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The House Just Passed A Bill To 'Pause' The Syrian Refugee Program, Obama Will Veto
With 53% of Americans opposed to opening the nation’s borders to those fleeing the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, it is perhaps no surprise that The House just voted overwhelmingly to slap stringent - and difficult to implement - new screening procedures on refugees from Syria seeking resettlement. While 47 Democrats defied President Obama's; due to absences, the vote did not quite nullify the threat of veto, without which the bill would effectively suspend the entry of refugees into the US for months or years.
The House forcefully snubbed President Obama's veto threat... (as AP reports),
The House has rebuked President Barack Obama by ignoring his veto threat and approving a Republican bill erecting fresh barriers for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the United States.
Thursday's passage came on a 289-137 vote.
The roll call came after White House officials visited the Capitol and lobbied Democrats to oppose the legislation. Dozens of them ended up joining Republicans, anyway, and supporting the measure.
The curbs would in effect suspend the entry of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. for months or years.
Republicans said tighter restrictions are needed following last week's Paris terrorist attacks. Obama and most Democrats said the system was already safe and the U.S. shouldn't abandon its tradition of accepting refugees.
Forty-seven Democrats defied President Obama’s veto threat and backed the bill - just short of enough to override a presidential veto if all members are present. Two Republicans voted agains the measure.
GOP aides noted that because of absences, the vote would have met the two-thirds requirement to override a presidential veto if that vote had been held Thursday. Still, there's no guarantee that Democrats would vote to override the president if the bill comes back to the floor.
Seizing on the fear stemming from the Paris attacks and threatening to cloud President Obama’s Middle East policy, as The New York Times reports,
The bill would require that the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence confirm that each applicant from Syria and Iraq poses no threat, a demand the White House called “untenable.”
The measure received significant support from Democrats, even after administration officials implored them to abandon the measure on Thursday morning.
The Senate is expected to take up the measure after the Thanksgiving recess, but its fate in that chamber is unclear.
“Our duty is to protect the American people,” said Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader. The House measure, he said, “increases the standards to keep those who want to do us harm out.”
Which confirms what America appears to feel also, as The Hill reports,
About 53 percent of respondents in a new Bloomberg Politics survey oppose opening the nation’s borders to those fleeing the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.
Twenty-eight percent support Obama’s plan for resettling approximately 10,000 displaced Syrians by 2016.
The remaining 8 percent, it added, are unsure of how the U.S. should proceed.
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Finally there is this...
Another 11 percent, Bloomberg Politics found, back accepting only Christian Syrians.
Mission Accomplished...
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0bama’s new “strategy” in Syria - start blaming Bill Clinton:
Remember President Billy’s famous quote: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'IS' is”?
He was referring to Islamic State! ;-)
Looney
53% opposed?...We're doomed, its over...9th inning for planet earth,folks, ................Got eternity?
Bout time they grew a pair. But don't worry........the head nigger in charge will find a way kicking and screaming.
Well at least only 43% of the Democrats are completely out of their mind.
I think it's cute how the leftists only promote democracy when they know that they are in favor, and quickly act as if there is nothing wrong when they use the republic method instead when it benefits them. Never any failure to take the best position position to get what they want.
They really breed them to be good little toy soldiers these days don't they...
Just like off-shore windmill farms are all the rage until they were planned for off the coast of Nantucket.
Hey, let's bomb a bunch of brown people, displace them, then import them. What could go wrong?
It's worse, they aren't actually bombing them. They are just bringing them in.
You're right.
I saw a story yesterday that over 2000 Cubans are stuck in CostaRica trying to make it to the Texas border, its a free for all....Thanks Barry!
Yeah, exceptionalism apparently means taking a shit and pretending that your ass magically doesn't need wiping.
This is some primitive crazy shit. Why the fuck are these guys not standing up against all our murder and mahem in the ME?
Sick shit. U S A! all the way.
"...With 53% of Americans opposed to opening the nation’s borders to those fleeing the war-torn Middle Eastern nation..."
