Obama Taunts Republicans: Next President Won’t DARE Reverse My Amnesty Order

 By Greg Campbell

Even the staunchest supporters of President Obama’s radical agenda do not pretend that he has not usurped power from the legislative branch with his recent executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The left might hedge and clarify that what the president did was okay because the Republicans supposedly forced him to this dire move, but few liberals pretend that the ability to act as an emperor lies within the Constitution.

 

Even President Obama, it seems, feels that acting like an emperor is okay and America’s despotic leader has even begun taunting the opposition, daring them to undo his extralegal maneuver.

 

At a townhall meeting in Nashville, Obama admitted to a crowd that his executive action could be undone fairly easily with the next president simply undoing the imperial edict proclaimed by Obama. However, Obama maintained that future presidents would not dare to undo his proclamation. 

“It’s true a future administration might try to reverse some of our policies. But I’ll be honest with you — the American people basically have a good heart and want to treat people fairly and every survey shows that if, in fact, somebody has come out and subjected themselves to a background check, registered, paid their taxes, the American people support allowing them to stay. So any future administration that tried to punish people for doing the right thing, I think, would not have the support of the American people. It’s true, theoretically, a future administration could do something that I think would be very damaging. It’s not likely, politically, that they reverse everything we’ve done.” 

It is truly amazing that at a time of such lawlessness and chaos, at a time when the American people have desperately tried to swing the political pendulum back to the right by delivering a crushing defeat to Democrats in the midterms, the president still has the audacity to lecture America about the rule of law and the necessity of doing what is in the interests of the American people.

 

Republicans have remained justifiable outraged over the recent imperial action, but House leadership has refused to play hardball with Obama on the issue. While principled Tea Party leaders call for a withholding of funds for Obama to implement his expansion of executive amnesty, moderate Republicans have blinked on the spending showdown and punted to deal with the issue next year by funding a government that includes money spent on amnesty.