Posted on 11/03/2014 8:31:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Major moves postponed until lame-duck session over concern about potential backlash.
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Regardless of the outcomes of Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Obama is preparing to spring several major decisions on the public that he has postponed because of his concern about political backlash.
Although presidents often sign legislation in lame-duck sessions of Congress, it’s unusual for a president to hide his executive “to do” list from voters on so many important subjects, such as sanctions against Iran, immigration reform and nominating the next attorney general.
“It’s extraordinary that he is thinking about taking certain types of action that will have broad effects on our economy, on the makeup of our country, on virtually every aspect of American life, and we don’t know what those are,” said Richard Kelsey, assistant dean at the George Mason University School of Law.
The biggest action looming is Mr. Obama’s plan to issue an executive order on immigration that effectively would grant amnesty to some of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. The president initially planned to act in September, but nervous Democratic Senate candidates in Republican-leaning states persuaded him to wait until after the elections....
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Re-education camps for FReepers
LOL. The Republicans have run the entire campaign season without saying what they were going to do if they won, why should the Democrats be any different?
Its up to the Secret Service to save America.
It’ll depend on what the exit polls show. He’s going to wait to see how amnesty played out with voters, and will only act if he thinks it’ll benefit him and his ideology.
So if people get pulled for exit polls, they should self-identify as life long Democrats who voted Republican because they oppose amnesty. >:-)
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