I enjoy few things more than watching President Obama out maneuver
Republicans in the political game. The tragedy is that the Republican game does
serious harms to so many people. At a time when the Speaker of the “do nothing”
House of Representatives, John Boehner is threatening to sue him for over-stepping
his bounds as President by carrying executive actions, Obama asked congress
for 3.7 billion to work on the immigration crisis. He makes this request just
before going to Texas to solve the problem of immigration that is especially real
to that boarder state. When talking to Texas Gov. Perry he asked that governor
to help him talk the Texas congressional delegation to support his money
request. In other words, the President of the United States asked a very outspoken
Republican governor to convince a majority Republican delegation to congress to
support his executive action.
The president is clearly aware that Perry will not be able
to convince “his” Republicans. Fortunately, there are 13 Democrats on that delegation including the representative from the 23 district; the
Rio Grande valley district, which already supports
the president. Thus, Obama gently embarrasses the entire Republican controlled congress
knowing they will vote in block against providing the money he needs to carry
out “his” executive action, which will do what the American people clearly
want. He specifically embarrasses the Governor by forcing him to refuse to help solve a pressing problem in his state, which he know cannot be solved without federal help. In addition, by asking Congress to support his "executive
action", he mocks Speaker Boehner in his law suite. The nice thing is he helps
the congressional delegate, Pete Gallego, from the Rio Grande Valley, both a
Democrat and a Latino.
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