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WH Press Secretary: 'We’re Not Just Going to Sit Around and Wait' for Congress to Write Laws
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | June 26, 2014 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 06/26/2014 9:32:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to act on immigration reform, is currently exploring ways to address issues with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

During an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained that the Obama administration was getting impatient with Congress.

“[W]e’re not just going to sit around and wait interminably for Congress,” he explained. “We’ve been waiting a year already. The president has tasked his Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson with reviewing what options are available to the president, what is at his disposal using his executive authority to try to address some of the problems that have been created by our broken immigration system.”

Earnest added that, although Obama was exploring executive action, it was “not a substitute for robust Congressional action” on immigration reform.

“That’s why we’re trying to focus on getting that done,” he concluded....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; dreamers; immigration; obama; penandphone; separationofpowers; yearofaction
Hey, Herr Hitler didn't wait for the Reichstag to act.
1 posted on 06/26/2014 9:32:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Jeh” Heh Heh Heh........


2 posted on 06/26/2014 9:37:48 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Court is slapping him down right and left. He just doesn’t get it. He’s like that mule that knows how to sing the national anthem but you have to hit him over the head with a sledgehammer first.


3 posted on 06/26/2014 9:42:55 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

fu jack


4 posted on 06/26/2014 9:48:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Who’s going to stop this arrogant POS?


5 posted on 06/26/2014 10:10:02 PM PDT by aquila48
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6 posted on 06/26/2014 10:16:07 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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Of course you won’t you commie slut. You’re all a bunch of commies. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean nothing to ***holes like you.


7 posted on 06/26/2014 10:22:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein cant pardon people who have yet to be charged.

All of these jokers think they are going to skate when the right takes power

They just might be mistaken


8 posted on 06/26/2014 10:26:41 PM PDT by Rome2000
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we’re going to sit around and wait for obama to finish his latest golf game.


9 posted on 06/26/2014 10:39:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”


A meaningless oath said by Obama twice.


10 posted on 06/26/2014 11:41:47 PM PDT by RginTN
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That inconvenient Constitution thingy is just an outdated, racist document anyway, right?


11 posted on 06/26/2014 11:52:17 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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Of course our MSM accepts this, instead of reminding this ass wipe that it is congress who gets to write the laws not the President.


12 posted on 06/26/2014 11:58:55 PM PDT by martinidon
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FUBO, kiss my Red White and Blue ass.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 12:39:10 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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Impeach


14 posted on 06/27/2014 12:39:38 AM PDT by Carry me back
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To: Rome2000

He can grant immunity but not if he received benefit from any of the illegal actions. He would also be admitting guilt.


15 posted on 06/27/2014 12:42:04 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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All hail the Great and Powerful 0! /s


16 posted on 06/27/2014 3:43:53 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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