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What should Mitt Romney's response to the President's Immigration Executive Order be?

June 15, 2012 @ 4:35 pm


"The private economy is not doing fine, and it's in the president's interest to distract the public with other issues."

To borrow from Carville, "It's the economy stupid."

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  • SALIFE wrote...
    IMPEACH this so-called president!!!
    June 15, 2012 4:11 pm
    It's a sad day in America today! Why is this OWEBUMMER rewarding this little ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS ?!? They are ALL criminals in my eyes! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!! Our American kids are being Replaced by ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! We as Americans need to SPEAK UP NOW!!! Deport ALL illegal aliens NOW!!! NO dream act! NO Amnesty, NO stars act!!!!!!
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  • derekyoung wrote...
    So you would have impeached Reagan?
    June 15, 2012 4:34 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfHKIq5z80U
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  • kata wrote...
    hilarious
    June 15, 2012 5:48 pm
    citing YouTube and not the government website or the signing statement - both of which are easily found. What Reagan did was a sign a bipartisan agreement. A legal congressional act. What Obama has done is bypassed congress and decided to not enforce the law as written. I am not even certain it's constitutionally legal. It's a very different matter.

    Oy vey children today....

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d099:SN01200:@@@L&summ2=m&|TOM:/bss/d099query.html

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  • derekyoung wrote...
    Huh?
    June 15, 2012 6:32 pm
    I didn't cite Youtube. I provided a clip of Reagan advocating amnesty.
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  • kata wrote...
    with the bi-partisan agreement
    June 15, 2012 7:30 pm
    that immigration would be reformed and the borders would be tightened so we wouldn't be in this position again. (we can see how well that turned out).
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    dereckyoung wrote... "So you would have impeached Reagan?"
    June 18, 2012 1:24 pm
    Yes - these clowns today are so far to the extreme right that Reagan would be a traitor if he came up in the ranks today vs. back then. His views of the world and the country aren't far enough to the right to be palatable to them.
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  • kata wrote...
    I wouldn't begin to guess what he *should* say
    June 15, 2012 5:50 pm
    but if he gains the presidency and craps all over the Constitution like this he should be "one and done" as well.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    What should Romney do ? Let it alone.
    June 15, 2012 5:56 pm
    And stress economic programs that are of benefit to the Hispanic communitieS (one size does not fit all). Obama is making a feeble gesture to recoup Hispanic votes. It's a nice gesture - but military service is already a path to citizenship.

    Nothing really new here - but is Mitt attacks, Oz scores points.

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    ron p
    June 15, 2012 6:11 pm
    Since Obama gathered almost 70% of the Hispanic vote in the last election he only helps that number with this order. It will also give him a big boost in Florida I believe. UR correct that Mitt can't attack this order.Romney I believe has already sunk himself with that idea about self-deportation I mean how silly was that?
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Messiah, it's a matter of turnout
    June 16, 2012 5:26 am
    Sure, Obama had a lot of Hispanic support in 2008, but enthusiasm has been ebbing. So, what to do ?

    This plays to his base (and is more substantive than the endorsement of gay marriage, etc.). But It's also relatively harmless and a humane thing to do.

    And Romney gains absolutely nothing in opposition. The anti-immigrant people need no more energizing.

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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Obama is deporting far more illegal aliens than Bush did
    June 15, 2012 6:42 pm
    and while Obama is putting emphasis on the dangerous criminal illegal aliens instead of the least dangerous, Bush and the Republicons coddled and rewarded the dangerous criminal illegal aliens throughout Bush's two terms by doing nothing.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    But Obama has also sent a lot of workers back to Canada and Mexico,,,,,,,,,,,
    June 16, 2012 5:18 am
    with a economy that makes it unattractive to come to America in the first place. Not that the Tea Party is about to endorse Oz, but tat has been more effective than any fence.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Hate to break the news to Mitt, but the POTUS does not control the economy...
    June 15, 2012 7:18 pm
    Immigration policy, however, is clearly in the president's wheelhouse.

    So let's all rag on the president for failing to miraculously adjust world markets, a close to zero birth rate among US citizens, a decline in household incomes, an increase of the median age of the population to the point were the appetite for consumer goods has been reasonably satisfied and the Worlds Largest Retailer refusing to do business with anybody who manufactures in the United States.

