Obama’s Amnesty By Blackmail

ObamapngIgnoring voters’ historic coast-to-coast repudiation of his disastrous policies this week, President Obama is now threatening to move forward unilaterally with a massive immigration amnesty by the end of the year.

At his first post-election press conference Wednesday, instead of embracing conciliation as a responsible adult might do, Obama, the petulant Chicagoland thug, pulled a switchblade. Obama tried to blackmail newly emboldened congressional Republicans, vowing to enact amnesty through executive fiat if Congress doesn’t play ball.

Republicans’ newly won control of the Senate and enhanced majority in the House of Representatives means the Republicans who just gave Obama’s Democratic allies a savage electoral beat-down are now in a better position to give Obama the unprecedented immigration amnesty he wants. As the president said,

So before the end of the year, we’re going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take that I believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system … at the same time, I’ll be reaching out to both [incoming Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, [House Speaker] John Boehner, and other Republican as well as Democratic leaders to find out how it is that they want to proceed. And if they want to get a bill done — whether it’s during the [approaching] lame duck [session of Congress] or next year — I’m eager to see what they have to offer.

Although McConnell and Boehner have been all over the map on immigration amnesty in recent months, since the election they have said they will not be pushed around by the president on the issue of amnesty.

Acting unilaterally on immigration would be “a big mistake” akin to “waving a red flag in front of a bull,” McConnell said. Such action “poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.”

Boehner also said unilateral action would “poison the well.” The House Speaker warned Obama, “when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he’s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.”

Contrary to what Obama said, there are virtually no lawful actions Obama can take on amnesty, but the president has always viewed laws as speed bumps on the road to social justice. The wily former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer promised to ignore the separation of powers prescribed by the U.S. Constitution and implement Third World-style government-by-decree. He said:

But what I’m not going to do is just wait. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve shown a lot of patience and have tried to work on a bipartisan basis as much as possible, and I’m going to keep on doing so. But in the meantime, let’s figure out what we can do lawfully through executive actions to improve the functioning of the existing system.

Obama, a master of rhetorical tricks, hasn’t actually been patient. He already illegally granted an amnesty benefiting certain categories of illegal aliens. A recently uncovered government procurement order suggests his administration may be planning to issue 34 million work visas and green cards without the required legal authorization from Americans’ elected representatives in Congress.

As for reaching out to the GOP, Obama is lying as usual. He has no interest in working with congressional Republicans. He has only slightly more interest in working with congressional Democrats. He’s a megalomaniacal, authoritarian leader who is only comfortable when he’s calling the shots.

Reporter Jon Karl embarrassed Obama during the presser by pointing out that “Mitch McConnell has been the Republican Leader for six years, as long as you’ve been President.” Karl continued, “But his office tells me that he has only met with you one-on-one once or twice during that entire six-year period.”

Obama didn’t acknowledge that fact and awkwardly segued into a discussion of sharing some Kentucky bourbon with Sen. McConnell even though he admitted he didn’t know if McConnell drinks bourbon.

Parts of Obama’s strange prepared statement were laced with practiced platitudes as the nation’s Chief Executive dismissed the election results as irrelevant:

Still, as president, I have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So, to everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too. All of us have to give more Americans a reason to feel like the ground is stable beneath their feet, that the future is secure, that there’s a path for young people to succeed, and that folks here in Washington are concerned about them. So I plan on spending every moment of the next two-plus years doing my job the best I can to keep this country safe and to make sure that more Americans share in its prosperity.

Of course people who do not vote can’t actually be called “voters,” but thinking has never been the strong suit of this man who thinks “Austrian” is a language and who celebrates “Cinco de Quatro.” In Obama’s disordered mind he didn’t really lose, even though he proudly boasted mere weeks ago that the election would be seen as a referendum on his administration. “I’m not on the ballot this fall … but make no mistake, these policies [of mine] are on the ballot — every single one of them,” he said on the campaign trail.

Obama doesn’t seem to accept the new Republican majorities in both houses of Congress as politically legitimate, as J. Christian Adams argues. This contempt for Americans who don’t toe the leftist line is part of the Left’s deep-seated hatred of the American system of governance. Adams explains:

It is a favorite fable among far-left groups like the Advancement Project and Demos that more voters is always good and fewer voters is always bad. They firmly believe that the path to a progressive policy wonderland is to get everyone with a heartbeat to vote.  This is part of an even older fable that the ‘system’ robs the underclass of power through laws, rules, racist constructs and oppressive societal structures – like having to make the effort to register to vote, for example.

It’s all the usual blatherskite we’ve come to expect from Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers. If they win, they shout to the heavens that they’ve secured a thunderous mandate from We The People; if they don’t win, they try to discredit the results.

And it’s quite a contrast from the way Obama acts when his side wins.

Days after Obama’s first inauguration he brazenly flaunted his new political legitimacy in a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders. Republicans would have to do his bidding because, as he baldly stated, “I won.”

Republicans still have to submit to the Dear Leader because he claims to have a mandate from the whole of the American people.

As his approval ratings continue to plummet Obama seems oblivious to the contempt that normal, patriotic Americans feel for him as they lose their jobs and their health care because of his socialist meddling. And he cannot seem to fathom the brutal, historic thrashing his party received in congressional elections on Tuesday.

On Tuesday the GOP flipped control of the Senate, winning at least 52 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 242 seats. Republicans captured governors’ mansions in –of all places– Democrat-dominated Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland, and will control at least 66 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska’s legislature has only one chamber).

Meanwhile, President Obama is scheduled to meet today at the White House with congressional leaders to discuss legislative matters, including amnesty.

