After having spent the last 6 years, more than that really, listening to this guy’s endless stream of political bullshit, there was just no way on ‘God’s Green Earth’ that I was going to be able to listen to how it is that he plans, yet again to violate the very Constitution which he swore to preserve, protect and defend, and how he feels quite justified in doing so. So rather than listen to Barry outline how he will go about doing that which he himself has said more than 20 times he does not have the power to do, I have decided that I will rely on those whose job it is to listen to such drivel and form my opinion based on that.
And after hearing what it is that Barry intends upon doing it would seem to me that it’s his "own words" that would serve as being "the best possible weapon" to be used in the effort to combat Barry’s sweeping, and blatantly unconstitutional, executive orders to shield from deportation nearly 5 million of those who insist upon remaining in this country illegally. The voters must be constantly reminded of the over two dozen incidents in which we all heard Barry himself declare that he lacked the legal authority to rescind the deportation of those in this country illegally. And yet even with all that he felt confident enough in the stupidity of the American people to do it.
And it was Mr. John Fund of the ‘American Spectator’ who made that point very clear in a recent interview on the topic. He said, "His own legal advisers and the president in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 said over and over again he does not have the power to do this. He does not have the power to rewrite the basis on which people would be allowed to stay in this country, which is far beyond prosecutorial discretion." To which he added, "And suddenly in 2014, after five or six years of saying he didn't have the power, he suddenly has the power. How believable is that?" With two years remaining, Barry simply no longer cares if we believe him or not.
But Mr. Fund also made it very clear that the Republicans are going to need to tread rather cautiously when it comes to deciding how best to respond to Barry’s actions. He said, "We have to take a deep breath and not take automatically the bait that Barack Obama has put out." And he went on to say, "Remember, part of the reason Barack Obama is doing this is he wants Republicans to hyperventilate, he wants Republicans to overreact, he wants Republicans to say ugly things that Hispanic Americans will take offense to." And I agree, but while we must be cautious, Republicans must demonstrate their resolve in a very meaningful way.
Mr. Fund charged that the White House has turned a deaf ear to reason — and is only concerned about political expediency. And with that I wholeheartedly agree. He said, "I talked to somebody who had a meeting with the top adviser at the White House just last week and they asked them, 'You know the courts are probably going to throw this out, and even if they don't throw it out, the next president, if it's a Republican, can rescind it on Jan. 20, 2017.' Mr. Fund related, "And the White House adviser's response was, 'We don't care.'" And it’s that statement right there that should make it very apparent the true purpose behind this act.
"It is a mistake to view this as a policy measure," he said. "This is a political measure. This is a political measure to try to pander to 5 million people who they potentially think will become new citizens soon and they will supposedly have all kinds of gratitude to Obama for taking them out of the shadows, and it's a political move in that he's trying to get the Republicans to overreact, to distract attention from other issues." Fund said the bottom line is "we have to oppose Obama." He said, "Of course we have to pursue this in the court, but the court timeline is much different than the political timeline. It doesn't yield results or satisfaction as quickly as we would like."
So I think we can safely say that the ‘immigration’ ball has been firmly planted in the court of our illustrious Republicans. And I suppose if we were living in a perfect world we would have seen our Republican leaders taking to television immediately after Barry’s declaration, much like after a ‘State of the Union’, to outline exactly why it is that they are so opposed to Barry’s plan and to present, at least in some brief form, a plan of their own. But, sadly, we do not reside in a prefect world. What seemed to be much higher on their list of priorities was the getting out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday. Not a very good sign of things to come, I’m afraid.
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