Obama's Immigration Overreach Isolates Him

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Just what happened last week on Election Day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary with judges who share his contempt for the U.S. Constitution.

Such judges — perhaps including Supreme Court justices — would have been confirmed by Senate Democrats, and could spend the rest of their lifetime appointments ruling in favor of expansions of federal government power that would make the freedom of "we the people" only a distant memory and a painful mockery.

We dodged that bullet. But what about the rest of Barack Obama's term?

Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past. Despite the Republican sweep of elections across the country last week, President Obama has issued an ultimatum to Congress, to either pass the kind of immigration law he wants before the end of this year or he will issue executive orders changing the country's immigration laws unilaterally.

Does that sound like a lame duck president? On the contrary, it sounds more like some banana republic's dictator. Nor is Obama making an idle bluff. He has already changed other laws unilaterally, including the work requirement in welfare reform laws passed during the Clinton administration.

The very idea of Congress rushing a bill into law in less than two months, on a subject as complex, and with such irreversible long-run consequences as immigration, is staggering. But there is already a precedent for such hasty action, without congressional hearings to bring out facts or air different views. That is how Obamacare was passed. And we see how that has turned out.

People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama's competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do.

When Obama made a brief public statement about Americans being beheaded by terrorists, and then went on out to play golf, that was seen as a sign of political ineptness, rather than a stark revelation of what kind of man he is, underneath the smooth image and lofty rhetoric.

The president's refusal to protect the American people by quarantining people coming from Ebola-infected areas — as was done by Britain and a number of African nations — is by no means a sign of incompetence. It is a sacrifice of Americans' interests for the sake of other people's interests, as is an assisted invasion of illegal immigrants across our southern borders.

Such actions are perfectly consistent with Obama's citizen of the world vision that has led to such statements of his in 2008, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that every other country's going to say OK."

In a similar vein, Obama said, "We consume more than 20 percent of the world's oil but have less than 2 percent of the world's oil reserves." In short, Americans are undeservedly prosperous and selfishly consuming a disproportionate share of the world's output — at least in the vision of Barack Obama.

That Americans are producing a disproportionate share of what is called "the world's output" and consuming what we produce — while paying for our imports — is not allowed to disturb Obama's vision.

Resentment of the prosperous, whether at home or on the world stage, runs through virtually everything Barack Obama has said and done throughout his life. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues. You have to shut your eyes tightly to keep from seeing them everywhere — in every phase of his life.

The big question is whether the other branches of government — Congress and the Supreme Court — can stop him from doing irreparable damage to America in his last two years. Seeing Obama as an incompetent and weak, lame duck president only makes that task harder.


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[DavenRoxy 1,073]

I suspect Obama will try some more "executive authority" BS before long. Only time will tell if he is allowed to go unchecked or not.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

I suspect Obama will try some more "executive authority" BS before long. Only time will tell if he is allowed to go unchecked or not.

Of course he's going to do that. It should not be a surprise to anyone. We can only hope the lawmakers and lawyers on the hill have a nuclear plan in place to stop it.

[Merle 458]

Janelle, are you sure your account wasn't hacked?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Janelle, are you sure your account wasn't hacked?

It affects her personally that overrides all that hope the world has for us electing a black Preznitz

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

All that has to happen is for Boehner to bring the bi-partisan immigration reform bill that passed the Senate over 500 days ago up for a vote in the House. It will pass with bipartisan support and the President will sign it. Done. But Boehner won't do that even though Americans are hugely in favor of the immigration reform that passed with bi-partisan support in the Senate. Of course, Republicans have never given much of a damn about what Americans want.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

It affects her personally that overrides all that hope the world has for us electing a black Preznitz

If you insist I voted for him because he is black.

Janelle, are you sure your account wasn't hacked?

Not hacked. I like to see people fight over articles like chickens for seeds. lol

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

If you insist I voted for him because he is black.

i never said that. Show me where I said that. Prove it

[Janelle2002 3,865]

i never said that. Show me where I said that. Prove it

I am part of the world unless I'm an alien.

[UncleBeer 244]

Janelle, are you sure your account wasn't hacked?