Homeland Security funding will be halted if a bill isn’t passed and signed by Obama.

The funding deadline is Friday. The Senate GOP tried five times, but Democrats blocked the bill from coming out of committee. Even CNN reported Democrats did it.

Which leads to our question…

…could the Senate GOP be playing Democrats for fools? If the funding dries up after Friday, is it possible Republicans are crowding Democrats off the stage ’til then, showing they’re doing everything they can, until a nuclear option last resort?

Will McConnell man up, nuke the Democrat filibuster, and drive the bill through…

…leaving it to Obama to veto the funding, because it excludes amnesty?

Looks like we’ll know soon enough.

Assistants…assistance…what’s in a word?

Seems the Obamacare guru, MIT professor Gruber, is in hot water for overbilling.

Contracted by Vermont for impact projections on single-payer systems, Gruber was charging “…$500 an hour for his work and $100 for his research assistants.”

But it appears he only had one assistant. And it just could be his ‘stupid taxpayer’ rhetoric caused more scrutiny than he expected.

Going through billing documents, it appears some irregularities were noticed by those doing the audit, including how many assistants he had (versus billed for).

Seems Gruber billed 100 hours of his time, and 500 hours of time for his assistants.

But as noted previously, he only had one assistant – the number of hours he billed for ‘assistants’ (1000) would have meant one assistant worked 100 hrs/week.

On the hot-seat now, he hasn’t yet responded to those ‘inquiries’. If it were a blue-collar type guy, he could always claim he just misspelled ‘assistance’.

(But, that would somewhat tarnish a brilliant MIT professor’s credentials.)

Senate Republicans won’t use the nuclear option that would allow a simple 51-vote margin to pass the (anti-amnesty) Homeland Security bill sent them by the House.

So, they’re allowing Senate Democrats to stall the bill.

In a ‘compromise’ effort, the Senate GOP parted out anti-amnesty verbiage making it a standalone issue, hoping then Senate Democrats will go along with the DHS bill.

The Senate Republican thought process defies logic and common sense…

…if Democrats won’t go for anything in Plan A that threatens Obama’s amnesty plan, what makes the GOP think Democrats will go along with an 11th-hr Plan B…

…when it, too, obviously threatens Obama’s amnesty plans…?

Plus, as the GOP plays appeasement games, the media is enjoying the opportunity every day to cast Republicans as villains potentially causing a DHS shutdown.

(As if there were such a thing – in reality, essential Homeland Security operations would actually continue functioning.)

Obama’s amnesty threatens middle- and low-income earnings and jobs, and also causes a huge entitlement drain on an already financially-unsupportable system.

Senate Republicans should stop playing games, go nuclear, push the Homeland Security bill through on a partisan vote…and thus, dare Obama to veto the bill.

There is no downside to such a plan…

…WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR?

It can’t be a Democrat white flag of surrender…incredibly, with the help of deceitful media, Democrats stalling the bill are blaming Republicans…for stalling the bill.

As the GOP tries to act like adults in the room, Democrats give them rabbit ears…

…so much for the ‘advantages’ of a college education in politics.

In school, class clowns were lovable; the studious were derided and pranked.

Any guesses which Party is which?

Democrats who created Obamacare scurry like mad from their mandate monster.

So the morons who voted for these fools deserve everything that mandate entails.

But this is exactly why the GOP Congress must repeal Obamacare…

…because now, if they fight to keep the mandates Democrats spawned…

…Republicans (who opposed Obamacare from the start) become the bad guy.

And you know the media will rush to twist that story in Democrats’ favor.

Liberals are frothing over Rudy Giuliani’s comment that Obama dislikes America. (His point being ‘transforming’ America means Obama didn’t like it as it was.)

So, Obama’s media hyenas try to embroil potential Republican front-runners by asking them to disavow Rudy’s remark, and validate Obama’s love for America.

Thomas Sowell, noted economist and straight talker on all things American, fires back, asking why the outrage…when all the evidence supports Giuliani’s remark.

But the media, relentless in their efforts to take down prominent Republicans by forcing verbal errors, try everything – including asking GOPers if Obama is Muslim.

Here’s an easy comeback for the GOP to put Obama-philes on edge: Obama was Muslim while living in Indonesia – if he renounced it for Christianity, prove it…

…show the Islamic fatwa or death warrant issued against him, for renouncing Islam.

Anyone…anyone…?

That thousand-pound camel sitting in the Islamic prayer room is known as ‘sharia’.

Even if Obama was right (he’s not), it doesn’t matter what he sees as ‘True Islam’.

Andrew McCarthy spells it out: interpreting the Koran to determine who qualifies as an ‘innocent’, or what constitutes ‘injustice’, is, at best, an exercise in evasion.

The real fact is, the Koran considers only one law to be true…sharia.

And that’s a fact Obama’s verbal gymnastics cannot seem to grip.

Mr. McCarthy has been pointing this out for some time.

Think about it…what good is interpreting selected sections of Islamic Law, if self-proclaimed ‘experts’ like Obama ignore the fountain from which they spring?

Most importantly, only a Muslim world can solve the Islamic problem; the sad reality is they haven’t managed that feat despite continuing horrific atrocity in their midst.

Considering the existential threat, in the meantime America would be well served to acknowledge the dangers of a radical nature, and prepare accordingly…

…rather than mouth saccharine platitudes of ‘job creation’ and ’empathy’.

Sadly, that White House photo-op wasn’t just a ‘summit without substance’…

…it was a summit without foundation…the Sharia issue.

Without foundation, there can never be substance…

…but isn’t that the definition of this president anyway?

Congress wants time to review and okay any ‘deal’ Obama makes with Iran.

Considering that terror state’s past record of eating the Appeaser-in-Chief’s lunch, it’s little wonder Senators are wary of backroom deals Obama may cook up.

Besides, there’s this little thing called the U.S. Constitution…

…which very clearly states that the Congress be involved in such matters.

If Obama says otherwise, he would be advised to seek a dictionary…

…and look up the definitions of ‘Power’ and ‘Reprisal’ (Art. I, section 8, clause 11), ‘Treaties’, ‘Advice’ and ‘Consent'(Art. II, section 2, clause 2)…for clarification.

You know…as in “…Congress shall have Power to…grant Letters of…Reprisal…” and “…the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties…”

But then, you’d think a constitutional scholar would know all this.

The destroyer of the middle class says the GOP is ‘bamboozling’ the middle class?

When it comes to hurting middle class Americans, Obama has no equal.

(Guess who loses with his Obamacare and amnesty policies?)

And when you look at take-home pay, ‘Bam has ‘boozled them…Big Time.

During Obama’s 6 year reign, median household income has fallen 5 percent while Wall Street heavies and big corporate CEOs have seen their incomes skyrocket.

You know…the ‘fatcats’ he always whines about that make all the money.

If you had an honest mainstream media, you’d know why they’re all smiling…

…’cuz the ‘Whiner-in-Chief’ is the reason fatcats are happy.

There’s bamboozlin’ going on all right… 

Nano-seconds after Democrats scream that the Obama administration needs to extend enrollment periods to evade constituent anger, a huge ‘blunder’ occurs…

…that justifies extending enrollment periods, and conveniently saving Democrats?

Yeah…just a coincidence.

When George W. Bush voiced hope creating a democratic Iraq could provide stability in the Middle East, he was ridiculed unmercifully for his ‘naive’ view.

Fast forward to Obama’s State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, who says now that the only way to defeat radical Islamists is to create jobs for them.

So, what…now Obama wants to force Syria to open more Burger Kings?

We can see the bumper sticker now…

‘Hey ISIS…Give Burger-flipping A Chance’.