    Yup, that's all his fault. And since the economy was shedding 3/4 of a million jobs per month for the last several months before he took office, we need to ask him what he did to so thoroughly screw up the national prosperity he inherited.

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  • kata wrote...
    so...
    June 15, 2012 7:34 pm
    One party plays fast and loose with executive power and we're this close to a dictatorship --- but when the "other" party does it it's bloody brrrrilliant.

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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    and here we go again..
    June 16, 2012 6:21 am
    "Dictatorship"? Tell us all what that's like.. I assume you've been to and lived in..say..North Korea and been subjected to that regime? Tell us all about it and detail the similarities please between the United States and son of Dear Leader..
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  • kata wrote...
    @afw
    June 16, 2012 9:34 am
    that needed a /sarcasm tag, really?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    He can't claim ignorance,
    June 16, 2012 7:28 am
    since he said in at a Univision town hall in 2011, that if he ever tried to do what he just did he would be in violation of the law.

    He is skilled in the use of language and teleprompter, so when he said the illegals are "Americans in their hearts", he clearly did not mean Norte Americanos, since to be a Norte Americano in your heart, you must respect the separation of power that holds the executive branch in check. He meant to say they are Latin Americans in their hearts and thus appreciate the power of the dictator.

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  • Rick (4) wrote...
    What should Romney say or do?
    June 16, 2012 9:32 am
    Well, he should state what his immigration policies would look like and how he would get them passed through congress. He can not attack Obama on this other than state he would not use an executive order to over ride the laws, but instead do it correctly through congress.

    Personally, I am sick of Obama and his governing by executive order instead of using congress to pass laws as intended by the constitution. Congress needs to act on a law that would restrict executive orders so that they can not be used to NOT uphold laws passed by congress and signed by a President. Also, what law authorizes Executive Orders anyway and why did congress give this power to the executive branch?

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  • Rick (4) wrote...
    @Paul Kersey
    June 16, 2012 10:00 am
    Let's assume that Obama is violating the law with this executive order (note this order does not even exist yet as I searched for it). Who is going to do anything about it?

    Do you expect congress to veto it - it takes 2/3rd's of congress to veto an executive order as previously determined by the US Supreme Court?

    Do you expect congress to impeach the President? Remember the Senate is controlled by the D's.

    The only option would be someone with standing taking it to the courts. Who would have standing to bring this to the courts?

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  • Rick (4) wrote...
    Concerning this Executive Order
    June 16, 2012 9:41 am
    It is not constitutional as it sets law. This has been ruled previously by the Supreme Court: Until the 1950s, there were no rules or guidelines outlining what the president could or could not do through an executive order. However, the Supreme Court ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952) that Executive Order 10340 from President Harry S. Truman placing all steel mills in the country under federal control was invalid because it attempted to make law, rather than clarify or act to further a law put forth by the Congress or the Constitution. Presidents since this decision have generally been careful to cite which specific laws they are acting under when issuing new executive orders.
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  • kata wrote...
    thank you Rick
    June 16, 2012 10:16 am
    For a more analytical approach. All I've seen discussed was how politically expedient (or bloody brilliant) this was. Or who did what first via executive devolving to nothing more than just a finger pointing match.

    The news coverage for Bush was fraught with hyperbole ("He's on his way to being a dictator!") but at least you didn't have to dig so aggressively to find the nugget of truth.

    I don't think I've seen a single journalist with the integrity to even start asking the right questions, much less pursue the answers about what this decision might mean for the welfare of this country.

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  • kata wrote...
    ack
    June 16, 2012 10:17 am
    I'm on a tiny little e-reader. I apologize for any grammar and spelling errors :P
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  • Louis wrote...
    Deja Vu
    June 16, 2012 10:15 am
    Remember When: The Democrats called G.W. Bush a Liar, a Loser and King George? The Democrats also brought Articles of Impeachment against G.W. Bush... Now who is acting more like a King? Obama: It's the Right thing to do! But is the right thing to do Legal? Why is there a Congress anymore? Take Note: On June 5, 2012 Obama described Israel’s government and Netanyahu as extreme right...
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