Bob
03-03-2015, 04:48 PM
Or was it earlier.
But if he gets to run everything, his way, he is a dictator.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/03/boehner-caves-on-amnesty-march-3-2015-is-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/
Congress’ retreat into obscurity under Republican leadership has been rapid and pronounced, and the cave in on Executive Amnesty was inevitable the moment Republican leaders declared that any kind of government shutdown was unacceptable. Everything since then has been merely delaying the inevitable.
One of the great ironies is that in the same article that Tom Cole provided consolation that one federal court judge had stopped Executive Amnesty as unconstitutional. What Cole didn’t mention is that the Obama administration is arguing that the federal courts should not intervene because Congress is failing to use the power of the purse to defund the action. A legitimate argument that Congress is assenting to the action based upon their decision to provide funds to carry it out. Now, the collapse of opposition to funding will be all the more powerful and dissuade the Court – the least powerful of the three branches of government -- from intervening in a Constitutional fight that Congress itself surrendered on.
But if he gets to run everything, his way, he is a dictator.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/03/boehner-caves-on-amnesty-march-3-2015-is-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/
Congress’ retreat into obscurity under Republican leadership has been rapid and pronounced, and the cave in on Executive Amnesty was inevitable the moment Republican leaders declared that any kind of government shutdown was unacceptable. Everything since then has been merely delaying the inevitable.
One of the great ironies is that in the same article that Tom Cole provided consolation that one federal court judge had stopped Executive Amnesty as unconstitutional. What Cole didn’t mention is that the Obama administration is arguing that the federal courts should not intervene because Congress is failing to use the power of the purse to defund the action. A legitimate argument that Congress is assenting to the action based upon their decision to provide funds to carry it out. Now, the collapse of opposition to funding will be all the more powerful and dissuade the Court – the least powerful of the three branches of government -- from intervening in a Constitutional fight that Congress itself surrendered on.