The story behind Obama's immigration order: He wanted to one-up Marco Rubio!

LA Times "One week earlier, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had told reporters about his plans to propose a scaled-back version of the Dream Act -– legislation designed to provide help to young immigrants. Democrats were skeptical that Rubio could gain his own party’s support for that idea. But seated in the big conference room next to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, the senators  pressed aides to the president to do more."
Comment to this post at Lucianne:

Does anyone else get the impression that Obama's order sounds a lot more exciting to illegals than the details show it to be? It's just a feel-good, drive-the-GOP-nuts, bunch of words that don't really accomplish much. Eight hundred people "might" be eligible? Thank you, Governor Romney, for not jumping up and down screaming as the administration hoped you would do.

Debbie Schlussel: Obama’s Nightmare “DREAM Act” Amnesty for “Kids”: Will Mitt Romney Repeal It? Don’t Hold Your Breath
"These illegal alien “kids” are already getting college scholarships, etc., and living freely here without fear of any consequences. So, this is really, again, just a formality. The only difference is that these aliens will now have legal status to work. Will they be required to register for the draft? Don’t count on it. "

Obama Blames Republicans for Blaming Him for Blaming Bush

The People's Cube   "Anyway, I gotta run, I'm off to Sarah Jessica Parker's place to have dinner with President Obama and Anna Wintour. Sarah and Anna are big celebrities but they're always so nice to me... they let me walk their dogs and sometimes even loan me a pooper scooper to pick up the mess. If I have time today when I get back, I'm going to write something about the tendency of some people, such as scumbag Nazi racist Republicans, to call other people names instead of engaging in civil conversation. 
"Some people just have NO self-awareness whatsoever."

Holder Defends Foreigners Voting in Florida Elections

J. Christian Adams  "The real scandal (as Hans von Spakovsky calls it) in the fight between Florida and the Eric Holder Justice Department is that Holder is ultimately defending foreigners voting in American elections.  Try that position on for size amongst the general public, and Obama’s campaign strategists aren’t going to like the outcome.

The Justice Department lawsuit against Florida will stop Florida from removing non-citizen voters from the rolls by freezing the entire purge process.  Justice claims that immediate removal of foreigners falls within time limits that restrict Florida’s ability to remove legitimately registered voters."  (emphasis added)....

...."And nobody should be surprised this is happening. The radicals at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund who fought against Georgia verifying that only citizens are registered to vote in 2009 are now driving the case against Florida from new jobs inside the Justice Department."

Mark Steyn: Ground Control to President Obama

Mark Steyn  "Obama can urge us all he wants to band together because when we dream big dreams there’s no limit to what Big Government can accomplish. But these days we can’t build a new Hoover Dam, only an attractive new corner office for the assistant deputy assistant deputy assistant secretary to the secretary of deputy assistants at the Department of Bureaucratic Sclerosis, and she’ll be happy to issue a compliance order that the Hoover Dam’s mandatory fish ladders are non-wheelchair-accessible, and so the whole joint needs to close. That we can do! If only we dare to dream Big Dreams!! Together!!!"
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"Self-pity is never an attractive quality, and in an elected head of state even less so. Obama whines that his opponents say it’s all his fault. One can argue about whose fault it is, but not, as my colleagues at National Review pointed out, whose responsibility it is: It’s his. He’s the only president we have. And he made things worse. He increased the national debt by some 70 percent, and what do we have to show for it? No dams, no railroads, no moon shots. Just government, and bureaucracy, and regulation, unto national bankruptcy."
Matthew Continetti: Obama's Pity Party  "Obama’s overly long, repetitive, and by turns self-pitying and self-congratulatory address was so soaked through with nostalgia that MSNBC should have broadcast it in sepia tones. The speech—which even the liberal Obama biographer Jonathan Alter called one of the president’s “least successful” political communications—revealed an incumbent desperately trying to replay the 2008 election. But no oratory will make up for a flawed record and a vague, fissiparous, and unappealing agenda.
...."Our incumbent president is holding a giant pity party, while failing to address the nation’s challenges in a responsible manner."

Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer on 2012 politics

Charles Krauthammer: Silly Season, 2012  "A quite dispiriting spectacle. And more than a bit confusing. Why, just this week the estimable Jeb Bush averred that the Republican Party had become so rigidly right-wing that today it couldn’t even nominate Ronald Reagan. 

