When the move to cease with deportations of those who were illegally brought to the US as young children first hit the news, I assumed that Obama had again resorted to the use of an Executive Order to enable this. It turns out that he did not such thing - he just told his (Our) Homeland Security Department to put a stop to it.
This is the move of a despot. When a Chief Executive decides that he is going to rule be decree, of which his recent move is an obvious example, that individual acts in a despotic manner. The modern usage of the term has connotations of a mean and bad guy, but the word itself is not restricted to that meaning. Despots can be nice guys or bad guys (They were also official titles in the Byzantine world), but the word implies that the person who occupies that spot has no need for any checks on his power - he can do what he wants when he wants.
Aside from the sick assumption that somehow the US government and its people are at fault for those who have harmed their children by illegally setting up residence in the US with their children in tow (Something that I certainly could not do in, say Mexico), Obama has made it clear that he will allow no law or other Constitutional requirement to interfere with his designs.
From TheBlaze:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-what-a-dictator-does-beck-savages-obamas-dream-act-fiat/
"Glennbeck.com sums up Beck’s epic reaction below:
“He’s not trying to get this through Congress. He is just, in a breakthrough fashion, seizing power,” Glenn told listeners. “This is exactly what a dictator does, not an American president. We are a constitutional republic. They don’t do that. He doesn’t have the ability. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t have the authority to do this. Obama is now stopping all deportations for certain classes of illegal aliens. Essentially he is going to put in place the DREAM Act without dealing with the hassles of debating it, voting it, discussing it, even writing an executive order. He’s just doing it.”[...]
“It’s not even executive order,” Glenn said. “He’s just doing it through the Department of Homeland Security.”
“Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano is telling us that the border is now better than it’s ever been,” he continued. “That is an out and out outrageous lie. This is one of the most important topics of our lifetime what’s happening on the border. It is a war zone. It is worse than a war zone. What’s happening in Pakistan on the border, what’s happening in Iraq on a border is not as bad as what’s happening in our own country on our border.' "
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http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-obligated-to-ignore-law.html
"That has been the Modus Operandi for the bulk of the Obama administration's time in the White House. Everything is "We need it now" "The American people cannot wait". Law and procedures that have provided effective government and helped to prevent bulldozing of the opposition and railroading of laws, appointments, etc. are just guidelines that be ignored when it is convenient to do so".
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It is time for our elected officials to, if not explore the very real possibility of an impeachment for this and other violations made during his tenure, at least assert their authority to control that for which the Constitution gives them the power. Censure him by a vote, take him to court before the Supreme Court Justices, but do something.
I have become ever more concerned that, moves like this failing to provide the desired boost to his campaign, Obama finds a way to start a full-out war with Iran and try to use that event to postpone the election.
We will not stand for this if he goes that far. We held a presidential election in the middle of our own Civil War, when horrific fighting was going on in our own nation. That election was a model of the durability of our government and of our people's respect for the law. Although I would not put it past Obama to try such a stunt, we will not let it happen.
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