Is President Obama Demanding Impeachment...

[4est_4est_Gump]

... for the good of his own party and the future of Obamacare?

The signs are that President Obama is going to proceed with a massive unilateral amnesty that will effect one of his most important legislative goals without the legislature. As a brazen distortion of our constitutional system, this move will provoke a major reaction and, at the very least, lead to more calls for his impeachment. But for the cynics at the White House this appears to be not a bug, but a feature. Consider the comments by Dan Pfeiffer the other day:

Any such move would prompt a major clash with congressional Republicans, and at least some White House officials appeared to relish the prospect that the GOP might overreach in its response and act in a politically self-destructive manner.

When the decision is announced, it will “increase the angry reactions from Republicans,” Pfeiffer said.

“I would not discount the possibility” that Republicans would seek to impeach Obama over his next immigration moves, he said, adding that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) had “opened the door to impeachment” by his plans to sue Obama for allegedly exceeding his executive authority.

Pfeiffer made his comments at a breakfast for reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

The White House may consider the unilateral amnesty a winning move on several different levels: it gets its policy goal; it satisfies an important part of its base; and if there is any serious move toward impeachment, it rallies the entirety of the Democratic base in a way we haven’t seen since 2008 and — assuming the politics of impeachment are bad for Republicans — drives the middle away from the GOP. An administration that is fast entering its dotage could consider this one of the few potential positive game-changers that it has direct control over — the Constitution and the rule of law be damned.

Rich Lowry, NRO

How far does he need to go in order to provoke such a reaction?

Should he follow the desires of La Raza (The Race) and use his pen to give amnesty to four or five million of our undocumented, refugees and borderly-challenged residents? If that does not get the desired result, then what? An opinion piece in Spanish declaring that we welcome immigration as an opportunity and a proviso is the new fast-track to legal residency?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It seems that everyone has an unrealistic approach to the border crisis.

Time magazine reports that President Obama is mulling an executive order that would give work authorizations to perhaps several million illegal aliens. That would shred the rule of law, be grossly unfair to those waiting in line to enter the U.S. legally, and entice more people to head for the U.S.

Meanwhile, immigration hawks want to seal the border, something law-enforcement officials privately admit can’t be done absent a legal-guest-worker program that would allow the Border Patrol to focus on real criminals rather than gardeners.

Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina says Central America needs at least $2 billion in aid “to attack the root of the problem” — meaning poverty. His Honduran counterpart, Juan Hernandez, has called for a “mini Marshall Plan” of aid for the region. Such calls are likely to fall on deaf ears in Congress, which is weary of foreign-aid schemes that don’t help the intended beneficiaries and are often graft-ridden.

But there is one new idea worth trying. Last year, Honduras enacted constitutional reforms, which won overwhelming support from all parties in its parliament, that would allow semi-autonomous zones with distinct legal, economic, administrative, and political (LEAP) protections for job creators. Honduras’s supreme court has approved the law.

The idea for LEAP zones comes from observing how Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai “leapfrogged” other jurisdictions in economic gains by giving special protections to investors. In these states, for instance, final judicial appeals were lodged with distinguished foreign judges from countries such as Britain or international arbitration panels.

The zones wouldn’t involve transferring populations to foreign control. The locations for the first zones have not yet been proposed for Honduras, but they are expected to be small and sparsley populated. Significantly, Hondurans would be free not just to work in the zones but also to live there.

The South Korean government is donating a $4 million feasibility study and a master plan for a new zone near the Gulf of Fonseca. Favorable investment rules and new road and seaport infrastructure could bring explosive growth in what is now a very poor region. China’s special economic zone of Shenzhen began with 30,000 people in the 1990s and now has 11 million who call it home and earn middle-class incomes.

John Fund, NRO



Going towards Liberalism rather than Socialism.

California should pay attention...

 

[RobDownSouth]

Another mindless cut-and-paste.

"My mission is to turn Literotica into "Drudge with Tits"! I'm going to teach Laurel a lesson and carpet this place with cut-and-paste! Disagree with me? That bitch will learn that her actions have consequences" - 4est_4est_Gump (nee Andra_Jenny), 1999

 

[miles]

Trying to impeach him before the election not only wouldn't work, it will rally the Democrat base to vote in November. If the GOP wins the Senate and the House, I say go for it. He deserves it.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Trying to impeach him before the election not only wouldn't work, it will rally the Democrat base to vote in November. If the GOP wins the Senate and the House, I say go for it. He deserves it.

#ImpeachTehNegar because we don't like him.

 

[Ishmael]

Trying to impeach him before the election not only wouldn't work, it will rally the Democrat base to vote in November. If the GOP wins the Senate and the House, I say go for it. He deserves it.

I agree, any action taken has to be taken after the elections.

Ishmael

 

[Mockingjay]

Then give him... Why not?

After the elections...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

After the elections only puts the Cherokee into office...



