"The [Washington] Post's View" - NOW THEY TELL US...!!!

FROM TODAY'S WASHINGTON POST...

THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE WASHINGTON POST...

WHERE WERE THEY BEFORE TODAY...???

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

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The White House has defended President Obama’s unilateral decision to legalize the presence of nearly 4 million undocumented immigrants as consistent, even in scope, with the executive actions of previous presidents. In fact, it is increasingly clear that the sweeping magnitude of Mr. Obama’s order is unprecedented.

* NOW THEY CHAMPION THE CONSTITUTION...?!?!

Central to the administration’s argument is its contention that the 4 million covered by the president’s order — some 36% of the estimated undocumented population of 11 million — is in line with the percentage covered by a comparable action by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. At that time, there were about 3.5 million illegal immigrants in the country; Mr. Obama, administration officials and their allies have said that about 1.5 million of them — the spouses and children of previously amnestied immigrants — benefited from Mr. Bush’s move.

* AGAIN... BUSH'S MOVE WENT W*I*T*H THE GRAIN OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTION...

* AGAIN... CLEAR MAJORITIES OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS BACK THEN BACKED BUSH'S ACTIONS!

In addition to the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, and Mr. Obama himself, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel cited the Bush executive action as precedent, using the figure of 1.5 million immigrants.

However, as The Post’s Glenn Kessler has scrupulously reported , there is every reason to believe that the estimate is wildly exaggerated and based mainly on what appears to have been a misunderstanding at the time.

When the measure was announced, Bush administration officials estimated the number who would be affected at around 100,000. While that was followed by some fuzziness and upward revisions, the actual number affected by the 1990 order was clearly a fraction — perhaps a couple of hundred thousand people, at most — of the 1.5 million that Obama administration officials have cited.

* LISTEN... IT'S NOT THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EFFECTED, IT'S WHETHER EXECUTIVE ACTION IS GOING WITH OR AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE ACTUAL LAW, CONGRESSIONAL INTENT, AND CONGRESSIONAL SANCTION! THAT SAID... THIS "NUMBERS GAME" TOO DEMONSTRATES THAT OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE LAW... NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION... AND NO RESPECT FOR THE TRUTH.

Even the apparent original source of the 1.5 million figure — Gene McNary, who led the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the time — told Mr. Kessler he believes the number is false and was based on a misunderstanding from testimony he gave to Congress. And no underlying data or methodology to justify the 1.5 million figure has been uncovered.

This is not a game of gotcha; facts matter — even in Washington — and so do the numbers. Under close scrutiny it is plain that the White House’s numbers are indefensible.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... THIS IS THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE WASHINGTON POST... (A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT!)

* SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... NOW THEY TELL US? N*O*W...?!?!

It is similarly plain that the scale of Mr. Obama’s move goes far beyond anything his predecessors attempted.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

* WHAT HAVE I BEEN RANTING AND RAVING ABOUT FOR MONTHS...??? AND N*O*W THESE BOZOS JOIN ME...?!?!

A responsible Congress would have legislated a fix to the nation’s broken immigration system. It is outrageous that Republican leaders in the House refused to allow a vote on a bill that passed the Senate last year.

* OF COURSE IT WASN'T "OUTRAGEOUS" WHEN A DEMOCRAT SENATE FAILED TO VOTE ON - LET ALONE PASS - BILLS WHICH HAD PASSED A REPUBLICAN HOUSE...

(*SNICKER*)

That bill, backed by Democrats and some moderate Republicans, stood a good chance of passing the House and becoming law. Even now, Republicans’ refusal to enact a bill — and their use of Mr. Obama’s order as further pretext for obstinacy and paralysis — is an abdication of leadership and duty.

* CONGRESS ABDICATES THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES CONSTANTLY - BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL vs. UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Republicans’ failure to address immigration...

* REPUBLICANS HAVE ADDRESSED IMMIGRATION - MANY TIMES! THEY'VE PASSED MYRIAD BILLS THAT REID AND OBAMA DECLARED "DEAD ON ARRIVAL." THE PARTISANSHIP AND BLATANT HYPOCRISY ON DISPLAY HERE IS JAW-DROPPING!

...also does not justify Mr. Obama’s massive unilateral act.

* "MASSIVE...???" THE WORD IS SPELLED U-N-C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L! ANOTHER ACCEPTABLE SPELLING WOULD BE "I-L-L-E-G-A-L!"

Unlike Mr. Bush in 1990, whose much more modest order was in step with legislation recently and subsequently enacted by Congress, Mr. Obama’s move flies in the face of congressional intent — no matter how indefensible that intent looks.

* THEY HAD TO THROW THE ZINGER IN...

(*SMIRK*)

* FINE. AS LONG AS THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE!