Obviously the Democrats thought they had a sure thing in Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Barack Obama certainly went to sleep at night knowing that all of his executive orders would be kept intact, preserving his legacy as the president who cared so much he sometimes wished he were an emperor or a king unconstrained by an old piece of parchment.
The thing is, Hillary lost, and it can’t have been a secret to anyone in the Obama administration that those executive orders were just waiting to be rescinded by President Trump. The GOP can be so cruel and heartless.
GOP senators killed the Dream Act in 2010. GOP House killed immigration reform in 2013. GOP voters elected Trump. This isn't complicated.
— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) September 5, 2017
Amy Sullivan, formerly of Yahoo News and TIME, gave this Vox-like explainer of how it all went down, and how President Obama really had no choice but to create DACA after trying the “normal channels.”
?YES. There's a reason Obama had to use executive action to create DACA. It wasn't like they didn't try normal channels first. GOP opposed. https://t.co/TvDHXk4AmX
— Amy Sullivan (@sullivanamy) September 5, 2017
"had to"
— Jeremy Senderowicz (@jsende) September 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica/status/905186356925575168
https://twitter.com/molratty/status/905182414804324353
So if laws folks want aren't passed in a constitutional manner, the POTUS just gets to do it anyway? I don't think you'll like that now. https://t.co/6qjf662tKz
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) September 5, 2017
So … the duly elected representatives of the people wouldn’t pass the DREAM Act into law, so President Obama just had to do an end-run around Congress and create DACA via royal edict. Do we have that right?
I'll try that next time I go to the bank and the teller won't give me everything I want https://t.co/PX95iSVRqK
— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) September 5, 2017
He had to violate the Constitution: he didn't get what he wanted! https://t.co/HmyxlejZtI
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) September 5, 2017
Can Trump just create legislation if Congress won’t?
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 5, 2017
Trump? No. Obama? Yes.
That would be called "democracy" punkin.
— James Hoffman (@ok18879) September 5, 2017
"Normal channels" might be the best euphemism I've heard for "the legislative process set forth in the Constitution." https://t.co/63BTR1m42s
— Matthew Salzwedel (@mrsalzwedel) September 5, 2017
We are a nation of laws and obama was not our king to enact laws on his own
— KAG (@LILLYZ720) September 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/BlackPilledPete/status/905165335908810757
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/905157475040669697
https://twitter.com/JohnMcGlasson2/status/905155592704196608
Those GOP in the Congress were elected. Many after Obama. Indicating that political winds had shifted. But Obama went against the people. https://t.co/8UcqrDBeME
— That's LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Crapplefratz! (@Crapplefratz) September 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/905154948027080706
https://twitter.com/Mellecon/status/905158978786783233
Dear GOP, please use Amy's new rule to ban abortion.
Thanks. https://t.co/s9SBd4KD5y
— RBe (@RBPundit) September 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/905156991370366979
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Related:
President who gave DREAMers false hope has a lot to say now about what’s ‘required legally’ https://t.co/28932eIL9z
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 5, 2017
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