The Obama rule: Can I get away with it?

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Call it the Obama rule. When will our president do something he wants to do that the Constitution or morality prohibits? When he can get away with it.

President Obama did not move forward with his unilateral action on immigration before the midterm elections, because he was worried he would pay too high a price. Additional congressional Democrats might have lost, and more Democrats would have blamed him for the losses.

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