A Nation of Paper, Not of Men
As John Yoo observes, there is no conceivable argument that the federal immigration laws are constitutionally suspect. Obama simply rejects them as a matter of policy preference. That itself is a blatant violation of his constitutional oath.
Lest we forget, the president of the United States is the only federal official required by the Constitution to swear, as a condition precedent to assuming the vast powers of his office, that he will “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and … to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Nor ought we forget that every nominee to the Supreme Court and the office of attorney general is grilled by the Senate regarding his or her willingness to abide by and enforce those laws and precedents with which he or she, on policy grounds, disagrees. It is a bedrock principle that once the people’s representatives enact a law to which there is no plausible constitutional objection, government officials must honor that law — regardless of their personal views about it — unless and until it is repealed or amended through the process prescribed by the Constitution.
Nor can prosecutorial discretion remotely justify Obama’s gambit. Resources are finite. Practicality demands — and the law acknowledges — that good-faith judgments must be made by the Justice Department and other Executive Branch agencies regarding which violations of law are a priority to address and which may go unaddressed. President Obama, however, is not saying the Executive Branch lacks the resources to enforce the immigration laws. He is proclaiming that he chooses not to enforce them.
Moreover, he is not simply refraining from law enforcement. He is affirmatively obstructing the states from enforcing their sovereign right to police their territories. He furthermore proposes to confer positive benefits on a class of illegal aliens in order to legitimize their status, something it is in the power only of Congress to do and something which Congress — having considered the matter carefully, and having heard the objections of the American people — has specifically declined to do.
This is another instance of Obama’s brazen lack of regard for the system he is duty-bound to honor: He claims he cannot sit back and wait for Congress to act; but as he well knows, lawmakers have acted: They said “no.”
Well, his meaning is very clear.
He considers our laws — and our Constitution — “ONLY PAPER!”
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Well, his meaning is very clear.
He considers our laws — and our Constitution — “ONLY TOILET PAPER!”
Fixed that for ya…..
Obama sees America’s citizenry the same way – as toilet paper to be used and disposed of, and then replaced by something more compliant to the whims of his handlers.
Obama’s Dream Act is a nightmare for America
if we deport obama,he knows many military secrets,of the usa.what else can we do to legally stop him from destroying america.he wants socialist illegal mexicans to have more voting power,to b able to outnumber republican voters.i would deport the traitor,but it seems something more drastic must b done,lifetime n prison for obama,for crimes against america.i vote put obama n prison for life,so he cant share american secrets.im ex us marines,i defended the usa constitution,obama now attacks,pollutes he desecrates and shits,on the constitution many americans died to defend.arrest the sorry president for treason,life n prison
everyone blog citizens arrest obama for treason against the constitution.
“Obama is not merely failing to enforce the immigration laws. He is destroying the system on which our liberty depends, a system he swore to safeguard.”
Therein lies the rub. While many are interpreting Friday’s “shamnesty” announcement (credit: cfbleachers) as desirable because it creates a stop-gap option for illegals. Personally, I was appalled for the very reasons you cite.
Obama is defining himself as simultaneously above the law and the definer of law. A truly dangerous precedent, at best.
The fact that the speeches and press releases included the phrase “we are a nation of laws” signaled clearly their intent to violate the law. In this regard, at least, the Obama presidency is the most transparent in history.
Finally, yes: “We are entitled to conclude Obama defrauded the American people in taking his oath of office.”
Like his mentor Jeremiah Wright, Obama appears to have a genuine hatred for America and its long established values. We knew this before he was elected president. All we had to do was take a good look at Wright, Bill Ayers, the folks at ACORN and other clear evidence that Obama was itching for the opportunity to “transform” the country into something that would pay back those with values he did not like. We got what we voted for. The question is are we going to let him continue the destruction of the USA?
Obama has been a liar from the get-go.
How much more damage to America are Obama and his army of vandals to do before protective action is taken?
Obama did warn us of his intention during the presidential campaign when he and his faithful spouse told us they “were ashamed of America” and planned to transform, to change her. ELECTED with his army of transgresssors by the most political privileged citizens in the world to do just that. So bored were they with their privileges and affluence they wanted Change.Obama did not of course specify his intention to Change America “by hook or by crook”.
And he is reported to have said further that the CONSTITUTION, to which he took oath to uphold in full view of the world before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this USA, is “defective”, Enabling him thus his abrogations, again and again of that “defective” instrument. His first untrustworthy act in Sealing evidence of his provenance from the citizens.
Pre-eminent law officer, model of respect for and adherence to that Law.
During his tenured blitzkrieg through the foundation and substance of the Constitutional Republic of the USA, the guardians of the LAW in Congress and Judiciary either sit on their hands or bend the knee, bow the head, applaud
this Obama and enact as law his depredations of that fundamental law on which ALL other laws, federal and state, are justified.
There is increasingly information in tbe public domain despite attempts by his enablers to keep it entirely from airing, or to dismissing it as irrelevant nonsense to the real possiblity that Obama has been corruptly insinuated into the presidency.
