Jeff Sessions joins the call for Harry Reid to allow a vote on legislation which would stop Barack Obama from using an Executive Order to grant amnesty

 The House has passed a border crisis bill which would curtail Barack Obama from using an Executive Order to grant amnesty to certain illegal immigrants. Mitch McConnell has called on Harry Reid to allow the legislation to go to the Senate floor for a vote.

  Here is part of what he said:

“The President seems to have forgotten that he does not possess the authority to re-write our immigration laws and that, on the contrary, the Constitution requires that he take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” McConnell said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “The House has passed two bills to address the humanitarian crisis on our southern border, and the Senate should vote on them. That’s why I began the process of putting them on the Senate’s legislative calendar shortly before the current recess, and I urge Majority Leader Reid to schedule a vote on these bills as soon as the Senate returns.”

  He is right; part of the president’s job is to execute the laws of the land, and not just the laws with which he agrees. Today Jeff Sessions joined Mitch McConnell in calling for Harry Reid to allow a vote on this legislation.

  Here is what he said:

Sessions said the Senate must vote on the House-passed bills. “The steps that must be taken are clear: the Senate must vote on the House-passed measure to stop these unlawful actions,” Sessions said. “It is true that Majority Leader Reid is blocking it from a vote. But Reid acts only with the blessing of his members in the Democrat conference – so the American people have the power to force it to a vote through their elected senators.”

  But what is the point? At this point what difference does it make? In normal times there is no way in hell this would ever pass the Democratic controlled Senate, but there is a chance that if enough Democrats are looking to distance themselves from an unpopular president that this bill actually could pass.

  So if there is a chance this could pass why do I feel this is an exercise in futility? The answer is obvious; does anyone really believe that if this bill somehow made it to Barack Obama’s desk that he would willingly sign away authority which he feels is rightfully his? And when he vetoes it there is no chance in hell that there would ever be enough votes to override a veto.

  Considering this I ask again, what is the point? Much like John Boehner’s lawsuit, this is nothing but a political maneuver designed to make it look as if the Republicans are doing something to stop Barack Obama when in fact they are doing nothing. 

  There is a chess game being played in Washington and it is not between the Republicans and the Democrats as you may think, it is between the ruling class and the ruled. The Republicans and the Democrats only differ on the details of the legislation but in the end they are all on the same page. Both sides want amnesty for different reasons and they are only seeking to place blame and take credit while working toward the same goal.

  In doing so they get the American people running around in circles as they maneuver us like the pawns they believe we are on the chessboard. In the end it will not be the Democrats nor the Republicans who get checkmated when this game comes to its logical and inevitable conclusion, it will be the American people. We are the pawns, they are the kings and queens looking to better their positions, and as chess players know, sometimes the pawns need to be sacrificed to achieve the endgame.

  If you do not believe this perhaps you should read up on the Hegelian dialectic of conflict resolution; thesis, antithesis, synthesis–or, create a crisis, create opposition to the crisis, and implement the predetermined solution…