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Monday, June 18, 2012

The "pick-and-choose" president

Dear President Obama,

     Recent Mr. President you came out and stated that you will not be deporting illegal-immigrants who came here as youths as long as they do not break the law (which their parents did in coming here).  You plan to do this by not by enacting a law but instead by NOT-enforcing laws that are already on the books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0LpE0gmaRs

    Yet you yourself said the following just over a year ago when asked why he could not just issue an executive order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J9isifcg9ik

    So which is it Mr President?   Can you or can't you ignore laws passed by Congress from being enforced?  You say that your job is to enforce the laws that you do not have the legal footing to just ignore them. (I am glad to see you were paying attention in your high school civics class).   Did you undergo another "evolution" ? 

    It is this same reason that our Congress and business leaders are at a standstill. They cannot predict what you as president will do (or not do).   Will you one day say we should keep the Bush tax cuts and the next week push for the opposite?  Will you call for reducing regulation one month and then later reverse direction and increase regulation?   Will the President enforce the laws we pass through Congress?  What good is it to pass laws and then have them disregarded? 

    No Mr. President, you do not have the power to "pick-and-choose" which laws you will enforce and which ones you will outright ignore.  That power was never given to you in the Constitution, for by doing so, you are not overriding the will of Congress, but instead you are overriding the will of the people who put those people into Congress.  Those laws are not Congress' laws!  They are OUR LAWS Mr. President!   If "WE THE PEOPLE" want to change those laws then we must go through Congress to make those changes.  That is the process we have agreed to and you do not have the ability to disregard that process.

   Finally Mr. President, you mentioned that the Dream Act got only 55 votes in the Senate but was blocked by Republicans.  But in fact during this time, Democrats had a super majority (60 votes) in the Senate so therefore the Republicans could have all gone on vacation and the bill still would not have passed.  It was not Republicans blocking the bill Mr. President.  It was your own party!


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