks of AlabamaCongressman Broun of GeorgiaCongressman Gohmert of TexasCongressman Gosar of ArizonaCongressman Huelskamp of Kansas

Congressman Jones of North CarolinaCongressman Jordan of OhioCongressman King of IowaCongressman Labrador of IdahoCongressman Massie of KentuckyCongressman Posey of FloridaCongressman Salmon of ArizonaCongressman Stockman of Texas

The GOP: For Wall Street, Not Main Street - Sixteen Republicans voted against the rule on the CROmnibus. They threw the process into chaos and sent Republican leaders scrambling. Barack Obama had to send his Chief of Staff up to the Hill to convince Democrats to go along with it. And ultimately we got a clear picture of where Republican leaders stand. They headed to the edge of the shutdown cliff, willing to shut down the government for a Wall Street bailout, but unwilling to do so to stop the President’s amnesty plan.