Rand Paul: Jonathan Gruber #39;s Earnings From ObamaCare Need To Be Returned
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By Ashley Killough, CNN
updated 2:04 PM EST, Thu November 20, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky
(CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul ripped into President Barack Obama's upcoming announcement on immigration action, saying Thursday the President has declared a "constitutional war" and warned that the fight against his executive order "won't go away lightly."
"He's fundamentally misunderstanding our constitutional republic and really collapsing this separation of powers that's so important," the Kentucky Republican said in an interview with John Gibson on Fox News Radio.
Paul, who's seriously considering a presidential bid, joins a chorus of mostly Republican voices denouncing the President ahead of his prime time appearance Thursday, when he's expected to lay out plans that would allow up to 5 million illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
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The President had repeatedly warned this year that if Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, he would use the executive branch to move on his own.
"This isn't about immigration reform. This is about his usurping of power that the Constitution didn't give him," Paul said, arguing that Obama is "acting like a king."
"To me this is a constitutional war that he has declared," he continued.
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By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press - Friday, November 21, 2014
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) - With an eye toward 2016, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sought to find a balance Friday between opposing President Barack Obamas executive orders on immigration and his efforts to grow the Republican partys base with minority groups.
Obama announced Thursday that he would be delaying the deportation of up to 5 million people who are in the country illegally. Most of those are people who have been in the country illegally for more than five years but have had children born in the United States, and thus are U.S. citizens.
Paul, like most Senate Republicans, has opposed Obamas orders. But Paul said Friday his opposition is about a president abusing his power, not about immigration reform.
If Obama decided to unilaterally lower taxes. Id be saying the same thing, Paul told reporters after a speech to law students at Northern Kentucky University. People understand what the issue is and the issue isnt really so much the subject as it is whether the president can create law.
Paul has made a point of trying to grow the Republican base. In a highly publicized speech to the National Urban League earlier this year, he advocated for restoring the voting rights of some convicted felons and eliminating the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. The ideas are part of a series of bills Paul has introduced designed to correct the racial imbalance in the countrys judicial system.
Opposing Obamas sweeping immigration reform could put Paul at odds with the nations growing Hispanic community, no matter how he phrases his positions. But Paul predicted once Republicans formally take control of the U.S. Senate in January, giving them control of both legislative bodies on Capitol Hill, an immigration reform bill would make it to Obamas desk.
As we pass immigration reform, people will finally look and say, Democrats promised us the moon and gave us nothing, Paul said.
Paul said a Republican-backed immigration reform bill would likely focus on expanding the visa program for people with advanced degrees who can come and work in the countrys growing technology industry.
Presidential aspirant Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) started a #latenighttextsfromGruber meme Friday, which gives Paul and friends a new tool to poke at President Obama:
Paul got it started, but now he wants you to keep it going:
Meanwhile, as one of his final acts as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has called Gruber to testify next month.
In a letter sent Thursday, Issa invites Gruber to be a witness at a hearing on Dec. 9 that will focus on transparency failures related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
As a quick refresher, Gruber is the MIT professor who was a paid consultant on health-care reform as the White House wrote the law. He (in)famously said that the stupidity of American voters helped Congress pass Obamacare.
From the outset, the health law has been the poster child for this Administrations broken transparency promises, Issa said in a statement Friday. Americans were told if they liked their plans and doctors, they could keep them. They were told the individual mandate wasnt a tax. None of these were true. Jonathan Gruber, one of ObamaCares chief architects, publicly lauded the lack of transparency that was necessary to pass the law and credited the stupidity of the American voter that allowed the Administration to mislead the public.
As our colleague Chris Cillizza wrote this week, the Gruber comment not only alludes to a premeditated deception, but suggests that the Obama administration thinks conservative America is not smart.
And for that reason, Republicans are eager to keep Gruber in the news.
Colby Itkowitz is a national reporter for In The Loop.
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