A letter in Saturday’s Herald asked where the tea party Republicans were when President Bush launched a war that caused millions to suffer and cost over a trillion dollars, while apparently lauding President Obama’s act of humanity by allowing millions illegal immigrants to stay here, without fear of deportation.
First there was no tea party when the United States Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate, voted to give President Bush the authority to enter Iraq and depose President Saddam Hussein. The tea party movement came into political life after President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate blew up the federal budget.
President Bush did not make a unilateral decision to invade a foreign country. President Bush approached Congress and made his case. Congress overwhelmingly agreed and gave him the authority to take action.
President Obama on the other hand, has decided numerous times to just ignore Congress whenever he wants something, but cannot get Congress to agree with his viewpoint and give him the authority he wants.
There are no doubt some people in this country who will never support President Obama simply because he is a Democrat. Just as there are some people in this country who never supported President Bush just because he was a Republican. However, everyone should be able to agree that a president should not change established laws to suit the political party occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Everyone who supports President Obama and his executive actions on immigration and the ACA needs to think a little farther into the future, when someone they do not support is sitting behind that desk. If it is fine for the current president to use his pen to change laws, then surely it will be fine for all future presidents to act likewise.
What would they say to a future president who decided to completely do away with the federal minimum wage? How about making all drug offenses a capital crime punishable by death? Or makes it illegal to own any vehicle not produced entirely the United States?
Sure, those sound pretty far fetched today, but tomorrow. …
Mark Schooley
Goldendale
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