Thursday, November 6, 2014

What Would It Take...?



What would it take for you... as an individual... to put it all on the line and actually put yourself at physical risk to defend our Constitution?

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Votes were still coming in on Tuesday evening when ABC’s Jon Karl reported that, per White House sources, “the president will move forward with an executive order on immigration reform no matter how big a shellacking Democrats get.”

The shellacking was bigger than even the most optimistic Republicans had predicted.

To act on immigration without engaging the country’s new congressional majority would be a defiance of the legislative branch, and of the American electorate.

* F--K "DEFIANCE OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH AND THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE" - IT WOULD BE BLATANT DEFIANCE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION!

* FOLKS... NO AMERICAN... NO REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, LIBERAL, CONSERVATIVE, OR... WHATEVER... SHOULD SIT BY AND ALLOW THIS PRESIDENT - OR ANY PRESIDENT - TO TRASH THE CONSTITUTION. OBAMA MUST BE STOPPED!

This summer the White House indicated its intention to effectively amnesty by executive action anywhere from three to six million immigrants illegally in the country by expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — implemented by executive fiat, via memorandum, in 2012 — to include illegal-immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and possibly illegal-immigrant parents of DACA recipients.

* TO THEIR ETERNAL SHAME THE SENATE DEMOCRATS ALLOWED OBAMA TO GET AWAY WITH HIS 2012 END RUN AROUND THE CONSTITUTION. BUT THIS... THIS WOULD BE BEYOND THE PALE... BEYOND ANY PLAUSIBLE FIG LEAF OF AN ARGUMENT REGARDING CONSTITUTIONALITY.

* FOLKS... AMERICANS MUST UNITE TO STOP OBAMA!

[Obama's threatened] action could include other illegal-immigrant groups, too, and like DACA it would, by providing to illegal immigrants government-issued documentation, secure for them the benefits of lawful status despite the absence of a green card or path to citizenship.

As National Journal’s Ron Fournier put it, in the wake of Tuesday’s results, “acting on immigration by fiat [now] would be the political equivalent of . . . flipping the country the bird.”

What can Republicans do to forestall executive overreach on immigration during the coming lame-duck session?

* FIRST AND FOREMOST THEY NEED TO REACH OUT PUBLICLY TO THE DEMOCRATS! THEY MUST REACH OUT TO ALL AMERICANS! THEY MUST CLEARLY PRESENT THIS AS A MATTER OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND INDEED THE VERY RULE OF LAW!

* ARTICLE ONE, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 4; CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: "The Congress shall have Power To...  establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization..."

* FOLKS... SERIOUSLY... READ THE FRIGGIN' CONSTITUTION ONCE IN AWHILE! YOU'LL NO DOUBT BE AMAZED BY HOW FAR OFF-COURSE OUR NATION IS!

The current continuing resolution, the appropriations law that funds the government, expires on December 11. Republicans should insert into a short-term continuing resolution language that would prohibit funding to a prospective executive order on immigration.

* OK. BUT FUNDING ASIDE, CONGRESS NEEDS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IT IS THE INSTITUTIONAL POSITION OF BOTH HOUSES THAT NO PRESIDENT HAS SUCH UNILATERAL AUTHORITY EVEN APART FROM THE FUNDING ISSUE. ONLY CONGRESS CAN CHANGE THE LAW...! THE PRESIDENT CAN CHOOSE TO SIGN OR VETO... BUT ULTIMATELY THE CONSTITUTION PUTS THE POWER IN THE HANDS OF CONGRESS!

To avoid shutting down the government, Democrats would have to pass the bill, putting themselves on record as opposing the president’s immigration plan; or they could reject the bill, potentially shutting down the government.

* NO. THE AUTHOR IS APPARENTLY HIGH ON ALCOHOL OR DRUGS. ANY GOVERNMENT SHUT-DOWN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THIS ELECTION WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE BLAMED ON THIS NEW CONGRESS.

* AGAIN... WE MUST MAKE OUR CASE ON THE CLEAR TEXT OF OUR CONSTITUTION! NO OTHER "GAMESMANSHIP" IS REQUIRED.

Since Republicans could cite November’s results as evidence that voters have rejected the president’s immigration plan and that they prefer Congress, not the executive alone, to act on immigration, a government shutdown might not hurt Republicans the way it did in October 2013.

* THIS... F--KING... AUTHOR... JUST DOESN'T GET IT! THIS ISN'T ABOUT POLICY PREFERENCE! IT'S IRRELEVANT THAT THE PEOPLE OPPOSE OBAMA! WHAT'S CENTRAL IS THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR - OBAMA HAS NO POWER TO CHANGE AMERICA'S EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS - ADD TO THEM OR SUBTRACT FROM THEM - ON HIS OWN. THE CONSTITUTION GIVES HIM NO SUCH POWER!

Speaking to the nation on Wednesday, President Obama announced his intention to move forward with an executive action on immigration if Congress will not pass immigration legislation he likes — so it is that, instead of “rising above politics,” as he once promised, the president has stooped to extortion.

It has long been clear that the president is not much interested in submitting to the dictates of the democratic process when he does not like the results. Republicans during the lame-duck session should pursue any measure available to them to hold the line against the president’s inclinations toward lawlessness — and to ensure that the millions of voters who rebuffed his policies on Tuesday are not ignored.

We can well understand, after Tuesday’s results, that the president desires a new electorate. But that does not give him license to rewrite the nation’s immigration law to suit his desire.

* IF NECESSARY... WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO RISE UP AND PHYSICALLY MARCH UPON WASHINGTON TO RECLAIM OUR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT... THE ONLY LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE.

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