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Obama to GOP: 'I am the guy doing my job. You must be the other guy'by Egberto Willies at the Daily Kos
"SNIP....................
Mostly Republicans wanted President Obama to visit the border while he was in Texas. He wisely did not. Elevating the border issue above and beyond the pain and suffering inflicted by a non-functional Congress on Americans would have deferred the narrative of a fickle press to concentrate on this one issue. While the border situation is important from a humanitarian standpoint, Republican intransigence and inaction is inflicting much pain on millions of Americans.
What was very ironic about the meeting with Rick Perry is that the governor wanted the president to act unilaterally to attempt to bring the refugee problem at the border under control. He wanted him to activate the National Guard now. President Obama reminded many in Texas that the same folks wanting him to act unilaterally on the immigration issue are the ones that are suing him for issuing too many executive orders.
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There are number of Republicans in Congress including a number of them in the Texas delegations who are mad at me for taking these actions, President Obama said. They actually plan to sue me. [...] The truth is with all the actions I have taken this year, I am issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than a hundred years.
"So its not clear how the Republicans didn't seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did. Maybe it is just me they dont like. I dont know. Maybe there is some principle out there that I havent discerned. That I havent figured out. You hear some of them. Sue him. Impeach him. Really? For what? You are going to sue me for doing my job? Okay.
....................SNIP"
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Obama to GOP: 'I am the guy doing my job. You must be the other guy' (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2014
OP
napkinz
(17,199 posts)1. ...
madokie
(51,076 posts)2. Spot on
graegoyle
(532 posts)3. They don't hate Obama...
...just his skin.