Information that requires emergency examination by authoritative and trustworthy agencies to its veracity. If proven trustworthy then immediate
removal of Obama with whatever penalties appropriate in this “Country of Law” the USA. NB: Country of Law NOT Country of lawyers.
Obama and his supporters depend on the world shattering events such a move would have to allow them further damage to their hated America and her citizens.
The Constitutional Republic of the USA is in the cross-hairs. Do Americans care?
everyone blog citizens arrest obama for treason against the constitution
77 years ago another “executive” in central Europe dictated arbitrary, non-constitutional changes to a country’s citizenship laws.
Therefore, Obama committed purgery when he took the Oath of Office. Purgery may be considered a “High Crime or Misdemeanor” for which he is eligible for Impeachment. So let the process begin!
So, is it safe to assume that you were also calling for the impeachment of GWB when he blatantly lied about the possession of weapons of mass destruction as one of the reasons to invade Iraq?
GWB didn’t lie about possession of WMDs. The US had them and has them still. Most of the Western world’s intelligence agencies believed Saddam Hussein also possessed the makings of WMDs. If you review the record, the top Democrats also publicly stated their belief that Hussein had them. So was everyone involved lying, or just GWB?
So I suppose you support Obama? Sorry about your delusional world, remember to vote on Wednesday 7 for your candidate of choice this year!
“… GWB … blatantly lied about the possession of weapons of mass destruction as one of the reasons to invade Iraq…”
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No, he genuinely believed it — as did the CIA, British intelligence, French intelligence, Israeli intelligence, German intelligence, and every other intelligence agency that weighed in. How were they so sure? Because Saddam Hussein had USED WMDs in the past — against his own people. Given that, how could any rational person believe he DIDN’T have them?
And, to set the record straight, it was the UN’s decision to invade Iraq. Not Dubbya’s.
Sorry,Beanito…but that dog won’t hunt…every intelligence service in the world thought Saddam was working on WMD’s…but of course,YOU knew all along he was just kidding about that,didn’t you?
Benito, I have a neighbor who also says that Bush lied. And though I have searched and searched, I cannot find the lies. So help me out here and give me a cite or a link or any kind of reference to the text in which I can find those Bush lies. Pretty Please?
Were that his only reason, perhaps, but Gen. Powell outlined seventeen others. If Syria falls, we will find the WMD. Is it possible that is why Obama is not aiding the Syrians as he did the Libyans?
I have maintained for years that we didn’t find WMDs in Iraq because Saddam had shipped them to Syria before we invaded. I still think so. I suspect that once we leave Iraq completely, at least some of those weapons will find their way back there via some sort of “defense” agreement between the two nations.
Making an error of assumption is not an impeachable offence. Failing to uphold the Constitution is. Is that all you got? Pathetic.
You sniveling adolescent. Stick to the subject.
It is conjectural whether Obama perjured himself upon swearing the oath of office. Maybe he did, but I don’t know how one proves that. But if the present instance, as elucidated by Mr. McCarthy, does not constitute a “high crime,” then what would?
Even so, the oathbreaker is forsworn. Is the violation of an oath an offense rising to the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors”? Or, if not, if the taking of an oath has no meaning, and cannot be enforced, what good is it?
everyone blog citizens arrest obama for treason against the usa constitution by communist obama
Perhaps when he swore to ‘protect and defend’, he heard ‘object and suspend’.
everyone blog,for citizens arrest obama for treason against usa constitution
Obama’s basic problem is that regardless he was paid to lecture on the ZConstitution, he doesn’t understand or approve of it.
He thinks the president is a ruler, but the USA hsa no ruler. Instead, the president is an executive, an administrator, respoinsible for implementing laws passed by Congress.
everyone please blog citizens arrest obama for crimes against the constitution
Two words: Signing statements.
Where were you when Bush was doing the exact same thing as Obama?
Please give an actual example of a law President Bush refused to enforce and did not enforce in fact. It’s one thing to state disagreement with a law over its constitutionality or even policy wisdom. It’s another to refuse to comply with it.
Ditto Jim. It’s impossible to agree or disagree with you until you give specifics.
Another request for specifics.
If you want to go there, Obama repudiated Bush’s signing statements as an attempt to accumulate more power. He said he’d stick to vetoes and signatures because presidents shouldn’t pick and choose which parts of the law they’d enforce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAR1S1Mjkc
Those signing statements regarded laws the President considered encroaching on his Constitutional power as Commander-in-Chief.
This is quite different than president Obama handing out work permits to illegal aliens in direct contravention of the law.
One involved a legal disagreement. The other involves a political disagreement whereby Obama has told Congress he is acting without their authority.
You are both right and wrong. POTUS has the authority to issue ‘findings’. So long as those ‘findings’ do not step on the rights of congress. That is where 0bama went wrong and Bush didn’t.
