17 June 12
ow this is more like it, and not merely because it is making the usual suspects squeal.
In a Twitter post, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina said the decision "avoids dealing with Congress and the
American people instead of fixing a broken immigration system once and
for all... This is a classic Barack Obama move of choosing politics over
leadership," Graham's tweet said.
You know what, Huckleberry? Tough. You and your party
have demagogued this issue to the point where, in the last presidential
campaign, John McCain had to disavow his own immigration bill. Who in
the hell is the president supposed to lead?
This guy?
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith,
R-Texas, called the change a "decision to grant amnesty to potentially
millions of illegal immigrants... Many illegal immigrants will falsely
claim they came here as children and the federal government has no way
to check whether their claims are true," Smith said in a statement. "And
once these illegal immigrants are granted deferred action, they can
then apply for a work permit, which the administration routinely grants
90% of the time."
"I will tell you that - I'm not without experience on this - I'm prepared to bring a suit and seek a court order to stop implementation of this policy," King said.
And somebody stole the strawberries, too.
Steve King is the leader of your party on this issue, Huckleberry. Live with it.
It has the added benefit of being a decent policy
move, too, considering it was the only one that the Republican banana
factory in the Congress left to him. The president is simply acting as
the head of the Executive Branch - the same principle under which John
Yoo once assured us would allow C-Plus Augustus to crush a child's
testicles if he saw the need to do so. What he has done is excise the
specter of existential dread from the lives of 800,000 young people,
most of whom (presumably) will be electorally grateful. That's enough
alone for cynical bastids like me. But it's also a brave and decent
thing to do, which seems to have occurred to (among others) Senator
Marco Rubio, who'd like to have a political future after he hits 45, and
who probably looks at a party speaking through Steve King on
immigration and sees that evaporating before his eyes...
"There is broad support for the idea that we should
figure out a way to help kids who are undocumented through no fault of
their own, but there is also broad consensus that it should be done in a
way that does not encourage illegal immigration in the future," he
said. "This is a difficult balance to strike, one that this new policy,
imposed by executive order, will make harder to achieve in the long
run."
Only if your party continues to pander to the flock of
loons, senator. You know what's happening here. The Stupid ice had to
be cracked on this issue, and the president's done that. Ball's in your
court now.
1 comment:
It may be news to this writer that the President is not the "leader" of the Congress - they are distinct and co-equal branches of government, each with their assigned duties, responsibilities, and powers. As Obama stated, less than two years ago, there are laws on the books that the President has to follow and he is not allowed to just make new laws or ignore existing laws. His action, last Friday, is in direct contradiction to his own speech, but also violates the Constitution as he does not have the legal power to grant this immigration change.
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