... he is historic and unimpeachable and he's starting to figure that out.

"Nobody moves or the nigger gets it!"

 

[RobDownSouth]

I agree, any action taken has to be taken after the elections.

Ishmael

At least Ish and Miles admit that their actions are not motivated by legality but by political considerations...they're simply trying to undo the 2012 elections by any means necessary.

 

[Ishmael]

After the elections only puts the Cherokee into office...



... he is historic and unimpeachable and he's starting to figure that out.

"Nobody moves or the nigger gets it!"

It does have a Brooksian aura about it.

Ishmael

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Bad idea. The Bear is a big shit sandwich all need to enjoy till his time is up. Besides, no one in the GOP has any balls.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

At this month’s libertarian Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, Klugmann explained to me that LEAP zones are distinct from the 3,000 Special Economic Zones that dot the world. The difference is that the new Honduran special zones will be about more than reduced regulations and lower tax rates. “Zones that only address economic policies are a chair with one leg, the economic,” Klugmann says, referring to pro-investment taxes and regulations. “But we provide a sturdy four-legged chair that can provide a complete competitive advantage for creating jobs and attracting investment,” he says.

A skeptical BBC interviewer recently accused Klugmann of trying to “outsource” Honduras’s legal system to foreigners. Klugmann, who has lived in Latin America for two decades and now lives in Honduras, replies: “Right now you have Central Americans risking death and spending thousands of dollars to get to the U.S., where they will reside illegally and have no political rights. Let’s focus on what people need now to stay in their own country with their families.”

The Honduran law establishes a 21-person board of international notables that will have the power to hire the zone’s executive, veto official acts, and propose judicial nominees.

Among those on the board, confirmed by the Honduran congress, are Kakha Bendukidze, a former minister of reform from Georgia; Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; former Honduran president Ricardo Maduro; Barbara Kolm of the Austrian Economics Center; Richard Rahn of the Cato Institute; and Michael Reagan, President Reagan’s son. Every member of the board is committed to upholding the sound economic, political, and security principles that have led to economic growth.

The CAFTA free-trade area between Central America and the U.S., passed in the mid 2000s, has enormous potential to create jobs if coupled with LEAP zones to create far more jobs and ultimately reverse the migration of illegal aliens to the United States. In fact, the presidents of Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua met in April to discuss cooperation in creating special zones around the shared waterway of the Gulf of Fonseca.

But Klugmann thinks the United States can do more, and he hopes the current border crisis will produce some action. “One of the largest sources of employment in Central America is apparel production, yet Washington has given less favorable trade conditions to clothing exporters from Honduras than to Vietnam,” he says. “It is a strange form of U.S. protectionism that sends jobs to Hanoi, and then displaced Hondurans and their kids head to Houston and Phoenix.”

Right now, implementation of the LEAP-zone concept has been slowed down by the migration crisis that has gripped Honduras. But Klugmann predicts the concept will take hold in Honduras because it is has worked in places with few natural resources, such as Hong Kong and Singapore. Measures that promote economic stability have also worked in Panama: The economy there is booming because the U.S. dollar is the national currency and its internationally respected Panama Canal Zone authority is completely protected from political interference.

John Fund, NRO

That's the way you do it.

I'll also bet it's nails on a chalkboard to President Obama.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It does have a Brooksian aura about it.

Ishmael

In a desperate bid for attention, I wonder who is most likely to focus on the word nigger and prove his ignorance?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Bad idea. The Bear is a big shit sandwich all need to enjoy till his time is up...

That's what I voted FOR instead of voting AGAINST transformative change.

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. ... there is only one remedy: time. People have to learn, through hard experience, the enormous disadvantage there is in plundering one another."
Frédéric Bastiat

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Moral Law of the Unassailable Victim:

Shortly before the 2012 election, President Obama unilaterally declared an amnesty for those illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. under the age of 18, after Congress had explicitly rejected his proposal. This executive ukase DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) has encouraged a massive new influx of illegal immigration from Central America, according to the migrants themselves. Official U.S. Border Patrol statistics reveal that about 22 percent of the illegal immigrants are “unaccompanied alien children”; the other 78 percent represent family units and adults. The Pew Research Center reports that 84 percent of the children are teenagers. Representative Michael McCaul (R., Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, stated: “About 80 percent, though, of these so-called children are about 16 to 17 years old, mostly male. That, from a security standpoint, greatly concerns me.”

