DOUBTS ON OBAMA IMMIGRATION PLAN – AT 11:18 A.M. ET:  There was a time when the Obama press was wilfully blind, and would parrot the Obama line on almost anything.  But some progress is being made.  Turns out some liberal papers, on their editorial pages, aren't buying the president's immigration proposals.  From the Washington Examiner: 

Of America’s four national newspapers, only the New York Times’s editorial board is satisfied with President Obama’s plan to act on immigration reform without Congress.

Obama on Thursday announced that he would issue an executive order to delay deportation for some five million immigrants now living in the United States illegally.

“The president always has had authority to calibrate and prioritize the enforcement of immigration (and other) laws, but this wholesale reinterpretation amounts to overreaching,” the Washington Post editorial board said in response. “Mr. Obama was right to argue Thursday that otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants deserve a route out of the shadows. But unilateral action is not the right way to achieve that.”

Obama’s announcement did no better with USA Today. “His plan — which will allow certain immigrants to avoid deportation for three years — amounts to executive overreach,” said the newspaper’s editorial board.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board sounded a similar note: "Obama’s policy by executive order is tearing at the fabric of national consent.”

COMMENT:  We've said many times that the Washington Post has the best editorial page of any liberal paper in the country.  It's thoughtful and restrained. 

And The Wall Street Journal has the best conservative editorial page in the country.  Also thoughtful, well written, and restrained.

Both oppose the president on this issue.

The president is now considered a lame duck.  He is making himself more lame by not building coalitions.  Ronald Reagan worked across the aisles.  So did Bill Clinton.  Obama might do us the courtesy of trying.

November 22,  2014