As to whether Obama's immigration diktat is unconstitutional, from the scholars I tend to rely on I get the feeling it probably is not given precedents governing executive privilege - although the scope of what he's done raises deep concerns and the details as to what rights exactly Obama is conferring on illegals could change the constitutional math - but just choosing not to pursue deportations of a broad swath of illegals does not seem to be unconstitutional regardless of it looking like a damn silly way to run a democracy.
Is it good for the country? No - hell, I don't even know if it's good for Latinos given that it completely ruins any chance of achieving comprehensive immigration policy reform.
Typical of just about everything Obama does this is just another cynical political calculation - unless you're going to give liberals everything they want they're not interested in immigration reform - Obama has and has never had any interest in negotiating a compromise deal with Republicans - the status quo of a broken immigration policy and a porus border serve his interests much better because he gets to make disingenuous populist gestures like this which binds Latinos to the left in perpetuity and when the Republicans try to take it away he gets to paint them as racist and unreasonable.
Obama simply does not care if the move is unpopular in general or even unconstitutional - he doesn't have to win another election - all he cares about is turning Latinos into a solidly liberal voting bloc similar to African-Americans. Conservatives going on about how he's a hypocrite because he said so many times in the past that doing what he's just done is unconstitutional and now claims it isn't do not realize that the man lies about everything - he didn't believe it was unconstitutional, he doesn't even care if it's unconstitutional, he just had to say that in order to keep the base mollified while winning elections by pretending to be a moderate. I don't understand why conservatives have so much trouble grasping this about the man - he lies - I don't know if he's ever stepped in front of a microphone and said anything that wasn't a complete load of bullshit - he does this because the media lets him get away with it and it would be impossible to push through his left wing agenda without lying - and he does it because for people like Obama if you do not agree with them and share in the refulgent glory of their beliefs then you're an idiot and do not deserve their respect.
Liberals of Obama's ilk truly view democracy as something that is beneath them and therefore come to see it as nothing more than a clumsy means to grant a phony legitimacy to the 'enlightened' autocracy which is the end they seek. Central to this ruinous ambition is the corruption of the media and that is the most fascinating and disturbing thing about the Obama presidency - this corruption has been thoroughly exposed. And so the really important question now becomes not how do you stop Obama per se but rather how do you fix or counteract the corruption that he relies on to do what he does? Conservatives and even moderates need to have an answer to this threat because every Liberal leader who now comes down the road will try to imitate him - and if that means that sometime soon we're going to end up with a president Elizabeth Warren then that's it, it's over, say goodbye to America.
Liberals of Obama's ilk truly view democracy as something that is beneath them and therefore come to see it as nothing more than a clumsy means to grant a phony legitimacy to the 'enlightened' autocracy which is the end they seek. Central to this ruinous ambition is the corruption of the media and that is the most fascinating and disturbing thing about the Obama presidency - this corruption has been thoroughly exposed. And so the really important question now becomes not how do you stop Obama per se but rather how do you fix or counteract the corruption that he relies on to do what he does? Conservatives and even moderates need to have an answer to this threat because every Liberal leader who now comes down the road will try to imitate him - and if that means that sometime soon we're going to end up with a president Elizabeth Warren then that's it, it's over, say goodbye to America.
