Mr. Speaker, this is the biggest test to date of whether you have any principles; don't blow it

The damn Senate passed a "clean" DHS funding bill.

And then McConnell talked big about the separate Susan Collins bill defunding the Most Equal Comrade's executive-order amnesty for illegal aliens:

“Remember: President Obama said more than 20 times he couldn’t take those kinds of actions. He even referred to overreach like that as ‘ignoring the law.’ So Senator Collins’ measure simply takes the President at his word, and helps him follow the law instead of ignoring it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Friday morning.

He further noted that a number of Senate Democrats — who voted repeatedly to block the House-passed DHS bill — voiced opposition to Obama’s executive amnesty in the past and should demonstrate their opposition.

“The Collins bill also provides Democrats who led their constituents to believe they’d address executive overreach with a chance to show they were at least a little bit serious. Democrats won’t achieve that by filibustering Homeland Security. And Democrats won’t achieve it by holding hypocritical press conferences, just hours after voting to block funding for DHS,” he said, adding passing the Collins bill is “the least these Democrats owe their constituents.”

And then the damn Senate Freedom-Haters blocked consideration of the Collins bill.

By my watch, there are eleven and a half hours left until DHS runs out of funding.

I realize the pressure on John Boehner is now enormous, but so are the stakes.  It's really up to him to prevent the two chambers of our government's law-making branch to sign off on an illegal move by the executive branch.

Mr. Speaker, do not cap a week in which the Internet has fallen to tyranny, in which the executive branch is illegally getting involved in the business of banning certain types of gun ammunition, and in which an obscure body called the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has recommended to HHS and the USDA a plan for controlling what we eat, with yet another goose-step toward the complete death of humankind's most unique blessing.