The Right's Obsession With Obama's "Lawlessness" Has Nothing to Do With the Law

[doxydad]

The hateful right is celebrating Ross Douthat’s Sunday New York Times column about the interlocking politics of executive action to curb deportations, and the Democratic Party’s effective efforts to troll Republicans over impeachment. Douthat goes into great detail, but you can actually boil the dynamic down to a single sentence: Democrats correctly regard impeachment as a political box canyon into which many conservatives want to march the Republican Party, and believe that maximal, unilateral action on behalf of immigrants is both an urgent priority and an effective way to exploit the tension between GOP leaders—who want to suppress impeachment talk—and hardliners, who keep resorting to immigration-related impeachment threats.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118950/ross-douthat-immigration-amnesty-column-falsely-assumes-lawbreaking

[Gothmog]

1. The GOP attacks are based on a premise that is false

The claim that President Obama is lawless is not true. The executive actions taken by President Obama are reasonable and the GOP is basing their claims on their belief that the public will agree with their stupid views.