America’s ward-heeler-in-chief just bought some votes with the policy
equivalent of a keg of beer and a slab of bacon. Obama’s memorandum to
Homeland Security head Napolitano to stop the deportation of illegal
aliens brought here as children and granting them work permits bypassed
Congress, that branch of government our quaint Constitution makes
responsible for such policy. Obama said so himself last year when he
reminded people that he couldn’t “change the law unilaterally” and “We
have to pass bills through the legislature and then I can sign it.” But
the need to stanch the bleeding from a week of economic bad news for his
reelection campaign has given the president Constitutional amnesia. If
Obama had been sincerely interested in crafting a legal, bipartisan,
permanent solution to this problem, he could have negotiated with
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who has crafted a more sensible
solution than last year’s Dream Act, and worked through Congress. But
the need to throw some goodies to Latino voters in several swing states
critical for his own reelection was more important than actually
governing according to the Constitution.
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