Congress cannot do anything about it because (D)’s control the Senate. The right needs to not make a big issue out of this, they need to focus on defeating 0bama. Do that and the ‘finding’ become history.
Having stated very very clearly that this President is violating his oath of office, what is the redress that one citizen can proclaim? Why is not our Congress pushing back and stopping his march to make The Consitution obsolete?!
No “hangy downies”.
The only redress any of us as ordinary citizens have is our vote this November. Don’t waste yours and I won’t waste mine, either.
This close to the election, don’t expect Congress to say or do much about Obama or even Holder. Now, those Republican super PACs might well have something to say on the issue before the election.
No one seems to have focused on the fact that the “conditions” for amnesty established by Obama’s royal fiat have no limits. Each condition can involve other waivers should the subordinate royal bureaucrat deem it fair.
The Fort Worth paper this AM had a story about the poor, poor illegal aliens you had been deported three months ago. Fairness cries out that, no matter what the Lord’s deadline, these law breakers deserve work permits, food stamps, federal ballots and a free ride “home.”
The ACORN community organizers who will be paid with federal funds to administer this amnesty program will be charged with maintaining fairness at all times. Some documents will not be available, of course, some time sequences may be a little off and some run ins with the law will have to be overlooked, all in the name of fairness.
And what about these person’s Granmas and Granpas, who require free social security and free medicaid and section 8 housing, and everything else that most Americans can’t get.
Once they have one family member here legally, we’re screwed.
We need a coup. Right now.
While there’s still time.
Part of the problem with much immigration regulation is that much of it is not “law” per se, rather it is regulation and as such enforcement is subject to the whims of the Executive. If this administrative change such a grave crime, where are the calls in Congress for impeachment?
All I know is that we just offered 800,000 AMERICAN jobs to the illegals youth.
WHAT ABOUT OUR OWN BLACK YOUTH THAT HAVE 50% UNEMPLOYMENT? WHAT ABOUT THEM?
The Black community should be very angry. Will they speak out against it? No, not the so called “Black Leaders”, they work very hard to keep the Black population on the Democratic plantation.
One slight correction Vickie, we did not offer illegals anything. Obama did!
What about our own black youth indeed? Obama doesn’t need to worry about them. Who else are they gonna vote for?
The Democrat Plantation has truly been disastrous for minorities. Fewer than 50% graduate high school, 2/3′s of them in single parent homes, and now unemployment at the 50% for black youths. Young, dumb and poor. Perfect Democrat voters.
The Blamer and Chief at his best…doing whatever is needed to buy votes despite law or what is good for America. Saddest POTUS ever which pleases peanut farmer in GA.
I think the question here is whether Obama’s actions are an impeachable offense. He can’t be impeached for holding an opinion, but if he violates the Constitution, isn’t that a high crime and misdemeanor?
Given that he is blatantly refusing to uphold his Oath of Office, can he be charged with “breach of promise” for violating the contract? What about “fraud” charges? I’m not a lawyer but I know we have some regulars who are….
Harry Reid’s Senate will not convict Obama for anything, ever. Reid holds the key to what Obama can and cannot do.
Exactly. The people will have to impeach him in Nov along with Dem majority. How do we reach the voters that are affected by this travesty? That is the question.
The big question for me in all of this is who is screening all of these people once they DO get amnesty? Obama and the Democrats make it sound as if the only immigrants we’re talking about here are Mexicans or hispanics. Newsflash to Obama: Lots of these immigrants are from Middle Eastern countries, countries that have a lot of people in them that hate America, like Pakistan. Illegal aliens from Middle Eastern countries, whether they are from Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, or an unstable country like Somalia, could be a potential threat to us and the ages between 16 and 30 are prime ages for jihadists. More important, terrorist organizations like al Qaeda look for people who were born and raised here in the United States so that they could join sleeper cells in this country. This has happened in the past and now we’re giving these terrorist organizations a huge new pool of recruits to choose from. One only has to look at all of the young Somalis raised in this country to see how many have gone back to Somalia to train as jihadists. This is a horrible breach of security and I’m surprised more people have not made a bigger deal out of it. Stop focusing on the economic impact this decision may have on this country and start thinking about whether or not our security will be endangered by it.
The question is no longer whether this president is in violation of the Constitution with his string of “Executive Orders” that ignore laws duly passed by the people’s representatives in Congress.
The question no longer is whether this president is willing to take whatever step is necessary, regardless of how corrupt that step might be, to win another four-year stranglehold on the American people.
The question is: what are we going to do about it?
Should Congress take the matter before the Federal Courts, and ultimately land before the Supreme Court, a ruling will be delayed by at least two years. By then, Obama could well be reelected and midway through his second term — time enough to transform the Court’s makeup with the selection of one or more “liberal” justices.
Short of a second armed American revolution, the only way to remove this embarrassment to the presidency is through the ballot box – exactly as provided by the very Constitution he treats as a mere speed-bump in the fast-lane to serfdom.
