Senator Harkin says inaction by Congress forced president to act on immigration

radioiowa.com ^ | November 20, 2014 | Matt Kelley

[DoughtyOne]

Hmm, didn’t the Democrats have a majority in both bodies on Capital Hill under Obama for his first two years?

Why wasn’t their rejection of Amnesty a cause for Executive Orders to fix it?

[JRandomFreeper]

Not seeing any real action from the Dems, just lots of yapping.

/johnny

[bobo1]

“This is the kind of thing that stirs people up and implicates fear and anxiety in people rather than calmly discussing it and talking about it.”

Oh, you mean like the fascist left and their lapdog commie media has done in Ferguson?

Stupid SOB.

[VRWC For Truth]

Where has Soetoro been for six years? Golfing.

[Sasparilla]

It is predictable that ALL democratic comeback spin today is done verbatim from Obamas talking points passed out at the White House democrat dinner last night.

[RetiredArmy]

BS. Dims owned senate. They didn’t do anything about it.

[GeronL]

we already have immigration laws, enforce them

[molson209]

Ya that’s right get the BLAME out first , LOL

[nascarnation]

I always wondered why the Dems didn’t pass “Cap & Tax” and “card check” when they held all 3 branches.

Some folks say they p*ssed away all their time with Obamacare....

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No, inaction is the choice Mr. Doofus-head.

[kosciusko51]

Harkin and Pelosi with the same talking points.

Worthless hypocrites, the lot of them. They would never say the same thing if the President was not of their party.

[joethedrummer]

I’d like to hear ONE idiot Republican refute this twisted logic with something like:

Well, the Republicans haven’t “acted” on providing free food to all Americans, or they haven’t “acted” on conquering China and making it the 51st state either!

Why do they allow such easily refuted crap to stand???

[Osage Orange]

Tom Harkin is a disgrace...to the country.

Always has been....Always will be.

[TexasCajun]

Where does it say that in the Constitution?

[Osage Orange]

Good luck with logic from the GOPe..............

[fhayek]

Inaction by Congress does NOT give the president the right to violate the Constitution.

[joshua c]

Uh, Senator Harkin, a question, sir.

How many years did the Democrats have the House and the Senate? 2006-2010?

During that time the Democrats did not pass an immigration reform bill?

[GeronL]

what inaction? We have immigration laws, the President needs to enforce them.

[cotton1706]

I wonder what would have happened if, using Senator Harkin’s logic, President Bush had just ordered drilling to commence in ANWR.

Or if President Bush just “reformed” Social Security on his own.