YOU CAN BLAME THE PRESIDENT’S LATEST EXECUTIVE ACTION ON SPEAKER BOEHNER

 

…House Speaker Boehner

 

The House Speaker forced the president to take action on immigration.

Well, the president signed the executive decree, (not an “Order”) for helping the parents of US immigration's “Dreamer children” which will allow their parents to come out of the shadows and to obtain work permits.  It will also focus immigrant deportations on the illegal criminals, not law-abiding illegals that are parents of US born immigrant children.  But it  does not have anything to do with giving the immigrants amnesty or gaining their US Citizenship.

The reality for the president finally making this decision can be totally blamed on the GOP Speaker of the House, John Boehner.

What you say?  This can all be blamed on Speaker Boehner?

Yep.  Even the Washington Post's reporters Juliet Eilperin, Ed O’Keefe and David Nakamura have noted that Obama really had no choice after the House Speaker refused to say after the mid-terms that he would bring up an immigration bill if the president agreed to postpone his executive actions. Without any concrete immigration statements on a bill from the House Speaker, there was no point in the president waiting any longer.

Now, those few Republicans that do support immigration reform could have proven the president wrong and they could have passed their own comprehensive immigration bill.  But you will only hear a few of the moderate Republicans actually saying they would like to do that.  They are for the most part instead being totally “chicken” by avoiding bringing up the issue.  They have bobbed and weaved around the issue now for: 1 year, 4 months and 24 days, since the bipartisan immigration reform bill came from the Senate, and up to President Obama’s announcement that he was going forward.

Even though the Republican Party knows that they are in serious need of attracting more support from America’s minority parties, their base still does not want anything to do with going after more GOP supporters from those that are not white-conservatives.  Apparently, as their party continues to shrink, the Tea Partiers and the old white base conservatives just don’t give a damn.

With that being the case, since the president promised that after the mid-terms, with nothing coming from the House Speaker about a bill, the president said he would then use his “phone and his pen” and that he really didn’t have a choice.

The Republicans know that just as their presidents, Reagan and both the Bush’s, had used executive orders for immigration reform, President Obama has that same ability.

But the Republicans keep calling the president, “lawless” and they wrongly refer to Obama as an “emperor” and a “monarch”.  It is now obvious that the GOP is totally dominated by its right wing.  Those moderates that want reform are today, basically too timid to take on their own internal adversaries.

…The way some of the GOP sees the President

The reality is that the president has just called the Republican’s bluff.

Since Obama’s first election to the presidency, the Republican right-wing has been on total offense.  They have tried for six years to sell their perceptions as facts. They charge that Obama is a dangerous radical even when he pursues middle-of-the-road policies.  They call him lawless when he does exactly what their own presidents have done.  They threaten to impeach the president every time he properly uses his presidential powers and executive orders, while they do nothing for helping the American public.  They accused him of misusing his power with the IRS, and for being responsible for the Benghazi tragedy, while they were the ones in Congress that cut the State Department’s embassy security budgets.  All this while they can never get their inquiries against the president to substantiated any of their accusations.

But now they can no longer have it both ways.  If they want to get the president’s executive immigration actions stopped, then they need to take his dare and pass their own comprehensive immigration bill.

But as usual, they don’t seem to have the guts to do what needs to be done.

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