This is why the November election will be the most important political event of our lives. Those of you who still have a problem with Romney…those of you who love liberty yet are planning to vote for a third party…those of you who are so disgusted with the choices in this election you plan to sit it out…all I can say is that you really do need to get over it. You need to vote GOP.
Your nation, your family, your future, depend on you. We must stop this man! Now is the time to come to the aid of your country. Now is the time to man up and do your duty. If we fail, then mankind’s best hope will become a distant memory. just another failed civilization buried under the sands of time.
Amen brother. If this disaster is not voted out Congress must impeach.
Will the real Dave Smith please sign in…. This split personality stuff makes it difficult to respond. Or do you just like to read your comments?
Blotto: To paraphrase the man who transformed me from a democrat to a conservative…”There you go again…”
Thank you for pointing this out. The Executive branch is giving the finger to its Constitutional requirement to enforce the laws that are created by the legislative branch. We all await the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare, yet what will anyone do–Congress, the judiciary, the press, the people–when Obama simply chooses to ignore the Supreme Court and continues enforcing Obamacare?
“We all await the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare, yet what will anyone do–Congress, the judiciary, the press, the people–when Obama simply chooses to ignore the Supreme Court and continues enforcing Obamacare?”
As far as the press goes (at least the MSM portion of it), that’s easy: they will enthusiastically support Obama in anything he does, no matter how unconstitutional. They love everything about him and what he does and only regret that he doesn’t go even further. If you’re hoping they’ll stop his end-run around the Constitution, you’re dreaming in Technicolor.
The constitution is only a document that stands in the way of dictators. Oh, how they wish it would go away and let them do as they please. And they are working on it.
Hmm, looks like the description of tyranny on the one hand and a feckless ruling class on the other: wasn’t there some necessary and sufficient conditions listed in the Declaration of Independence authorizing legitimate rebellion?
“faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and … to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” [Emphasis added]
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the reason that Obama is not enforcing the Constitution: he isn’t capable of it. It’s too hard. He wasn’t qualified for this job as countless people have noted at PJM. The oath of office even gives him an “out”, he can simply – and HONESTLY – state that he didn’t uphold the Constitution because he wasn’t capable of doing so, despite his much vaunted intellectual prowess.
Wow, wouldn’t that make one heck of a campaign point for Romney to make?
When the spineless and gutless Congress will wake up and fight Zero to regain it’s constitutional authority. And impeach, impeach, impeach!!
What a fool American public has been to elect Zero and it is still in “love” with him to elect him again!! If the public can’t see through him even after three years of his shenanigans who can help them!!
I think the American left really does approve of ignoring the Constitution and the law in the name of “doing the right thing.” They have an entire grocery list of “right things” they’d like to do, but they’re always frustrated by obstacles like the Constitution, the law, separation of powers, legal precedent, the rules by which Congress conducts its business, and (of course) people and parties whose beliefs differ from theirs. I believe they really, really want a “heroic” chief executive who darers to ignore all that old-fashioned nonsense and “do the right thing,” damn the consequences. They know that’s the only way they’ll ever completely get their way. A “good” El Jefe, like Obama, is exactly what they need to usher in Utopia.
The ONLY thing really standing between what the marxist progs want to do and traditional America are the Second Amendment and 15 million legal gun owners. That is why the left has tried for years to take that right away from us.
God Bless the founders who knew this moment would happen no matter their efforts to protect America and her citizens.
It’s too late: Hispanics are already considered a lobby one must not offend, even if offending means upholding the law. No politician dares say all illegals must go.
Is it an outrage? Of course it is. Is it new? Not even close.
Everyday in this country the same folks who swore to protect and defend the Constitution allow states and municipalities to ignore the 2nd amendment.
Everyday folks who took that pledge arrest people for ingesting “prohibited” substances. Remember the “first” prohibition? It required Constitutional amendments to start and to end, but today, if it’s popular, what the hell, let’s just do it.
O is a panderer, so is “Let’s arm all the Muzi rebels” McCain, so to will Romney be. Because most people in this country want to pick and choose the parts of the Constitution that matter and ignore the rest.
So, He flaunts the law.
Question is:
What is (whomever) going to do about it?
Right now, we are just encouraging him
Thank you for telling it like it is.
Obama and all other Progressives do not believe in representation.
They believe in a world where THEY decide what the rules will be, they decide which laws will be applied to whom and under what circumstances.
It is anti-American and corrupt to it’s core.
If this passes on without consequence, America as we’ve known it is finished.
You have no chance any more GRINGOS. None at all. Your empty strutting peacock, your el Presidente appoints the head of the IRS and is the commander of your armed forces and I now own him. I had to pay him muchos dolares as he is very greedy man and does not seem to think that he can ever have too much money. You are now tostada quemada. What on Earth were you thinking when you elected a traidor as your el Presidente? Were you all completely drunk? Way too much Tequila on election day? Oh well, your loss, my gain.
