Posted on 11/20/2014 5:40:13 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi argues President Barack Obama has ample authority to take executive actions as many presidents before him have done, including President Abraham Lincoln. “Does the public know the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order?” Pelosi asked reporters Thursday. “People have to understand how presidents have made change in our country, Congress catching up, and in the case of Ronald Reagan, improving what Congress has done.” Obama is poised to announce his long-anticipated executive actions on immigration Thursday night. Reports indicate he will move to grant legal status to about five million illegal immigrants.
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LOL like Julia Carson from here in Indiana, her final year they would wheel her comatose body onto the House floor for important votes.
Pelosi is one of the “stupid American voters” Gruber referred to.
It went over like a fart in church. It kicked of massive draft riots all over the North and played right into the copperheads hands.
Don’t get it. “I love Nancy Pelosi Tree Music?”
You have 80% of it...
Moron.
Could you please fill me in on the rest?
You have mail.
Once again, Nancy’s memory fails her. I’m sure she was there when the EP took place.
obama has repeatedly compared himself to lincoln.
And he is correct:two presidents from illinois who ignored the Constitution when it didn’t allow their axts.
Can you name any of the "members of Congress" that Lincoln imprisoned?
Even just one name would do.
LOL
Congressman Clement Vallandigham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham
quote “On May 5, 1863, Vallandigham was arrested as a violator of General Order Number 38. His enraged supporters burned the offices of the Dayton Journal, the Republican rival to the Empire. Vallandigham was tried by a military court on May 6 and 7. Vallandigham’s speech at Mount Vernon, Ohio was cited as the source of the arrest. He was charged by the Military Commission with “Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38, from Head-quarters Department of the Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion.”
Here is an article about what the traitor Lincoln did in Maryland:
quote “Mayor Brown,[28] U.S. Congressman Henry May, the city council, the police commissioner, and the entire Board of Police, were arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry.”
quote “One third of the members of the Maryland General Assembly were then arrested on September 17, 1861, the first day of the legislature’s new session, to prevent any anti-war votes”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War
I don’t get it....
EP was an emergency measure during wartime and only applicable to the wartime theatre. Not remotely similar to O’s unconstitutional amnesty.
If Pelosi had a brain, it would rattle around in her skull like a B-B in a boxcar!
Good Lord this women is a total moron...........
Vallandigham was a former Congressman and a noted Copper Head. He was arrested by military authorities for inciting soldiers to desert their posts in a time of war.
Lincoln ordered him to be released and sent South to the Confederates.
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