Posted on 08/02/2014 2:57:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Over the last month, the Obama political apparatus a close aide to the president, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the independent voices at MSNBC has been talking nonstop about an alleged Republican plan to impeach the president.
But it isnt happening in a vacuum, because even as his team plays the impeachment card with gusto, the president is contemplating indeed, all but promising an extraordinary abuse of office: the granting of temporary legal status, by executive fiat, to up to half the countrys population of illegal immigrants.
This is the tone of the media coverage right now: The president may get the occasional rebuke for impeachment-baiting, but what the White House wants to do on immigration is assumed to be reasonable, legitimate, within normal political bounds.
It is not: It would be lawless, reckless, a leap into the antidemocratic dark.
And an American political class that lets this Rubicon be crossed without demurral will deserve to live with the consequences for the republic, in what remains of this presidency and in presidencies yet to come.
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