Former top Bush aide Karl Rove was highly critical of Barack Obama’s abuse of executive power on “Fox News Sunday” this week, alleging that the president has gone further than former President Bush in taking advantage of executive action.
Specifically, Rove referred to Obama’s executive order in 2012 that prevented hundreds of thousands of immigrants who arrived in the United States as children from being deported.
“The lawyers came back and said you have the ability to exempt individuals but no ability to exempt a class and yet this president has exempted a class of people from enforcement of immigration laws,” Rove detailed.
The former Bush aide went so far to liken Obama to a king, a comparison that political figures like Michele Bachmann have already made.
“This is imperial power,” Rove asserted. “This is George the Third. This is some monarch [saying], ‘I am the law.'”
Rove’s comments come just days after Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) confirmed he will sue President Obama on behalf of the House of Representatives for his overuse of executive action. The president appears less than concerned about the serious lawsuit threat, dismissing Boehner’s warning as a “stunt.”
Watch the clip from “Fox News Sunday” below, via Politico.
