Republican Rep. Steve King is already melting down over the immigration speech Obama hasn't given yet. He considers even the
timing of the speech to be
an outrage.
In a speech to an empty House chamber after the last votes of the week, King said President Obama and his "minions" must have checked the congressional calendar before deciding on the Thursday prime-time announcement. King noted that "95 percent" of lawmakers would be out of town by the 8 p.m. address to head home for the Thanksgiving holiday.
"We shouldn't think it's timed that way by accident," King said. "It's strategically timed so that members of Congress have just left town anxious to embrace our families and celebrate Thanksgiving."
Well maybe members of Congress don't need to leave town Thursday night a week before the actual holiday, either. The rest of America will still be hard at work on Friday, you wilting flower, so maybe Congress could suck it up every once in a while and then Obama's
minions would be thwarted.
King hasn't formulated a plan on how he will be dealing with the imminent end of the republic—when he gets back from the holiday, of course—but has at least been able to devote some time to framing his concerns in the most stupid way possible.
“I think that we can’t take cutting off funding off the table,” he continued. “It’s about the equivalent of saying in the fight against ISIS that there will be no boots on the ground. Republicans should not make those kind of mistakes that the president has made in his messaging to ISIS. So that means that we should use all the constitutional means at our disposal.”
So you can see why the entire Republican Party ceded their own immigration policies to this guy.