John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House from Ohio, is using the words of President Barack Obama to make his case against executive action on immigration. Even though the president stated on Sunday that his “position hasn’t changed,” the spokesman for Boehner, Matt Wolking, on Wednesday laid out 22 instances in which Obama said he could not create or ignore immigration law. Wolking’s presentation was made on Wednesday.
According to Wolking, Obama’s argument “is a flagrant untruth,” and he pointed to recent articles that were published in the New York Times, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, and FactCheck.org that highlighted that flip-flop.
Wolking wrote that “President Obama is once again trying to mislead Americans, but he can’t run from what he’s said over and over (and over) again,” and “President Obama can’t run from what he’s said over and over (and over) again” (emphasis his). “Not only are the Americans not dumb, but they are literate as well. Wolking came to the conclusion that President Obama ought to pay attention to President Obama, abandon his plan to ‘expand the authority of the executive branch into murky, uncharted territory,’ and work with Congress rather than insisting on his obstinate, “my way or the highway” approach.
Later on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for Boehner named Michael Steel added that granting executive amnesty would eliminate President Obama’s chances of cooperating with Congress in the future on immigration and other issues.
“If ‘Emperor Obama’ ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his Constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for Congressional action on this issue – and many others.” “If ‘Emperor Obama’ ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his Constitutional authority, he will cement his