Watch Pres. Obama Fumble Easy Question on Precedent

Turnaround is fair play. It's going to be a lot of fun to watch moonbats whine about a republican president (and make no mistake, there will be one eventually) that uses an executive order to push through legislation that the left just loathes. Of course then you'll hear how it's "not the same", and all the bullshit excuses you'd expect. But it'll happen, and it'll be a hilarious day.

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video:
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/obama-a...st-majority-illegal-immigrants-will-pay-taxes

President Obama completely fumbles when George Stephanopolous asks him how he’d respond if a future president takes the same action on taxes that Obama has taken on immigration. Incredibly, Obama responds as if he’d never heard or thought of this argument before, stumbling blindly along immigration talking points without answering the actual question.
Stephanopolous asked: “How do you respond to the argument, a future president comes in and wants lower taxes. Doesn’t happen. Congress won’t do it; so he says ‘I’m not going to prosecute those who don’t pay capital gains tax.’”

“The truth of the matter is George,” said the President, haltingly, “The reason that we, have to do.. uhm prosecutorial discretion in immigration, is that we know, that we – are not even close to being able to deal with the folks who have been here a long time…” Obama then pivoted to immigration talking points, without addressing the original question.

“The vast majority of folks understand that they need to pay taxes, and when we conduct an audit, for example, we are selecting those folks who are most likely to be cheating,” said Obama. “We’re not going after millions and millions of people who everybody knows are here and were taking advantage of low wages as they’re mowing lawns or cleaning out bedpans, and looking the other way.”

“So you don’t think it’d be legitimate for a future president to make that argument?” Stephanopoulos said.

Obama: “With respect to taxes? Absolutely not.”

The question, which has been floating around the internet since Obama gave his immigration speech, deserves an answer, but the President would prefer to punt it seems.
 
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Apparently Obama has made far fewer executive decisions during his tenure than any president for 100 years. So much for the "monarch" bit.
 
Apparently Obama has made far fewer executive decisions during his tenure than any president for 100 years. So much for the "monarch" bit.

You do understand the difference between the amount of executive orders and the qualifying impact of those orders, right? I mean, as an example, pardoning a few hundred people for illegal parking isn't the same as letting a murderer go free and clear.
 
You do understand the difference between the amount of executive orders and the qualifying impact of those orders, right? I mean, as an example, pardoning a few hundred people for illegal parking isn't the same as letting a murderer go free and clear.
I suppose we could look at the 100 year history of executive orders and see if Obama's is very remarkable.
 
I suppose we could look at the 100 year history of executive orders and see if Obama's is very remarkable.

We could indeed. Since you're claiming the immigration EO wasn't a big deal, I defer to you to show me where other Presidents had similar impacting EOs.
 
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