Posted on 12/02/2014 5:39:38 PM PST by Kaslin
After this, the word “colloquially” should be added to the definition of “Kinsleyan gaffe” — i.e. when a politician accidentally tells the truth … colloquially. That’s what Obama did last week when he shooed away a heckler by casually reassuring him that he had changed the law on immigration — which was true. With Congress unwilling to impeach and the next president unlikely for political reasons to cancel Obama’s order, his amnesty will survive as the de facto law of the land until either conservatives win the White House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate or the two parties pass a terrible comprehensive immigration reform bill. If O’s order hadn’t effectively changed the law for millions of people, Latinos wouldn’t be so excited about it. But lackeys like Josh Earnest here and Jeh Johnson can’t say that. They need to spin this as an application of the law, not a change to it, for the simple reason that only in a banana republic does the president actually set broad national policy without the legislature’s approval. And certainly, certainly we don’t live in one of those.
There’s an obvious follow-up question for Earnest that goes unspoken: What about the change made by this order to the way the executive branch operates constitutionally? O’s immigration policy might disappear in time — as noted, a Republican wave might wash it away or a bipartisan deal might supersede it. The fact that Obama’s set this precedent for bold action, though, won’t escape the attention of his successors. So long as the demographics of midterm congressional elections continue to favor the GOP, future Democratic presidents will be eager to exploit executive action to avoid Congress and implement their agenda. And Republican presidents will be tempted by the fact that liberals, in blessing Obama’s power grab, will have no ground to stand on if/when conservatives try one of their own in some other policy area. A change in “the law,” by which we mean statutory law on immigration, is actually the venial sin here. The mortal sin is the change made to constitutional law in blurring the separation of powers. Until Congress figures out a way to challenge the president that won’t blow up in their faces politically, we’re stuck with that one.
Josh Earnest says Obama was "speaking colloquially" when he said he changed immigration law
Of course he was... And I am the King of England...Colloquially!
Freegards
LEX
Just like Obamacare was ‘not a tax’ until the Supreme Court and it was defended as a tax...
He was speaking Colecovision -ally
Who you gonna believe? The WH damage control people or your lying ears?
Gaffe: When a politician.... Oh, you know the rest.
We are all Gruber’s now....
Colloquially. Does that mean he’s lying, or telling the truth ?
Has there ever been a US president that required so many translators??? Every time the clown opens his mouth and speaks the media and white house staff send out a phalanx of interpreters to declare what this idiot “meant” to say when he tells the truth.
Chronic and sociopathic liar.
Obama is an A******, just colloquially, of course.
And I am the Queen of Sheba
he was speaking “colloquially”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Dark Lord has spoken. All subjects bow and tremble!
...just speaking in cursive....
Ah yes, good old colloquialism.
Threaten the president’s life colloquially, and you will receive a colloquial visit from the Secret service.
Threaten the life of Sarah Palin colloquially, anmd you will get a colloquial job offer teaching America about what is colloquial, or even a colloquial ambassadorship.
The Dark Lord is an expert colloquialist. US ally Mohammar Ghadafi discovered that, shot in the head while being sodomized with a colloquial stick.
Fascist love colloquialism. They did 6 million Jews with it.
Read On:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
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