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With immigration action, Obama calls his opponents’ bluff
Washington Post ^ | November 24, 2014 | By E.J. Dionne Jr.

Posted on 11/24/2014 2:27:52 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Stay wide awake in the coming weeks. This is a historic moment when all of the divisions, misunderstandings and hatreds of President Obama’s time in office have come to a head. We are in a different place than we were. We are also in a place we were bound to get to eventually.

Obama’s decision to back away from our government’s policy of ripping apart the families of undocumented immigrants has called forth utterly contradictory responses from Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and progressives. It should now be clear that the two sides don’t see the facts, the law or history in the same way.

For the six years since Obama’s election to the presidency, the Republican right has been on offense, continually blurring those distinctions between the “factual” and the “perceptual.” They keep charging that Obama is a dangerous radical even when he pursues middle-of-the-road policies. Their supposedly more temperate colleagues go along because they don’t have to pay a price.

Obama has just told them their free ride is over. The stakes in American politics will be much clearer because he did.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; tyranny
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Idiot.
1 posted on 11/24/2014 2:27:52 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They quietly stopped calling Obama's illegal immigration order an Executive Order and are now referring to it as an Executive Action.

Sneaky bastards.

2 posted on 11/24/2014 2:29:23 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama is getting nervous that the GOP are no going crazy and the Sky is not falling in ,it’s time for something completely Stupid ,D’oh


3 posted on 11/24/2014 2:33:39 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A total idiot. I just love how liberals are now defending despotism, tyranny, and dictatorship.


4 posted on 11/24/2014 2:37:00 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Obama has just told them their free ride is over. The stakes in American politics will be much clearer because he did.”

They guy’s an idiot but I hope he’s right about this.


5 posted on 11/24/2014 2:43:18 PM PST by saleman (?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What “bluff” is this moron talking about?


6 posted on 11/24/2014 2:44:50 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

E. J. Dionne is another leftist idiot who is ‘nourished’ by Obama’s urine.


7 posted on 11/24/2014 2:48:15 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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"THE PRESIDENT SAID" illegal immigrants (hiding in the shadows)---including criminals---are encouraged to come forward to fill out APPLICATIONS for temporary residency

The "tolerant and compassionate" Obama govt will record all their information including illegals' documents from their homelands: copies of their matricular cards, passports, names of family members, number of children, places of residence in the USA, as well as in their homelands, including full biometrics, fingerprints, DNA etc. etc. etc.....

Remember people, "THE PRESIDENT SAID" illegals should give federal operatives (named above) all their relevant info so that 5 million illegals "could come out of the shadows and stay." (sniffle)

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Oh, BTW, all info will be data-mined w/ existing federal and state info.....heaven knows what we'll find:

Multiple identities,

voting registrations,

multiple SS nos, multiple drivers' licenses,

multiple EBT cards,

EITC applications,

real estate holdings here, and in their homelands,

investment accounts,

American Express platinum cards,

bank accounts,

bank cards,

debit cards,

wire-transfers to offshore banks,

memberships in violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt

.......etc, etc, etc, and so on and forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.......

8 posted on 11/24/2014 2:49:40 PM PST by Liz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Illegal Alien Amnesty for Lawbreakers.

Couldn’t be clearer to me.


9 posted on 11/24/2014 2:49:41 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ('The HERO of the (0bamacare) story is Mitt Romney' - "Stupid" Jonathan Gruber)
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There was no "signing ceremony"...as announced.

Obama signed two "memos" on AF One .....w/ no witnesses. It was not an "executive action." Why? B/c an E/O comes w/ legal baggage that the conniving Grumaba wanted to avoid.

Both "memos" are on the Whitehouse website now.

The scam works this way: signed Grubama memos instruct federal agency heads to come up with plans (that must meet his global conspiracy to overthrow the US govt w/ Third World federales sending in advance forces at the border).

The agencies then invent Committees to do this (the better to overthrow the US govt). Then "Administrative Rules," after a comment period, will be published in the "Code of Federal Regulations," which magically turns them into law using federal fairy dust.

So Grubama is shielded from responsibility---he doesn't have to take the hit. Behind closed doors, he tells federal agency heads what he wants.....and faster than you can say "the combo plate w/ extra hot sauce".....the over throw of the US govt commences.

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Federal agencies have been doing this since 1946. They have it down to a science: (1) publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), (2) make the comment period really short, (3) stonewall any negative comments, and, (4) publish the rule, which (5) NOW has the force of US law.

No Congressman was ever involved, and Grubama doesn't have his fingerprints or DNA on it.

Yet again why "Delegation" is ominous for liberty---why the writing of administrative law by federal agencies - is un- Constitutional. (Thanks to FReeper Regulator's info.)

10 posted on 11/24/2014 2:53:29 PM PST by Liz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not sure why anyone on FR gives Dionne a second of their time by reading his garbage.


11 posted on 11/24/2014 2:54:48 PM PST by falcon99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is the media in all its glory. Slavishly sucking the balls of any one who furthers the Marxist agenda. The unoriginal, lisp voice Journalista EJ Dionne references the leftist talking points, ie Republicans are ripping families apart. Never mind, that these illegals were all united in their own country before they each decided to break the law and sneak into the USA. The vast majority of them didn’t even come here together. They were the ones ripping themselves apart. Now it is time for them to be united again, IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY of origin.


12 posted on 11/24/2014 2:55:21 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Eugene Robinson and Dione combined IQs don’t reach Death Valley summer temps.


13 posted on 11/24/2014 3:00:33 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Becomes a Revolutionary Act.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes he’s an idiot but the title is very accurate


14 posted on 11/24/2014 3:04:13 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama’s decision to back away from our government’s policy of ripping apart the families of undocumented immigrants ..

Didn't read beyond this for obvious reasons.

15 posted on 11/24/2014 3:09:31 PM PST by uncitizen (I weep for my country)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Projection is a symptom of the terminally liberal minded.


16 posted on 11/24/2014 3:27:39 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Es Mi Partido, Ahora!)
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To: falcon99

was wondering the same thing


17 posted on 11/24/2014 3:39:05 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
With immigration action, Obama calls his opponents’ bluff

His opponents are the American People.

18 posted on 11/24/2014 4:28:18 PM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: Uncle Miltie

19 posted on 11/24/2014 4:34:19 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
EJ Dionne is a typical progressive.

The important thing is a win regardless of the consequences. We saw this during the ObamaCare debates. The biggest concern of the left and the press, one in the same, was whether or not Obama would score a win

20 posted on 11/24/2014 4:41:12 PM PST by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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