Once we get our amnesty, we will all come to your country. We will all have at least 10 ninos with mucho tax credits from you Gringo smucks and in a generation or two we will overwhelm and deport most of you Gringos! We will start with Arizona after your el Presidente moves federal troops there to arrest their governor and Joe Arpaio and hand the deed over to us and then we will move rapido from there all across the rest of your 57 states to take them over too. Some of you, if you learn Spanish real well, we might let you stay to pick our lettuce or mow our lawns or take care of OUR children in what used to be your houses. Those who don’t learn Spanish will be deported to Alaska. That is until Al Gore’s global warming heats things up and we want Alaska too, then we will deport you all to New Orleans. It will probably all be under water by then anyway.
So give it up and LEARN SPANISH! You should probably all buy Mexican flags too and fly them in your front yard and on your pickup trucks. If you already have an American flag there it is alright if you keep it, as long as you fly it upside down and below our great Mexican flag. Now repeat after me – I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Estados Unidos del Mucho Grande Mexico, and to the Republic for which it use to stand, one nation under me, with everything for us, and nothing anymore for you except to pay mucho mucho mucho more taxes for our tax credits. And remember Gringos, APRENDER EL ESPANOL!!!
When, “policy change”,(and thats what they are calling it),violates “black letter law”,the policy change should loose out.
See and experience the Third World
Without having to leave home
(Reelect Barack Obama in 2012)
While I don’t disagree with the article, I don’t think Obama intends to grant amnesty or waivers to illegals. What he wants is to either get Romney to reject amnesty, and stand for the rule of law, or to join McGramnesty and Rubio on the DREAM act.
Obama thinks he’s got Romney boxed in – support amnesty and lose the election because Conservatives despise McGramnesty, or reject amnesty and people who would never vote for you won’t vote for you. It will be interesting to see if the Bushists can persuade Romney to go all in on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and lose the election. Undoubtedly, we’ll soon see articles urging “compassion” from the Establishment hacks.
I didn’t vote for Obama, but I thought he was a basically good person, and hoped for the best. Now I’ve completely changed my mind. This is like a bad wreck, a nightmare that is only going to get worse. I believe Obama is deliberately false, a deliberate liar bent on bringing this country to its knees, transferring power and wealth to himself, his cronies, his own kind, while deliberately beggaring the rest of us. I believe he and the people he has put in government represent a dire threat to our national security, and can’t understand how he has managed to get away with so much. For all that we know about, I am sure that there is much more going on behind the scenes that we will only find out about when it is too late. If November is the only way to get him out of office, so be it. But he doesn’t deserve it. He should be marched out in handcuffs and thoroughly investigated, along with Holder and all the rest, if you ask me.
Vote wisely on Nov 6, folks.
Countless lives and blood has been shed defending our constitutional freedoms. Obama is a digrace and must be led out of the white house in shackles for treason. Our fathers and uncles who gave their lives must be honored.
Really, seriously, you are “shocked, shocked” that President Obama is using executive orders to get things done? I was shocked when Bush, Cheney and John Yoo shredded the Constitution with a complicit Congress. Presidents have the power to do a lot of important things. Obama is simply exercising power in the vacuum of the worst obstructionist Congress in history. Nixon used the Constitution as toilet paper, and Bush waged a war of aggression against a sovereign nation. Believe me, those of us who voted for him want more, not less, of this.
JL: Please such boilerplate drivel we’ve heard before. Get some new talking points or at least update those you have with some facts… Thanks for playing.
“Nixon used the Constitution as toilet paper, and Bush waged a war of aggression against a sovereign nation.
Believe me, those of us who voted for him want more, not less, of this.”
My Gawd, you are a truly devolved Dementocrat
Please go live in Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, or some other country that makes no bones about having a dictator for leader. In this country, it’s supposed to be “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, according to the Constitution and the Law. People like you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Only adolescents change the subject when they have no argument to make on the subject. Why don’t you focus on popping your pimples and leave the discussion to those of us who care whether the constitution lives?
The war against Iraq was completely legal, for those of you with faulty memory here is a very brief reminder. After the 1st Gulf War, Iraq signed a treaty allowinf UN inspections. Sadam Hussain then refused to abide by his agreement. At that time, the US had legal athority to invade, it really is that simple! Just stopthe GWB bashing, he is a patriot and greatly respected our constitution. If Americans finally wake up, O will be defeated, and a massive investigation must begin regarding all the abuse of power. Personally, I want all of his (college, social security number etc…)records supeoned by the new congress. There is a reason millions have been spent in legal fees to keep those records sealed. If he is inellegible to serve, all signed laws must be rescinded and treason trial must commence.
So as of last Friday or actually when the Senate decided to use the reconciliation rule to cram Obamacare act or ACA or whatever it is called, the United States is now a nation ruled by laws by men instead of a nation ruled by laws passed by the Representatives we sent to Congress.
So with Obama’s unconstitutional EO left unchallenged by the Congress we now have a dictator that will enforce or not enforce any law they wish at will, yep we gotta a dictator, or King or Emperor…wasn’t this nation and the Constitution created to get away from a King?