Did I miss something? Since when do the 'little peoples' opinions in the United States matter except for FEMA classification?
Once UnitedHealth figures out how to make ISIS refugee's taxpayer-funded healthcare enrollment mandatory (and administered by United Health), we'll be importing hundreds of thousands more.
It's nothing personal, peon subjects... It's just business.
About fucking time Congress gave that arrogant little fuck El Presidente the middle finger vote - FUCK YOU, from The American People.
I second that FUCK YOU! What a fucking America hating closet Muslim cunt...
obama is a fucking muslim asshole!
You know, I am sick of Muslims. Sick of them demanding to move into our countires. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, are not fucking Muslim! Why should we, take these fuckers! When they demand to live off of social welfare and to hate the very people who pay them money and give them houses? Fuck 'em.
Only a scandinavian civil war will sort this mess out now! It is so far gone, that only the worst sort of violence is going to result. I don't want it, but they brought it, and there you are!
Female politicians dreaming largely of arab cock.
Sadly, this is true. In Sweden the women rule and the men are useless MANGINAS!
Replace the word "Muslim" with the word "Jew" and re-read this article and its comment replies.
.... Nope don't care.
Good idea - we can send ALL of the goatfuckers back from whence they came.
Hard to believe that the men were once Vikings. Sheeesh! get a pair!
Hard to believe that the men were once Vikings. Sheeeesh! get a pair.
And now we're all fucked. The end.
There's something severly wrong with stickin a burka on a female. Just sayin...
But noooo... the rulers of the planet can't have partitioned existences. We must all "coexist" (fuck that bumper sticker, usually found alongside an Is-real? one) in one big happy shithole clusterfuck of a rapist-infested world.
They'll do the jobs Americans won't do, like self-detonating, etc.
LOL! But IMO enjoying modern "media" and "entertainment" and eating plastic food is equivalent to or worse than classical "self-detonation".
Come on man, you read don't you? Micky D's and Burger Kings as well as the others sales are in the Toilet. Only the Ghetto stores are doing at best ok and even they are losing sales. The public is waking up to the food poison.
It's gonna be a european civil war, it's beginning. Note any kind of digital communication is under surveillance
HAHAHA. The local head of CAIR has been all over the news claiming victimhood hear lately. Muslims are like a cancer wherever they appear.
If you are sick of muslims, why do your country keep bombing theirs? Just leave them alone!!!!
Even stupid Sweden and Greece, to name a few countries, bombed Libya, now this country is in anarchy, and become a springboard for the African migrant exodus... Gaddafi warned your Euro countries that Europe would turn "black" if he fell. He was right.
I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and there's around 6000 Syrians migrants that recently come here, and you can see they are all desperate families fleeing war. It's not fair to us receive the migrants your fucking wars created. We have our own troubles already.
Your countries are democracies, just take the consequences for your politicians' actions!
Our nations are Democracies in name only. The rule of law went out the window when they started ignoring the constitution and no one did anything about it. Around the civil war and even more around 1933. We like you are living in a oligarchy. Also we are supposed to be a representative republic but that doesn't really matter anymore either.
Trouble is our government never knows what the consequences of its actions are going to be. They have been blundering around since 1950.
Either
1) It suits them to have all the m.e. countries in total chaos and with no collective power or
2) They don't know what the fuck they are doing.
Why do these countries do it?? Why?. Is it a suicidal or self destructive impulse? Is it a play on future Karma? Just don't tell me it's am outburst of US compassion please. We are killing the ones that stay behind.
Sorry Jack -you're wrong in this case.
When the Western "Politicians" decide to destroy other countries, the occupants of those countries might reasonably expect "The West" to do something to mitigate the problems "The West" has caused.
Don't want refugees? Don't bomb / destabilise / "Regime Change" other countries.
Simple, isn't it. (Bit late now; you've done the bombing, so accept the consequences.)
So all the fault is with the demanding party, and those giving in to demands are off free and clear??
Apparently a lot of Muslims and Eruo pussies are on ZH today with the downvotes.
