[RealJustme]

"I taught constitutional law for ten years. I take the constitution very seriously. The biggest problem that we’re facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United States of America." (Sen. Obama at a Townhall in Lancaster, PA, March 31, 2008)

With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed — and I know that everybody here at Bell is studying hard so you know that we’ve got three branches of government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws. Barack Obama

~
"There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.“
Barack Obama

Obama is now saying "after research and consultations with scholars" he does have the power to suspend deportations through executive order and to change laws that are not in the best interest of the United States. Obama also made it clear he plans on using his new found powers on a number of issues that he feels Congress have failed to act on.

The description I remember from college psychology class was that neurotics build castles in the air. Psychotics live in those castles. Liberals are sick.

Carlos

[Clownkicker]

This is what happens when a Republican legal philosophy begins to permeate our culture.

Nixon told David Frost in his famous interview that a President is exactly like a king, only with a term limit.
Nixon believed a President couldn't break the law because whatever he wanted to do would be legal by definition.
Through an executive order Nixon also made it so that all a President needs to do is declare martial law and all safe deposit boxes are instantly frozen. No access to contents by their owners. I wonder why?

Your Republican philosophy is coming home to roost and you want to blame Democrats for it.
The same is true for your economic philosophy of the past 30 years. Deregulation of banks, "free trade" to export jobs to China and India, lack of oversight in derivatives markets, and on and on.

Now the rest of us have to live with the results of your stupidity.

[RealJustme]

Your Republican philosophy is coming home to roost and you want to blame Democrats for it.

Reid's action are coming home to roost starting in January, no longer does the Senate need 60% to ram something through, 51 Republican is now all we need. Obama's actions will give Republican leaders powers that can't be stopped when a GOP President assumes control of the kingdom. Yes, it will all come home to roost and liberals will scream bloody murder and whine as laws are changed over dinner. Thank you Reid and Obama, we need sweeping change by leaders with unlimited power to make it happen.

Carlos

[Clownkicker]

Reid didn't invent a single one of the political games you're pretending to be outraged against, you ignorant douche bag. :lol:

[Clownkicker]

Also, Obama didn't invent the Executive Order, Tool.

It was abused by Presidents long before he was even around Washington.

[RealJustme]

Reid didn't invent a single one of the political games you're pretending to be outraged against, you ignorant douche bag

Senate Democrats took the dramatic step Thursday of eliminating filibusters for most nominations by presidents, a power play they said was necessary to fix a broken system but one that Republicans said will only rupture it further.

Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments can advance to confirmation votes by a simple majority of senators, rather than the 60-vote supermajority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.

In the long term, the rule change represents a substantial power shift in a chamber that for more than two centuries has prided itself on affording more rights to the minority party than any other legislative body in the world. Now, a president whose party holds the majority in the Senate is virtually assured of having his nominees approved.

Reid said the chamber “must evolve” beyond parliamentary roadblocks. “The American people believe the Senate is broken, and I believe the American people are right,” he said, adding: “It’s time to get the Senate working again.”

McConnell linked the rule change to the methods used to approve Obama’s health-care law solely with Democratic votes.

Republicans said the way Democrats upended the rules will result in fallout for years. “It’s another raw exercise of political power to permit the majority to do anything it wants whenever it wants to do it,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), the GOP’s parliamentary expert, told reporters.

Republicans vowed to reciprocate if they reclaim the majority.

“Democrats won’t be in power in perpetuity,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), a 27-year member. “This is a mistake — a big one for the long run. Maybe not for the short run. Short-term gains, but I think it changes the Senate tremendously in a bad way.”

Time to reciprocate