You can stop it in November by voting him out of office I will be participating so should you and all who agree with this post!
Clearly this man should be impeached.
When is the POTUS going to pivot to Barry Davis?
Why do we bother with Oaths? Since duelling was made illegal, what has risen to replace it regarding enforcement of oaths?
Abso-friggin-lutely NOTHING! Therefore, we need to either begin to enforce oath-breaking, or just shut the hell up about it, and stop administering these fake oaths.
Perjury will send you to jail, unless you’re a Democrat, but oaths? Oaths?
Don’t even make me laugh!
They are just one more occasion of politicians to lie, once again, to your face, while silently laughing, “what ya gonna do about it?”.
Prosecute them, let me shoot them at dawn, or just shut up!
The US Constitution requires these oaths of office.
That said, the US Constitution is not a self-enforcing document. It has no meaning unless we give it some teeth.
Wow. Just, wow! This article expresses exactly what I have been feeling, but beyond my ability to express it. I wish every person I knew would read this, but sadly, most of them will not take the time.What is of utmost importance about what Obama did on Friday is not that he plans to grant amnesty to this group of illegal aliens, but that he is breaking the law to do it. That he is breaking his sworn oath of office to do it. That he is disregarding tje Constitution.
…politically accountable actors at the federal and state level continue their feckless failure to use their constitutional muscle to block him and rein him in
I often think…how in hell can he do that ? What’s next ?
Frustrating, the extent to which this President and his minions are getting away with some of this garbage. I guess indicative of how far we’ve sunk.
Blotto, Presidents have been issuing executive orders since 1789. You guys just don’t like this one. And Romney is too afraid to give an opinion, because he will either upset the extreme right or Latinos. Thank you for your civility, though.
“Believe me, those of us who voted for him want more, not less, of this.”
Man up, John! And leave the rest of us out of your projected personal problems. Or, as admittedly perfect fodder for a Totalitarian State, do you necessarily require that only Obama can put you out of your own existential misery?
This isn’t an executive order, but some kind of direction issued to the DHS to amend deportation policy along the prescribed lines relative to a particular group of illegals.
If you like circumventing written law (this President has as much stated he finds checks on his power a nuisance), if you like one single guy pandering for votes from a group with significant numbers, if you like one individual deciding unilaterally deciding what “justice” is, you’ll probably be better off in Putin’s Russia or Castro’s Cuba.
Obama’s dept. of justice behaves similarly, unilaterally deciding which laws to enforce against whom.
As C. Krauthammer said last Friday, this move by Obama is sheer lawlessness.
Aren’t Obama’s actions by failing to uphold his oath misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance of office. These are crimes that will get most elected officials out of office and they could provide a reason for the House of Representatives to impeach him; you know-high crimes and misdemeanors. Republicans, conservatives, Americans, need to be on the offense with this guy.
If illegal aliens (i.e. illegal Mexicans) are getting this amnes.. err ’2 year stay..’ – what have the illegal youth done or continue doing to ‘EARN’ such niceties from our CiC, supposed P/T Constitutional Lecturer?
Take a good look at the SW USA’s public education system. Specifically their public test scores national rankings per through the years, decades (if including up to the 30 years of age illegal aliens) leading up to the present.
I bring up that area of the country because it’s the most inundated with illegal alien populations, obviously.
AZ, CA and NV rank 46th-48th nationwide per H.S. test scores. CA was ranked in the low-mid 20′s in the 80′s when I’d attended public school there. NV and AZ were in the same area of ranking as well.
As of 2007 Latino’s made up more than 50% of CA’s teen children and public school aged attendees.
I grew up, stationed in and graduated college in the SW USA. An overwhelming # of my friend’s from there, worldwide are other than Anglo. Though it’s glaringly obvious illegal aliens, specifically our southern neighbors are destroying in infinite ways the SW. The East Coast and other fantasyland ‘sanctuary cities/ states’ across the USA.
Intruiged overall by the content of this article, though I have the following dispute. This country was designed as a Constitutional Republic, limited by the Rule of law, not suffering the whims of the majority.
I find it very interesting that the response to Obama’s edict concerning the alien issue fails to put it into a historical context. President’s of both major political persuasions have been taking such actions for at least two centuries. Jefferson’s actions in obtaining the Louisiana Purchase were viewed by many involved in the drafting and enactment of the COTUS as outside the scope of Presidential Authority. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR put citizens in concentrations camps. The reality is that these acts were all subsequently legitimized by the people who chose not to do anything about it. In his seminal work, The Imperial Presidency, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., addressed these issues. It’s interesting that we just passed the anniversary of the beginning of a crisis we call Watergate one of the very view times in our history that a limit was imposed on Presidential action that stuck.
I think you’re reaching there, Brian.
And that this particular raw vote pandering on the part of this president is not in the same league as temporary extraordinary powers assumed by past presidents.
Obama is not the President in any single way except one – on paper.
On paper? Maybe it’s time to put Articles of Impeachment on paper.
