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*)
