Four Year-Old Cartoon Still Applies

A couple months ago, President Obama issued executive orders granting temporary legal status to some, not all, undocumented immigrants and halting most deportations indefinitely.  Although both parties agree that our immigration system is a mess, Republicans are pissed that Obama pre-empted them by acting first.  They claim the action should have been legislative and his orders are unconstitutional, but the GOP has produced zero immigration legislation and they're full of shit on constitutionality.  Bottom line, they wish they'd done something, so now they're gonna try to screw the guy who did.  How principled.

By the end of this month, Congress will need to authorize another routine funding bill to keep the Dept. of Homeland Security operating.  Does this have anything at all to do with the president's immigration orders?  Hell, no!  Of course not.  But what have the Republicans in Boehner's Horrors come up with?  A bill that funds the DHS only if Obama revokes his own executive orders.  More high-minded GOP principles in action!  Senate Democrats have enough votes to kill the House bill and are gleefully giving the R's a taste of their own obstruction medicine.

Orange John says he doesn't give a shit and is "certainly prepared" to let DHS funding expire and shut down the agency.  Once again, the Weeper of the House is negotiating at the point of a gun.

Some things never change.  Usually, editorial cartoons are so tied to current events that they lose relevance quickly.  But I could re-run this one over and over.  It originally appeared in 2011 during a shut-down stand-off over the debt ceiling.  I just changed the paper in Boehner's hand from "DEBT CEIL." to "DHS $".