Posted on 11/24/2014 6:50:56 AM PST by shortstop
Take him to court.
That’s what the Republicans in Congress should do about Barack Obama’s executive actions on illegal immigration.
Some member of the House or Senate should file suit in federal court seeking an injunction on the grounds that the actions are a clear violation of the Constitution, which authorizes the Congress to establish a “uniform rule of naturalization.”
The Constitution gives matters of immigration to the Congress – the people’s branch of government – and a president is violating the Constitution when he abrogates a congressional action on immigration.
It’s really very simple.
And it’s not about illegal aliens or America’s immigrant heritage, it’s about the Constitution and the separation of powers.
The president may have decided he supersedes the Constitution, but the courts may not agree.
So let them decide.
And don’t get drawn into a political pissing match. Don’t shut down the government, don’t stonewall nominees, don’t do anything other than lay out the error of the president’s actions and take it to court.
Let the Constitution heal itself. When one branch becomes disproportionately powerful, the Constitution uses a series of checks and balances to let the other branches rein it in. In this situation, the executive branch has taken unto itself a power the Constitution denies it, at the expense of the legislative branch. So we ask the third branch – the courts – to determine what’s right.
And I ask the Republicans to get about governing.
When the new Congress convenes in January, the Republicans should race through a nation-changing legislative agenda. They should put together something akin to the Contract With America – a specific list of laws and changes – and pass it all, rapid fire, while working hard to explain to the nation the advisability of its various principles.
Maybe the president will sign, maybe the president will veto.
That’s up to him.
Laying forth a vision for the country is up to the Republicans.
And near the top of that list, maybe the first piece, should be immigration reform.
Not because of Obama, but in spite of Obama.
What he has pretended to do, the Republican Congress must actually do.
Because it turns out that the “immigration reform” of Obama’s executive actions is a political stunt which doesn’t truly help anyone and which leaves the worst problems completely unaddressed.
All Obama did was create a piece of paper that promises not to deport a small subset of illegal aliens who, under current practice, weren’t getting deported anyway. He has failed to deliver for immigration advocates, and he has failed to deliver for America.
The Dream Act students – arguably the most sympathetic of all involved in this issue – got nothing. Legal immigrants got nothing. Folks wishing to come here legally, who now face great difficulty and expense, got nothing. Employers and foreigners hoping for a functioning guest-worker program got nothing.
All we got was a lecture on the virtues of immigration from a president whose administration has essentially shut down all immigration from Europe – and whose program for 5 million illegals will serve almost no Africans and Asians.
Like most things in his presidency, Obama has effed this up. Whether driven by arrogant incompetence, or psychological dysfunction springing from his chaotic upbringing, or a purposeful desire to wreck the nation, Obama has effed this up.
And the Republicans should show the path back.
Not by fiery speeches of denunciation, but by a reasoned and well-explained legislative agenda.
The president who ignored the hopes of illegal aliens for six years didn’t finally issue his executive actions for them, he did so as a political trick. He wants to draw the Republicans into a fight.
All he knows as political rhetoric is hateful denunciation of people who disagree with him. It is hard to find a speech he’s given that isn’t at least in part bitter condemnation of people whose crime is holding a contrary opinion.
So ignore him and his invective.
Let him go from union rally to union rally, shouting the “Heil Hitlers” of the modern day.
The people have entrusted the Congress to the Republicans. More Republicans hold legislative office in this country today than at any time in its history. The recent election put more Republicans in Congress than at any time since 1946.
There’s a reason for that.
And a purpose.
And the purpose is to fix America.
It doesn’t matter what he’ll sign or what he won’t. It matters what America needs.
The people didn’t vote for a pissing match, they voted for a solution. It’s become evident governing is beyond this man’s ability or interest. It’s become evident the people don’t trust him.
It’s become evident that if the Republicans don’t save the country, it won’t get saved.
So they must wisely avoid the sideshow distraction of Obama’s executive actions. They are unconstitutional on their face, and they do very little, they are only meant to draw a response.
So don’t give it to him.