Huh? It’s about to nominate Mitt Romney, who lives a good 14 nautical miles to the left of Ronald Reagan.

Goodness. Four more months of this campaign and we will all be unhinged.

I'd say Romney has a point in this cartoon

Victor Davis Hanson: The Liberal Super Nova  "Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism.
"Yet the hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are blowing up, imploding super nova style — unsustainable ideas that are contrary to human nature and demand coercion for their implementation, given that they are increasingly anti-democratic and have to be implemented from high by an elite technocracy whether in Brussels, Sacramento, or Washington."

Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'

Jerusalem Post  "The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday."
Conflicted? How can that be?

Commentary on Obama's immigration speech

Video: Obama's Immigration Policy Is "Out-And-Out Lawlessness",  Charles Krauthammer said on "FOX News Special Report" Friday. (Video)

"Beyond the pandering, beyond the politics, beyond the process is simple constitutional decency. This is out-and-out lawlessness. You had a clip of the president himself say months ago 'I cannot do this on my own because there are laws on the books.' Well, I have news for the president: The laws remain on the books, they haven't changed," 

2011: "America is a nation of laws"; 2012: "I didn't ask for an argument"   Excellent post with numerous sources quoted: "But what a difference nine little months and declining reelection prospects have made. Now King Barack, ironically a "constitutional scholar," has decided that he does, after all, "have a choice" and, in effect, we aren't a nation of laws. Can he do that? John Yoo says no, not legally."  Pundit and Pundette

I am your king!

Obama's cheerleader team (MSM journalists) attack reporter who questioned Obama

A sterling example of that “world class temperament” we’ve often been told about 
"It’s amazing, though, how much “world class temperament” resembles the behavior of an irritable, spoiled four year old:"  Billy Hollis at Q and O

Lloyd Marcus: Obama: Going Rogue," ...running as no other Democrat before him, openly declaring war on America. The opposing armies are Obama's entitlement-minded-social-justice-zealots vs. hardworking Americans -- patriots who love their country and respect our Constitution."


This writer sees Obama as worse than that: Obama Lurching Toward Tyranny  "The fact is that government no longer treats the Constitution as law binding it. As a result, government not only violates the Constitution with greater frequency and even more contempt, but government bureaucrats violate the very laws they enforce that are subordinate to the Constitution."

Rep. Steven King Says Will Sue Obama Administration Over New Immigration Policy

"The problem, of course is that such suits take time to percolate through the court system. Hopefuly King ( if he's serious) will start out by asking the courts for an injunction blocking implementation."

Joshuapundit: Obama's New Election Strategy: Amnesty By Executive Order  "The president is also outright lying when he says this will make sense economically. At a time of high unemployment, it will simply price American citizens out of the job market in favor of illegal aliens willing to work for less pay and at worse conditions." 

Under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the president has the duty to “Take Care That The Laws Be Faithfully Executed”

"This provision was included to make sure that the president could not simply choose, as the British King had, to cancel legislation simply because he disagreed with it. President Obama cannot refuse to carry out a congressional statute simply because he thinks it advances the wrong policy. To do so violates the very core of his constitutional duties."

Victor Davis Hanson asks, Are We in Revolutionary Times?

Victor Davis Hanson:  "When you collate this recent act with the class-warfare rhetoric, the “punish our enemies” threats, the president’s and Eric Holder’s serial racialist statements, the huge borrowing, the national-security leaks, the takeover of health care, the push for redistributive taxes, and even the trivial appointments like a Van Jones, Anita Dunn, or Armendariz, you can fairly conclude that Obama most certainly did not like the way the United States operated for the last 30 or so years, and has tried his best, through hook or crook, to change America in ways that simply were not possible through legislative or even judicial action."

Bing

   Obama Amnesty Plan: Catch, Release, Vote

"He thinks that the black vote and the Hispanic vote and the feminist vote and all these other constituency groups are gonna add up to an electoral coalition over the rest of the country -- which I'll call, for the purposes of this discussion, "the producers." That's what he's counting on.  We know that he's written off white working-class families.  They've admitted that they've written that group off.  They've written off the Catholics.  I don't know. How much more brazen does this guy have to be."....  Rush Limbaugh

Eric Holder still being probed by the Judiciary Committee

Obama ignores questions about de facto amnesty decision

Daily Caller  "The president has often used this no-questions strategy when making important or poll-boosting announcements. It allows him to deliver his message to his target audience, uncluttered by awkward questions. He speaks smoothly and finishes very rapidly, leaving assertive reporters few chances to ask a question before he reaches the refuge of the Oval Office door.

