GOP Braces For Obama Executive Amnesty Decree

by JASmius

Well, sure, now that ISIS has made the coast clear:

Barack Obama will be taking a one-day break from his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to travel to Washington on Monday, prompting speculation about a possible announcement on immigration or a visit from a foreign leader.

Uh-oh.

The White House has so far denied any suggestions that the president may announce new executive orders to deal with the immigration crisis, according to the Hill.

The operative phrase being "so far".

The statements have not stopped lawmakers from speculating that the president intends to make an imminent announcement on immigration, with the GOP issuing strong warnings about the consequences should he choose to act unilaterally.

One cannot issue strong warnings when one has no strength with which to back them up.

"I'm very concerned that he might do that," Iowa-4 Republican Representative Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told "America's Forum" host J.D. Hayworth Thursday on Newsmax TV. "The information that I'm getting is that he was likely to, but now there's a sense that the timing of it might mean that he may be a little less or even on whether he does the stroke of his pen."

So he's playing with you, then?  Like a cat batting around a dead mouse?

But if Obama "uses his pen to conduct the business of the United States Congress while we're out of session, it will bring about a Constitutional crisis," King said.

Which is precisely what he wants, because either (1) he wins by default or (2) he AND Senate Democrats win in November if he provokes you into premature impeachment proceedings.  And either way, all those illegals are staying.

"The president doesn't command the Congress as a law," said King.

Oh, yes, he does.  Just watch.  Besides, the law has nothing to do with it, because the law isn't where his power is, but rather in his pen and phone.

"He needs to come and say, 'I'd like to have you pass this because I think it's good for the country', use his persuasive powers and not the intimidation powers."

What persuasive powers?  What has he ever persuaded anybody to do other than elect him the first time?  It's been intimidation ever since.  And Monday is probably going to see that intimidation ramped up yet again.

If Obama does indeed us executive powers on immigration — including a declaration of immigrant amnesty — "Congress should go back into immediate special session to take this up," said King.

Or, IOW, the House would go back into emergency session, pass legislation slapping down The One's latest imperial directive, and it would die on Harry (G)Reid's desk, just like all other House-passed legislation.

God bless Congressman King, but he and his colleagues still aren't "getting it".  Neither are their Senate counterparts, like Jeff Sessions:

"It is chilling to consider now that these groups, frustrated in their aims by our Constitutional system of government, are plotting with the Obama administration to collect their spoils through executive fiat," he said.

They don't look and sound "frustrated" to me, Senator.  There's no such disapprobation that a pen and a phone can't cure.

Sessions said the Senate should vote on the House's measure that would stop Obama from expanding DACA or issuing work permits to illegal immigrants....

But they won't.

....and has urged voters to press their senators about voting against any excepted executive orders on immigration.

Don't bother; Harry (G)Reid will spare them the effort.

I tend to think that Congressman King's instinct is correct.  O dashing back to D.C. for a day probably has more to do with the Middle East than it does anything immigration related.  Remember, he's already won on that issue; the latest influx is here, they've been distributed around the country in "red" states and communities to overwhelm their voter demographics and spread their pestilence, and they're not going back.  The expected executive amnesty of five or six million more will just be running up the score.  And there's no particular urgency to do that unless Team Messiah sees a House Republican move towards impeachment as a serious possibility, in which case salvaging the Dems' Senate majority is a real possibility.  Otherwise that royal proclamation can wait until Labor Day.

But don't think they aren't deriving more than a little amusement from sending the Right to DEFCON-1 by dint of the release of a few rumors.  It's probably the highlight of his latest vacation, given the state of his golf game.


UPDATE: A possible Supreme Court appointment?:

The White House has kept a tight lid on the topic of the meeting, and Dana Perino speculated that could be because it was something he could not do remotely from Martha's Vineyard: a personnel announcement, possibly involving the Supreme Court.

If that is true, a possible candidate to step down is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but she recently made comments that she wants to serve as long as she can do it "full steam."...

Beckel said a possible Supreme Court nominee is John Kerry, and Perino suggested it could be Attorney General Eric Holder, who recently said he may not stay for the length of his term.

Justice Kerry or Justice Holder.  Oh, joy.

We'd better be on our knees praying at full power that it's Ginsberg that's retiring.  Because if it's Thomas or Scalia, November 4th just became irrelevant.

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