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Buzz Cut:
• Obama goes large on immigration
• States face double digit ObamaCare price hikes
• Team Obama dampens Landrieu’s last ditch pipeline ploy
• Cruz allies create campaign cash cow
• We should have named him ‘Harry’
OBAMA GOES LARGE ON IMMIGRATION
Pressured by Democratic lawmakers and activists concerned over an erosion in support from Hispanic voters, the breadth of the President Obama’s unilateral move to shore up this critical Democratic bloc is coming into focus, and he’s going large. No longer encumbered by the pleas of vulnerable Democratic candidates, who took a drubbing last week, and un-phased by the warnings from Republican leaders in Congress not to poison the well, Fox News has learned Obama could unload a massive plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action as early as next week. The 10-part plan is packed with enough toxins to heavily pollute the water at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. “The most controversial [of the plan’s initiatives] pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as ‘deferred action.’ The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates… Another portion that is sure to cause consternation among anti-“amnesty” lawmakers is a plan to expand deferred action for young people…estimated to make nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants eligible.”
[“Congress can stop it and must stop it in my opinion. It’s really a threat to the Constitutional order.” –Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on “The Kelly File.” Watch here.]
Asked about the report, the White House said the president is still taking recommendations from the Department of Homeland Security and hasn’t made up his mind on specific measures to be taken. Republicans have reiterated the explosiveness of Obama’s use of executive action on immigration, though there’s concern in the GOP that some legislative tactics being pushed by conservatives could backfire. WSJ: “A bloc of Republican lawmakers is seeking to use must-pass spending legislation in the final weeks of the year to place limits on President Barack Obama’s ability to loosen immigration rules, threatening to split the party in Congress.” Regardless of when and how Republican choose do battle, if the president follows through on his plan, a bitter fight is certain.
[The Judge’s ruling: Overreach litmus test – Today at Fox News Opinion, Senior Judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano offers key questions he would like to see answered by attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch: “If she agrees that the Constitution is not a neutral instrument as between the people and the government because it was written to keep the government off our backs, she will be an antidote to Mr. Obama’s law breaking. But I think I may be wishing for too much. She is, after all, his nominee.”]
