Posted on 06/15/2012 6:38:29 PM PDT by mandaladon
On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said that the president’s shift on enforcing immigrations laws and granting certain privileges among illegal immigrants is “out-and-out lawlessness.”
Krauthammer told host Chris Wallace that this was a so-called “end-run” around the legislative branch of the federal government and explained how it defied the Constitution.
“Beyond the pandering, beyond the politics, beyond the process — is simple constitutional decency,” Krauthammer explained. “This is out-and-out lawlessness. You had a clip of the president himself say months ago ‘I cannot do this on my own because there are laws on the books.’ Well, I have news for president — the laws remain on the books. They haven’t changed.”
He said this appears to be the White House attempting to enact the DREAM Act, which failed to pass muster with the Congress after several attempts over the past several years.
“He proposed the DREAM Act of which the executive order is a variation,” Krauthammer continued. “He proposed a DREAM Act. The Congress said no. The Congress is the one who makes the laws. What the administration does is it administers law.”
“And in fact, what it is pretending to do is to use discretion,” he said. “That’s what the Homeland Security said. This is not discretion. Discretion is when you treat it on a one-by-one basis on the grounds of extenuating circumstances. That is declaration of a new set of criteria, which is essentially resurrecting the legislation that the Congress has said no to.” (VIDEO: Neil Munro explains his exchange with President Obama in Rose Garden)
Krauthammer reminded viewers of the criticisms the Bush administration took on when some perceived it to have been overstepping its bounds, while those same detractors have little to say about this.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Krauthammer: “this was a so-called “end-run” around the legislative branch”
Nonsense. Obama is just waltzing through the defensive line, knowing full well that the spineless, toothless, gutless lapdogs of Congress won’t do a thing.
They’ve sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, but it’s as worthless as Obama’s oath to faithfully execute the Office of President. It’s all a farce.
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We have a winnaah-h-h-h!!!
obama got a lot of other stories out of the news today with this announcement. It was a plan.
Your right out of the Radar security failings the Economy etc!
Octavian was not very good at winning battles (but good at getting others to win them for him), but had superior political skills. He had to avoid antagonizing the old senatorial families, but at the same time he needed to reassure the common people that he would remain in control. They didn't want a return to the free Republic which would mean more civil wars. So he had to work out a system by trial and error, pretending to "restore the Republic" while making sure he had the essentials of power. Having most of the legions under his command was a major component of his power. It was a military despotism but disguised in order to make it acceptable to the senatorial elite.
Where is Congress, Impeacment procedings need to be implemented.
Immediately!
The fact of the matter is, Obama was feeling the heat on Holder, Fast & Furious, calls for a special prosecutor, and calls for Holder’s resignation.
Those voices have now been quelled. Redirected elsewhere with a simple speech. A decoy for the day’s two minutes of hate.
In short order Obama can pivot on immigration again, in a show of false good will and faux bipartisanship.
For in doing so, the fervor that had been directed towards Holder will have been lost.
Yawn, people lose themselves in the mindlessness of the media.
Do you really think this is a tipping point? For who and what way? oblabla didn’t end run congress, he just walked right through the law.
So far we have one congressman speaking out about the lawlessness and one claiming he will sue. Other that that so far? That’s right, nothing.
Why do you think this is a tipping point and in what way?
I have held two jobs of the three I have held in my career that required me to swear an oath to honor, protect, and defend the Constitution. This required safe guarding classified and secret information when I was a younger man and defending the public trust and laws when I was older. I took that oath each time with honor and respect and with the deepest love and devotion and understanding of the seriousness required in my pledge. To dishonor my God and my Country is worse than death. My family history has generations going back to its founding that gave blood and the final devotion on battlefields at home and abroad marked by the American flag.
This president has no honor or love for this nation or respect for its laws, its people, its history, its future, and has lost the public trust to hold office or protect and defend the Constitution and rule of law. It is plain for me to see, yet there is no cry from most people who just don’t understand what is happening and what is at stake. I pray to God for my nation and that Congress can muster the strength and integrity to use the authority the law provides them to protect the people and restore Constitutional authority and correct the damage already done. The president is subverting our laws and poisoning every aspect of our society, destroying our economy and property, and degrading what freedom we have left.
It is the fault of over 1/2 the population, glued to their TV’s, with their sports heroes and celebrity infatuation. Obama is merely the culmination and there is no opposition party, the Republicans will not do anything about this.
It’ll take more than 1 Gifford per year to effect change.
But the African-Americans will. They will stay home, more than ever, than vote for less African-American Teenagers getting jobs.
DOH!
It is our right to Abolish it,True, but what do you do when the same People Accept it and VOTE FOR IT and Champion it at every turn. Have you heard the Response from Our Great Leader MITT? I prefer Sarah Palins Response.
I defer to Our Lord and Saviour,IT IS FINISHED
But it doesn't does it? It's just a pretty piece of paper. I'm fed up with the word "unconstitutional". ... And"illegal" and "immoral" run a close second and third. Nine of these words have any meaning anymore.
Nine= NONE ... Sorry
Watch as Obama cancels the election and rules by decree. Then the pundits will talk of how its all illegal and all as we enter into the evolution of The United States of America into the Socialist States of Obama (he even has a flag ready!) When does his actions become treason? Watch as he starts to revoke rights! The first will be the 2nd amendment. Pistols first, then rifles. I put nothing passed this man. Even Nixon would never have been this bold.
We live in interesting times. Many need justice brought to them, don’t they?
Apparently, not anyone from the GOP.
(Sorry, I'm a little late to the thread.)
The ancient Greeks would have something pithy to say about that :)
[Speaking of the Greeks, they had the same cultural privileges that Britons or the French have vis-a-vis the American governing class. The Greeks often snooted the Romans of higher station, and those Romans tended to take it and adapt the customs of the snooters.]
Octavian was not very good at winning battles (but good at getting others to win them for him), but had superior political skills.
He definitely learned from the fate of his great-uncle. Also to his credit was his spartan habits. He had the reputation, even when Emperor, of living about as modestly as a private gentleman. That said he wasn't in it for the plunder, which said "trustworthy" to so many Romans.
You're right in that most Roman decided that the old Republic had rotted through. The ones who wanted the Republic restored also wanted the old-time virtues to be restored too, as they too recognized that the Republic had turned into little more than a corrupted husk at the time of the civil wars. Unity meant a lot, lot more to Romans than to Americans. Calling a fellow Roman 'un-Roman' was about as shocking and scandalous as a Roman consciously acting in an un-Roman way. Needless to say, Rome never had an Alcabiades, let alone an Alger Hiss.
If I recall correctly, there was a law that obliged the Roman judiciary, in any case between a Roman and a non-Roman, to side with the Roman. That kind of law enjoins, or at least encourages, a feeling of mutual unity. When foreigners had a gripe with Romans in the old Republic days, they sent emissaries to the Senate, which did have the authority to rule in foreigners' favour.
That law, and the underlying custom plus other jurisprudential consequences, meant that Rome was different from America in another way. When St. Paul said to the Roman who arrested him "I am a citizen," he got much better treatment. In fact, Roman rulers preferred to finance the State through foreign plunder over domestic taxation. As a result, Roman citizenship was prized until the near-end of the Western Empire. Had a Roman in Augustus' time heard about the Facebook co-founder who renounced his citizenship, plus the other tax exiles, he wouldn't have been shocked: he would have been plainly baffled. Especially about the economic benefits of self-exile.
It's hard to remember sometimes, but America ain't Rome. There are definite parallels - Prof. Madden's book Empires of Trust is an erudite look at them - but the two polities aren't the same.
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