I believe the President is cleverly parsing words. People who live in the America’s, which includes North America and the USA are by definition “Americans”. But what does it take to be a US Citizen. According to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. (1) Allegiance to the United States Constitution, (2) renunciation of allegiance to any foreign country to which the immigrant has had previous allegiances (3) defense of the Constitution against enemies “foreign and domestic” (4) promise to serve in the United States Armed Forces when required by law (either combat or non-combat) (5) promise to perform civilian duties of “national importance” when required by law. Anyone seriously believe that the majority of even a significant minority of those illegal aliens actually believe in the above? Yes the Americas, but they are sure not qualified to be US citizens.
The nature of this president’s evolution is very confusing. Existing law representing the agreed-upon-by-the-governed is ONLY paper when it comes to illegal immigrants and it’s paper that is so essential to their being that it is their CIVIL RIGHT when it comes to gays. The only commonality I can see in his evolution on these two social issues is that Obama wants to eliminate the consent of all those governed except himself.
Speaking of putting things on paper. Mr. McCarthy, why this statement: “In continuing the dramatic shift from American constitutional democracy to rule by executive fiat” considering a portion of the statement is false. The fiat part I agree with; however, have you read the constitution? If so, you should know better. How many PJ readers caught the error? I’m not trying to disparage you or anyone else on this site–but my gosh, when does this madness stop?
May I suggest we all review Article IV Section 4 of our current constitution for some clarity. We are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC everyone! The constitution guarantees such a form of government to each State in the Union. Therefore, the Federal system must also be a Republican form of government in order to guarantee a Republican form of government to the States! Is that sound reasoning? That is how the Founders saw it–that is on paper today! Why do we not follow it? Why so much confusion on this subject? Why the perpetuation of falsehoods by even the best among us?
To be clear: We are not a democracy. We are not a constitutional democracy. We are not a representative democracy. Lastly, we are not a democratic republic. We are none of that. Let’s all repeat together: what are we? A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC! We are represented in this Republic by elected individuals that are suppose to represent our interests in the halls of government. We don’t just vote as a body of citizens to get things done by majority rule i.e., all forms of democracy. We are to follow the laws of the land and adhere to civic virtue i.e., ‘Republicanism.’ If we cannot adhere to the ideals of Republicanism, we are neither worthy or capable of maintaining a Republic. If we lose the Republic, we lose liberty and then descend into “tyranny of the majority”, or the minority based upon usurpation by an individual(s), which will then destroy us as a nation. We are close to that point!
We’ve been duped by years of educational brainwashing! It’s one thing to have public schools teaching misguided content–it’s another entirely to have it happen on such a great Web site. Let me be clear, I have the utmost respect for all PJ Media readers and contributors. I make these points to ensure we can all fight back against an insipid enemy that will destroy us if we let them. These traitorous individuals (Democrats, Liberals, Socialists, etc.) know what they want to destroy. To stop them, we must know what we are as a nation if were are to succeed and maintain our form of government as written by the founders.
I am one of you. I am a concerned and patriotic citizen who loves my country dearly. I will fight for it to the end. However, let’s all stop the false notions here and now that we are a democracy or any form of the system. Instead, let us educate everyone we meet as to what we are On Paper! Once we begin to do this, we can begin to truly ‘transform’ this nation into what it was envisioned to be at the founding: a more perfect union and a Republic administered by a virtuous people! That is how we break this cycle of abuse by a President and a Congress (State and local public servants included) that refuse to live by American ideals -
In Vindiciam Libertatis!
Obama bows yet again to another head of state, and is patted on the back by the Mexican President for his supposed “valor.”
So, lets see.
To who’s overall benefit is Obama’s latest executive order concerning illegal aliens—the overwhelming percentage of whom are Mexicans?
Mexico and Mexican illegal aliens.
Among many other deleterious effects to our Constitution and Republic, and to American citizens, to whose detriment will be the hundreds of thousands, or even perhaps a million or more newly legalized competitors for jobs in a stagnant U.S. economy?
American workers.
A small number of families, the ruling oligarchs in Mexico, are able to keep staving off Revolution and major reforms, and to keep their positions of wealth, power, and influence by implementing policies that clear the way for and shove all of those who need and would cause trouble/revolt over the lack of adequate employment, education, health care, advancement, and political power/participation in Mexico across the border into the U.S., where they clamor for and are given all those things; we are Mexico’s “safety valve,” and have been for many decades. And who pays the bill—out of whose hide is taken the funding to pay for all the remedies for the ills of its citizens that the Mexican government/oligarchy won’t remedy?
The hides of American taxpayers.
Shoved across, too, are many of the narco-criminals/gangs who plague Mexico or who, more correctly these days, pretty much run Mexico, and have turned it, or who are about to turn Mexico into a “failed state.” This escalating violence, crime, and anarchy in Mexico are increasingly leaking across the border into the U.S. and bullets fly and headless bodies are starting to turn up here in the U.S. Again, who pays the price in violence, blood, death, destruction, addiction, treasure, and in the law enforcement, judicial, and incarceration costs for our bursting at the seams jails? Whose boundaries and national sovereignty are violated more and more by Mexicans and Mexico (for Mexican troops often violate the border, too) as each day passes?
