Durbin made the comments at a press briefing on immigration last Thursday urging House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring an immigration bill onto the floor for a vote.
“I don’t know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today,” Durbin said. “And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration and he shouldn’t be sued as a result of it.”
Last week, Boehner announced a planned lawsuit that accuses President Obama of failing to carry out the laws passed by Congress and habitually overstepping his authority.
h/t The Hill
http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/eric-scheiner/sen-durbin-obama-will-borrow-power-solve-immigration
By this power, invested in me by allah (or satan? dunno)…
fkn usurper will never stop, of this I have no doubt.
I think the word he’s looking for is usurp, not borrow.
And any Congressman that agrees to this molestation of the Constitution should be tried for treason.
Borrow power???
what part of separation of powers do these idiots not understand?
the whole point of separation of powers was to LIMIT the abuse of
power of a particular branch of the govt. i suppose all that went the
way of the do-do bird during prez bushes term.
If done right I am in favor of him doing so. If he declairs the problem a National emergency and act of war and terror against the U.S.A. and sends in troops tanks planes to force the invation back. So be it. It would make him a great leader.