Remember last November when President Obama signed that nice executive order that would delay deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, many of them parents of children who are U.S. citizens? Or the 2012 one that allows those who came here when they were under 16 to stay, in some cases granting work visas?

Well, as you might imagine, Republicans hate those so much!

Today they voted on a $40 billion bill to fund Homeland Security (which they put off during the "Cromnibus" spending bill debate last December), and nestled in that bill were provisions to defund Obama's executive orders on immigration.

That means millions of people, including children, could get deported.

To Republicans, it's not just that these are actions would help some brown people who can't vote for them, or other brown people who don't anyway. No, they're actually mad this time because the president is being such a big, fat, authority-overstepping jerk!

Or at least that's what House Speaker John Boehner told The Takeaway's Todd Zwillich.

"We're voting the block the president's overreach, his executive overreach, which I believe is beyond his constitutional duty, and frankly I think it violates the constitution itself," he said to Zwillig. "This is not about, actually, the issue of immigration. What it is, it's about the President acting lawlessly."

But for now, their effort probably won't see the light of day. Some note the unlikelihood that a veto-proof majority in the Senate, not to mention the President's veto pen itself.

U.S. Rep. David Jolly, who represents much of Pinellas County, and has typically been unafraid of voting against the party line, sent out a statement early today rationalizing the bill.

“Congress made a promise to the American people in December to defund the President’s executive order on amnesty. Today we delivered on that promise,” Congressman Jolly said. “We passed a responsible measure that continues to fully fund each of our domestic security agencies while also including a provision stating that none of the funds provided to the President and his Administration may be used to carry out the President’s executive order granting amnesty to over four million people who came here illegally.”

We have a lot to look forward to this year, don't we?

This article appears in Jan 8-14, 2015.