Posted on June 11, 2014 by Steven Hayward in Barack Obama, Immigration, Republicans

After Cantor

"Some additional observations going forward on the Cantor debacle: I never found Cantor to be a very compelling political personality. I thought his speeches were too superficial and cliché (even if they were the right clichés), and his delivery flat. It left me with the impression that the ratio of personal ambition to substance was out of whack. But there’s more to being House majority leader than being a scintillating public speaker...

Let’s look down the road a bit from here. We know that President Obama is enamored of executive power. He said on climate change that he wouldn’t wait on Congress, and we saw last week his bold use of the Clean Air Act to impose a regulatory scheme that Congress would never pass. He’s said much the same thing about immigration. So what might he do?

How about this: after the election next fall, especially if the GOP takes the Senate and with an eye to the 2016 election prospects for Democrats, Obama might well decide to use his pardon power to grant a blanket pardon to all illegal aliens presently in the United States. This would not, strictly speaking, be a legal abuse; the president’s pardon power is unconditional in the Constitution. But you can imagine the firestorm it would generate.

What would be the remedy? Impeachment. No one really has the stomach for a repeat of the Clinton impeachment debacle, but I wonder if Obama wouldn’t welcome such a confrontation.....

...understanding that impeachment, rightly understood, is a means for political judgment—it’s our form of a “no confidence” vote that is central to parliamentary governments. As Hamilton put it in his discussion of impeachment in The Federalist (number 65):...

...So strap in everybody. It’s going to be a rough year ahead."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20...fter-cantor.php

The Rats are going to be murdered this fall over Zeros past programs and laws. I wonder if the Rat party as a whole is going to put the brakes on any more of Zeros Exec Orders in order to salvage a shot at the WH in '16. If this idiot blanket pardons all the illegals, the Rat party will officially be burned to the ground by all but only the most hardened Communist. No one wants it.