Posted on 08/06/2014 7:01:06 PM PDT by markomalley
Now we know for sure that he doesn’t read Vox.
I don’t know whether to take this as a sign that O’s having second thoughts about a mega-amnesty or if it’s just lip service he’s paying to enumerated powers as he gears up to rewrite America’s immigration law, but the seeds of the counterargument to executive action are right here in the second half of the clip. Immigration, he says, is an issue on which there’s actually quite a lot of bipartisan consensus. The parties’ demands overlap substantially; even many Republican voters like the idea of comprehensive reform. It’s just these darned obstructionist House Republicans who won’t let the bill move forward. If that’s true, though, then the solution is a no-brainer: Let angry voters revolt at the polls in November and toss Boehner and the rest of the GOP caucus out on their ears. If House Republicans aren’t representing the wishes of their constituents on this subject, they’ll be punished for it and then the new Democratic majority can pass the mother of all amnesty bills next year. Obama seems to be suggesting here that if the polls show bipartisan support on an issue, that gives him extra room to act — he’s vindicating the popular will because House Republicans refuse to. Whereas Ezra Klein’s point, as I took it, was that Obama has extra room to act when there isn’t bipartisan support. When the public is divided and that filters up to Congress, deadlocking the two chambers, then Obama needs to step in and make sure all-important action is taken. Those two scenarios, bipartisan popular support and the lack thereof, encompass all possible outcomes when Congress is frozen, and somehow they both lead to executive action. Huh.
Watch to the end and you’ll see Jon Karl ask Obama straight up whether he intends to issue work permits to illegals after he amnestizes them. You can imagine an argument by which the president, through “prosecutorial discretion,” can legally refuse to remove a single illegal immigrant. What the argument is for letting him authorize them to work here too, though, I have no idea. And yet he doesn’t deny that he’s thinking about it.
(video at link)
Comprehensive...Comprehensive. It’s so comprehensive no one will tell you what it is. However, there is one thing for certain. NOTHING about “comprehensive” reform will include border security, enforcement, or deportation but will legalize 20 million people to vote.
like, if you like your doctor you can keep him
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I’ve got Israel’s back
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your health insurance costs will go down $2,500
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Ha ha ha...what “constitution” is that Barry? Ha ha ha. You comedian you!
That speech was so 2010, dude. A whole lot of things have changed.
Back of the bus
Eat yo' peas
wee-wee'd up
There's a million of them in all 57 states and in Joe Biden's country called Africa.
Two words: Pathological Liar
He didn’t say “whose” constitution.
Ok Hillary! This is the moment you were supposed to use that “What difference does it make at this point anyway?” Line.............
Whose Constitution? America’s, The Muslim Brotherhood? Hamas- the west wing addition? Neo-Facists with ‘a Heart’?
Obama Life After the White House: Doesn't he realize that his life AFTER the White House will be a living hell if he instantly legalizes 6 million illegals at the end of this summer 2014 WITH A STROKE OF HIS PEN when America is shouting over and over "NO! NO!NO!"
This kind of statement from “Obama” is just inoculation for his moronic followers. Periodically, he says something along these lines, and his brainless followers will discount all evidence of his lawlessness for weeks or months. Apparently “Obama” thinks they need a booster shot now and then.
The fool should be “bound by” chains and thrown in prison. He is one big malignancy on our country.
The fact he states he is bound by the Constitution means nothing. Zero says anything he wants, knowing no one holds him accountable.
He’s not a fool. He’s wicked.
He won’t be living in the U.S. after—if—he leaves the White House. Flooding the U.S. with crime, disease, and terrorists is just the beginning. He has probably not given up his dream of shutting down the power grid with an EMP, killing 90% of us. Just think what killing 300 million Americans would do for our carbon footprint!
If you want to know how “Obama” would feel about the murder of 300 million Christians in America, just look at his reaction to the killing of virtually every Christian in Iraq. The following, in brackets, is the full text of all his statements of concern about that: []
If he really wants to precipitate a Civil War he should just go ahead and do it! Make them all voters next November.
He is trotting out the constitution and paying it lip-service as an excuse so he can back out of his previous statements.
Did anybody ask which Constitution?
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