In this the latest episode of the "Gasbag Chronicles" we find our socialist hero, the Constitutionally-challenged Steny Hoyer, busily doing his best to describe where it is in our Constitution that says Barry, our dictator-wannabe, has the authority to essentially rewrite, or to create out of whole cloth, new immigration policies regarding those in our country illegally.
It was at a press briefing on Tuesday that old Steny Hoyer actually made the claim that Barry does have "broad authority" to take unilateral action on immigration but was unwilling to directly answer the question of where it is, specifically, that our Constitution actually authorizes our ‘Dear Beloved Leader’ to unilaterally decide not to enforce current immigration laws.
Hoyer was asked: "The Constitution requires that the president ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Where specifically in the Constitution does it give the president the power not to enforce immigration laws against 5 million violators of that law?" And of course Hoyer could not point to any specific provision of the Constitution, because there is none.
What he did say was that Barry has authority because "presidents have broad authority to deal with implementation" of immigration law. In attempting to back up his claim Hoyer said that which many others of his ilk have also said in trying to claim the Barry has done nothing different than what several Republican presidents, and a Democrat, have done before him.
But as with the other, Hoyer neglected to mention the very critical fact that the Republicans to which many Democrats refer, were not acting unilaterally, as Barry has proceeded to do. What they did was to sign into law legislation that had originated in Congress. But I think that most willing to look beyond the politics recognize that that is not what Barry has done here.
Hoyer said, "Well, your question is: Do I think the president has the authority to do what he did, and the answer to that is, yes I do. I believe the legal precedents are pretty clear under President Bush and under President Reagan and President Clinton, both President Bush’s actions have been taken. Presidents have broad authority to deal with the implementation of the immigration statute and I think what the president has done falls within his authority to do so, and I know there’s a hearing in the House today about that."
Hoyer went on to say, "Congress has a responsibility to act." And added, "When you have the speaker, former majority leader, the present majority leader, and almost everybody that I hear talking about it, saying that the system is broken, we have a responsibility to fix it." But the truth here, regardless of who it is that’s making these claims, is that the system is not broken!
Hoyer blathered on, "And we have that opportunity," said Hoyer. "So whether the president has--I believe he has the authority--but the Congress clearly has the authority to set the law. And if we pass the law, if we pass a law, that will be dispositive of the issue. The problem is we haven’t done that and the president has acted because he believes it’s in the best interest of the country to do so and to focus, which I think he’s absolutely right about, to focus resources on border security."
"And when they talk about border security, the border is much, much more secure than it was 10 years ago by every calculation," said Hoyer. "And then also focus on getting those who’ve committed crimes in America out of this country, who are not authorized to be here, out of this country. That’s what he’s doing, I think he’s right."
Barry announced on November 20 an executive order that said, "if you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if you register, pass a criminal background check, and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes--you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation."
This policy reportedly will effect up to five million illegal aliens and yet in July, it was the very same Steny Hoyer who said, at the time, in an interview, that Barry "can’t legalize" illegal aliens. He then went on to say that the president "can implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented." In other words he can pick and chose which laws to enforce? Really?
It was then that Hoyer said, "What the president can in fact do, however, is implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented." And then went on to say, "And there have been a lot of scholars--and I’m not going to go through the quotes now--who have said the president clearly has broad authority to decide how he’s going to implement the law."
What the Democrats are very clearly trying to do here, between this action of Barry’s that is clearly unconstitutional and the disgusting behavior that was recently display by those in the Congressional Black (Bonehead) Caucus with their "hands up, don’t shoot’ drivel, is to work to cobble together what they hope will be an impregnable voting block for years to come.
And what seems to matter very little, if at all, to folks like Hoyer is the actual state, whether fiscally, morally or economically, of our country. The primary goal of Democrats is to come up with a way that provides to them the ability to rig the political game by skewing our electoral process in such a way that will virtually guarantee to them endless electoral victories.
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