ICE Council President: Obama Has Endangered Public Safety & National Security

by JASmius

Obama Vows Next Congressional Battle Will Be Over Immigration Reform....

Or, in other words, he's giving Harry Reid his marching orders.  For whatever that's worth.  Hey, thanks in no small part to Ted Cruz, Red Barry is feeling his oats right now and is, as is his want, overreaching yet again.  And when he doesn't get his "congressional battle," he'll look even more foolish than he does already - and coming in parallel with the ObamaCare rollout disaster, that's really saying something.

Here's some food for thought, in the form of a prediction: Come January 16th, 2014, there will be another government "shutdown," no matter what Republicans do.  Why?  Because of what the Democrats didn't get out of the last one: another tax hike and repeal of the Sequester.  For all the Tea Party wailing and gnashing of teeth about how we "lost," the fact is that it was actually a stalemate - we didn't damage OCare, but we did keep in place the spending baseline that will mean a third consecutive year of lower spending in absolute dollar terms.  Which is all that should reasonably have been expected under the current divided government circumstances.  That little detail drives Donks at least as batty as ObamaCare does Ted Cruz - and that's really saying something.

But since the Dems and the Tea Party are on the same page about the outcome of Shutdowngeddon I, Obamunists think they have Republicans on the run, and will do to us on the Sequester what we attempted to do to them on ObamaCare.  To which I say, "Bring....it....on!"  THAT is a hill worth dying on, because it is a winnable battle on enormously more favorable PR ground.  Put another way, last time around the Dems were playing defense; this time we will.  Boehner doesn't have to do anything except pass another "clean" CR and sit back and watch the Dems commit hari-kari arguing for still higher taxes in the teeth of ObamaCare "sticker shock" and a resumption of runaway spending - which would strengthen the GOP's hand when February 7th and the next Debtageddon showdown rolls around.

"Know when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em," Kenny Rogers once lyricized.  Round two of this Charlie-Foxtrot may well have a significantly less favorable outcome for O than he and his minions believe.

But know this, my Tea Party friends: life is a function of expectations.  Nobody should ever have expected Republicans to be able to defund or delay ObamaCare from the narrow platform of just the House of Representatives.  But holding the line against another tax increase and defending the Sequester is an entirely reasonable expectation, for which there is no conceivable excuse for failure.  If the GOP caves on either or both, I'll help y'all braid their nooses, because at that point, there really wouldn't be anything left to lose, because we'd have given it all away.