Unfriggin'believable...
Take a look at how these scumbags at the NYT attempt to
provide cover for Obama unconstitutional actions!
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Months before President Obama took executive action last
week to reshape the nation’s immigration system, Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary
of Homeland Security, quietly convened a small group of advisers to explore the
legal limits of the president’s powers.
* HMM... SOUNDS TO ME KINDA LIKE THE ACCUSED ACTING AS
THEIR OWN JUDGE AND JURY!
(*GUFFAW*)
Working in secrecy...
* WHAT ELSE IS NEW...?!?!
* FOLKS... I COULDN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP EVEN IF I WERE OF
A MIND TO!
...Mr. Johnson’s team...
* NAMES...???
...huddled for hours daily under orders to use “our legal
authorities to the fullest extent” on a new deportations policy, a senior administration
official said.
* "OUR" LEGAL AUTHORITIES...
(*SNORT*)
In five White House meetings over the summer, Mr. Johnson
and Mr. Obama, both lawyers...
* WASN'T OBAMA A LAWYER WHEN HE SAID POINT BLANK (ON
VARIOUS OCCASIONS!) THAT PRESIDENTS DON'T HAVE SUCH POWERS? THAT HE WASN'T AN
EMPEROR?
...pored over proposed changes, eventually concluding
that the president had the authority to enact changes that could affect
millions of people and significantly alter the way immigration laws are
enforced.
* WOW... WHAT A SURPRISE!
(*SNORTING WHILE SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* FOLKS... JUST THE OTHER DAY (CAPTURED ON VIDEO) OUR
EMPER... er... PRESIDENT ADMITTED THAT HE C*H*A*N*G*E*D THE LAW!
“I don’t think he wanted to be in the position of taking
executive action,” Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration
Forum, an advocacy group, said of Mr. Obama.
* WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT... er... ALI NOORANI...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF A GROUP WHICH ADVOCATES AMNESTY... TO SAY?
“It was not the way he wanted to fix the system.”
* "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT," DEFENSE...??? REALLY...?!?!
Nonetheless, “at the end of the day, he felt this was the
only option he had.”
* YES... OF COURSE... "NONETHELESS..."
(*SMIRK*)
The decision has infuriated Republicans...
* JUST REPUBLICANS? REALLY...???
...just as they take full control of Capitol Hill — “We
will not stand idle as the president undermines the rule of law in our
country,” Speaker John A. Boehner pledged this month — although it remains
unclear how the new Congress will react.
* UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S THE TRUTH! BOEHNER, MCCONNELL, AND
THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT CAN'T BE TRUSTED.
Republicans have raised the possibility of suing the
president, and a handful of conservatives have called for impeachment or a
government shutdown. But the party is struggling to respond to Mr. Obama
without alienating Hispanic voters, who will be critical to victory in 2016.
* THE PARTY... THE PARTIES - PLURAL - SHOULD BE
STRUGGLING OVER FULFILLING THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES, THE REPUBLIC, AND THE VERY RULE OF LAW!
Mr. Johnson’s efforts, along with Mr. Obama’s rising
frustration with Mr. Boehner and an advocacy community that relentlessly
pressured the White House, led to the president’s prime-time address to the
nation on Nov. 20, when he said he would shield as many as five million
undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow many of them to work
legally.
* HE SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE THIS AUTHORITY.
As 2014 began, the president and his aides were hopeful...
* AHH... AIN'T THAT GRAND! IT'S GOOD TO BE
"HOPEFUL."
* "GOOD" PEOPLE ARE "HOPEFUL" PEOPLE!
...that Republicans in the House might pass an
immigration bill that Mr. Obama could support.
* NOTICE, FOLKS... NOT CRITIQUE ABOUT DEMOCRATS IN THE
SENATE NOT PASSING A BILL REPUBLICANS COULD SUPPORT! (IT'S ALWAYS A ONE WAY
STREET WITH THE NYT.)
