Our President is a term-limited lame duck with nothing to lose. It is highly unlikely he will ever again run for office anywhere in the U.S. What he proposes to do for illegal immigrants - give them legal status - is very similar to what a suicide bomber does - go out with a bang, doing as much damage as he can.
As we have learned the hard way, suicide bombers are very difficult to interdict. People who are willing to die - either literally or, in this case, politically - cannot easily be deterred. They are in love with the idea of a final grand gesture.
Suppose all he accomplishes is that a lot of illegal immigrants get a piece of paper the courts subsequently declare to be void. He will have cemented in the minds of millions of immigrants the image of the Democrats as their benefactor, an image that will win them more than a few elections going forward.
It appears we have arrived at an impasse the framers of the Constitution did not foresee, and made no allowances for - a scofflaw-president-as-political-suicide-bomber.
