DHS Shut Down Averted

[King]

The House Republicans need to respect that the Senate Republicans won a majority in midterms fair and square and compromise with them.

[King]

The real loser is Obama's veto pen. For all the talk of him finally being in the spotlight, the GOP one party rule Congress has only been able to send 1 bill to him in 57 days for a veto.  Poor little guy.

[King]

One-week extension in the Senate. Not over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-one-week-security-funding-extension-013312192.html

One week? lmao

[King]

The most pragmatic center right Republicans need to reach across the aisle to the pragmatic far right Republicans and hammer out a compromise that all Republicans can support. Americans are tired of the partisan division. Republicans or Republicans, we are all Republicans, and they need to remember that rather than focus on labels that divide us.

Really, this is a leadership failure on Barack Obama. As President, it is up to him to lead the Republican Party and, for some reason, he has show no interest in doing so.

[King]

If Republicans really believe the President is violating the Constitution, the Constitution says they can move to impeach him. So do it. Don't do passive aggressive protests on bills.

[King]

I'm personally very upset that a better funding bill wasn't passed, and my dislike for fringe House Republicans grows stronger with each day.  However, I must question how much of this criticism is partisan or legitimate, as I seem to remember quite a few Dems hooting and hollering about the DHS being unnecessary when President Bush was around.

The DHS is unnecessary as a bureaucracy.

The agencies under DHS control are necessary to be funded.

[King]

The right has already moved on from this to Hillary's email "scandal" and blowing Bibi. Boehner is going to walk away from this scot-free.