Oh the very thought of shutting down the Nanny State brings chills to the GOP-e.........
Posted on 04/24/2014 5:16:06 PM PDT by Cheerio
FULL TITLE: Senators Denounce Obama for Threatening 'Entire Constitutional System' By 'Nullifying' Immigration Laws
On Thursday, 22 Republican senators, including even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), denounced President Barack Obama in a scathing letter for threatening America's "entire constitutional system" with his immigration "enforcement review" that threatens to "nullify" the nation's immigration laws.
"Your actions demonstrate an astonishing disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the rights of American citizens and legal residents," the senators wrote in a letter to Obama. "Our entire constitutional system is threatened when the Executive Branch suspends the law at its whim and our nation’s sovereignty is imperiled when the commander-in-chief refuses to defend the integrity of its borders."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Publicly, they pontificate, privately, they will help the Obungler. After all, they want to screw us almost as much as the rats do.
Oh my, another letter. Not one dime’s worth of difference.
Meanwhile.... Boehner mocks GOP colleagues on immigration reform
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/24/boehner-mocks-colleagues-immigration-reform/8101699/
Is this a good cop/bad cop play on us?
So, like you’re saying that if he weren’t BLACK, you guys might, you know, ACTUALLY IMPEACH THE SOB??
Wow! A sternly worded letter. Maybe Zero can copy the stern parts and use them in his next letter to Putin about Ukraine.
Impeachment.
I agree.
Three possible outcomes:
1. The House votes to impeach, Senate votes to convict. Not likely.
2. The House votes to impeach. Senate votes not to convict. Likely.
3. The House starts the process. Obama resigns. Leaving Clinton as the only impeached President. Possible. That's what Nixon did.
To me it's a win-win either way.
The real problem here is not Obama. It is that the presidency has, over the course of 200 years, taken unto itself more and more power. It has done so unilaterally, and taken power from the legislative branch and the judicial branch.
Thus, a critical question to ask any Republican candidate for president, is not *if* the power of the office of the POTUS needs to be reduced, but by *how much*?
“How do you plan to work with congress and the Supreme Court, to reduce the power of the office of the president to constitutional limits?”
If they cannot answer this, or deny the president is too powerful, think that they are “wise enough” to use the power appropriately, or give a b.s. answer, they are not fit to occupy the office of the POTUS.
There are a dozen HUGE ways to do this, from prohibiting Presidential Signing Statements and Czars, and recess appointments beyond the recess, limiting executive privilege, returning the vast amount of federal land takings to the states, restoring the Posse Comitatus Act and the War Powers Act, abrogating any treaty signed by the POTUS but not confirmed by the senate, giving the State of the Union to congress in writing not an obscene and expensive dog & pony show. etc. etc.
I wonder if the Congress sent the Sergeant at Arms to arrest the President for treason and usurpation of power, what would the Secret Service do?
On Thursday, 22 Republican senators, including... Mitch McConnell... denounced President Barack Obama... for threatening America's "entire constitutional system" with his immigration "enforcement review" that threatens to "nullify" the nation's immigration laws. "Your actions demonstrate an astonishing disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the rights of American citizens and legal residents... Our entire constitutional system is threatened when the Executive Branch suspends the law at its whim and our nation’s sovereignty is imperiled when the commander-in-chief refuses to defend the integrity of its borders."
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Thanks for posting these quotes from Rand Paul. While he does takes stands from time to time that appeal to conservatives, many of his positions are in conflict with conservative views.
Obama should be impeached. He is the poster boy for why a President should be impeached. I know it wouldn’t pass the Senate right now, but it should still be done.
By not impeaching him, there is no bar for what a president can get away with anymore.
Now as it stands, impeachment is no longer an option to curtail activity of an out of control president because it means nothing.
Obama has converted America into a slave nation, don’t matter what race you are, in America you have become an official slave, and slave owners always had plans of keeping the slaves healthy.
How about them apples about a reverse racial comment?
if they aren’t following laws they find distasteful...
then why should we follow tax laws?
taxes are about the only power we-the-people actually have over fedgov
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