The president was in regular touch with Mr. Boehner and
his top lieutenants...
* WHAT A GREAT GUY! ALWAYS WILLING TO GO THAT EXTRA MILE!
(*SNICKER*)
...who told him they recognized the need to increase
border security, improve the legal immigration system and find a way to deal
with the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.
* NOTE: "RECOGNIZED." (NOT... "WE PLEDGE
TO FIX IT.")
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
Each time Mr. Boehner arrived at the White House for an
event, the president would pull him aside and ask about immigration, according
to White House and Republican aides. Mr. Boehner urged patience, saying there
was a “narrow path” to get something done, despite opposition in his party from
what Republican aides call the “boxcars crowd,” a reference to conservative
members who favor deportation for most of the 11 million.
* FOLKS... EVEN I DON'T CALL FOR DEPORTATION OF MOST THE
11 MILLION! SERIOUSLY... WHO - EXACTLY - ARE THESE CLOWNS THE NYT REFERS TO
BASED UPON BOEHNER'S BULL? (WHERE ARE THE EDITORS?! WHERE ARE THE FACT-CHECKERS?!)
The Senate had already passed a comprehensive bill that
Republicans did not believe would pass in the House.
* WHY NOT...? I THOUGHT THAT "COOPERATION" WAS THE
RULE OF THE DAY? WHY WEREN'T THE SENATE DEMOCRATS COOPERATING WITH
REPUBLICANS...???
Several House Republicans were quietly drafting separate
legislation to boost border security...
* SUCH LEGISLATION WAS PASSED - AND FUNDED - YEARS AGO!
NEITHER THE BUSH NOR OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS IMPLEMENTED PAST BORDER SECURITY
LAWS FULLY!
Mr. Obama told Mr. Boehner that he would not attack
Republicans on immigration, even though he would have to press for legislation
“every now and then,” a senior White House official said. The president
understood, the official said, that “what they were trying to do was hard.”
But immigration activists were already impatient. Some of
the president’s biggest allies had gone public with demands that Mr. Obama stop
the record number of deportations they said were tearing apart their families.
The president’s response was the same: “Until Congress passes a new law, then I
am constrained in terms of what I am able to do,” he told Jose Diaz-Balart in
an interview on Univision on March 6.
* OUR LAWYER PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE... CORRECT...?
His allies were not convinced. Richard Trumka, the
president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused Mr. Obama of having “deported over a
thousand people a day.” Janet MurguÃa, the head of N.C.L.R., a Latino
organization also known as the National Council of La Raza, called him the
“deporter in chief.” Protesters held hunger strikes and sit-ins in front of the
White House and taunted him with chants: “Obama, Obama, don’t deport my mama.”
By spring, as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus was on
the verge of adopting a resolution condemning his deportations, Mr. Obama
called his staff together in the Oval Office and said he wanted to meet with
the activists and the Latino members of Congress face to face. The meetings did
not go well. In mid-March in the Roosevelt Room, the president urged activists
to stop attacking him and keep the pressure on Republicans to pass immigration
legislation. “It’s too early to give up,” he said. He berated Ms. MurguÃa for
the “deporter in chief” comment and told them that Mr. Johnson, his new
secretary of Homeland Security, would conduct a review to see if deportations
could be enforced in a “more humane” way.
* THE KEY WORD BEING "ENFORCED."
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The activists made clear they wanted more.
Angelica Salas, from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles, reminded Mr. Obama that his administration had deported
two million people. “People are coming to us in total distress and pain,” she
told him. Lorella Praeli, who represented young immigrants known as Dreamers,
warned him that her coalition would “make sure everyone knows you have the
power to do something about these deportations.”
* FOLKS... ABOUT THAT PHONY 2,000,000 FIGURE... THAT
INCLUDED ILLEGALS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY SENT BACK ACROSS
THE BORDER. THIS IS A NEW WAY... AN "OBAMA WAY"... OF RECORD KEEPING
THAT OBVIOUSLY INFLATES THE "DEPORTATION" STATS.
Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for
Community Change and a participant at the meeting, recalled that Mr. Obama
doubted the advocates’ deportation figures and did not take the criticism
easily. “The president often was irritated and gave it back,” he said.
In the meantime, Mr. Johnson’s review of the president’s
legal authority was supposed to help resolve the issue. But his first attempt
in May was rejected, White House officials said, because in the president’s
view, he did not go far enough. The effort only sought to sharpen the guidance
for immigration agents, but did not provide work permits or directly shield
anyone from deportation.
* BECAUSE SUCH ACTIONS WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
* C*L*E*A*R*L*Y UNCONSTITUTIONAL...!!!
And yet, with Republicans still struggling to move
forward, the president’s Democratic allies on Capitol Hill reminded him that
even Mr. Johnson’s modest proposals would probably derail any hopes for
legislation.
Mr. Obama told Mr. Johnson to keep working.
The president announced that he would delay the results
of the review until the end of the summer, hoping to give Mr. Boehner a last
chance for action. But in early June, Representative Eric Cantor, then the majority
leader in the House, lost his Republican primary in Virginia after being
accused of being soft on immigration. Soon a surge of unaccompanied children
across the border with Mexico created a sense of crisis about the need for more
security and weeks of Republican outrage.
At a White House event for the Professional Golfers
Association, Mr. Obama pulled Mr. Boehner aside. Mr. Boehner told the president
that the path for action in the House “had narrowed almost to the vanishing
point,” according to aides for both men. White House officials said the
president was frustrated with the Republicans. But he was also coming to the
realization that he could not rely on Congress to act.
On June 30, the president called Mr. Boehner to tell him
he was about to declare the legislative effort dead. In the White House Rose
Garden, Mr. Obama then announced he would “fix as much of our immigration
system as I can on my own, without Congress,” and would act by the end of the
summer.
He instructed Mr. Johnson to undertake a much broader
examination of his executive authority.
* OBVIOUSLY WITH THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN BOTH MEN
BEING THAT THE CONSTITUTION WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BLOCK OBAMA FROM DOING WHAT
HE WANTED TO DO.
* FOLK... CLEARLY AT THIS POINT THE MESSAGE WAS CLEAR. IN
PLAIN ENGLISH WHAT OBAMA WAS ASKING FOR WAS A FIG-LEAF TO OFFER SOME FALSE
JUSTIFICATION FOR HIM BREAKING HIS OATH TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE
CONSTITUTION.
The secretary and his team concluded Mr. Obama could not
grant protections to seven million or more immigrants who might have qualified
under the comprehensive bill passed by the Senate in 2013, as advocates had
demanded. After consulting with Mr. Obama, they identified initiatives that
could include five million.
* "AFTER CONSULTING WITH OBAMA."
* SUDDENLY IT WAS OBAMA PLAYING THE ROLE OF CONSULTANT!
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
* AGAIN, FOLKS... YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP...!!!
The secretary took a hands-on approach, officials said.
Sitting at his office computer, Mr. Johnson wrote final versions of most of the
directives issued on Nov. 20 setting up the controversial programs.
But there was another delay: Democratic senators who were
up for re-election in 2014 told the White House that an announcement by the
president could be so politically damaging in their states that it would
destroy their chances to hold control of the Senate. On Nov. 4, most of those
Democrats lost anyway.
* THIS IS THE NYT WAY OF "REPORTING" THAT OBAMA
AND THE DEMOCRATS DELIBERATELY HID THEIR LEGAL ARGUMENTS FROM "WE THE PEOPLE"
TILL AFTER THE ELECTION.
* FOLKS... WHETHER YOU'RE A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE,
DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, DIDN'T OBAMA OWE US A PRE-ELECTION CHOICE BASED UPON
HIS ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL ARGUMENTS...???
For immigration advocates, it has been a long-awaited
victory.
