“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged Karl Rove over the lawsuit House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is planning to file against President Obama over his use of executive actions.
“I think it’s fair to say you worked at a White House that took a pretty expansive view of executive powers, whether it was signing statements by President Bush when he was signing bills into law or the way that he waged the war on terror,” Wallace said. “Can you honestly say that you believe this president is going further than President Bush did in exercising his executive powers?”
“Absolutely,” Rove responded.
Rove insisted that the Bush administration always looks for a “statutory basis” in legislation when exercising executive powers, unlike Obama. Rove said that Obama unlawfully “exempted a class of people from enforcement of immigration laws.”
Watch the video at Mediaite.
Further confirming (per Cavuto v. Bachmann) that Roger & Rupert have decided to shift F-News back toward the profitable corporate wing, away from the past-their-sell-by-date T-Baggers.
Can we perhaps get this corrected to ‘looked’, or did Karl Rove actually assert that the Bush Administration is currently active in governance?
Yes, I think that is the most logical explanation for their recent moments of reasonableness (not willing to support the sinking ship, i.e. the Tea Party)
Paging John Yoo…
I’m still stunned by the chutzpah of the GOP, accusing the president who has used executive power less than any other president since the 19th century, of ‘overreach.’ A cute word, I guess, one that conservatives repeat again and again.
What crust for the mainstream media to repeat this on behalf of the GOP. The people aren’t buying it, and it looks like the corporations are starting to realize that the government the GOPers in Congress want to drown is actually something that they really, really need, and they are starting to drop their unconditional love for the Republicans and the Tea Party.