Another BFD by President Obama

++Romney has been waiting as the Republican Congress stonewalls on anything that could benefit the economy and lets his chances increase as bad economic news mounts.


++President Obama can turn the narrative--at least for a short time--by enacting policies that are not blocked by Congress. Yesterday was one of those days and the President, despite a heckler from the Daily Caller, hit one over the fence with his change in immigration policies.


++Have you noticed that once the terrorist threat was contained that the Republicans seem to specialize in provoking anxiety in America by their antics over Social Security, Medicare,Medicaid, reproductive rights and their refusal to pass anything to benefit any American? While President Obama, even though he needs to be pressed, acts in ways to assure anxious Americans. He did this in a big way yesterday.


++You can question his political motives,even the Hispanic community did, but the President deserves credit for rectifying the insane aspects of our immigration policies. The House passed the DREAM ACT in 2010 when the Democrats controlled the house but it never could get voted on in the Senate. So the President announced he would order the respective agencies not to deport undocumented people who came to be the country before the age of 16 and who lived here for five years and went to school and had no criminal records. These undocumented workers would be eligible for working permits. 


++The action is temporary, lasting only two years. But at least you won't see valedictorians being whisked off the stage and deported. 


++Admittedly it is not as extensive as Ronald Reagan's amnesty of over 2 million people but he at least had Congress' support for such a large action.


++The coverage of Obama's actions in the Hispanic media showed what a BFD it was. The change was given banner headlines in all the local Spanish-language media and the major Hispanic networks also trumpeted the news. One irony was that Fox News Latin applauded the action, while the other Fox News denounced it.


++Obama's action put Republicans between a rock and a hard place. Marco Rubio,who was supposed to be drafting similar legislation to help Republicans shore up their lagging Hispanic support, said today he was probably not going ahead with it. The initial Romney response from a spokesman was that, "it was illegal." Congressman Steven King of Iowa said he was going to sue President Obama. 


++But the President's action got support from a very unlikely source Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Conference, who criticized people who said it was amnesty. "It's not amnesty. These people did nothing wrong." He applauded the move because it was the right thing to do. He urged Republicans to immediately ratify it in law. 


++The Attorney-General of Utah certainly didn't win any friends in the Romney campaign but telling the press that the President was "completely within his rights to implement this policy."


++Whenever President Obama does something good or something that is the right thing to do, my rightwing e-mailers go silent. No comment. Crickets.


++Bravo, Mr. President.  It was the right thing to do.