Frustration over stalled immigration action doesn’t mean Obama can act unilaterally (WashPost)

Washington Post ^ | August 5, 2014 | Editorial Board

[upchuck]

Hey WaPo, blow it out your tookus.

[Tench_Coxe]

A little nervousness on the part of the Washington Post?
Casual note to Lefties who spit on the Constitution and the rule of law—there is going to come a point when those who follow the rules don’t. And if that time comes, you will realize that those same rules the average person plays by and you despise have protected you from retribution from your malevolent antics, albeit a bit too late to save you.

For every Allende, there is a Pinochet.

[Travis McGee]

Without a serious fence system for the Border Patrol to actually watch and guard, the BP is forced to “defend in depth.” The southern border is 2,019 miles from sea to sea. If the Border Patrol check points are 40 miles from the border, agents must roam across an area of 80,000 square miles seeking illegal immigrants. This is a fool’s errand, deliberately futile. 80,000 square miles is the size of Idaho or Kansas.

The same number of border patrol agents actually guarding a physical barrier means that every inch of the border is under observation at all times. For example, anybody carrying a ladder to the fence will be seen, and stopped by nearby Border Patrol agents who react to their approach. That is why the San Diego fence is so effective. It needs to be extended across the entire border. Or, we can keep play-acting at border security, with the Border Patrol playing Keystone Kops across 80,000 square miles of rough scrub land terrain.

[EarlyBird]

This is simply the first step in Obama’s walk back from his promise to use executive action.

Rush is right, Obama doesn’t dare use executive orders to grant amnesty, because it’s widely unpopular. He threatened to do it only to frighten the Republicans, and now that they have called his bluff, he has to walk it back.

This is merely the first in a long series of upcoming media pieces explaining how, though he’d really like to, Obama can’t really use executive action to “fix” the immigration problem.

Again, Rush is right — there’s no credit to be gained by granting amnesty, only blame.

[Steven Tyler]

Take the little dears to their home embassy, and give the originating Country 24 hours to take their Children back home, out of the USA

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

In the Republican-controlled House, the GOP bowed to its most extreme lawmakers in passing measures that have zero chance of becoming law

So the GOP DID something, just something his majesty disagreed with - that's not doing nothing. Don't know how "journalists" sleep at night these days.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Barry is being pressured by al-Raza to open the doors to the “unaccompanied” illegal alien invaders from the south. I wonder if al-Raza has dug up some of Barry’s skeletons.

[tet68]

In the Senate, the intransigence of both parties yielded no bill at all.

What a pack of lies, Harry Reid controls the Senate and
could have passed any bill he wanted to bring up and kept
down any bill he didn’t.

[john mirse]

Obama. What a fool. A very dangerous,powerful, and deadly fool.

Obama Life After the White House: Doesn't he realize that his life AFTER the White House will be a living hell if he instantly legalizes 6 million illegals at the end of this summer 2014 WITH A STROKE OF HIS PEN when America is shouting over and over "NO! NO!NO!"

[Brad from Tennessee]

[I wonder if al-Raza has dug up some of Barry’s skeletons.]

I think Obama has been one with La Raza for years. Obama’s dream, after leaving office, is to forge a third party composed of Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, white radicals, and anyone else who shares his hatred of traditional America. He would use this third party as a revolutionary vehicle to turn the U.S. into a neo-Marxist state.