http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/boehner-obama-guilty-flagrant-untruth-regarding-executive-amnesty_819597.htmlBoehner: Obama Guilty of 'Flagrant Untruth' Regarding Executive Amnesty
Jeryl Bier
November 19, 2014 11:42 AM
Even as word is leaking out that President Obama will announce his long-awaited executive action on immigration this week, House Speaker John Boehner has posted a summary of previous presidential statements admitting the limits of executive power. Boehner's communications advisor Matt Wolking authored the article which is entitled "22 Times President Obama Said He Couldn’t Ignore or Create His Own Immigration Law." It begins [emphasis added]:
With the White House poised to grant executive amnesty any day now despite the American people’s staunch opposition, on Sunday President Obama was asked about the many, many statements he made in the past about his inability to unilaterally change or ignore immigration law. His response was astonishingly brazen: “Actually, my position hasn’t changed. When I was talking to the advocates, their interest was in me, through executive action, duplicating the legislation that was stalled in Congress.”
This is a flagrant untruth: “In fact, most of the questions that were posed to the president over the past several years were about the very thing that he is expected to announce within a matter of days,” reported The New York Times. “[T]he questions actually specifically addressed the sorts of actions that he is contemplating now,” The Washington Post’s Fact Checker agreed, awarding President Obama the rare “Upside-Down Pinocchio,” which signifies “a major-league flip-flop.” Even FactCheck.org piled on.
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. Not only are Americans not stupid – they can read[.]
The list of 22 statements follows, stretching from 2008 to as recently as August 2014. The whole thing may be found
here.
