The Styrofoam Pillars Collapse

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PJMedia:

Washington (CNN) — In an election-year policy change, the Obama administration said Friday it will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children if they meet certain requirements. … Under the new policy, people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military can get a two-year deferral from deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

Although most of the discussion around President Obama’s latest move will probably center around his authority to enact by executive authority what was the subject of pending Congressional legislation, the most interesting aspect of his decision is what it reflects about the collapsing special interest coalition that supports his administration. On the face of things the decision is all about November 2012.

 

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For years the administration had said it didn’t have the authority to make such a move, saying it couldn’t decide to stop deporting wide categories of people on its own without approval from Congress. But on Friday Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she now interprets the law to give her this discretion.

The wholesale suspension of the law enforcement will be interpreted, together with the staunch resistance to voter ID checks, as an attempt to create a whole new class of Obama voters just in time for 2012. Or if not that, then it will at least be taken as a bribe to existing Latino voters to vote for the incumbent. CBS News is already asking if “will this be a game-changer in November.”

But it is more than mere electioneering. It would be more accurate to say that President Obama’s latest selective non-enforcement suggests the political game as played has already changed as of right now.

It also indicates the demise of two other pillars on which had counted to carry him over the line. Both pillars failed under the weight of the economic crisis and necessitate their replacement by others.

Unions, long one of the pillars of the Democratic Party, have fallen into obvious disrepair. They relied in the past on government contracts or inflated pay scales to pump money from the taxpayer or other economic actors into their coffers. But they are a shadow of their former selves. The failure of the unions to overthrow Scott Walker in Wisconsin underscored their weakness; that, followed by the manifest cooling between the unions and Obama, underscored the fragility of their loyalty in hard times.

That makes it possible — even imperative — for the president to create a new interest class to replace them. A class which will vote for him even if competes directly with the blue-collar constituency the unions represent. “There is now no fear,” said one person who was until a few moments ago, “illegal.” He could go to work, he said. How long before the new class starts competing with the blue-collar constituency?

The other collapsing pillar is the entitlement system. Obamacare was designed to be a vast transfer of tax revenues, obtained from tax exemptions or shifts in expenditure from one set of economic actors to those which were politically allied to the president. But the deepening economic crisis, coupled with the possibility that the Obamacare itself may be struck down by the Supremes, means this tax transfer isn’t gonna happen.

You can’t “buy” people when there is nothing to buy them with. And this fact intensifies the administration’s search for new bases of support.

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I can not figure this out. Since when can the president make a law???

[Geee]

Since he became king