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Obama Dares GOP: Go Ahead, ‘Have a Vote on Whether What I’m Doing Is Legal…I Will Veto’
MRCTV ^ | 2-26-2015 | Craig Bannister

Posted on 02/26/2015 1:51:58 PM PST by tcrlaf

Pres. Obama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal.

Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, Obama said he would veto the vote because his actions are “the right thing to do”:

“So in the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do.”

Obama argued that he has merely “expanded my authorities” – not broken any laws:

“What we’ve done is we’ve expanded my authorities under executive action and prosecutorial discretion as far as we can legally under the existing statute, the existing law. And so now the question is, how can we get a law passed.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dictator; obama
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To: uncitizen

I’ve felt like that since Usurpation Day January 20, 2009

The Day the Constitution Died.


41 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:47 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: tcrlaf
Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote,

How does he "veto" a vote?

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42 posted on 02/26/2015 2:51:00 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: tcrlaf

Why doesn’t he just come right out and say it: “F*CK the constitution and F*CK the American people, I’M in charge, and I’ll do whatever I d*mned well please!”

Congressional Republicrats and Democans would just roll their eyes and intone, “Yes, Master....”


43 posted on 02/26/2015 2:52:09 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: uncitizen

Nobody can or nobody will? Is the Constitution so inept at protecting this republic?


44 posted on 02/26/2015 2:56:13 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Once somebody will, then maybe we can....


45 posted on 02/26/2015 2:59:09 PM PST by uncitizen (Obama hates America.)
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To: huldah1776

“Nobody can or nobody will? Is the Constitution so inept at protecting this republic?”

The Constitution requires that the PEOPLE protect it.

Unfortunatelym the PEOPLE are too busy smoking legal pot, while watching the Daily Show and Dancing With The Stars to give much of a damn.


46 posted on 02/26/2015 3:00:55 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Jack Hammer

What’s greater impact... him saying it , or doing it?


47 posted on 02/26/2015 3:08:58 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: tcrlaf

actionable item:
- released 5 enemy commanders back to an active battlefield
- $5 billion to the enemy during war

action:
1. go to the white house
2. arrest him
3. toss him in jail
4. impeach him on the grounds of aiding and abetting the enemy during war
5. try him for treason

*please* video tape the frog march


48 posted on 02/26/2015 3:11:06 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: tcrlaf

Mark Levin is talking about our losses right now (6:18pm est)

http://www.wabcradio.com/page.php?page_id=882


49 posted on 02/26/2015 3:16:49 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: sten

6. Hang him (publicly)


50 posted on 02/26/2015 3:28:16 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: uncitizen
My once fine country is gone! And Obama will NEVER be gone!!

56 MILLION DEAD INNOCENT BABIES KILLED BY THEIR MOTHERS and Democrats want MORE and MORE DEAD BABIES!!

51 posted on 02/26/2015 4:09:21 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: tcrlaf

IMPEACH!!


52 posted on 02/26/2015 4:13:28 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: shortstop

LOL!

My feelings totally!


53 posted on 02/26/2015 4:38:24 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: tcrlaf
Is Obama trying to blackmail and create so much panic in the American people and Republicans in Congress that Congress will have no choice but to fund the Homeland Security bill stalled in Congress?

(Obama is such a two-faced hypocrite. On the one hand, he tries to reassure us that ISIS is a jayvee team, and so, according to Obama and his thugs, they really pose no true threat to the United States homeland, while, on the other hand, Obama----in order to try to get his version of the Homeland Security bill passed that grants all types of freebies instantly to 4 to 10 million illegals----warns us of terrible things that terrorists will do to us if Congress doesn't give Homeland Security everything it wants, such as broad powers to hand illegals all kinds of goodies like work permits and access to benefits like Social Security. )

Obama's blackmail attempt goes something like this:

1. Obama says: If you don't fund Homeland Security for the next year by giving it all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism---everyone knows that Obama is referring to Islamic terrorists, but he won't use the word "Islamic". What an idiot---terrorists will run wild over the United States, attacking such sites as malls and other buildings to the point that Americans will live in constant fear and terror for their lives.

2. On the other hand, according to Obama's blackmail attempt, if you give Homeland Security all the money it says it needs to fight terrorism, and, at the same time, also give it money and unlimited power to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to such things as work permits, housing, and benefits like Social Security, the United States will be a much safer and greater nation forever and ever. What a bunch of horse manure.

3. Hogwash: I say Hogwash. I say that it will slowly destroy the United States as we know it if we give Homeland Security broad powers to quickly process 4 to 10 million illegal aliens so that the illegals have instant access to such things as jobs, housing and benefits like Social Security.

Giving all those illegals all that they demand will do more irreversible damage to our towns and cities than any terrorists' attacks will ever do.

4. So I say this to Republican Congressmen: We take our chances with terrorists and we shutdown Homeland Security. That is, we take our chances for the next year with a stripped-down Homeland Security and hope that terrorists attacks will not be as horrible as Obama and his thugs paint them out to be.

(I believe it is safe to say that most illegals don't care about Islamic terrorists. In fact, I doubt if many illegals have any idea what Islam and ISIS are about. They are probably puzzled why Americans are so scared of this ISIS, a group far, far away on another continent nobody cares about. Most of the illegals only care about themselves. And the rest of America be damned.)

5. My point is this: Giving 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and benefits like Social Security will destroy more of the United States as we know it than any ISIS terrorist attacks in the coming year will ever destroy, even if we have to fight Islamic terrorists with a shutdown or stripped-down Homeland Security.

6. To the Republicans in Congress: Don't fall for Obama's blackmail attempt as he tries to persuade you to pass the Homeland Security bill so that he can legalize 4 to 10+ million illegals. Don't fall for Obama's scare tactics.

7. Handing Homeland Security almost unlimited broad powers this year to give 4 to 10 million illegals instant access to jobs and to such social benefits as Social Security benefits without a fight would be a horrible mistake, because such a surrender will do more severe damage to what we know as the American way of life than any ISIS terrorist attack that may hit the United States in the next year.

8. Again, I hope that Congress does not surrender to Obama's blackmail attempt when it comes to this horrible Homeland Security bill that gives Homeland Security almost unlimited powers to legalize 4 to 10+ million illegal aliens.

54 posted on 02/26/2015 7:24:41 PM PST by john mirse
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To: Fred Hayek

Why should he stop? The way he sees it is the dems are all on his side and he pwns the republicans. He’s just now getting on a roll.


55 posted on 02/26/2015 7:32:40 PM PST by OKSooner ("Remember Fort Hood, Boston, and Moore, Oklahoma.")
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To: tcrlaf

If a Republican President had said these things he would be impeached and thrown in prison faster than a welfare check is spent on drugs and booze.


56 posted on 02/26/2015 8:19:38 PM PST by Boomer (Politically Incorrect and proud of it.)
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To: gwgn02

impeach?
HOw about we bring back the guillotine just for his sorry marxist mooselimb ass?


57 posted on 02/27/2015 2:26:36 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: tcrlaf

I’m all in favor of handing over the jug-eared jackass to ISIS in exchange for the Christians they have captured.


58 posted on 02/27/2015 2:34:54 AM PST by windsorknot
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