VIDEO: Obama brags that he 'changed the law' on immigration

Nice catch by Ed Morrissey at HotAir, who notes that when pressed by heckling amnesty advocates, President Obama is apparently quite willing to admit he really did - or at least he thinks he really did - what the Constitution says he doesn't have the authority to do:

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Obama goes on to reiterate the point in this way:

“Point No. 2, the way the change in the law works is that we’re reprioritizing how we enforce our immigration laws generally.”

Now in truth, that's actually a pretty muddled statement from the world's greatest orator, and the more you parse it, the damning it is against the president. What he's really saying in his second point is that, OK, fine, technically the laws didn't change. But in practice, Obama is going to make things work as though they did by "reprioritizing how we enforce our immigration laws generally." In other words, for 5 million people, he's not going to enforce the law at all. That's not "reprioritizing." That just flat-out ignoring the law, and he knows it, which is why he made the statement that he "changed the law." Because as it will function in practice, he did. A law that the executive branch refuses to enforce ceases to exist for all intents and purposes. If you're going to ask if Obama took an oath to enforce the laws of this nation, why yes, he did. Perhaps he's like Newman on Seinfeld, who explained to George that he didn't deliver the mail through rain, sleet and snow because he had "never been much for creeds." But at least Newman could take personal days that were his right as a Postal Service employee. Obama simply says, "I'm not going to enforce laws I don't want to enforce. What are you going to do about it?" And since he's pretty confident no one can or will do anything about it, he goes around bragging that he changed the law all by himself. By the way, this is not some rogue video that got into the hands of conservative activists and is being circulated to embarrass the president. This is straight from WhiteHouse.gov. They posted it. They're not the slightest bit concerned about everyone seeing the president brag in this way. I guess they're as convinced as he is that no one can make Obama pay any price for his emperor act.