* HERE'S THE HEADLINE... WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE:
Congress Will Fight Obama’s Power Grab
* AND HERE'S THE SUB-HEADLINE... WHICH IS TRUE...
The president’s amnesty plan for millions of unlawful
immigrants clearly violates the Constitution.
* NOTE: "CLEARLY..."
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Read on, my friends and countrymen... read on and weep...
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President Obama seems poised to announce one of the
biggest executive power grabs in American history.
* AND THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT RESPONDS BY WAGING
IT'S COLLECTIVE FINGER...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
* INDEED, MOST WON'T EVEN USE THE WORD
"UNCONSTITUTIONAL."
President Obama is expected to declare unilaterally that
millions of unlawful immigrants can stay in the U.S. without facing the
consequences of violating immigration laws.
* WHICH HE HAS NO LEGAL/CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO.
(EVEN IF HE WERE TO USE PRESIDENTIAL PARDON POWER, THIS WOULD NOT TRANSLATE TO
ALLOWING THE ILLEGALS TO REMAIN. A PARDON WOULD BE THAT... A PARDON... FOLLOWED
BY DEPORTATION IN LINE WITH STILL-EXISTING LAW.)
Congress has not agreed on how to reform the immigration
system, but the president has decided to ignore the Constitution and alter the
law without new statutes. This is a slap in the face of the American people,
who voted on Nov. 4 to change the way Washington operates.
* NO. IT'S NOT "A SLAP IN THE FACE." IT'S
TREASON. IT'S A COUP. HOW AND WHY CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS...?!?!
* FOLKS... THE PUSILLANIMOUS AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE IS BOB
GOODLATTE (R-VA), CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
The Constitution is clear: It is Congress’s duty to write
the nation’s laws and, once they are enacted, it is the president’s
responsibility to enforce them. Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution
requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
This clause compels the president to enforce all constitutionally valid acts of
Congress, regardless of his administration’s view of their wisdom. That is a
duty, not an option.
* THAT SHIP HAS LONG SINCE SAILED. WHAT OBAMA PROPOSES TO DO
NOW GOES FAR BEYOND SIMPLY "NOT ENFORCING."
Law-enforcement agencies have the power to exercise
prosecutorial discretion — deciding whether to enforce the law against particular
individuals — but this power must be used judiciously.
* AND REASONABLY! REASONABLE PEOPLE SHOULD AGREE THAT AN
EXECUTIVE ORDER IS PLAUSIBLY "WITH THE GRAIN" OF STATUTORY LAW AND CLEAR
CONGRESSIONAL CONTENT AND UNDERSTAND OF WHAT PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS WOULD
"COMPLIMENT" THE WILL OF CONGRESS - NOT GO AGAINST IT.
As Doris Meissner, commissioner of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration, told her agency in a
2000 memo, such discretion is not “an invitation to violate or ignore the law.”
* DORIS MEISSNER ISN'T PRESIDENT; BARACK OBAMA IS.
* BARACK OBAMA CLEARLY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE LAW... EVEN
THE HIGHEST LAW OF THE LAND - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
Mr. Obama’s threatened action amounts to ignoring the
law, as an estimated four million to five million unlawful immigrants — close
to half of the illegal population — stand to benefit from the decree. That does
not constitute faithful execution of the law.
* FOLKS... CONGRESSMAN SCUMBA... er... GOODLATTE... IS
DELIBERATELY ATTEMPTING TO PORTRAY OBAMA'S PROPOSED COURSE OF ACTION AS NOT
BEING AN ABRUPT ESCALATION OF HIS ONGOING "WAR AGAINST THE
CONSTITUTION." BUT IT IS! IF OBAMA ISSUES WHAT HE CALLS "AN EXECUTIVE
ORDER" ALLOWING ILLEGAL ALIENS TO LEGALLY STAY HERE... LEGALLY WORK
HERE... THAT GOES FAR BEYOND SIMPLY "PRIORITIZING" ENFORCEMENT AND
EVEN BEYOND REFUSING TO ENFORCE LAWS HE DISAGREES WITH. OBAMA IS THREATENING TO
BASICALLY CREATE NEW LAW - IN DIRECT CONTEMPT OF CLEAR CONGRESSIONAL WILL - VIA
WHAT AMOUNTS TO "ROYAL EDICT."
