◼ Glenn Beck on Thursday warned that President Barack Obama will make himself an “emperor” if he takes executive action on immigration. And Beck said those aren’t his words — they’re the president’s. - The Blaze
President Obama was asked in February of 2013 why he had not yet taken action to stop the deportation of illegals, and he responded: “I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.”
But after years of saying it would violate America’s laws for him to act unilaterally, President Obama will deliver a speech Thursday night in which he is expected to announce he is doing just that.
◼ “History will treat him unkindly on this if he thinks he can become king.” Sen. Rand Paul charged that President Obama has “absolutely no right” to act alone on illegal immigration. - One The Record/FOX
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) went “On The Record” tonight, where he charged that President Barack Obama has “absolutely no right” to act alone on illegal immigration.◼ Obama: I’m Not Acting Like An Emperor – WaPo Fact Checker: Yes, You Are… - Weasel Zippers
Paul noted that Obama has said 22 times before that he doesn’t have the power to legislate on his own in terms of illegal immigration.
“The president can’t do this, this goes against the fundamental separation of powers that we have in our country,” he said.
Paul urged the House to pass a resolution saying that what Obama is doing is contrary to the will of the House.
◼ Obama prepares to throw down the gauntlet - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
For months Obama has been saying, “I’m gonna do it, I’m really gonna do it—unless of course you give me what I want.” He even told us the timing; it would be after the election.◼ Sorry, liberals: Reagan and Bush 41 did not defy Congress with executive amnesty - Herman Cain
In doing so, he will be keeping a promise to his radical base (Hispanic and otherwise), issuing a threat to the Republicans in Congress, and thumbing his nose at the American voters who expressed disapproval of him on November 4. You don’t get a trifecta like that every day from a president.
I just wrote that what Obama is about to do constitutes a threat to Republicans in Congress. But actually, it’s a threat to Congress itself. Democrats should be just as disturbed as Republicans by it, because it’s not the ends that are as important here as the very dangerous means. But if you’ve listened to a great many Democrats talk about it, you’d think ends are all they care about—and you might just be correct for most of them.
They've been all over that argument the last couple of days with Obama's soon-to-be-announced executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, claiming that both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did the exact same thing. This argument is just clever enough that people who don't really understand the issue or don't really know the history might buy it.◼ Obama Deports American Jobs - Daniel Greenfield/Front Page
But when you really look into it, as Hans von Spakovsky did today for the Daily Signal, you'll find that the liberals' claim here is a complete load of crap... KEEP READING
Obama’s excuse for his illegal amnesty will be that the immigration system is “broken” forcing him to act. But when Obama says that the system is broken, he means that some parts of it still work and so he intends to break immigration all the way through to benefit his own corrupt political allies.
That will hurt his own voters the most, but the Democratic Party has a notoriously masochistic relationship with its voting base. It beats them up and then it gaslights them by hugging them and telling them that it was really the mean Republicans who punched them in the face.