Instead, take up the things that really matter for this country, the things at the top of the priority list. Get them done. Get solutions offered. Get solutions passed.
And if he won’t sign them, in two years we can elect somebody who will.
The people elected the Republicans to lead.
I'd feel better about that statement if Boehner and McConnell weren't in the leadership roles.
They will do nothing.
What they should do:
1. Defund and impeach
What they will do:
1. Complain, but do nothing
That makes SCOTUS the American Parent, and Obama and the Congress the American Sibling Rivalry. All it does is switch the role of King from Obama to SCOTUS.
Oooh, uh, that sounds like a lotta work. Boehner and McConnell prefer banquets and golf and making empty meaningless threats thru their spokespeople. Yeah, not gonna happen...
Disagree. What they should do:
Arrest.
Try.
Administer proper punishment for traitors.
Quotes from Michelle Bachman:
“Has there been any firm commitment from the leadership of the Republican party saying that this amnesty is not going to happen?” Bachmann replied with a question, “Do you want the truth? Okay, I’ll tell all of Breitbart listeners what happened this week. I was floored!”
In the weekly meeting called “Republican Conference” in the House of Representatives, “we all knew that the big issue for the week was going to be the president announcing his amnesty,” she explained. Bachmann recounted that all of the leadership went to the microphone, including John Boehner.
“They acted as though the amnesty issue wasn’t even an issue. They said that the President is going to do what he’s going to do, and we are not going to get down in the mud with him. We are not going to engage, and what we are going to do is to talk about our positive solutions on jobs, the economy, education, and manufacturing,” Bachmann said.
She added that each congressman who spoke reiterated that not engaging Obama and staying positive was a “brilliant strategy.”
“We will not engage,” she reiterated with disgust.
Well.....there ya have it folks. If this report is true, white folk should do a freakin Furgeson. I hope this is not true.
Yeppers.
They are about as useful as:
a grave robber in a crematorium
an ashtray on a motorbike
mudguards on a tortoise
and
a trap door on a lifeboat.
chajin wrote:
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Take him to court.
That makes SCOTUS the American Parent, and Obama and the Congress the American Sibling Rivalry. All it does is switch the role of King from Obama to SCOTUS.
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Well said. Not to mention: 1) lawsuits could conceivably take years to work its way through the system, and 2) the federal courts are now packed with radical leftist judges.
Simply pursuing lawsuits against Obama is nothing more than the GOP continuing to be lazy and unwilling to wage a real fight.
Jack Hydrazine wrote:
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Yeppers.
They are about as useful as:
a grave robber in a crematorium
an ashtray on a motorbike
mudguards on a tortoise
and
a trap door on a lifeboat.
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Or braille engraved on the buttons of a drive-thru ATM machine!
“If this report is true, white folk should do a freakin Furgeson. I hope this is not true.”
You mean six years of them not doing anything still hasn’t proven anything to you yet?
Wow! Well, slap my thigh and call me Shirley!
Should... Won’t.
Mostly agree with you. The people will take care of this just as they did during the elections. If not careful, the republicans will give the wrong perception. “Skillfully skin him with a scalpel”.
Start by defunding all fuel for air force one, the beast and presidential motorcades. When he and mooch start crying, tell them to play ball with congress and they will get some of their perks turned back on.
In one way I do agree with them. How?
By him and his crony Dems doing all of this the Pubbies can’t be blamed for his actions. It shows everyone what the Dems stand for and what they want.
It’s like playing tug of war but your team suddenly lets go of the rope and the other team falls on their rear ends.
If the Pubbies continue to let go of the rope maybe they are hoping that the public will grow even more p.o.ed at the Dems with the result being a third straight loss for Dems in the next election.
What say you?
I won’t call you Shirley.
Ya call, ya write, ya call, ya write. Good grief already.
I dunno what it’s gonna take.
Turn off their perks. That is what Obama and his mooching family really love and care about. No fuel for fund raising, vacations, golf, phony diplomatic trips, and no money for White House parties. Zero, Nada, Zilch
They will whine and cry, then you got them. They will do anything to keep their good times rolling.
They will complain but Boehner is just going to start crying again.
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