12/19/14, "White House Fears ‘President Cruz’ Will Overturn Exec Amnesty," Breitbart, Tony Lee
"White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer conceded that he fears a President Ted Cruz will overturn President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, perhaps signaling that Cruz represents the greatest threat to the progressive left.
“Our first 100 days we spent a lot of time signing executive orders undoing what [President George W.] Bush did, and I would like not to be sitting on a beach somewhere reading about President [Ted] Cruz doing that to us, so it’s very important to us,” Pfeiffer told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Earlier in the day, Pfeiffer declared that Obama’s executive amnesty was one of the reasons that made 2014 a “year of great progress” for the “progressive agenda.” He told the Journal that from the “perspective of advancing our agenda through our pen and our phone, this has been a tremendously successful year.”
Cruz, a potential 2016 heavyweight, would run as a bold conservative. And the conservative Texas Senator has not been ambivalent in the least about wanting to repeal Obamacare and reverse Obama’s executive amnesty.
Cruz has also, with his actions, made it clear that he isn’t the type of politician who campaigns as a conservative and then turns his back on the base as soon as he is elected. That, more than anything, is why the bipartisan permanent political class and Washington insiders despise him.
Despite his fears, though, Pfeiffer, according to the Journal, ultimately “predicted Obama’s administrative actions on immigration and Cuba will stand no matter who sits in the White House in 2017.”"
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Ted Cruz reference in third paragraph:
12/19/14, "Obama Aide: GOP President Would Preserve Action on Immigration, Cuba," Wall St. Journal, Reid J. Epstein
"It’s Barack Obama’s worst nightmare: A Republican president is elected in 2016 and systematically undoes the executive orders around which the president has staked his legacy.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said it isn’t going to happen. He predicted Mr. Obama’s administrative actions on immigration and Cuba will stand no matter who sits in the White House in 2017.
“Our first 100 days we spent a lot of time signing executive orders undoing what [President George W.] Bush did, and I would like not to be sitting on a beach somewhere reading about President [Ted] Cruz doing that to us, so it’s very important to us,” Mr. Pfeiffer said in an interview Friday with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors.
As Mr. Obama is set to take questions as his year-end press conference, Mr. Pfeiffer said the White House is preparing a victory lap of sorts for its 2014 executive order strategy. In a year when Democrats suffered grave losses on Election Day and failed to advance any meaningful legislation on Capitol Hill, the White House believes Mr. Obama’s unilateral actions were a great success.
“This has been a very messy year for the whole country and certainly politically for the Democratic Party and the president,” Mr. Pfeiffer said. “But from the perspective of advancing our agenda through our pen and our phone, this has been a tremendously successful year.”
But because none of Mr. Obama’s actions are written into the law, they are subject to change by whoever is next elected president. Mr. Pfeiffer said Mr. Obama would do “whatever the Democratic nominee wants” to be helpful during the 2016 campaign and stressed that the Democrat will have a built-in campaign advantage due to the infrastructure built by the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012.
The would-be 2016 Republican presidential candidates have, to varying degrees, condemned virtually all of Mr. Obama’s executive actions, though there is a split in the party on Cuba policy. It’s easy to picture a GOP presidential primary debate in which the candidates are asked to raise their hands to signal whether they would rescind Mr. Obama’s unilateral immigration executive actions.
Mr. Pfeiffer predicted that won’t help them get elected. “I don’t think we will have a Republican president who doesn’t support immigration reform,” he said. “If we did have one and they undid our immigration executive order, it would be the last Republican president for most of our lifetimes.”
Mr. Pfeiffer was less bullish on the president’s executive orders on the environment. He said having “a climate denier in the White House would be very bad, not just for the executive actions, but for the fate of the planet.”"
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