Marco Rubio Hints At A Government Shutdown Fight Over Immigration

[applegrove]

Marco Rubio Hints At A Government Shutdown Fight Over Immigration

by Igor Bobic at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/marco-rubio-shutdown_n_5718905.html

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) contends that unilateral action by President Barack Obama on immigration, which is expected this fall, will doom future chances for reform by poisoning the well in Congress. The one-time champion for comprehensive immigration reform wants Senate Republicans to combat the likely executive action through the budget process when Congress returns in September.

"There will have to be some sort of a budget vote or a continuing resolution vote, so I assume there will be some sort of a vote on this," Rubio told Breitbart in an interview published Tuesday. "I'm interested to see what kinds of ideas my colleagues have about using funding mechanisms to address this issue."

After Congress returns on Sept. 8, lawmakers will have just 10 working days to come to consensus on a continuing resolution to fund the government or risk a shutdown. Two particularly contentious issues -- the renewal of the Export-Import Bank and newly proposed rules on coal-fired power plants -- already threaten to derail that agreement. Adding immigration to the debate would complicate matters further and potentially trigger a domestic crisis on the eve of the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

Aside from the politics of another potential shutdown fight, it's unclear what "funding mechanisms" Senate Republicans would attach to a continuing resolution that could limit an executive action on immigration. A spokesman for Rubio declined to provide any specifics when reached for comment on Tuesday.





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[applegrove]

1. Maybe Obama is going to emasculate the GOP by filling his slate

with all manner of independent executive actions to do in the fall. Good that it is being talked about now. Keep it up GOP. Keep it up. Advertise Obama as a man of action.

[Cha]

2. Oh yeah, I hate them.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. They preemptively accuse Obama of poisoning the well when it comes to immigration reform...

Meanwhile they twiddle their thumbs and sit on their asses while they don't do shit about immigration because they don't want to upset their racist base.

These folks are the ones poisoning the well.

[Cha]

4. they're Ratfuckers and they're fucking our country and the Planet.

President Obama is the strongest person to deal with their shit 24/Freaking/7.

[oldandhappy]

5. The party of fiscal responsibility

wastes tons of money shutting down the government, hiring attorneys at $500 an hour to sue the president, and refusing to work (they have taken so many vacation days I am not sure they are even on hand one-quarter time).

[sakabatou]

6. OFFS!

[jmowreader]

7. Go for it guys...

Republicans shut down the government a week before the election? Hello, Democratic supermajority!

[spanone]

8. the well has been poisoned since the black President took office. fuck rubio