Tomorrow night, Barack Obama is set to announce an executive amnesty by which he will refuse to enforce U.S. immigration law by halting deportations of illegal immigrants. The president's in-your-face disregard for constitutional obligations as the nation's chief executive have left some congressional Republicans mulling over the possibility of defunding said executive amnesty as a condition of the continuing resolution to fund the federal government.
So naturally MSNBC anchor and veteran Obama apologist Ed Schultz took to his November 19 program to denounce said Republicans as overstepping their bounds:
ED SCHULTZ, host: Meanwhile, Canadian Senator Ted Cruz, who resides in Texas, is already playing the shutdown game blame game. Cruz wrote in an op-ed today, "President Obama will no doubt threaten a shutdown that seems to be the one card he repeatedly plays. But Congress can authorize funding for agencies of government one at a time."
So what does that mean? Democrats are already returning fire on offense. Harry Reid had no problem calling out Republicans on their radical threats.
Sen. HARRY REID (D-Nevada): But it remains to be seen whether Republican leaders, both here in the Senate and in the House, will stand up to their own caucus members who are threatening to shut down the government if President Obama does this or does that. Namely, the last 24 hours has been on immigration. Immigration should not prevent Senator McConnell and [Speaker] Boehner from working with me to fund the government.
SCHULTZ: Give Republicans a big win in the midterms and they immediately overstep their bounds. That's how I think liberals are viewing this. These guys will do anything to trash the president. That's still a number one on the list, even if it means hurting our country again with another costly shutdown. Let's not forget a year ago the last shut cost this economy $24 billion. What could we do with that?
Republicans could care less as long as they can ruin President Obama's legacy on immigration. He's already done health care, already fixed the economy, replaced every job we had [lost] from the Great Recession, saved the automobile industry.
I know it's things that's been thrown out there before, but now it's immigration and now it's shutdown talk again, and who knows, [it] could take us to the I-word.
