What's up with that Executive Action?

[Jim in CT]

PaulS, I am vagueky aware of what Bush and Reagan did, and your article (written with a certain political slant, I think you'd agree) seems to support what I thought I knew.

I saw, on the Sunday morning talk shows, a former US Congressman (representing the opposite political slant) say specifically that Congress never intended to write a law that would seperate families. And that the executive action was taken to close an unintended, unethical loophole. If your article is true, and that Congress explicitly chose not to protect the families, then what Obama did doesn't appear that different from what Bush did.

In that case, I don't like what either did, OK? Is that consistent enough for you? I wasn't able to vote back then, so excuse me if I wasn't protesting those actions, if indeed they were similar. Does that still make me a hypocrite? I don't think so.

I call Obama a facist (with slight hyperbole, as I am sure you are aware) because, in my opinion, he is. He clearly favors something a lot closer to socialism than I will ever be comfortable with. I believe that sovereign debt (the feds and the states) is by far, the #2 domestic policy issue, after national security. Obama (in part due to th ewars he inherited, in part due to his actions) has added more to the debt than almost all prior presidents combined. He shows zero concern for that. Nor has he done anything to address socal security and medicare's impending collapse, except to say that anyone who says out loud that those programs are in deep trouble, hates old people and poor people.



I'm not "miserable". I can't stand anything that Obama stands for. At the same time, I'm the happiest, most affable guy you'd ever meet. Not sure why you can csll me miserable, but I can't call Obama El Duce. Perhaps you can explain that.