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Dick Durbin: Obama to 'borrow' Constitutional power to rule on immigration
Examiner.com ^ | 06/28/14 | Joe Newby

Posted on 06/28/2014 4:18:51 PM PDT by LaybackLenny

If House Republicans do not act on immigration in the way Barack Obama wants soon, then the president will simply "borrow" Congress' legislative powers and unilaterally rule on the issue, bypassing Congress once again, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday.

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To: wewereright

Instead of someone from the “press” asking Durbin about the preposterous statement (I know, I am dreaming) how about someone asking Boehner about this statement? Put him on record, if he dares to question his masters. Then hold him to it, if he actually dares to challenge Der Fuhrer.


61 posted on 06/28/2014 5:32:17 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: LaybackLenny

durbin pushed this piece of shit (obama) on us, they both need to be removed.


62 posted on 06/28/2014 5:33:41 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: LaybackLenny

Seems like Illinois only exports POSes like Durbin and Obama.


63 posted on 06/28/2014 5:34:12 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Surgeon General Warning: Operation of Government Motors vehicles may be hazardous to your health)
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To: LaybackLenny

It’s time to march on Washington and demand this law breaking to come to a stop. They just don’t know or understand the fear the people of this country have for their future and the disgust we have in our government .

I really fear for our future, how about you?


64 posted on 06/28/2014 5:36:11 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: LaybackLenny

Wow! When I first read that, I thought it was a satirical Onion article. Truly unbelievable how the Dimwit party sinks to new lows everyday; makes me sick. Especially this President’s running the country like a third-world dictatorship, using the Constitution like it was toilet paper. You gotta admit, Obama is resolute, and will not to be deterred, in fulfilling his promise to fundamentally change the country. I barely recognize it anymore.


65 posted on 06/28/2014 5:37:30 PM PDT by TheTopRead
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To: TheTopRead

Don’t worry, he’s just “borrowing” it.


66 posted on 06/28/2014 5:41:16 PM PDT by livius
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To: mrsmel

The longer I watch so called conservative Republicans enable the growth of the monster our government has become ... the more I see you are, sadly, correct.

The first rule of those in government, regardless of party, is to retain and grow their power ... Constitution be damned.


67 posted on 06/28/2014 5:46:25 PM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: Comment Not Approved
The first rule of those in government, regardless of party, is to retain and grow their power ... Constitution be damned.

That's it in a nutshell. The people who run now, for the most part, want power, absolute power, whether for ots own purpose, as with the left, or to feather their nests, as with the Rs.
68 posted on 06/28/2014 5:48:50 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Rome2000

You only to look back at the last time any politician was tried and convicted of treason to see how far and fast we have fallen. Treason is practiced openly now, without any fear of reprisal or consequences.

A country that does not prosecute treason will not long last.


69 posted on 06/28/2014 5:49:45 PM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Well thank God we elected a lot of lesser evils over they years who stand idly by and let him rule as a king.

Isn't that the truth. Yet we still have some lecturing us that, after all the slime, we must still hold our noses and vote for Cockroach, because we need more of the same.
70 posted on 06/28/2014 5:51:01 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: reefdiver

I would if I wasn’t a Bible-believing pre-tribber.


71 posted on 06/28/2014 5:52:10 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: LaybackLenny

Bank of Obama. Payback is a $itch.


72 posted on 06/28/2014 5:53:12 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA ..IMPEACH, REMOVE, AND IMPRISON.)
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To: mrsmel

How fortunate for you


73 posted on 06/28/2014 5:53:39 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: morphing libertarian

“I shudder to think that someone once paid this guy to teach the constitution.”

Probably the same guy that pays Al Gore to teach science.


74 posted on 06/28/2014 5:55:32 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: reefdiver

Not fortunate, merciful.


75 posted on 06/28/2014 5:57:27 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrsmel

When you have people still pushing the lesser evil/no matter what crap after what has happened even this week, much less the grand sum of the last few years, those people are either GOP operatives or the stupidest people on the planet.

All they are doing is defending the people protecting Obama’s criminals from being held to account. I wonder when we get to ‘hold feet to the fire’? they told us they were gonna. But instead, they wrap feet in asbestos.

Gee....I wonder why.


76 posted on 06/28/2014 5:58:47 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Spok

I think he’ll have to be removed by force when his term is up, if he doesn’t hang himself first. I’ve had a bad feeling about him since day one - a combination of fear and an odd feeling of recognition. Evil bastard ain’t normal.


77 posted on 06/28/2014 6:00:10 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA ..IMPEACH, REMOVE, AND IMPRISON.)
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To: LaybackLenny

Maybe Congress should “borrow” some of Obama’s powers and send a cruise missile... someplace.


78 posted on 06/28/2014 6:01:25 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Spok
What are the odds he’ll ever give up the White House?

I'd say it's about 50/50 now. And if he doesn't, what do we do? The Demonrats won't vote to impeach and remove. Can congress order in marshals to carry him out of the Oval Office?

79 posted on 06/28/2014 6:02:34 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: fivecatsandadog

” an odd feeling of recognition.”

Thats because history repeats.


80 posted on 06/28/2014 6:02:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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