President Obama has just transformed America ... as he had promised. He has issued his first ukase*... and I wonder how many more will follow?
In truth, what Obama did last night was to throw a bone to
as many as 5 million illegal immigrants. This may not be all bad … except for one
major flaw … and that was the way he did it. With the back of his hand he has
undone what the framers of the Constitution feared most … he has become
all-powerful. The people’s representatives, Congress, have just been neutered
to the point of irrelevance … for they have no options. If they pass an
immigration reform bill to his liking in the next six months, they will be
bending to his will. If they don’t, then his ukase stands unless and until the
Supreme Court finds the gumption to strip him of this authority … which may
take months if not years. In the meantime the damage done will be irreversible.
The most insidious part of this ukase is that it appears to
give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship … but is gift-wrapped in quite a few more presidential lies. These lies are meant to sugar-coat this blatant
usurpation of power with administrative niceties that we all know will never be
implemented. They are:
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Our border’s will be made more secure
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These newly legalized illegal immigrants will not be
allowed to vote
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These newly legalized illegal immigrants will not be
eligible for Obamacare and a myriad of other welfare benefits
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These newly legalized illegal immigrants will have to
pay back income taxes and continue to do so into the future
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Illegal-immigrant criminals will be deported
These amnesty-mitigating lies are so obvious that they are
laughable … probably the side-splitting tenor of the White House meetings in
which they were inserted into the president’s speech. I wonder if
Jonathan Gruber was somehow involved in constructing this ukase?
* “A ukase, in Imperial
Russia, was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader
(patriarch) that had the force of law.”
