"I will NEVER stop you, my beloved Indonesian Moslem King."
Posted on 06/27/2014 3:13:54 AM PDT by markomalley
The Obama administration is "not bluffing" in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if House Republicans don't act soon, top Democratic leaders warned Thursday.
President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don't act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable.
"We're at the end of the line," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. "We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act.
"Their first job is to govern," Menendez added, "and in the absence of governing, then you see executive actions."
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) piled on. Noting that a year has passed since the Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support, he urged House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a similar bill to the floor.
"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."
The remarks come a day after Boehner announced his intent to push legislation allowing the House to sue Obama for what the Republicans say is a habitual inclination to overstep his constitutional authority.
"When there is a failure on the part of the president to faithfully execute the law, the House has the authority to challenge this failure," Boehner wrote Wednesday in a memo to House lawmakers.
Boehner did not name specific examples of alleged overreach, but Republicans have long been up in arms over Obama's 2012 program allowing some high-achieving illegal immigrants brought to the United States as kids to stay in the country and work without fear of deportation.
Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking Democrat in the upper chamber, said Boehner and other Republican critics of Obama's executive actions have "a very good antidote" for their fears: "Put a bill on the floor."
"He's, like, shooting his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan," Schumer said. "Pass a bill, and that won't happen.
"If they don't bring any bill to the floor, the president has no choice — on a humanitarian basis and on a policy basis — to act where he can on his own," Schumer added.
Boehner on Tuesday said the current influx of immigrant children across the southern border will only make it tougher to pass legislation this year. The Speaker blamed Obama for the crisis.
"The president's making this harder and harder every day for us to try to deal with this in a responsible way," Boehner told reporters in the Capitol. "We've got a humanitarian disaster on the border. Most of it, at the president's own making, in my opinion, and so it makes our jobs much more difficult because of the actions he's taken or not taken with regard to the border."
Some immigration reformers have been hopeful that the recent shake-up in Republican leadership, which will have Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) soon replacing Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in the majority leader spot, could lead to action on immigration reform this year.
But McCarthy on Sunday seemed to throw cold water on that notion, telling Fox News that he plans to do "nothing about immigration until we secure the borders" — a sharp change from January, when he promoted "legal status" for illegal immigrants "that will allow you to work and pay taxes" without fear of deportation.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that he spoke with McCarthy on Wednesday, urging the incoming majority leader to bring an immigration bill to the floor.
Hoyer did not reveal McCarthy's response.
High treason.
If he bumbles it too bad he will get even Democrats angry with him for the community issues it will cause.
Abuse of power.
Failure to faithfully execute the law.
Presidenting while incompetent.
“Borrow the power?” Where in the Constitution does it allow the president to borrow power?
If only congress weren’t so spineless, this criminal would be in an orange jumpsuit by now.
Obama creates crisis. Emergency declared. Then Obama uses executive power to do what the People DO NOT WANT.
Impeachment? You bet. Lets start the proceeedings and then have the GOP take the Senate ini November, then we will drive the treasonous Alinsky ba$tard out.
When he does, it is up to the people who work for him who also took an oath of office to refuse illegal orders. He can issue all the pronouncements he wants but he cannot carry them out himself. I know this would be tantamount to falling on a gernade for these folks, but the nation is in the balance here.
I’ve watched Obama and his crew, beat and rape America.
I hope I’m wrong, but I fear on July 4 he will drive a knife through her heart.
"I will NEVER stop you, my beloved Indonesian Moslem King."
Or it could be in a divine plan to make even the GOP sick of pussyfooting around with amnesty. That if they do, even if they seat a Republican in the White House in 2017, the next Democrat to come down the road will once more play Calvinball with it.
IMPEACH NOW!!!
They are threatening us plain and simple.
The American people will cheer with all their new-found “friends” as Jack F. Kemp always said of his fellow Democrats.
Face it America is being destroyed.
Obama is going down a road that leads to civil unrest and military action, which side the military takes will determine the future of the US.
Looks like he is giving America a Red Line notice. Too bad the GOP is the only one in the world afraid to call his bluff. More likely they are Brer Rabbits and want to be “forced” into Amnesty, kicking and screaming with a smile on their rotten faces.
Click.
“which side the military takes will determine the future of the US”
Odingo has been purging the Military, and no doubt promoting limp wristed yes men.
Gov Perry needs to send Taxas National Guard to border and congress needs to defund the government.
This also may be the time for armed citizens to form those militias we are required to do under the constitution. It is becoming apparent that our elected reps are not going to do anything.
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