Today, the Obama administration (again without congressional approval) promises another — but much more massive — amnesty for around 5 million to 6 million people, about half of all illegal immigrants in the country. The original DACA amnesty (of approximately 600,000) was merely a “down payment,” Representative Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) told a National Council of La Raza conference. Obama, Gutierrez contends, has promised to expand the amnesty by a factor of ten.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) declared that Obama’s proposed tenfold increase in amnesty “threatens the foundations of our constitutional republic.” It essentially constitutes not only the nullification of the Immigration and Nationality Act but also, Sessions says, represents “executive nullification” of our borders themselves, thus “creating the very open-borders policy explicitly rejected by Congress and the people.” Unfortunately, in the sixth year of the Obama presidency, it has become necessary to explain to our fellow citizens that the Constitution does not give the executive the right to nullify acts of Congress.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi explicitly embraces the elimination of America’s borders, declaring, “We are all Americans — north and south — in this hemisphere.” In Texas, looking across the Rio Grande Valley, Pelosi stated, “This is a community with a border running through it.” Other Democrats such as Texas representative Henry Cuellar disagree. Cuellar makes a clear distinction between his Mexican-American community in Texas (which supports border enforcement) and communities across the Rio Grande, in Mexico.

Many Democrats, however, appear to be closer to the Pelosi position. Representative John Lewis (D., Ga.) tweeted: “We are all connected. We can’t just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open.”

John Fonte. NRO

 

[RobDownSouth]

That's what I voted FOR instead of voting AGAINST transformative change.

You voted FOR a "big shit sandwich"?

 

[Ishmael]

The Moral Law of the Unassailable Victim:


John Fonte. NRO

I am still waiting for some proponent of these policies to explain to me, and everyone else, exactly what it is that these people are going to be doing here. To explain how the explosive demands on the nations social safety net(s) are going to be managed, let alone paid for. We are already witnessing a breakdown in the health screening and security screening of those that have recently arrived. How is opening the flood gates going to change the nature and severity of these problems?

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They are going to be educated as Dreamers...



... an opportunity cannot be wasted.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In a desperate bid for attention, I wonder who is most likely to focus on the word nigger and prove his ignorance?

The Nigger aspect is associative, whites and Hispanics will seize on the Bears race to geld him and promote their own. Its not fair but life isn't fair.

 

[contrifan32]

I say let him stay and hang himself, he is doing a good job on his own. It will be fun to watch racist Rob and the others say he was lynched by angry white males while Obama and his administration sink further into lamb duck status even before the mid term elections.

 

[DooleyDarter]

It is simple. The democrats will give the folks all sorts of shiny things and they in turn will vote for them for the rest of their lives. It is gerrymandering at its finest.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

All that glitters is gold.
Only shooting stars break the mold...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It is simple. The democrats will give the folks all sorts of shiny things and they in turn will vote for them for the rest of their lives. It is gerrymandering at its finest.

America is out of shiny trinkets and beads. The liberal elites need all of it to pay Chelsea's mortgage and buy Hillarys books.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Similarly:

Perhaps it is not the case that in the 21st-century United States we can live under something as simple and straightforward as the Code of Hammurabi. But the principle is the same: We write laws down in order that citizens may know what is permissible under the generally promulgated rules of the polity. The writing down of laws was the first step on the road from subject to citizen, and to reverse that is to do violence to more than grammatical propriety, Mr. Klein’s huffery-puffery notwithstanding.

The written law was the first real constraint on the power of kings. An oral tradition is subject to constant on-the-fly revision. Mr. Klein and others of his persuasion would see us return to that primitive state: “Oh, sure, the law says that the IRS can only operate on state-created insurance exchanges, but that isn’t what we” — and who is this we? — “really meant. And besides, things will turn out other than as we desire if we follow the law as written, and who are you, and what is the law, to forbid us our desires?” It is easier to think that way when you believe that you represent a uniquely enlightened point of view, that you are acting in the public interest, and that your political rivals are wicked and ignorant.

...

There will always be occasions for discretion and interpretation on legal questions, but it is not the case that such discretion should presumptively empower the IRS to do things that the IRS is not legally entitled to do simply because Barack Obama wishes it to be so. If history teaches us anything, it is that a system of law that presumptively sides with political power soon ceases to be any sort of system of law at all. Rather, it becomes a post facto justification for the will to power, an intellectual window dressing on might-makes-right rule.

The matter addressed in Halbig is hardly the Obama administration’s first attempt to circumvent the law as written — see Hobby Lobby, etc. — nor is it the progressives’ only attempt to impose what they imagine to be enlightened ad-hocracy on the American people. The disdain for the letter of the law is complexly intertwined with the progressive managerial imagination: The law, in their view, is not something that limits the ambitions of princes, but something that empowers them to do what they see fit. It is not surprising that conservative concerns about limited government frustrate and befuddle those who see the law in that way. They imagine government to be something like a plasma cutting table, a complex and precise tool that, in the right hands, can reshape the world in desirable, predictable ways. But government is not a complicated tool. It is in fact a simple tool: a bayonet.

The "REPUBLICAN" law says we have to keep the kids even though they came here voluntarily instead of against their will. It's what we think they should have meant...

 

[miles]

After the elections only puts the Cherokee into office...



... he is historic and unimpeachable and he's starting to figure that out.

"Nobody moves or the nigger gets it!"

Most won't understand the joke.