This is all very amusing to me. What are those opposed to Obama's action really opposed to?
I find it difficult to believe the 'rule of law' canard. We haven't declared war since WWII, but that hasn't spared young men and women from death and injury or saved the trillions spent conducting war that really isn't war. The argument falls a little flat.
The argument that Obama is somehow usurping Congress' power is silly for another reason. In April of last year, the Senate passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (68-32). The House didn't take it up, instead promising to create a bill of their own. One was drafted, by a Republican, only to be shelved by Boehner in July; a full year after ignoring the Senate bill. Bush also tried to get a comprehensive bill passed, but again was thwarted by Congress. Congress is clearly not doing its job, so what's the grumbling about?
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Obama hasn't changed the law. He is simply delaying deportation of those that have family members here legally or that are citizens, pending legislation that is promised but never delivered. I don't understand why this is upsetting? Do those opposed truly want parents of American citizens deported? What becomes of the kids? Do you want them deported too? I suppose it's reasonable to expect from people that laud an ancient that implored people to abandon their families in order to follow him.
Keep in mind that the situation only exists because of how fucked up the current law is. If Congress doesn't like what the President is doing then they should get off their ass and fix the problem through legislation. And I don't want to hear some lame Demo/Repub bullshit here. Both parties have done nothing but cock-block two Presidents on the issue, so fuck 'em all.
In the current situation I can only lay blame on half of Congress since the Senate passed a reform bill. And even here, Representatives of the majority party did draft a bill, but leadership refused to put it on the floor. It should be obvious now where the fucking problem is so get off the President's ass and jab your pitchforks in the right direction.
I did not vote for Obama (didn't vote for Romney either), and could hardly be considered a fan, but I have absolutely no problem with his course of action here. He's been more than patient.
I find it difficult to believe the 'rule of law' canard. We haven't declared war since WWII, but that hasn't spared young men and women from death and injury or saved the trillions spent conducting war that really isn't war. The argument falls a little flat.
The argument that Obama is somehow usurping Congress' power is silly for another reason. In April of last year, the Senate passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (68-32). The House didn't take it up, instead promising to create a bill of their own. One was drafted, by a Republican, only to be shelved by Boehner in July; a full year after ignoring the Senate bill. Bush also tried to get a comprehensive bill passed, but again was thwarted by Congress. Congress is clearly not doing its job, so what's the grumbling about?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c1...c113EwsS2Y::
Obama hasn't changed the law. He is simply delaying deportation of those that have family members here legally or that are citizens, pending legislation that is promised but never delivered. I don't understand why this is upsetting? Do those opposed truly want parents of American citizens deported? What becomes of the kids? Do you want them deported too? I suppose it's reasonable to expect from people that laud an ancient that implored people to abandon their families in order to follow him.
Keep in mind that the situation only exists because of how fucked up the current law is. If Congress doesn't like what the President is doing then they should get off their ass and fix the problem through legislation. And I don't want to hear some lame Demo/Repub bullshit here. Both parties have done nothing but cock-block two Presidents on the issue, so fuck 'em all.
In the current situation I can only lay blame on half of Congress since the Senate passed a reform bill. And even here, Representatives of the majority party did draft a bill, but leadership refused to put it on the floor. It should be obvious now where the fucking problem is so get off the President's ass and jab your pitchforks in the right direction.
I did not vote for Obama (didn't vote for Romney either), and could hardly be considered a fan, but I have absolutely no problem with his course of action here. He's been more than patient.
