"If in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so."
Yes, he followed that up with a 'but,' explaining that our nation's 'tradition' is that of law. True...but a man begging a President to stop the deportation of all 11.5 million 'undocumented immigrants' (i.e., illegal aliens) with an executive order has obviously gotten the idea that a POTUS has that ability, so...where did he get that idea from?
Perhaps it's all of Obama's other rule-by-executive-fiat and congressional bypasses that his administration has acted on! Perhaps it's this President's imperial pronouncement time and time again that 'if Congress won't act, I will.' Perhaps it's also this President's constant discrediting of the very tradition and rule of law that he pretends to care about, while committing legal plunder (as I'm confident Bastiat would have labeled it).
And upon all of those reasons, Breitbart helps us out with another timely reminder...something that he now concedes he can't legally do...
Though Obama concedes he doesn't have such legal executive authority, that obstacle (along with the congressional one) hasn't done much to stop him from trying, and in many cases succeeding, thus far. Perhaps it's the last part of the clip that explains the hesitation to go full-bore, open-and-upfront authoritarian.Last year, Obama, by executive fiat, enacted a temporary deferred action program that allowed "certain illegal immigrants who came to the country before their 16th birthday, are under 30 years of age, and who also meet various requirements to receive temporary work permits."
As Breitbart News has reported, immigration activists want Obama to extend the deferred action program to all illegal immigrants if a comprehensive immigration reform bill cannot be passed. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has been an outspoken advocate of such an action. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who was a champion of the Senate's immigration bill that provided a pathway to citizenship to all of the country's illegal immigrants, said that immigration reform needed to be passed or Obama would give temporary amnesty to all of the nation's immigrants, which is something Obama has conceded he cannot do legally.
Obama says he's proposing the harder path of "using our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve, but it won't be as easy as just shouting, it requires us lobbying and getting it done."
So you see, the community organizer/lawyer gives this particular bastion of San Fran libs a lesson in subversion: don't commit a Fabian faux pas for the cameras...we'll use the democratic processes to peacefully pillage behind closed doors. And that's who this man is and who we're dealing with for the remainder of his term. Equally troubling are the clapping seals surrounding him, soaking up this Marxist claptrap.
