To think that President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office four times (through accidents of circumstance, twice each time he was elected). Taking the oath must have become such old hat that he stopped paying attention.
The president is issuing an executive amnesty for illegal immigrants based on blatant contempt for the constitutional order that he is sworn to uphold. Where does Abraham Lincoln go to get his Bible back?
The past 400 years of Anglo-American political history can be read as a successful effort to establish and maintain a system tethering the executive to the law. What President Obama is doing will undermine that achievement, both through his own lawlessness and the precedent he will create for subsequent presidents to operate by extralegal fiat.
There are many opponents of the president's unilateral action, but few as eloquent as the president himself through the years. It doesn't take someone who used to teach constitutional law to know that Congress writes the law and the president executes it, even if he finds it personally distasteful.
In one of his many disavowals of having the power he is now wielding, the president said at a Univision town-hall meeting in 2011 that "Congress passes the law. The executive branch's job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws."
Thank you for the civics lesson, Mr. President. His new theory is that the president huffily demands that laws pass, and if Congress refuses, he can create a new legal dispensation to his liking.
The president and his supporters pretend that the Immigration and Nationality Act contains a gigantic asterisk that says, notwithstanding the elaborate legal infrastructure set out in the law and the distinctions among different categories of immigrants, the president can do whatever he wants. No Congress would ever write the law this way.
The president's defenders rely on the notion of prosecutorial discretion, the existence of which is uncontroversial. The executive doesn't have the resources to hunt down and prosecute every violator of our laws, and therefore has to establish enforcement priorities.
The Congressional Research Service did a report on prosecutorial discretion and immigration that, for the most part, emphasizes its piddling reach. It says, for instance, that immigration officers may use discretion to decide whom to stop, question and arrest, or whether to issue or cancel a Notice to Appear.
No one heretofore has thought this leeway could be used to eviscerate an entire statutory scheme. Under the Obama precedent, future presidents can use the pretense of prosecutorial discretion to dispense with swaths of the federal code and come up with alternatives. Can't prosecute all pot dealers? Ignore the drug laws. Can't find every tax scofflaw in the country? Rewrite the tax code.
Other presidents have, in keeping with the law, provided temporary relief to foreign nationals whose native countries have been torn by civil strife or natural disasters. In 1990, George H.W. Bush gave safe harbor to Chinese students after Tiananmen Square. Bill Clinton did the same for Central Americans here after hurricanes hit the region in 1998. The numbers were typically in the hundreds or thousands.
The gotcha example of George H.W. Bush granting amnesty to some spouses and children of recently legalized immigrants in 1990 isn't apt either, since the scale was much smaller (only about 140,000 people took advantage of it), and Congress voted to codify it within months.
No matter how much the president's defenders stretch for a legal justification and a precedent, the conclusion is unavoidable that no one has done this before. President Obama is said to want to build his legacy, and he is -- as a man who is shamefully careless of his oaths and constitutional obligations.
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It's Congress' job to make law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire
The concept of 'metaphor'; you don't get it, do ya?
How to Understand the Concept of a Metaphor:
http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-the-Concept-of-a-Metaphor
So, if you support what hussien obama, the progessives, and RINO's are doing with this "amnesty", then you support human trafficking.
Wikipedia:
Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or prioritize information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
BJ, there are days that you are every bit as much of a "Fact Denier" as any other Fox News extremist on these pages....some days you show a little more level headedness, ....meds out of balance?
If you want to dispute the facts, give us something more than your opinion, BJ.
Wikipedia is quoting what United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview with the BBC in September 2004.
Can you prove he did not say this?
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As a solder you are surely aware of the importance of teamwork to the success of your collective mission, right? Working together and teamwork is the "American Way", ain't it!
That mission would fail if half your teammates were working against you, and trying to sabotage you, and doing everything they can to make you fail, right?
Think about about that! If you are going to make a president fail, you have to make the country fail -- sabotage the country for their own selfish political gains at the expense of everyone else!
Sabotage: The Story Behind The Republican Party's "Top Political Priority"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8a_msdw9VQ
The last six plus years of the republican stonewall of obstruction and sabotage should be considered treasonous!
But WTF, all is fair in the “Game of Thrones”, ain't it! Nothing in this life is more important than which party is in control of the government. Peoples lives, futures, livelihoods, health, and dreams are all just collateral damage and acceptable losses in the "Game of Thrones" for the control of 'our' government.
Lack of a U.N. mandate....
"United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview with the BBC in September 2004, "From our point of view and from the Charter point of view [the war] was illegal".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
Most of the world did not support the war based on LIES!
Twenty Lies About the Iraq War
http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-lies-about-the-iraq-war/5327386
Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08)
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline
,that someday they too will be rich. suckers sitting in your single wide, with fox blaring . snarky, sanctimonious, fools.
Why is he even at the big peoples table (sorry for the turkey day analogy) but heavens to be that young without even a tacit original thought. Oh and the Missourian won't print this, don't want the little tyke crying.
George W. Bush issued 161 signing statements affecting over 1,100 provisions of law in 160 Congressional enactments.
Those statements were direct declarations of his intention to ignore or actively violate those laws.
I must have missed Mr Lowrey's outraged reaction to such illegal acts. I'm sure he called -loudly- for immediate impeachment.