* FOLKS... IF THE MEDIA WERE DOING THEIR JOB... IF THE
POLITICIANS WERE DOING THEIR JOB... IF MEMBERS OF THE BAR (LAWYERS) THROUGHOUT
AMERICA WERE TRUE TO THEIR OATHS AND PROFESSIONAL CODES THEN WHAT I'M WRITING -
THE WORDS OF THE SUB-HEADLINE OF THIS OP-ED - WOULD BE REPEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN
DURING EVERY NEWS BROADCAST AND VIA EVERY NEWSPAPER AND OTHER NEWS
COMMUNICATION VEHICLE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE MARCHING ON WASHINGTON AT
THIS VERY MOMENT TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION!
* WHERE... IS... THE... LEADERSHIP...?!?! CLEARLY IT'S
NOT COMING FROM GOODLATTE... OR MCCONNELL OR BOEHNER.
* FOLKS... IF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT WAS MADE UP OF MEN
AND WOMEN OF CONVICTION, HONOR, AND COURAGE... THE NINE JUSTICES WOULD HOLD A
PRESS CONFERENCE AND STAND UNIFIED AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT'S COUP... HIS
TREASON... HIS DIRECT, BLATANT, INDEFENSIBLE EXPECTED ATTACK UPON OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC'S SEPARATION OF POWERS.
The president justifies his action by saying that he is
simply prioritizing immigration enforcement. But there is a difference between
setting priorities — say, focusing more resources on special cases — and
setting enforcement-free zones for millions of unlawful immigrants. This
proclamation will entice countless people around the world to come to the U.S.
illegally, just like the government’s Deferred Action for the Childhood
Arrivals program that President Obama signed two years ago encouraged tens of
thousands of unaccompanied minors and families from Central America to make the
dangerous trek to the U.S.
President Obama also claims that these actions are
nothing new. Previous presidents from both parties have provided immigration
relief to groups of aliens, sometimes abusing prosecutorial discretion and
stretching presidential authority. However, far fewer people were affected in
those cases.
* TRULY... THIS FUCKING GOODLATTE IS A MORON. THE AMOUNT OF
PEOPLE "EFFECTED" HAS NO BEARING ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES. AS TO
WHAT PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS HAVE DONE... SEE MY PREVIOUS STAND-ALONE POST TITLED
"THE AP (ONCE AGAIN) SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE."
* FOLKS... TRULY... THE AVERAGE HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL KNOWS
LITTLE AND CARES LESS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.
And the actions usually were a response to an emergency
in a foreign country — thus they were in keeping with the executive branch’s
broad constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs.
* IS HE DELIBERATELY SEEKING TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE...
UNDERCUT HIS OWN POSITION THAT THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED ACTION WOULD CLEARLY BE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL...??? OR IS HE SIMPLY STUPID? IT'S SO HARD TO TELL.
Chinese nationals, for example, were protected from
deportation after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Haitian orphans who
were in the process of being adopted by U.S. citizens when the devastating
earthquake of 2010 struck were granted humanitarian parole to come to the U.S.
Circumstances matter, and without any crisis in a foreign country to justify
his actions, President Obama has exceeded his constitutional powers.
* WELL... AT LEAST HE'S FLESHING IT OUT A BIT...
(*SIGH*)
* FOLKS. THE POINT IS THAT A LEGAL EXECUTIVE ORDER MUST
GO "WITH THE GRAIN" OF THE LAW - NOT AGAINST IT. IF THIS WERE NOT THE
CASE WHY WOULD WE NEED A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH?
* FOLKS... I'M BEGGING YOU... GOOGLE "U.S.
CONSTITUTION"
* THEN... READ IT...!!! IT'S ONLY A FEW PAGES LONG... A
FEW THOUSAND WORDS!
The president’s vow to override U.S. immigration laws by
executive fiat is not without cost. By acting lawlessly and assuming
legislative power, the president is driving full speed toward a constitutional
crisis, threatening to unravel the nation’s system of checks and balances.
* NO. YOU'RE WRONG. HERE'S WHY: CLEARLY NOT ENOUGH OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE GIVE A DAMN ABOUT RETAINING A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AS OUR
NATION'S FORM OF GOVERNMENT. PERHAPS 20% OF AMERICANS ARE TRULY OUTRAGED ABOUT
WHAT IS HAPPENING. LOW PARTICIPATION ISN'T THE KEY PROBLEM THOUGH. THE KEY
PROBLEM IS LACK OF LEADERSHIP. IF FOLKS LIKE MYSELF HAD A LEADER... WE COULD
RECRUIT MORE FOLLOWERS.
* HERE'S MY FEAR: IF OBAMA GOES THROUGH WITH THIS... IT
MAY BE THE LAST STRAW FOR SOME GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL WILLING TO RESPOND WITH
VIOLENCE. IF OBAMA WERE TO BE ASSASSINATED...
* I SHUDDER AT THE PROBABLY RAMIFICATIONS.
Mr. Obama’s planned action also undermines the American
people’s trust that the president is committed to enforcing the country’s
immigration laws.
* AT THIS POINT NO ONE - NOT EVEN OBAMA SUPPORTERS WHO KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT AND WHO ARE PREPARED TO BE HONEST - BELIEVE OBAMA IS
COMMITTED TO ENFORCING ANY LAW HE DISAGREES WITH; IMMIGRATION LAW BEING JUST
THE MOST VISIBLE POINT OF CONTENTION.
Americans are deeply concerned about the country’s
direction — their statement on Nov. 4 was a firm rejection of the Obama
administration’s policies. Rather than listen and change course, the president
is doubling down on his failed policies and sending an unmistakable message to
the nation: He will do what he wants, when he wants, without regard for the
Constitution or what the American people desire.
* AND YOU'RE PREPARED TO LET HIM - AREN'T YOU,
CONGRESSMAN GOODLATTE? (OR TELL US... WHAT'S YOUR PLAN TO STOP HIM?)
A unilateral presidential edict awarding amnesty to
millions of unlawful immigrants will also severely damage chances of enacting
legislation to reform the immigration system. Rather than work constructively
with the new Congress in January, the president is poisoning his relationship
with lawmakers by acting on his own.
* YO... MORON... CONGRESSMAN MORON... IF OBAMA GETS AWAY
WITH THIS THEN CHANCES ARE THAT BEYOND THIS POINT HE'LL SIMPLY CONTINUE TO
DOUBLE-DOWN... TRIPLE-DOWN... QUADRUPLE-DOWN. HE'LL SIMPLY IGNORE CONGRESS AND
IGNORE THE CONSTITUTION. AND FOR A GOOD 45% OF THE COUNTRY... HE'D SIMPLY BE
FOLLOWING PRECEDENT - THE PRECEDENT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES SEEM ABOUT TO ALLOW
HIM TO CREATE!
Mr. Obama’s plan to violate the Constitution must be
stopped.
* YES! (BUT YOU DON'T SOUND LIKE YOU HAVE A PLAN TO DO
SO!)
The Framers wisely gave Congress many tools to guard
against the executive branch accumulating too much power. My colleagues in both
the House and the Senate will take inventory of the tools afforded to Congress
by the Constitution, such as the power of the purse and the authority to write
legislation, to stop the president’s unconstitutional actions from being
implemented.
* FOLKS... IS IT ME? WHAT IS IT THAT THIS IDIOT DOESN'T
GET? WHERE IS MY LOGIC ESCAPING HIM?
* IF OBAMA CAN VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION COME FRIDAY... THEN
OBAMA CAN VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION FROM FRIDAY ON! HE'LL SIMPLY ISSUE MORE
EXECUTIVE ORDERS! GEEZUS... DON'T THESE RINO MORONS "GET" THAT BY
SHOWING HE'S WILLING TO RE-WRITE IMMIGRATION LAW THAT HE'S WILL TO RE-WRITE ANY
LAW? IF CONGRESS' LAW MAKING POWERS ARE SUBSERVIENT TO PRESIDENTIAL WILL, SO TOO
WILL BE CONGRESS' POWER OF THE PURSE!
* MY... GOD... THESE PEOPLE JUST DON'T SEEM TO
"GET" IT!
The debate in Congress over the past two years has shown
that there is a willingness and need to reform our nation’s immigration system.
While opinions differ on exactly how to amend the laws, one thing is certain:
The president has no authority to make this decision on his own.
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