"Sometimes, the president does answer shouted questions. At the end of a March 23 Rose garden event, for example, he answered a shouted question about Trayvon Martin, a Florida youth killed in February.

"On Friday [Neil Munro of] The Daily Caller asked a question as his speech appeared to be ending.

"The president rebuked the TheDC, but then he declined to answer any other questions when he finished his carefully crafted statement.

Neil Munro explains his exchange with President Obama in Rose Garden [VIDEO]

" “Timing these things is a little awkward. He speaks very well, very smoothly — very nice delivery. It’s hard to know when he’s about to end. I thought he was going to end today. I asked my question too early. He rebuked me. Fair enough.” "

Obama has spoken -and spoken and spoken; Thursday and Friday

Obama tells celebs, "You're the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes."  And they just beam at him (Sarah Jessica  Parker,photo) 
"If you thought yesterday's campaign reboot in the form of a major economic address was the worst speech President Obama gave last night, you would be mistaken."


Our Plagiarizing President  "A Danish TV network compiled a hilarious list of the number of times Barack Obama has recycled phrases when describing foreign leaders and nations. It is an insult to those leaders and the people of those nations that our President does not even bother  to address them as individuals and unique (one might say "exceptional" nations). 
"He is on autopilot - just going through the motions, reading "cut and pasted" lines on the teleprompter."

Oh my - Dana Milbank tells Obama to 'skip the falsehoods' and give us a plan    "...Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is always a good bellweather for how Obama is playing on the left, and his column today is a scorcher aimed at President Obama.  

"Milbank didn't mince any words when writing about the president's speech [Thursday]"

RNC Video: From Reboot to Replay  "...the RNC took elements of Obama's speech yesterday and went back to a previous Obama speech and took identical phrases and sentences and sandwiched them back-to-back to illustrate: It's tired. It's old. It's worn out. It's the same old teleprompter. It's nothing new.  Stale, old, rotten, just typically antiquated.  So I have the audio of this, and when you hear the same things -- when you hear Obama say the same thing twice -- understand that once was in Cleveland yesterday. The other was in a previous speech this year."  Via Rush Limbaugh    Obama built this speech up as something significant and the press bought it, but it was nothing more than reading the same old speech, almost word-for-word.

Small President, Small Man  "President Obama’s penchant for blaming everyone but himself for his administration’s failures (pre-eminently George W. Bush, of course) has made him something of a laughingstock. He has, of course, a serious problem: his record is too poor for him to talk about it, and he has no plans for his second term other than more of the same. So he defaults to the blame game."  Power Line
Neal Boortz on Obama's speech Thursday: Caesar Obammus’ speech yesterday was a light version of his speech in Osawatomie last December.  "Telling a bank that after they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create networks for debit card sales what they can and cannot charge merchants for transactions, instead of letting marketplace competition handle the issue, isn’t eliminating MOST regulations.  Telling a landowner that he can’t cover a wet spot in his subdivision back yard because it violates wetland regulations is NOT an attempt to eliminate most regulations." 

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

Updated: Obama enacts the Dream Act — on his own, evading Congress

Legal Insurrection  "So much for the rule of law.  This guy wants reelection, so to hell with the Congress."

OBAMA GRANTS AMNESTY TO YOUNG ILLEGALS  "The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military."


Obama To Protect Nearly One Million Illegal Immigrants


Update from Neal Boortz: Neal Reacts to Obama’s Announcement on Illegal Immigrants   "Caesar Obammus just announced his plans to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants and issue them work permits.  You can read about the particulars here.  Here’s Neal initial reaction to the announcement.  He’ll likely ruffle some conservative feathers with this one.  Neal says that Romney ought to come out today and congratulate Obama on this move."

Obama decrees some illegals are more illegal than others "This kind of pandering to Hispanics could win him the election. In states like Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada, where Hispanics are a growing part of the electorate, this sort of action could tip the balance in his favor - especially since all of those states are expected to be close."


Giving legal status to people that hate America  "U.S. soccer team booed in their own country as Mexican fans turn LA into an 'away' game."  "Reconquista"

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