President Obama, the Democrats, and the few remaining sane Republicans are all convinced that the talk of impeachment just before the election is a big loser for the Republicans and will cost them a few close races. The President has so many publicly supported issues that it can take executive action on and that the Tea Baggers would be eager to impeach him on, it's hard to chose which is the best.
Talking Point Memo has a story saying the administration is going to go big on immigration.
White House officials are making plans to act before November's mid-term elections to grant work permits to potentially millions of immigrants who are in this country illegally
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Such a large-scale move on immigration could scramble election-year politics and lead some conservative Republicans to push for impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama, a prospect White House officials have openly discussed.
The administration is going to have to be very careful on how they handle this. A blanket temporary amnesty could give fuel to Republicans to fire up their bases and get them to the polls, but temporary work permits issued to keep families together would expose the Republicans for the heartless, greedy slime they really are.
Advocates and lawmakers who were in separate meetings Friday said that administration officials are weighing a range of options including reforms to the deportation system and ways to grant relief from deportation to targeted populations in the country, likely by expanding Obama's two-year-old directive that granted work permits to certain immigrants brought here illegally as youths. That program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has been extended to more than 500,000 immigrants so far.
The more Obama goes on the stump, the higher his favorability ratings go. The immigration issue allows the President to talk about the obstructionist Republicans, how heartless they actually are, and how the Democrats are trying to move America forward. So while the president and the Democrats are talking about addressing the problems facing America, what will the Republicans be talking about?
For Obama, the political repercussions of broad executive action on immigration could be unpredictable, and extreme.
Republicans are warning he could provoke a constitutional crisis.
"It would be an affront to the people of this country which they will never forgive, it would be a permanent stain on your presidency," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said on the Senate floor Monday, while urging language to block such executive action be made part of any legislation to address the border crisis.
So Republicans will be talking anti-immigration, blocking more government action, and impeachment. That's a debate Democrats should welcome.
And then there's talk of impeachment over the EPA trying to do something about Global Warming by limiting power plant CO2 emissions, and then there are threats of a big budget fight in Sept. What we're talking about at the end of July, may not be anything like what we're talking about at the end of October.