But if Obama really believes he has the power to enact an amnesty by presidential decree, why bother having such a meeting? The president’s phone and pen ought to suffice to rewrite immigration laws.

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  • Ted Kennedy

    I fear Obama will use executive amnesty to fulfill his campaign promise to “fundamentally transform America”. This will be the one and only promise he’s willing to keep!

  • Catahoula

    Bully, extortion and blackmail by the president of the US. Sad times.

  • Snowpersonable

    The Republicans should prepare now to draw up legal papers to either have Obama impeached or arrested. Not next week….NOW. There is no “bi-partisan” agreement on “amnesty”….the illegals broke the law and are draining our country dry of taxpayer money better suited for our own people. Obama is manipulating the Republicans into an “amnesty” agreement.

    • USARetired

      Amen to all! He must go and soon!

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      • JacksonPearson

        God Bless our Military and especially our veterans….

  • MattBracken

    The first immigration-related bill to go from Congress to Obama’s desk should demand a serious border fence in under one year. Nothing else, just a fence. It’s not rocket science, and it would be a bargain compared to the care and feeding etc of the invaders. The problem is, the GOPe RINO Quislings leading the GOP are just as bad as Obama when it comes to wanting to keep the border wide open, so I have scant hope we will see a fence.

    • Erudite Mavin

      The Republicans are the Secure the Border party.
      It is Libertarian Ron Paul when in congress who voted every time against bills that would fence the border

      • laura r

        ron paul was deceiveing.

    • Callista Bernard

      The senate bill left all the border security up to the administration branch..which they say is already ok. Obama doesnt care about immigration anything..just amnesty. Businesses want low income workers. Dems was low information voters.——– Even when the border is secure, he dragged those 65,000 kids up here, not to mention several thousand adults that were never media reported, unless you went to the border security website, & got the truth.

  • Gamal

    Amnesty means more votes for Democrats. Now that so many Republicans have won it’s pay back time. Also now he has nothing holding him back because the elections are over and there is nothing to lose anymore.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    Let’s face it, the GOP didn’t win anything. It was Obama who gave them the election. Elections in Democracies have evolved to be far less a vote FOR a party or individual as a vote AGAINST an s.o.b. folks want deported to the moon. A normal human being in defeat but still in the White House, would pull back and try to really do what he thinks would be best for the country but Obama is by a long shot no normal human being. He is an egotistic Marxist-racist-Islamist who will fight in every which way he can and that is a good thing. Because the GOP, having been handed the reins would sit and scratch its head but Obama’s ego and nastiness will push them to the limit which will finally get them into action and impeach the s.o.b. So while he handed them the election, he will also force them to impeach him and that, in the long run, is all to the good.

    • Capt Bob

      you are right. obama is such a bad president that he gave the election to the GOP

    • cree

      As much as most of us think Obama warrants impeachment, the catch 22 is his impeachment insurance: Joe Biden, with black riots as a rider.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      OR, he could go back to being the charmer. Washington republicans LOVE to be charmed by democrats.

  • Joe The Gentile

    Amnesty will backfire so much on democrats that I almost want it to happen. I don’t want to give all the details because ‘loose lips sink ships’. I’m happy with their thinking it won’t backfire on them. But let’s put it this way–go ahead Obama. Make my day.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      I’ve always thought it was weird the way so many powerful white democrats have managed to marginalize themselves while propping up their replacements. And nearly all of it on the basis of race (anybody BUT white people = “diversity”).

      WHEN Obama manages to make amnesty into a reality it will further marginalize white democrats. But it will destroy the political power of black democrats. So far, only a small contingent of black Americans see this and are shifting sides.

      One day we will wake up and the last white democrat will have been defeated by the diversity they championed like a club of the heads of Americans. I’m not saying diversity itself is wrong. Given time, it will occur naturally.

      I am saying that FORCING diversity on people of ANY color is wrong. But then, nobody seems to be forcing white people onto others do they now?

  • Legs2

    Power of the Purse the House has. They need to use it. If they need cash to beef up the borders, take it from the little armies created under Obama such as the one in Homeland Security or the EPA… If these agencies have hd the cash to build up and arm their armies, they obviously have too much money in their control. Why do we not have the Coast Guard patrolling the Rio Grande? It is as much of a coast as the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.

  • Jerry

    Who will grant HBO executive amnesty for his treason against the USA?

    Better:

    Impeach
    Arrest
    Charge with treason
    Try and convict
    and
    Execute

  • LiberatedCit

    Cover up B4 election?

    Border stat posted, and then removed

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/border-patrol-statistics-show-changing-migration-pattern/2014/11/05/727c9132-6534-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html

    I would bet a lot more got in then were caught

    Nearly Half a Million Illegals Caught Crossing Into US Last Year

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/nearly-half-a-million-illegals-caught-crossing-into-us-last-year/

  • hhh33

    Sadly the President is in major denial and won’t take to heart the drubbing his policies took at the mid-terms. Americans want jobs and financial security. Bringing in millions upon millions of illegals is not a priority to John Q. Public.

  • edlancey

    “To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.”

    If your grandfather were alive – you know, the one you thought was a dreadful old racist – you’d be nodding your head sagely as he said “I told you what would happen”.

  • Joanne

    We have to stop this anchor baby mess. Anyone who was an illegal should never be given citizenship. Legal residence only. Dreamers should be no older than 12 and must apply for citizenship then to be granted at 18. No mail order brides. No criminals allowed. No gang member, mafias. No more Muslims. Pretty soon all the europeans are goinv to want to come and get away from the immigrants that are overtaking their lands. Build prisons in Mexican desert for the illegals who will be deported anyway. Stop giving them stuff. They all know what they can get and how to work the system. All illegals in jail get deported. We got to take incentive away.