What Obama did is a direct attack on the Constitution. He decreed that the House of Representatives works at the behest of the President and when it isn’t fast enough or in agreement that it is the right of the Executive to create law.
Can the President pardon? Yes.
Can the President decide NOT to pursue certain people in order to pursue others? Yes.
But can the President issue green cards, social security numbers, and other benefits in direct contradiction to current law? No.
And the explanation that the House isn’t working fast enough is tyranny. If any part of our system says NO, then the answer is NO.
And, amazingly, the President can NEVER override the Congress, but the Constitution does provide for the Congress to override the President.
And our media and our talking heads sit idly by. One can only assume that they want a dictator.
Yep, those capabilities you itemized are certainly in the Quiver to shoot...
The media will not do anything but create and foment a national political environment that simply continues to justify their existence, plain and simple...
They know the republicans and their leadership (elites) are feckless and incapable of knowing how to be a “majority”, therefore, that dynamic alone gives their support for the opposition to ANY “real” conservative cause, significant potency, with very little effort to keep that movement in-effective...