I hate to say it Europe but you are so far down the road on the Muslim colonization and your politicians have no intention of stopping. I can only hope that we in America learn from your mistakes and go to war (civil) over this if we have to.
they should all move in with owebomba. he caused this whole mess.
They shoud all be flown to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"Warning: Illegal speech detected in Sector 3, Division 7. Preparing to initiate arrest sequence on dissident Bunghole."
Just kidding, but not really. Not a single mainstream entity questions the lack of "refugee" influx into these pristine and pure countries. How is that possible, when they live right fucking door? Wait, I hear choppers overhe-*woosh*
I'm perfectly open to Syrian refugees. As long as they are housed in the neighborhoods and communities of the politicians that think it is our responsbility to care for them. Actions, meet consequences.
More specifically, refugees should be required to settle in the following areas for a period of no less than 2 years:
Washington, D.C.; Arlington and Fairfax Counties, Virginia; Baltimore, MD; Manhattan NYC, NY; Martha's Vineyard; Chicago, IL; Seattle, WA; Austin, TX; Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, CA; Beverly HIlls, CA.
He will arm them just like he did in Libya and Syria.
They will spread out into the country like the "Kids" did from central America.
They will be embedded.
They are his secret go anywhere army, as Al Qaeda is/was.
I honestly dont care that much about syrian refugees coming into this country. Cheap, unskilled labor that doesnt threaten my job. And the wont complain about being paid less than $15
Can we do something to keep out the rich chinese that are inflating property values beyond what most americans can afford?
You think Syrian refugees are going to work?
Whose taxes will be supporting them and paying for their free shit?
How long until they start crying about racism and demanding equal opportunity representation for Muslims in America?
How many generations of 8 children them vs. 1 child us until they're the majority population?
How long until they start crying about racism and demanding equal special opportunity representation for Muslims in America?
You mean like blacks already receive with affirmative action?
One nation under Allan, OR ELSE!
Not sure i'm familiar with Allan... lol
You should try Allan's Snackbar. It's to die for.
Careful you don't cause any "hurt feelings". In England if you hurt a muslim's feelings the "victim" can be awarded a large cash award from the Gov'ment and the "feelings violator" can lose their job. Not a joke.
Do you really care where your taxes go? You have no control over them anyway. Go to bombs, go to subsides for corps overseas, go to israel, go to saudi arabia, go to welfare queens. What difference does it make. Syrian refugees are just trying to live like you and I. And they cant survive very well in their homeland right now. Am I super happy about an influx of them? No not really but building up a wall or making it difficult for them to immigrate is a pretty simplistic idea that wont work accomplish its own goal anyway.
We are seeing the result of a destabilized region. There is no "unbreaking" it.
Yes I care where my taxes go. I'd rather they not go people who hate me. Ideally they'd go to things that benefit me.
I do have a small amount of control over where my taxes go. For example, I can try to influence policy (eg. voting, arguing) or move to a different jurisdiction. I can also stop paying them altogether.
Everyone is just trying to live. That says nothing about whether we ought to help others or share our resources with them. Americans are trying to live, too. Biologically, we're less healthy than they are. We work hard, waste our time, money, and energy largely on stuff that largely doesn't benefit us (eg. helping foreigners), and struggle to raise our own families. We are in a bad state and we ought to focus on improving our own quality of life, country, society, education, etc, etc rather than waste additional resources trying to help others. I know it's selfish, but all healthy individuals and countries and all people who wish to survive must be selfish.
"Yes I care where my taxes go. I'd rather they not go people who hate me."
not sure where you live but where I am everyone hates eachother and will stab eachother in the back and climb eachother to get higher. They dont care what race, religion or country you are from. "Sense of community" is very much dead in major cities at the least.
What resources are going to improve american lives as it is? your country is not even run by americans right now and certainly not for americans. Its being run by the richest and most powerful in the world, regardless of what country they are from or live in.
So you're a defeatist? "Because we have so many problems already, we'd might as well get another one (Syrian refugees to take care of)!"
they are the least of my concerns. Its not like I have to personally take care of them.
