Congressman: Obama has become 'Monty Python routine'

WASHINGTON – With Obama determined to issue his long-expected executive order on immigration, the White House fails to appreciate the damage his failed policies continue to inflict on a Democratic Party still reeling from historic midterm losses, according to a Republican congressman.

"It reminds me of the Monty Python routine, 'The Black Knight,' who gets his arm chopped off by King Arthur in a sword fight and yet says defiantly, "'Tis but a scratch,' and keeps on fighting," Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, told WND in an interview.

"Then after Arthur chops off other arm, the Black Knights says, 'Just a flesh wound,' claiming, 'I'm invincible.'"

"Somehow, Obama thinks, like the Monty Python routine, that he's invincible; but the truth is he's getting chopped apart limb by limb," Stockman said.

"Even when he's lost both arms and both legs, the Black Knight remains defiant, shouting to Arthur, 'I'll bite your legs off.' That's Obama issuing his amnesty executive order in a national address from the Oval Office tonight," the Texas congressman said.

"He's down to saying, 'You Republicans, you come back here and fight, when the truth is Obama's lost both arms and both legs politically, speaking figuratively."

Stockman said Obama appears to be in denial that his policies have taken the Democratic Party to a historically low point with voters, as reflected in the gains the GOP made in the midterm elections in state houses and governors' races as well as in the U.S. House and Senate.

"Listening to Obama, it's almost like the White House thinks the Democratic Party won the midterm elections," Stockman observed. "But the reality is that declaring what amounts to amnesty by executive fiat, Barack Obama has turned his back on the middle class white voters that have been the traditional strength of the Democratic Party."

Obama announced his executive actions on immigration at 8 p.m. Thursday. The announcement is scheduled to be followed Friday by a rally at a high school in Las Vegas.

Read a full transcript or watch the video of Obama's speech on immigration here.

Stockman argued Obama has systematically abandoned white male voters.

The president, he said, has reduced the once-majority Democratic Party into the political party of party of minorities, he said, seeking to court Hispanics to join African-Americans into becoming a voting bloc that overwhelmingly votes Democrat in every electoral contest.

"The truth is Obama has destroyed the Democratic Party," Stockman said, "but now he's become almost delusional. Somehow, Obama thinks that by declaring amnesty by fiat he's winning."

Stockman argued that allowing Obama to exert imperial powers of the presidency is suicidal for the Democratic Party.

"What Obama does not realize is that ultimately he's even going to drive Hispanics away from the Democratic Party," Stockman argued.

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Stockman said the top concern for Hispanics is not amnesty but jobs and the economy.

"Obama has done so poorly on the jobs front, with most of the jobs he's created being part-time jobs, that Hispanics like everybody else are suffering unemployment in much greater numbers than the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the mainstream media are reporting," he said.

Supporting Stockman's argument, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll conducted Nov. 14-17 found that only 43 percent of Latinos supported Obama's expected executive amnesty aimed at allowing millions of illegal immigrants to stay legally in the United States, with 37 percent opposing it. NBC/WSJ cautioned a small sample size among Latino respondents yielded a high margin of error.

Midterm election exit polls found 54 percent of Hispanics opposed Obama granting amnesty by executive order, but 80 percent of all voters surveyed wanted "new jobs created by the economy to go to American workers and legal immigrants already in the country."

See the Black Knight scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail":