REPUBLICAN SENATOR FLOATS "ANARCHY" AFTER OBAMA EXECUTIVE ACTION

 Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): "The country's going to go nuts, because they're going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it's going to be a very serious situation," Coburn said on Capital Download. "You're going to see - hopefully not - but you could see instances of anarchy. ... You could see violence." [USA Today, 11/19/14]

MEMO TO SEN. COBURN: REPUBLICANS, NOT DEMOCRATS, ARE THREATENING TO DEFUND KEY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA): "Otherwise, as the chairmen of the committees with oversight over border security and our nation's immigration laws, we will be forced to use the tools afforded to Congress by the Constitution to stop your administration from successfully carrying out your plan." [The Hill, 11/19/14]

Incoming Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI): "I'm not quite sure how you defund the lack of action, because I think that's what President Obama is going to do. He's just not going to act to continue any deportations. He's going to defer action. I'm not quite sure how you defund that, but actually I'd be supportive of that effort because, again, if he defers action just like he did on the children, look at what happened. He deferred action on childhood admissions." [Bloomberg, 11/13/14]

Tea Party Lawmakers: Tea Party lawmakers emboldened by the GOP's big midterm gains say they will insist on attaching a policy rider to legislation keeping the government open that would block funding for agencies carrying out Obama's promised executive actions limiting deportations. If the Democratic Senate or Obama rejects the rider, the government could shut down. A current measure funding the government expires on Dec. 12. "I am insisting on that [rider] because the president is violating his executive privilege," GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, who represents the border state of Arizona, said in an interview Friday. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) called the plan to block the executive action through the government-funding bill "a great idea." Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), who defeated then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the June GOP primary in part by accusing his opponent of supporting "amnesty," said he also backed the proposal. [The Hill, 11/14/14]

Rep. John Fleming (R-LA): Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana said he's tired of conservative pundits criticizing government shutdowns "rather than saying, 'Hey, this could be a good way of holding the president's feet to the fire.'" Fleming, in language echoed by numerous colleagues, said his constituents "want us to use every tool available to us to stop, or in some way limit, executive amnesty. They think it's unlawful, it's unconstitutional. To them it's shocking." [AP, 11/19/14]