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Obama plays Boss of America on immigration
Chicago Tribune ^ | November 20, 2014 | By John Kass

Posted on 11/20/2014 9:54:52 AM PST by Jim Robinson

resident Barack Obama's critics have never understood the guy from Chicago.

And now it's probably too late, given that he's promising to change federal immigration policy by bending the Constitution to his most divine will.

Some critics call Obama a monarch. Others say he acts more like an emperor. Still others prefer the old-fashioned term king.

All these are royal positions and involve flowing purple robes and bejeweled crowns of the sort worn by that creepy Burger King in TV commercials. But for years Obama has gone out of his way to inform supporters and critics alike that under our system of divided government — a system developed by our founders to protect the liberty of all Americans — the president can't very well use his executive powers to make up laws just because he feels like it.

"I'm not the emperor of the United States," Obama said on Feb. 14, 2013, explaining why it would be unlawful of him to change immigration policy through executive fiat. "My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system."

And earlier, before the emperor thing got going, he took pains to announce, publicly, that he was not even a king of immigration.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; obama
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 9:54:52 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

And he will win and nothing can reverse this.


2 posted on 11/20/2014 9:56:39 AM PST by Logical me
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3 posted on 11/20/2014 9:57:59 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Jim Robinson

"Send EV-68 to every city that opposes me.
And, send the money that was specified
for the VA Hospital care
... to the Moslem Brotherhood (al Qaeda) and Hamas."

4 posted on 11/20/2014 9:58:04 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Jim Robinson

Boss of America? The ass clown could screw up a rock fight.


5 posted on 11/20/2014 9:59:20 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Jim Robinson
something....tells me that Obie's Been LURKING on this forum!!!

I'm not emperor




6 posted on 11/20/2014 9:59:25 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Logical me
And he will win and nothing can reverse this.

So . . . That's your plan, eh?

7 posted on 11/20/2014 10:00:09 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Jim Robinson
He did promise "fundamental transformation."

Low-information types thought that would be a good thing.

8 posted on 11/20/2014 10:00:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama gets away with it because the GOP is ultimately bought and paid for by the elites that want Amnesty and cheap labor in this country.

The Republicans will whoop and holler and make noise but do nothing meaningful to stop it.

In the UK David Cameron and his Conservative Party say they will ‘fight’ the EU immigration rules that have flooded the country with cheap labor.

But the people know otherwise and in a special election for a parliamentary seat today are again voting for a new party (UKIP) that will get the UK out of the EU and out from under unrestricted immigration into their country.

We must break free of the Uniparty yoke in this country....


9 posted on 11/20/2014 10:02:02 AM PST by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: Diogenesis

The time for pitchforks and torches has arrived.


10 posted on 11/20/2014 10:03:19 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Jim Robinson

Pressure should be brought on local law enforcement, state agencies and sheriffs to follow the law. Illegals not allowed. It’s still there, hasn’t been re-written, no bill in legislature agreed and signed, so will America’s security forces follow the law as their oaths require, or will they submit to illegal decrees from Obozo?


11 posted on 11/20/2014 10:08:53 AM PST by TheBigJ
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To: Nextrush

If they don’t put up, then we go USIP on their asses.


12 posted on 11/20/2014 10:11:12 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Jim Robinson

I just called my congressman. I was told his DC office is getting lots of calls and he is very much in opposition of obama. The part I did not like hearing is they are still “forming a plan of action” as it still is not exactly clear what obama may do (outside of what we know). I asked if all options are on the table including articles of impeachment and the aide said the congressman was in support of all options to oppose Amnesty.
If his local office does not pick up the phone, I am going to take a trip by there in person if I can make it in time.


13 posted on 11/20/2014 10:22:54 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Until Zero does it, no one knows exactly what it is, so various scenarios is all they can plan for at this point.


14 posted on 11/20/2014 10:23:48 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

I agree. I just want to know all options are on the table up to and including impeachment.
I am hoping a Governor or AG of a state is ready to pounce with a lawsuit going straight to SCOTUS as quickly as possible.


15 posted on 11/20/2014 10:25:54 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Moochie the Prophetess:

Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to
change our conversation; we are going to have to change our traditions, our history.

We're going to have to move into a different place as a nation to provide the kind of
future we all want desperately for our children.

Michelle Obama
May 14, 2008
Speech in San Juan Puerto Rico

16 posted on 11/20/2014 10:29:11 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Logical me

17 posted on 11/20/2014 10:32:37 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Slyfox

As in life, you have an idea or successful business and along comes the thief and wants to steal it, co opt it for themselves, or destroy it...that’s America! The great experiment that worked, and it’s called freedom.
Along comes the jerks who want to destroy it.


18 posted on 11/20/2014 10:53:39 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Jim Robinson

It will be difficult to watch tonight.

Many movies have great quotes to be remembered.
There are great writers out there.

One quote that comes to my mind.

“So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applaud” - Senator Padmé Amidala


19 posted on 11/20/2014 10:56:36 AM PST by Conrad77
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To: Ghost of SVR4

I would be ok with Impeachment, except for the waste of time it would be and the distraction of the Congress from what might be less than 2 years before 2016 election to make a difference in our nation and where it’s headed.


20 posted on 11/20/2014 11:06:42 AM PST by Kackikat
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