If there is mandatory "each american houses 1 syrian family" then you may have my attention.
The oddest part of this whole discussion is the suggestion that the US government gives a rat's ass about anyone, be they children, women, or mouhammed's one-armed grandmother.
Let me explain to you how the US government uses the refugee system: they offer it as a bribe to people in order to get intel within countries they are meddling in. Other than that, the US government could give a fuck less.
The first thing my government has done in 10 years I've agreed with.
Good job team. I'm proud of you.
Now the refugees can go home and wipe ISIS off the map just like the US young men kicked England out during the revolution.
LOL. to be quickly destroyed by the senate and vetoed by the president...
CONgress, the judiciary, and the executive branches of your government were BOUGHT long ago.
Get long sharecropping and guillotines, beat the rush!
The best thing the government did in the past ten years was when it shut down in 2013.
This was just token resistance, to make it look like congress is 'listening,' but the fix was already in. It would pass no matter what, but having the president veto it just adds to his 'evil factor' and keeps blame mostly on him and not the rest of government.
And you wonder why the world hates America. The USA created this and now want to take zero responsibility for the consequences. Way to go team USA.
The distinction between "refugees", "asylum seekers", and "migrants" appears to be little known in the circles disseminating the above information.
Irrelevant. CONgress and the judiciary have long since been BOUGHT.
Congress is a bribed entity. Members serve those who fund their rich lifestyles and pay to get them elected.
The recent Syrian Arab Army offensive backed by Russia air power just smashed the Jihadists as they tried to outflank a Syrian Army unit, instead the Jihadists were caught out in the open and ambushed by the Syrian Army, who called in Russin Helicopters to hit them on the run.
When the Army approached the dead ISIS troops, they found a large number were carrying full gas mask kits. Soldiers hate to carry this heavy stuff into battle. Thus the Syrians now believe ISIS can and will employ battle field chemical weapons. Probably coming from Turkey, via Saudi Arabia!
If someone does not level the Saudi Arabian terror nation soon, it will be too late. America protects two nations. Saudi Arabia and Israel. American top two allies.
Hasn’t the EPA and Monsanto done enough Chemical Attacking on us? Now we have to eat GMO salmon.
Won't pass the Senate, all it needs is one pro-forma filibuster, I doubt they can get the votes to kill.
Nevermind that most of the refugees are not from Syria.
and that almost all are not refugees.
No No !!
Bill still undecided
http://fortruss.blogspot.it/2015/11/rumble-in-rada-ukraine-fighting.html
Not to worry.
In Canada were taking 25,000 to start according to our new Primae Minister, the medical marvel who lives without a brain.
The plan is to house them in Canadian Military basis. I kid you not.
Thus they will be very close to any required ammunitions.
Get me outa here.
The bill would require that the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence confirm that each applicant from Syria and Iraq poses no threat ...
There is no such database, and no such database is even possible, as the FBI director testified and as any five-year-old knows.
The vast majority of Congress wants to see terrorist attacks in the US because it would aid their control agenda and line their pockets even further.
I think someone should hand out flyers for Sidwell Friends School to every one of them, and tell them it's their right to send their kids there.
the house is irrelevant, Paul Ryans plan lose into a golden parachute through the traitor Senate.
Obama needs ISIS, so they can trash an upscale neighborhood, and thus introduce his next Act:
The 'Affordable Housing Act'.
I vote that we deport Obama to Syria.
Go back to Mecca, asshole
The House side of the UniParty has a deal with the Senate side of the UniParty. House passes a bill, gets street cred, Senate with no fanfare rejects it. Citizens screwed again.
Ok, so he Vetos it.
Let the asshat do it, don't care.
States just refuse to take them.So what's he gonna do to them?.DEFUND them?,and what if they decide to stop paying FED taxes all of them?.We may be coming to a Mexican Standoff.
Pass the blood funnel please. I'm ready to donate again.
