Posted on 11/14/2014 3:42:12 PM PST by John Semmens
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is crosswise with President Obama over the proper sequence of events regarding amnesty for illegal immigrants.
“I have implored the President to forestall taking any executive action to legalize these undocumented residents until after we get Republican cooperation on next year's budget,” Reid said. “My advice has been to get the money first. Then he can do whatever he wants on amnesty. There'd be no way the GOP could stop him.”
Reid complained that “all my sensible arguments seem to be falling on deaf ears. The President says he doesn't need Congress to appropriate any funds. He asserts that he will instruct all the agency heads to continue to write checks to pay for whatever he authorizes. He's confident that the recipients of these checks will gladly accept and deposit them and that banks wouldn't dare not honor them.”
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough confirmed Reid's representation of the issue. “The President has polled his cabinet on this matter,” McDonough said. “Each of them has promised to carry out the President's wishes despite any possible disagreement from Congress. This includes the Joint Chiefs of Staff who stand ready to suppress any disobedience that might be exhibited by the general public.”
The possibility that President Obama's intended actions might be beyond his Constitutional authority was cast as “potentially troublesome” by Reid. “There's nothing wrong with the objectives being sought. Everyone agrees that legalizing those in this country illegally is something that has to be done. I just think it would be safer if both Parties' fingerprints were on the deed.”
Rep Hank Johnson (D-Ga) disagreed with Reid and compared the prospective Obama Executive Order on amnesty to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. “If President Lincoln could bypass Congress and disregard the Constitution, by rights these same powers can be exercised by President Obama,” Johnson declared. “Lincoln was willing to jail his critics and use troops to enforce his will. I hope President Obama will have the strength and courage to do likewise.”
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (a union of government employees), characterized Republican objections to unilateral executive action as “bullying of the worst sort. Their constant harping that he lacks Constitutional authority to legislate on his own can't be allowed to stand against his moral obligation to do the right thing. We are urging the President to not let a piece of paper frighten him off course.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=154140.new#new
Brilliant and scary, John. Perhaps your best yet.
I’m glad the mods let this one slip through, John. You’re one of the main reasons I come to FR.
John - you should slip in a non satire post once in awhile- to keep us guessing.
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