House Speaker John Boehner has said that President Obama would “poison the well” for legislative action on immigration reform by unilaterally issuing executive orders. But how can you poison a well that has already been filled with partisan cyanide? EJ Dionne, Washington Post 17 November 2014. On the construction of Obamacare, not a single Republican suggestion was adopted. On the colossal failure that was the Stimulus Package, Democrats went it alone, not bothering with Republican suggestions. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”- Obama, October 25, 2010. Backseat driving does not mean sharing the wheel. A nice piece of double speak from the double speak master himself, Obama. Those are but three of the many examples Team Obama has put in play that denied Republican input. Yet on the other hand, they spill fake tears on a lack of Republican participation. And that is how they wanted it and that is how Obama will proceed. If the political well is poisoned, the setting aside of House passed bills by Reid of the Senate, the snide, snotty comments by Obama, and the wholesale dismissal of Republicans on matters before Congress when Democrats held court, did not make it less toxic. Quite the opposite. On November 26, 2013, Obama stated that he lacked the authority to stop deportations. The general outline of his intentions to issue an Executive Order on immigration does just that. With Team Obama, whatever the question is, the answer fits, even if the question changes. He cant. Yes, he can. Have we ever witnessed such a Whack-A-Mole administration before? No. Dionne, relentless Obama defender, notes with the same madness, the many who did not vote this most recent election as reason (actually the complete absence of reason) for Obama to listen to...them. Forget those who voted, the greater weight of consideration for Obama, with Dionnes enthusiastic drivel, is found in those who did not vote. When talk of disenfranchising voters is next uttered by Team Obama, or any Democrat or Liberal pundit, simply point to Obamas own words on who has his ear and it is not those who voted. That is disenfranchisement on a scale never seen. Discounting voices cast as ballots is the ultimate disenfranchisement. In its own way, that is right up there with bragging that 99% of all votes were favorable to a dictator: those are as phony as well as listening to non-voters. But with Obama, what is most important is Obama. Forget The Constitution which does not allow for the actions he proposes. He has support of a greater thrust: the Dionnes of the press, the non-voters and of course, his reckless and endless disdain for The Constitution. Splattered elsewhere throughout Dionnes latest contribution to landfill material, he mentions the deal with China on emissions and dismisses it as if critics are of course, wrong. Noting the lowest voter turnout for a midterm since 1942, Dionne uses that to support hearing those who stayed home and how it trumps those who voted. For Dionne, the flight to anti-Constitutionalism is not a solo flight. There are many journalists who side with him as he suggests that Obama has the legal authority to act alone on immigration. The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. To Mr. Jeffersons good fortune, he never knew men like Dionne and the disservice they do to the press as they cheer what can only be called the end of a Constitutional Republic in exchange for a government of one.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:37:26 +0000
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