While politicians in Brussels vent their pique by insisting that Britain get the hell out of the EU right now, ominous signs of more trouble have arisen: Turkey was planning to join but is now backing away.
France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary could leave.
The Dutch were already upset over a treaty between the EU and Ukraine, so they've been thinking about leaving anyway. In Germany, Angela Merkel is unhappy with the results of the British referendum but is seeking a compromise that would make the U.K an "associated partner country" with the EU. But she's been part of the problem as she's pushed for unfettered "immigration" by Muslim "refugees", which has not gone over well among citizens of the other countries; Hungary has flatly refuse, in fact, saying that they don't need immigrants.
She is, however, more pragmatic and less petulant than our president, who just got smacked again yesterday in federal court in the executive-amnesty case United States v. Texas, in which SCOTUS tied and thus effectively affirmed the ruling of the lower federal court.
During Obama’s presidency, Texas has been forced to sue his administration dozens of times for a wide variety of abuses.
Worse, from Obama's perspective, is that Texas keeps winning. And he can't stand that. As he falsely claimed yesterday:
Now, as disappointing as it was to be challenged for taking the kind of actions that other administrations have taken, the country was looking to the Supreme Court to resolve the important legal questions raised in this case. Today, the Supreme Court was unable to reach a decision.
Well, Barry, they did reach a decision; they affirmed the ruling last year by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and they said so in their ruling yesterday.
As the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals observed in its decision to stay the amnesty last November, “historical practice that is so far afield from the challenged program sheds no light on the Secretary’s authority to implement DAPA.”
In fact, as the president explained at the time, the constitutional legislative process didn’t give him what he wanted, so, as he famously bragged, he “changed the law” by decree.
Problem is, Barry - you don't get to change the law, your job is to carry out the law. And frankly, you suck at your job. Additionally, you did not take "the kind of actions that other administrations have taken", as the Fifth Circuit Court noted in their observation that a president is not permitted to change the law. No other president has so often effectively dared the courts to rule against him, and no other president has been so frequently slapped down by those courts.
It's really no wonder that, having had to repeatedly sue the Obama administration as a result of his continued over-reach, more people in the Republic of Texas are giving consideration to secession. According to the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the agreement under which Texas became a state, they have every right to do so.
