Obama Vows Action as GOP Makes Plans for Plutocrats

Blanket Amnesty for Immigrants Now

Faced with dealing with Republicans who have obstructed the economic recovery from the Bush-Cheney great recession, President Obama made plain yesterday that "what I’m not going to do is just wait" for Republicans to work for the country instead of the Republican Party's economic royalists.

The signal could not have been clearer.

Obama "swiftly defied(GOP) objections by vowing to bypass Congress and use his executive authority to change the nation’s immigration system." (Hirschfeld Davis, Baker; NYT)

Welcome news indeed.

The president can begin by issuing comprehensive amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants, for starters. Student loan forgiveness. Accelerated DoJ action for civil rights for women and minorities. Much can be done.

Executive authority is broad under the "unitary executive," just ask Republicans.

If racists in the Republican Party object, perhaps they can set up a whites-only homeland somewhere, as here in 2014 segregation remains a GOP policy objective.

Republicans in Congress may choose to begin impeachment proceedings. Excellent.

They may decide to shut down the government or refuse to fund the government. Countermeasures exist, and public opinion and rational actors will rapidly remove another GOP attempt to smash the foundations of the American economy, though Ted Cruz would be all for it.

Impeachment would put on display in a manner political campaigns cannot, the destructive and anti-American objectives of the Republican Party and the whacko theories on their plutocrats.

The results are predictable, ala 1998, the last time the Republicans began impeachment proceedings because the rightwing didn't like President Clinton getting so chummy with ethnic minorities.

Blanket Amnesty for Immigrants Now

Update II: See also "Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether" (Calmes. NYT). None of this will come as a surprise to residents of Wisconsin's 8th Assembly District, the heavily Latino, most densely populated district with the lowest voter turn-out in Wisconsin. Folks there know they are not getting a lot of love from the Obama administration, and thus turn to greater community to support extended families and communities, as they shun electoral politics.

Update: See The Severe Hispanic Midterm Falloff Problem, because it's the right thing to do and the smart thing to do: Amnesty for Immigrants Now.

Now would be a good time to for blanket Amnesty (forget about a "path") for undocumented immigrants by president Obama.

This will not make Obama popular with white supremacists, and various other constituencies of white America; begging the question: What do you care about these idiots?

They will be rushing to the polls anyway come November, and I think they won't be voting Democratic.