Posted on 11/06/2014 3:09:43 AM PST by Din Maker
President Barack Obama's determination to act alone to change the immigration system promptly drove a wedge Wednesday into the post-election commitment from the president and Republican leaders to find common ground under the new political alignment.
Obama defiantly stood by his pledge to act on his own to reduce deportations, grant work permits and improve border security by the end of the year despite resounding election victories by Republicans strongly opposed to his plans. The Senate's likely majority leader next year, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared that such a move would amount to "waving a red flag in front of a bull."
"I have no doubt that there will be some Republicans who are angered or frustrated by any executive action that I may take," Obama said in a post-election news conference. "Those are folks, I just have to say, who are also deeply opposed to immigration reform, in any form, and blocked the House from being able to pass a bipartisan bill."
He cast his executive actions as an inducement for Republicans to pass their own immigration bill.
"The best way, if folks are serious about getting immigration reform done, is going ahead and passing a bill and getting it to my desk. And then the executive actions that I take go away," he said.
Republicans led by McConnell pledged to use their new found majorities to stop him.
"I hope he won't do that, because I do think it poisons the well for the opportunity to address a very important domestic issue," McConnell said in Louisville, Kentucky, as he celebrated a victory in his own Senate race and the GOP's capture of the Senate.
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He makes sense, but I still like the thought of impeachment.
Impeaching him will set off riots in every city in the country. And it will never happen anyway. The history books will still write in his favor and against whites. And Michelle will not be proud.
This yahoo report credits Obama with wanting to improve border security. Right.
He’s a man child - he can be managed like one.
No impeachment b/c it would solidify opposition and ensure a short time of senate control and huge house losses.
Besides, if we can manage him, keep him.
Use appropriations to help control his craziness. Do the politics to ensure it will be 0bama shutting down the gov’t. if/when it comes to that.
Do keystone, tax reform, and repeal med device tax. THEN start putting a bazillion bills on his desk that chip away at his legacy.
Start talk now that anyone “legalized” thru exec action will become illegal after the order is repealed and may have further consequences when immigration becomes controlled again.
An important component of this is making sure no illegal entrants get any benefits. None.
Then voter ID.
You Post #5: Excellent!
Yeah; I caught that too.
I agree.
Control the budget.
Careful pinpoint defunding of programs.
Use a scalpel not a sledge hammer.
Work hard to many pass bipartisan bills.
Force him to make many vetoes of bipartisan bills as that will make him an obstructionist.
Glad to see most here agree, impeachment is not the way to go. He deserves it, but the Democrats are just trying to provoke the Republicans into doing it. It would galvanize the Black Vote in 2016 and harm our chances to take the Presidency.
Let him do his 'temporary' Amnesty and let blacks feel how it's going to hurt their job perspectives.
I sometimes listen to Al Sharpton on the radio and while he is totally 'sold out' on Obama and Amnesty, it is the most controversial issue among his callers. Roughly half his callers are against Amnesty because they know it will hurt their personal economy - It drives Al up a wall...
All of this is a spoiled brat standing up and yelling, “Look at me. Look at me.”
I can’t take credit but defung AF1. Take away his wheels. Ground him like he was a teenager.
I wonder when or if ever the media will get the fact Obama is a narcissistic psychopath that will say anything to hide his true agenda...
His “vision” for our future is the driving force in everything he does...
In his heart he is a hard core Marxist...
Turning us into a collective is his main goal....
There are lots of ways for Republicans to get around this ‘out of touch’ criminal and I am very angry that ONLY NOW are they talking about yanking the rug out from under him!
They should have been at this much sooner.
Yes, I agree. Death of his legacy by 1,000 cuts. Individual bills for specific actions. Send thousands of them, force him to veto every single one and explain it to the people why he is working so actively against America. Hang that around the democrats neck. Who knows, it could be so effective that the democrats may be pushing impeachment come summer...
Impeachment is a distraction. Play nice and cut off funding. The more Obama rants and rages the better 2016 will be.
In the short run: index taxes to inflation, focus on border security first, and publicly thoughtful chopping of regulatory burdens like the NLRB, EPA, CPSC, OSHA, etc.
There’s a slew of publicly popular legislation that suits our purposes. A return to Constitutional law making reduces executive power. That’s what we want.
We need to play the long game and keep Congress for a generation. We need to implement those programs that will have lasting effect without rousing voter ire.
It’s the economy...
............or, impose the most cruel punishment, hide his golf clubs!!!
NO!! Just find a way to stop his executive orders and further humiliate him. Why mess with the momentum?
Charge him with war crimes (arming terrorists) after his term is up.
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