Import too many muslims and you become like the middle-east... a shitty place where people blow themselves up for their invisible god in the sky
so says the guy who believes in invisible space men and by the way, we have been blowing shit up on account of invisible fucking "freedom and democracy" for the last 30 years in the middle east now as usual the people have to bear the brunt of the blowback. Hows that working out for you buzzy?
Everybody understands this is just the House, right? The Senate needs to concur with a similar 2/3rds supermajority, and that seems highly unlikely.
On the other hand, if Senate Democrats succeed in blocking the bill, they will have handed the Republicans a major election issue. On the other other hand, only 7 Senate Democrats are up for reelection in 2016 (assuming the 3 who say they are retiring actually retire). Compare that to the 22 or so Republican Senators up for reelection in 2016. In 2018 the numbers are basically reversed.
So while the Republicans have a great campaign issue, their potential gains are limited. But if we in the USSA see some Syrian terrorist act in 2017-2018, look for the Senate to turn Red in 2018.
You know things are very bad when you're hoping collapse happens before they successfully pull-off a full-blown, hard tyranny brand of fascism.
One way or the other, we're very close to the end.
I want to know where the 47% is. Are they trapped in a fart sack or just a lost statistic?
Why couldn't our extremely moronic representatives have demanded that we NOT go to war with Iraq - that's their job but being the mental midgets and Israeli AIPAC ass-kissers that they are, we find ourselves in this MESS....
The House Just Passed A Bill To 'Pause' The Syrian Refugee Program, Obama Will Veto
Hold on a second here. Where is the legislation that granted Syrian Refugees asylum in the U.S. in the first place? Who the f*%# signed off on this and why is it being allowed?
So much for a nation of laws....
Vote out anyone who voted agaisnt this bill and remove this bum by force, the game it up Hussien!!
You people and those who think there needs to be screening for the migrants to enter this country are nothing but sick fucking RACISTS. The people who did the Paris attacks were Frenchmen and Belgians. The NRA and guns are what caused the attacks and President Obama knows this it's just that now we have genuine Nazis like Donald Trump getting in the way of our much cherished multicultural way of life. I hope President Obama bans your guns and opens up the floodgates for the migrants. You racists make me sick.
"The people who did the Paris attacks were Frenchmen and Belgians. "
You should double check on that, Frenchmen and Belgians! :) Just because Abdelhamid and his crew(+Syrian "refugee) were born in Europe to previous "refugees"/imigrants....that does not make them Frenchmen and Belgians. If anything, in the UK, 2nd and 3rd generation produces the most jihadis. Probably the same statistics in Belgium, France, Netherlands etc.
If ISIS is Islam
https://twitter.com/KingSargon26/status/667436865407074304
I think we may have discovered a way to world peace. How about eveytime America destroys a government (iraq, Libya,) or tries to (syria), we have to take every goddamn towelhead that wants to leave?
If all you assholes spent as much time bitching about this fucking imperial overreach as you do about taking a few camel jockeys, maybe shit would be differnt.
Representative Kevin McCarthy of California doesn't give a shit about the American people.
His duty is to protect the War Industry's Profits...
Obama's new mission is to provide safe passage to ME terrorists because he wouldnt want to offend anyone. Telling Obama this is wrong is like trying to explain to my 5 yr old why we can't bring all the stray puppies we see home? WTF is wrong with our government? The law of averages see's 10,000 as "High Risk" it only takes 1. The American people should elect a president that has some respect for their citizens safety. FUCK HIM!
From Article: "While 47 Democrats defied President Obama's; due to absences"
A bunch of chicken shit pussies are afraid of what OBAMA might do to them?
I hope the fucking traitor gets HIV from the same Trannies that Charlie Sheen slept with and dies!
the republicunts in the house continue to fund everything obola wants then they put on a public display with these useless votes. meanwhile the demoncraps just sit back, smile and catch zero hell for anything. freight train to hell
If Congress is serious it only takes a 2/3 vote to overide him.
Vote them out!!!
House Res. 531
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h639
Where were those worthless pieces of shit, what are we paying them for???
Obama will veto.
A Syrian "Infiltrator" will kill some Americans.
Then it is prima facie treason for Obama.