THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

GOP To Cave? Should the GOP give in to Democrat demands for a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill?  Seems like they are about to do just that. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is coming down to the wire.  Without a bill by the end of the week, there would be a “shutdown” of the department.  But “essential” employees would still report to work, which means that Border Patrol agents, TSA workers, the Coast Guard and others would remain on the job. While the House has already passed a funding bill, it does not include funding for Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty policies.  Democrats in the Senate refuse to even take up that bill, voting four times not to start debate on it and thusly blocking funding for the DHS.  They are demanding a “clean bill,” meaning that its funds everything including Obama's executive amnesty orders. Well it looks as though the Democrats may get their wish.  Mitch McConnell has indicated that he will advance consideration of a “clean” bill in the Senate.  Then it falls to House Speaker John Boehner, who has an unfortunate history of caving but we'll see what he decides to do.   Congress has the incredible power of the purse, a tool which can check the president and his lawlessness.  Why give in?  The only explanation can be is that Republicans are still afraid of their own shadow and afraid of being blamed for a shutdown.  The politics of that shouldn't trump the principles which will suffer and that is allowing a president to push beyond the bounds of the Constitution. And while we are on the subject of executive amnesty and illegal immigration, Barack Obama has unveiled a new term for illegal immigrants: “Americans-in-waiting.”  There is already a legal process in place for law-abiding immigrants to become Americans.  Obama's attempt to gloss over the “illegal” part is just par for the course with this president.   Sharpton Shakedown Al Sharpton is all about the money, according to the daughter of Eric Garner, the New York man who died while resisting arrest for selling loosey cigarettes. An undercover video by James O'Keefe revealed how Garner's daughter Erica Snipes really feels about Sharpton's co-opted efforts to protest the death of her father.  As reported by the New York Post: "You think Al Sharpton is kind of like a crook in a sense?" the investigator is heard asking Garner's oldest daughter. "He's about this," Snipes replies, rubbing her fingers together. "He's about money with you?" the undercover asks. "Yeah," Snipes responds. She's not alone.  Those associated with the Trayvon Martin Foundation similarly criticized Sharpton, calling him and his National Action Network "shakedown guys." The release of this undercover video coincides coincidentally with a lawsuit against Sharpton, as well as Comcast and Time Warner for billions of dollars.  It alleges that Comcast and Time Warner paid off Sharpton to the tune of millions to sign off on their merger,  despite the fact that they do not do business with 100% American-American owned media companies. Fox News has more on the lawsuit here. What we are seeing is a pattern emerging, thanks to the undercover work of journalists like James O'Keefe who are willing to do the work that the mainstream media doesn't want to do.  These deaths are tragic enough without being exploited by any person or organization.