{"id":8334,"date":"2015-02-25T03:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T03:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2015-02-25T03:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T03:20:03","slug":"mcconnell-acts-like-a-grownup-on-dhs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8334","title":{"rendered":"McConnell acts like a grownup on DHS bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, glory be.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually is capable of acting like a governing grownup. Good for him.<\/p>\n<p>He wants the Senate to pass a &#8220;clean&#8221; Department of Homeland Security funding measure, without trying to undo President Obama&#8217;s executive action on immigration. He&#8217;s now putting the screws on the House of Representatives, which might resist the Senate boss&#8217;s efforts to keep DHS functioning after Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0VfrXDcABY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/233757-mcconnell-puts-squeeze-on-house\/\">McConnell puts squeeze on House<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;McConnell puts squeeze on House&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/233757-mcconnell-puts-squeeze-on-house\/embed\/#?secret=5OitBkfGZO#?secret=0VfrXDcABY\" data-secret=\"0VfrXDcABY\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Without the funding bill, DHS will furlough 30,000 federal employees and will effectively shut down, putting the nation&#8217;s borders at risk of infiltration by undesirables &#8212; you know, drug smugglers and terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that McConnell wants to give Obama a pass on the immigration action. He said he&#8217;s willing to vote on defunding the executive action after voting on the DHS bill. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The big story is that McConnell is willing to avoid shutting down a key national security agency over a partisan political fight.<\/p>\n<p>National security &#8212; protecting the homeland, for instance &#8212; ought to be above partisanship. In this day and time, though, everything becomes a partisan battle. <em>Everything!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congress has shown a propensity for pulling rabbits out of its hat. The DHS funding issue has a lot of Americans &#8212; including me &#8212; worried about the level of gamesmanship both sides are willing to play, even if it involves protecting the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have three whole days to get this thing done.<\/p>\n<p>Do it, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, glory be. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually is capable of acting like a governing grownup. Good for him. He wants the Senate to pass a &#8220;clean&#8221; Department of Homeland Security funding measure, without trying to undo President Obama&#8217;s executive action on immigration. He&#8217;s now putting the screws on the House of Representatives, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McConnell acts like a grownup on DHS bill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,849,1373,1661,2158,2245,3099,4963,4980],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-capitol-hill","tag-dhs","tag-executive-action","tag-homeland-security","tag-immigration","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-u-s-house","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}