Major moves postponed until lame-duck session over concern about potential backlash

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Sunday, November 2, 2014

Regardless of the outcomes of Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Obama is preparing to spring several major decisions on the public that he has postponed because of his concern about political backlash.

Although presidents often sign legislation in lame-duck sessions of Congress, it’s unusual for a president to hide his executive “to do” list from voters on so many important subjects, such as sanctions against Iran, immigration reform and nominating the next attorney general.

“It’s extraordinary that he is thinking about taking certain types of action that will have broad effects on our economy, on the makeup of our country, on virtually every aspect of American life, and we don’t know what those are,” said Richard Kelsey, assistant dean at the George Mason University School of Law.
The biggest action looming is Mr. Obama’s plan to issue an executive order on immigration that effectively would grant amnesty to some of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. The president initially planned to act in September, but nervous Democratic Senate candidates in Republican-leaning states persuaded him to wait until after the elections.

White House aides haven’t indicated the breadth of the president’s pending order, but a hint surfaced last month when the Department of Homeland Security ordered enough paper to print more than 4 million green cards and visas for next year.

The cards would give illegal immigrants the right to continue living and working in the U.S. legally — and perhaps obtain federal and state benefits.


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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #2

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'the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants"

11 ??? More like three to four times that number.

They have been bandying about the number 11 million since it seems the year 1. Alternate studies from 5 - 10 years ago have determined that then there were 30 - 40 million and counting illegals in the US.

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This article addresses my previous comments and is what we should expect in the coming Lame Duck months. The ideologues want their agenda to pass, no matter what you and I want. When "We the People" voted into office an opposition to their ideology, they simply complained that there's a "do-nothing" Congress "blocking" the President's agenda.
Tuesday appears to be in-the-making, one more correction for these ideologues to swallow. But even this will not temper this ideology that has attached itself to America like a virus. Remember when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat on MA? Scott Brown was voted in to oppose Obamacare!
But the Massachusetts delegation delayed Scott Brown's seating while the Dems hastily convened a lame duck session to ram ACA through before he could be seated, thus thwarting the clear will of the people.

Was this any way to run a Country? Only if you are a deaf-eared ideologue.