Another Questionable Executive Action

President Obama pardoned two turkeys, Mac and Cheese yesterday. From the New York Times: 

“Today, I’m taking an action fully within my legal authority — the same kind of action taken by Democrats and Republican presidents before me — to spare the lives of two turkeys, Mac and Cheese, from a terrible and delicious fate,” Mr. Obama said, using his executive action last week shielding five million immigrants from deportation as a theme of sorts for the annual White House turkey pardon.

As the president spoke in the grand, marbled Entrance Hall of the White House, a large white turkey strutted and fluffed its copious plumage on a mat nearby. 

The turkeys will spend the remainder of their lives in Iraq, where they have vowed to help ISIL win the war there.