Posted on 11/07/2014 8:06:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama firmly rejected advice from top congressional Republicans on Friday that he delay his promised executive action on immigration reform, dismissing calls from critics inside and outside his party to allow Congress to debate the issue next year.
Over a two-hour lunch of Bibb lettuce salad, herb-crusted sea bass and pumpkin tart, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and their lieutenants warned Obama that his acting alone on immigration would spoil chances for bipartisan agreement on other issues in the new GOP-controlled Congress.
Seated with 12 top members of the House and Senate in the Old Family Dining Room, Obama shot back that he intended to proceed, saying that he had already waited almost two years for congressional action on immigration. He added that his decision should not upend chances for cooperation on unrelated matters, according to aides familiar with the exchange.
The new focus on Obamas plans to revamp the immigration system by executive fiat came as the president is reportedly reviewing proposals to allow as many as 5 million illegal immigrants to stay in the United States at least temporarily...
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No, Bob, he does not. And Leahy and Schumer have just signaled that the Democrat Senators are standing with the President and doubling down on executive amnesty.
This is a critical test. What is the Republican Congressional leadership going to do about it?
Knuckle under, as you have in the past? And lose every iota of momentum you've captured?
Or stand up and fight? At least giving yourself -- and the country -- a chance to win?
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The honest truth is that he has damn near destroyed the Democrat Party in six years. Does he want them all to go with him like Hitler wanted Germany to go down with his death?
OOH. Do you smoke the salmon on a ceder plant? That is the way I like it.
Then shut the hell up and bend over and take it. Seriously, that’s what you are saying.
I think the Republicans have something up their sleeves. Both Boehner and McConnell were almost Daring Obama to take executive action.
I hope I’m right and the Pubbies have carefully mapped their moves in this political chess game.
But I don't count on odinga choosing the wise or rational course. I believe he is a Marxist. The question is: how committed a Marxist is he?
This must be the new, conciliatory Obama we’ve heard about from the media.
The Republicans had better wake the hell up.
Oh, what the hell am I saying, they want amnesty too.
I also stressed that a real fear is a coup. A serious member of the military may not like an executive sponsored foreign invasion of the country.
I am saying it is a very dangerous game that the Mulatto Mussolini Benito Obama is playing.
Would you rather be illegally does it, or your GOP betrays you and passes amnesty?
Hear, hear
Gowdy is the best I’ve seen.
That would play into his hand. He is an anarchist. He wants the Constitutional tumult. Impeach and he would be revered. He would reach levels of endearment as if he was assassinated. Kennedy was considered by the public a mistake until he was killed. There was no end to the reverence for decades. Obama was made irrelevant during this last voting cycle by his own party. He is now trying to make himself relevant by signing an executive order to spite the new majority. If Congress plays Obama's game by bringing articles of impeachment it will give the left political clout. Impeach? Why do you think Biden was chosen as VP? To be a real replacement? No, to be a such a poor replacement that Obama would be protected.
I loath the man and everything the creep represents. I fear for our county because of the damage he can bring to our country as Commander in Chief and foreign affairs. America did not vet this troublemaker so we got an inferior product. For the time being we are stuck with an evil man at the highest level of government. However; the level heads will hamstring the twerp. The Constitution is so constructed in that any fiat needs the power of the purse to be affective. We have two years of hell before us but Obama will so poison the democrat brand that true conservative forces will prevail for decades to come. Consider that two thirds of state legislatures are R. Thirty-two governors are R. Obama and the left are boxed. The push back from the states will be immense. Obama and the media have been discredited. Race baiting and false wars on women, etc fell short. It is time to laugh and ridicule the left. Congress needs to shine Obama on. He will go further into irrelevant tantrums. He is a petulant little prig that overestimates his ability to dictate his agenda. That is his greatest weakness.
There was no challenge when Obama had his DACA Dreamer amnesty in 2012 that to date, has legalized 580,000 lawbreakers and provided them with work permits, and documents to allow them to travel freely in and out of the country. An estimated 1.8 million are eligible for DACA.
That’s not the way that sort of war works.
The target of the insurgents isn’t the other guys army but the other guys population. Which no army can protect from millions of their armed neighbors.
Consider Iraq, Syria, Algeria. And in those places there really are limited numbers of motivated insurgents. The potential numbers in the US are, in comparison, tremendous, and the warring sides are much more likely to actually be neighbors. More like Rwanda.
Yes its ugly but that is the way of modern ideological war.
Yeah, I would vote against it.
I had a breading-crusted fish filet sandwich at the golden arches the other day, and no pumpkin but a cherry turnover.
And I don’t want to hear about ‘pubs breaking bread with Urkel.
I want to hear they told him, “OK, we won, and here’s a list of our demands.”
When he either "contracts" ebola or is "martyred" by some other means, remember how much quality time he spends with the Hollyweird crowd. Lights, cameras, action...
Impeachment would be just and satisfying, but also something explosive that the Marxists would use to tear this country apart. Nixon was allowed to quietly slink away to retire and write books. If there had been an actual impeachment, this country would have likely been violently divided. Still, the Republicans have to grow a spine and forcefully oppose The One. They have to make it clear that Obama isn’t a king.
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