easyt65
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- Aug 4, 2015
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"The government shutdown is over. Democrats finally realized that closing the government over illegal immigration was a losing political battle. They created a needless crisis and got rolled. So who is to blame for their current predicament? Along with Charles E. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Democrats can put the blame squarely on the man who could have legalized the “dreamers” when he had the chance: Barack Obama.
During his 2008 campaign, Obama promised in a conversation with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos to make passing immigration reform one of his first legislative priorities, and even set a timetable. “I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days,” he said. “But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible.”
If he had wanted to act, he could have. Obama’s party controlled the House, and Democrats had a 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate majority. If Obama really wanted to pass either the Dream Act or comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans were powerless to stop him. But he didn’t do it."
...at least NOT LEGALLY. Despite admitting he did not have the Constitutional authority to create and pass Immigration Law on his own, Barry attempted to impose his socialist agenda through UN-Constitutional EO. One of the 1st things resident Trump did was to nullify - eradicate - that Un-Constitutional EO, forcing Congress to do it's job - write and pass legislation.
Flash-forward to now: Despite a budget bill that gave Democrats everything they wanted, Chuck Schumer led his fellow Democrats in standing with Illegals over US citizens by shutting down the US govt. But don't be too hard on Chucky:
"...there was no crisis for DACA recipients. This was, as Obama said when Republicans shut down the government in 2013, a “manufactured crisis” — one that Obama helped manufacture with his broken immigration promises. For once, Democrats were the ones making unreasonable demands. And now Democrats will have to pay the political price. If they don’t like it, they can only blame themselves and Obama."
Marc Thiessen: Democrats got rolled this week. They can blame Barack Obama
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During his 2008 campaign, Obama promised in a conversation with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos to make passing immigration reform one of his first legislative priorities, and even set a timetable. “I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days,” he said. “But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible.”
If he had wanted to act, he could have. Obama’s party controlled the House, and Democrats had a 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate majority. If Obama really wanted to pass either the Dream Act or comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans were powerless to stop him. But he didn’t do it."
...at least NOT LEGALLY. Despite admitting he did not have the Constitutional authority to create and pass Immigration Law on his own, Barry attempted to impose his socialist agenda through UN-Constitutional EO. One of the 1st things resident Trump did was to nullify - eradicate - that Un-Constitutional EO, forcing Congress to do it's job - write and pass legislation.
Flash-forward to now: Despite a budget bill that gave Democrats everything they wanted, Chuck Schumer led his fellow Democrats in standing with Illegals over US citizens by shutting down the US govt. But don't be too hard on Chucky:
"...there was no crisis for DACA recipients. This was, as Obama said when Republicans shut down the government in 2013, a “manufactured crisis” — one that Obama helped manufacture with his broken immigration promises. For once, Democrats were the ones making unreasonable demands. And now Democrats will have to pay the political price. If they don’t like it, they can only blame themselves and Obama."
Marc Thiessen: Democrats got rolled this week. They can blame Barack Obama
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