Tue Jun 19, 2012, 08:46 AM

Roger Simon: Obama's Immigration Trap

After days of bad news, bumbles and bobbles, Obama got smart last week, Simon writes. | AP Photo

Obama's immigration trap

By ROGER SIMON
6/18/12

In politics, when the going gets tough, the tough have to get very, very smart.

After days of bad news, bumbles and bobbles, Barack Obama got smart last week. In fact, he got downright brilliant.

Bypassing the sucking, hopeless, sinkhole that is the U.S. Congress, Obama announced a new immigration policy, one that invokes an old, and therefore legal, power: He is taking “deferred action” on whether to proceed against hundreds of thousands of people who came to this country illegally.

It is not permanent. He, or any other president, can revoke it. And therein lies part of the brilliance.

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6 replies	Author	Time	Post
Roger Simon: Obama's Immigration Trap (Original post)	flpoljunkie	Jun 2012	OP
Excellent!! n/t	lamp_shade	Jun 2012	#1
While I dispute just how "badly" things had been for President Obama prior to last Friday	Proud Liberal Dem	Jun 2012	#2
The first poll taken about this	leftynyc	Jun 2012	#5
So I've seen	Proud Liberal Dem	Jun 2012	#6
Hmmm	Rosa Luxemburg	Jun 2012	#3
Looks like rubio may not be vp. n/t	hrmjustin	Jun 2012	#4

Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 08:56 AM

lamp_shade (9,968 posts)

1. Excellent!! n/t

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:39 AM

Proud Liberal Dem (11,750 posts)

2. While I dispute just how "badly" things had been for President Obama prior to last Friday

(and how much such a perception was more or less a result of spin), his policy change was a masterstroke politically? How do we know this? The Republicans are discombobulated and Romney can't even figure out whether he's for it or against it, or against it before he was for it, whether or not he would change it if elected POTUS...........

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Response to Proud Liberal Dem (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 03:06 PM

leftynyc (10,288 posts)

5. The first poll taken about this

(Bloomberg, I think) has support for the plan at 64%. That's pretty freeking high in these divisive days.

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Response to leftynyc (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 04:04 PM

Proud Liberal Dem (11,750 posts)

6. So I've seen

It doesn't sound like most of the Republicans actually oppose it either. They just can't come right out and admit it because of their base and they sure as hell don't want to be seen as giving President Obama credit for this. Instead, they just want to whine about him stealing their thunder- though they wouldn't have actually done anything about it while Obama is POTUS, of course (and probably not even if Romney wins in November).

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Response to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:21 PM

Rosa Luxemburg (21,986 posts)

3. Hmmm

I don't recollect bumbles and bobbles? Obviously made up by the RW media?

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Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:25 PM

hrmjustin (8,871 posts)

4. Looks like rubio may not be vp. n/t

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