Obama Legitimizes Legitimacy, Wreaking Havoc on the GOP

[Flaylo]

David Leopold: Obama Legitimizes Legitimacy, Wreaking Havoc on the GOP

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who declared he would veto the DREAM Act during the primaries, has dodged, ducked and evaded every question that has been thrown his way about the President's directive. Late last week, as he spoke at the National Association for Elected and Appointed Officials conference, Romney's campaign released a plan that called for more visas for high skilled workers. But the candidate himself did not answer the question of whether he would overturn President Obama's order if elected in the fall.

That's because Romney can't support the president's plan without raising the ire of the conservative base that does not yet -- and may never -- trust him. Nor can he oppose relief for undocumented youth if he has any hope of cutting into the president's daunting support among Latino voters. Not even Romney's Etch-a-Sketch can help him on this one.

And Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who's on Romney's vice presidential shortlist, has suddenly stopped talking about his own DREAM Act proposal -- one which is similar to Obama's deferred action program. Rubio also seems to have lost interest in the bipartisan effort to create visas for foreign entrepreneurs and graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees. Has he lost his footing on immigration or just his interest in finding solutions?

Other prominent Republicans have criticized Obama's plan not because it offers relief to undocumented youth, but because it's only a temporary fix to a problem in need of a permanent one. Where were they in 2010 when their party prevented the DREAM Act from passing the Senate and becoming a reality?

The good news is at least now some in the Republican Party are talking solutions, not deportation.

But the most deafening silence is from the restrictionists -- those who do their bidding in the dark corner of anti-immigrant antipathy and with whom Romney aligned himself during the primaries. An exception is Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who appeared on CNN to denounce the president's new policy but did little more than showcase himself as a hate-filled bully with an affinity for arresting Latinos.

Why the silence from the fringe?



Because Obama has suddenly legitimized legitimacy -- there is simply no way the restrictionists can credibly respond to the president's directive without laying bare their ugly mission. The best they can muster is the half-cocked claim that he has exceeded his authority

They don't really want to limit executive priviliege, they simply want to limit the man that's in the White House now, not any future Republican presidents, lest they have to reverse course again, lol. Obama has stuck it to the again.

 

[Oldstyle]

David Leopold: Obama Legitimizes Legitimacy, Wreaking Havoc on the GOP

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who declared he would veto the DREAM Act during the primaries, has dodged, ducked and evaded every question that has been thrown his way about the President's directive. Late last week, as he spoke at the National Association for Elected and Appointed Officials conference, Romney's campaign released a plan that called for more visas for high skilled workers. But the candidate himself did not answer the question of whether he would overturn President Obama's order if elected in the fall.

That's because Romney can't support the president's plan without raising the ire of the conservative base that does not yet -- and may never -- trust him. Nor can he oppose relief for undocumented youth if he has any hope of cutting into the president's daunting support among Latino voters. Not even Romney's Etch-a-Sketch can help him on this one.

And Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who's on Romney's vice presidential shortlist, has suddenly stopped talking about his own DREAM Act proposal -- one which is similar to Obama's deferred action program. Rubio also seems to have lost interest in the bipartisan effort to create visas for foreign entrepreneurs and graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees. Has he lost his footing on immigration or just his interest in finding solutions?

Other prominent Republicans have criticized Obama's plan not because it offers relief to undocumented youth, but because it's only a temporary fix to a problem in need of a permanent one. Where were they in 2010 when their party prevented the DREAM Act from passing the Senate and becoming a reality?

The good news is at least now some in the Republican Party are talking solutions, not deportation.

But the most deafening silence is from the restrictionists -- those who do their bidding in the dark corner of anti-immigrant antipathy and with whom Romney aligned himself during the primaries. An exception is Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who appeared on CNN to denounce the president's new policy but did little more than showcase himself as a hate-filled bully with an affinity for arresting Latinos.

Why the silence from the fringe?



Because Obama has suddenly legitimized legitimacy -- there is simply no way the restrictionists can credibly respond to the president's directive without laying bare their ugly mission. The best they can muster is the half-cocked claim that he has exceeded his authority

They don't really want to limit executive priviliege, they simply want to limit the man that's in the White House now, not any future Republican presidents, lest they have to reverse course again, lol. Obama has stuck it to the again.

What does Barack Obama's end run on the Dream Act have to do with "executive priviliege" which Barry just invoked to try and stonewall the investigation into Fast & Furious?

Obama hasn't "stuck it to" anyone really...unless you count the American people who would like to know who were the idiots behind Fast & Furious. So much for the "most transparent government ever"...huh, Flaylo? Obama "stuck it to" THAT concept!!!

 

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Let them limit executive privilege to hurt Obama. I doubt this is much more than bluster because they know full well how far executive privilege was abused under GWB. GWB and company laughed at congress when they tried to get answers for 911 and the invasion of Iraq. Installing a new law now will not help them with fast and furious, but it will hurt whoever is our next president, and whoever is president in 2016. Obama only has 4 more years.

I think it is great the way Obama has trolled the GOP into either trying to give him a black eye with fast and furious and limiting executive power and making things more transparent, or else fuelling him to yell at them for dropping the matter or stonewalling efforts the dems will put forth to make the presidency more transparent. This is the first time I have seen him play a really nice political trap to force one of his promises. The republicans are in a lose lose situation with presidential transparency and they can either try to shoot Obama down by forcing presidential transparency, or they have to let obama go on fast and furious because they cannot hit him without limiting executive privilege.

You know, the more this fight goes on the more I am actually liking Obama. I was not fond of him a year ago, but he has come out hard for gay rights, he has settled a lot of our foreign wars, he has turned our downward economy around, he has kept gas prices low, he has supported immigrants who do the right thing, and he has started to attack tax breas for the rich. I have to say at this point Obama goes on my list as an actual good president despite the fact he was not the savior he said he would be he certainly has done better for the US than most presidents I have seen. He is an extremely smart manipulator who has stopped playing into the republican fight, and started to manipulate them using their own aggression into no win situations.Yeah, 4 more years of this guy might be the thing america actually needs.