The spin ramps up …
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally. […]
Particulars in Obama’s proclamation may well be changed by Americans over time. But like Lincoln’s, its provisional and limited character will have a democracy-forcing effect — spurring officials and citizens to more actively engage in a constitutional dialogue.
Rather than refusing to follow the Constitution and “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” the president emphasizes that he will continue deportations, using all the budgetary resources Congress has provided. But those appropriations cover the annual removal of only 400,000 of the 11.3 million immigrants in the country illegally. Given this fact, Obama’s initiative has a constitutionally legitimate purpose: to prevent Homeland Security from wasting its scarce resources on breaking up innocent families when it could be targeting immigrants who deserve expeditious removal.
And here …
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is drawing a parallel between President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and President Obama’s planned executive actions on immigration reform.
“Does the public know the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order?” Pelosi asked at a news conference Thursday morning.
Looks like Leftists all got their White House talking points …
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) this week said President Barack Obama’s pending plan to give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants will someday be seen as an historical action along the lines of the Emancipation Proclamation. […]
“One day there will be movies written about this episode in American history,” he said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “There will be a president who issues an executive order like the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed three to four million slaves with the signing of a pen.”
Because slaves – people sold out of Africa and who were actual pieces of property are exactly the same as people who came here of their own free will and will do anything to stay.
Exactly the same.
And Guam tips over again.
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally.
That looks like no more than a bald-faced lie, if we simply look at the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum issued as legal justification for the action taken. No where in that memorandum is the Emancipation Proclamation mentioned. Not once.
So he left out the part proclaiming the whole of the United States to be in rebellion against the United States?
What Barackhenaten has done is declare the Executive Branch in rebellion against the United States.
Those seen by two or more persons cleaving to him, giving him aid and comfort, have in that act one very direct reason to want the Constitution overthrown.
Everyone keeps talking about “comprehensive immigration reform“, but no one seems to be talking about comprehensive ENFORCEMENT. How about we try actually enforcing the laws we have before we worry about changing them?
And the claim that “we have 15 million people living in the shadows”, since when does the number of law-breakers have anything to do with whether or not we enforce those laws? Government surveys show that nearly 100 million people have smoked marijuana and almost ten million use it chronically, but I don’t see any sudden rush by the Choomster-in-Chief to suddenly change those Federal Laws by Executive Fiat or prosecutorial discretion. There were 1.5 million marijuana arrests in 2012 (one every 42 seconds), according to the FBI, and that is a HELL of a lot higher than the number of deportations by Obumbles…
Ask any federal prosecutor about FIJA, alias juror discretion.
II’ve noticed numerous talking heads, both in media and the political “leadership”‘ an alarming propensity to say “um no, we’re not going to say the ‘I word'”, making an equivalence between uttering the “n” word and the word IMPEACH, as if the mere saying of the word impeach is, in and of itself, loaded with racist connotations, and thereby imbuing a meaning to the verb which it does not have.
“Someday there will be a movie…”
Texas Iwonpenphone massacre
A Clockwork Boehner
Maybe I missed the part where the Emancipation Proclamation reduced the wages of black people by a significant degree.
See, slaves don’t make much money. On that scale, we might say that Barack has reintroduced slavery to his brothers because he’s a straight-up Uncle Tomas.