American citizens and taxpayers.
The Mexican government makes every effort to facilitate and speed on their way all of the poor, illiterate, uneducated, lower class Mexicans who want to cross our border illegally. According to reports, they hold open/clear certain routes to the Border on the Mexican side. The Mexican government even publishes a 32 page comic book style pamphlet for illiterate Mexicans, titled, “Guide for the Mexican Migrant,” giving them techniques and times to more easily cross the border illegally and, then, tips on how to evade capture once they get across. Then, once here, the many Mexican Consulates here in the U.S. issue untold numbers of “Matricula Consular“ ID’s to Mexicans, and argue that the U.S. should accept them as valid IDs.
In contrast, Mexico has one of the toughest regimes of laws and procedures in place for dealing with “illegal aliens” who dare to set foot in Mexico, with jail time in Mexico’s brutal penal system the rule, and its southern border with Guatemala is sealed very tightly. While objecting to any U.S. attempts to strengthen our border and to build a fence to keep out Mexican illegal aliens, Mexico is building its own border fence along its border with Guatemala to prevent illegals from Guatemala from crossing into Mexico, and Mexican officials are outraged when we try to enforce our laws against the tens of millions of Mexican illegal aliens who cross or who have crossed our border, and are here illegally in the U.S.
Illegal aliens who, it is estimated, each year send back to Mexico more than $20 billion dollars in remittances–money sucked out of the U.S. Economy and transferred to Mexico, where it is the second largest source of Mexico’s national income after their oil revenue–notice all of the shops that have sprung up here in the U.S. to “wire money overseas,” or the lines of Mexicans and other Latinos that sometimes form at grocery stores, as they queue up, with wads of dollars, to wire money back home? All this at the same time as many Mexican illegal aliens with large, extended families, and supposedly “poor,” receive more and more social services and benefits that, again, American taxpayers pay for i.e. the money that they should use to pay for their own care is wired back to Mexico—so, now they are “poor,” and U.S. taxpayers pick up the bill for their care.
It seems to me that this is a “zero sum game” folks, in which there is a limited amount of resources, so that if one person gains resources/benefits, another person must necessarily lose resources/benefits.
What happens to the necessarily limited sum total of benefits, services, and programs that American taxpayers pay for, and that are supposed to be reserved for them, if tens of millions of illegal immigrants have access to those programs?
American taxpayers are short changed, as benefits they pay for with tax dollars which are supposedly reserved for their use and benefit are harder to get or are reduced in quantity or quality, because a growing percentage of these benefits are siphoned off to be given to illegal aliens o , alternatively, Entitlement expenditures skyrocket even higher. One result is the overburdened hospital emergency rooms that many of us have witnessed, and,in particular, the plight of many hospitals along the border, some of which have gone bankrupt and closed their doors due to the crippling costs of the free care they have had to give to so many “uninsured patients” i.e. illegal aliens.
So, tell me. For whose benefit did Obama draft and sign this executive order; for Mexicans (and his election prospects), or for Americans?
It seems extraordinarily clear to me that it was for Mexicans, and as an election year ploy to attract more Latino votes.
And as for America and American citizens, and our Constitution?
Well, the hell with them, ‘cause Obama got him some more votes, and a pat on the back to boot.
I’m the owner of a brand-new Ferrari in every single way but one — on paper.
As you can tell from the date- 2 days ago; I delayed in responding to this.
It is so compelling, so unequivocal, so irrefutable
that I was concerned that it would be construed as a call for impeachment for high crimes.
It is.
It is deserved.
Obama has violated the Constitution.
He has violated his oath.
He has violated the law.
He is a criminal.
He contrinues to make a mockery of his office.
His presence offends every sense of decency.
Joe Wilson was impolite, but he was right.
Obama is a liar.
He made up much of his ‘autobiography’.
He lied about his mother’s ‘insurance problem’.
He deserves impeachment, imprisonment and disgrace.
Right on! It seems so obvious – but what of the Liberals types? They continue to just breeze on by the obvious it’s scary.
The original phrase is still “a *government* of laws, & not of men.”
If the O’Bummer has committed a crime with his actions,can he not be arrested and jailed ? Even the Tea Party Republicans in the House are somewhat complicit in this,since they passed the National Defense Authorisation Act,allowing the Presidunce to arrest and detain anyone,they are not to be trusted.I fear that simply voting out the creature in the White House will not be nearly enough.
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights.Carry.
I am making a welcome sign for my summer school classroom and the theme is butterflies. I want to put a net on the door. I have cut-outs of butterflies to put on the door with the children’s names. I want to make it look the net is catching the butterflies..
Your style is unique in comparison to other people I’ve read stuff from. Thank you for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I will just book mark this blog.