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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, this is rich! Conservative pundit accuses President Obama of extortion
OK...so this one from Rich Lowry broke my irony meter this morning.
In a fit of postelection modesty, President Barack Obama is offering not to take executive action to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants provided Republicans do his bidding on immigration.
It is extortion as conciliation. New Jersey governor Chris Christie often invites comparisons to The Sopranos, but it is President Obama who is making a tactic taken out of the HBO mob drama his major postelection initiative. His bipartisan outreach now ends with a pointed Or else . . .
This offer Republicans cant refuse includes the stipulation that the president will revoke his executive action in the event they pass legislation to his liking. How generous of him. We should all be pleased that he isnt threatening Republican leaders with the release of compromising photos yet.
Obamas tack on immigration speaks to a president who is out of sorts and out of step, and who recognizes his own political impotence. Unable to build a political case for one of his chief second-term priorities, he has to fall back on executive usurpation.
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As an aside, if you had trouble reading that first sentence like I did, its because conservatives have fallen so in love with the word "amnesty" that they've started using it as a verb as well as a noun.
But my bigger point is to notice that all of the sudden someone like Lowry thinks extortion in politics is a bad thing. This comes from the side of the isle that threatened to blow up the entire global economy by failing to raise the debt ceiling if President Obama didn't cave to their demands on the budget. Anyone else remember those days? Been there...collected the cartoons
Of course, its important to point out that President Obama isn't threatening to blow up anything. He's been saying for months now that if the House fails to pass the bipartisan immigration reform bill from the Senate, he would move on his own to protect families who have lived here for years from being separated due to draconian deportation policies. In other words, nothing gets blown up but the obstructionist's egos.
So I invite you to have a few laughs at Rich Lowry's expense this morning. I sure did.
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Rich Lowry is a widdle cry baby as are the rest of the GOP. They have grossly underestimated this President and now they pout. The bully boys haz a sad~ It's embarrassing to say the least.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)still_one
(92,217 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Rich Lowry subtext.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,789 posts)and for some They scared, he be living in The White House, how dare he!
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Did you see Obsma's speech in Brisbane today...astonishing...it needs more exposure.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)The republicans are pros at it.
LeftInTX
(25,369 posts)But I know Sheshe doesn't do those types of posts!!
This is straight off of Real Clear Politics - MSM
This piece of work is probably in my local newspaper at the present time.
Rich Lowry is just plain old vile.
sheshe2
(83,789 posts)Richie~
The last paragraph has me What a Hippo-Critter.
What President Obama is threatening is not only politically graceless a rude gesture at the public, as Ron Fournier of the National Journal puts it it is a profound distortion of the mechanisms of American government. But in a political environment defined by the reaction to his ideological overreach and misgovernment, blackmail is all hes got.
Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/11/president_obamas_mob_tactic_against_republicans_124635.html#ixzz3JC5dxmGE
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Lordy, the GOP collectively is a pouting right now! I do believe I can smell their hair burning and lol. I do believe that I can hear their collective heads exploding!
Cha
(297,297 posts)the error of his ways. Rofl.
Hey Rich.. "Christie(Sit Down and Shut UP) often invites comparisons to the Sopranos" for a good reason..
Notice his grinning sociopathic wife..
How'd ya like that bully in the WH and his stepford wife as First Lady. ?
This is President Obama..
Obama may announce immigration reforms as soon as next week
Thu Nov 13, 2014 at 09:48 AM PST.
One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344647/-Obama-may-announce-immigration-reforms-as-soon-as-next-week#
Obama Plan May Allow Millions of Immigrants to Stay and Work in U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/obama-immigration.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=1
I hope this comes to pass!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025815299
Thank you for your OP, she! Families Staying Together
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Obama's doing the right thing for humanitarian and common sense reasons - something the "conservatives" NEVER seem to understand.
We need real immigration reform. I think we'll have it soon with no help from the (ugh) GOP!