President's New Powers

It seems we have a president who has discovered new powers in the constitution that no one else can find. Oddly enough the congress remains silent about these "new powers". President Obama has found the power to legislate as president through the use of the Executive Order.

The use of the executive order has been in place for a very long time; so long in fact that everyone seems to think it is part of the constitution, but it is not! The president does not have the right to simply declare anything he wants as an executive order and the rest of the nation has to live with it. Contrary to the opinion of the president and the congress who is more than willing to abdicate it's responsibility on difficult issues, the present does not have the right or the power to simply declare something to be law.

I have been watching for a long time how the courts trample on congress and it seems now the president feels it is his turn. For some reason the congress has no heart to fight back. Sadly this means the congress is becoming irrelevant and nothing more than a figurehead of power. Their power seems to be only what the president and his judges want it to be. On top of this if the president doesn't like what the courts say he even seems to have the ability to ignore them with no consequences.

The liberals are more than happy to see this because he is making all the hard decisions they don't want to make for fear of losing their positions, but none of them seem to have a longer view of things. They do not seem to realize that every time they give away some of their power they are not likely to get it back easily.

The president has just decided that we should not treat illegal aliens as illegal aliens any more. He has done this by executive order and there is not a word from congress that they are the ones to deal with this issue. The reason for this is clear. They are afraid to deal with the issue. This is has obvious by the fact that it has been an issue for years and they have yet to make any rules regarding it. Both the democrats and republicans have been afraid to address the issue with any specific legislation and as a result of left it up in the air. They are more than happy to have someone else risk their political capital on the issue then themselves. The president is of course the perfect person for this since it seems more and more likely he won't get re-elected next time around he's going to create all the damage he can both socially and financially.

Is anyone in congress every going to show some spine where democratic presidents are concerned. It seems they're more than willing to go after republican presidents with a vengeance, including republican representatives, but when it comes to the current president, they get concerned about something, write him a few letters he ignores and that is the end of the issue.

We desperately need more men in congress with a spine. It is sad that we have so few willing to take a stand for the constitution. Many most that they carry the constitution, but in some ways it reminds me of those who carry a bible thinking that carrying it is the equivalent of reading it.

Though many think Ron Paul is a kook he is consistent and clearly concerned about interpreting the constitution according to what our founding fathers intended. They even made it clear that what they intended was clear from a full reading of the constitution. The danger comes when you try to take one section or even phrase out of the context of the rest of the constitution.

Presidents have been doing this for a long time. The constitution does not give them the freedom to issue executive orders when they please as though they were laws.

Our current president seems to be trying to lad us down with more laws, regulations and debt than any nation can bear. Either he is the stupidest man that ever lived or he is doing this intentionally. I personally believe based on his past extremist, radical and socialist/communist relationships and leanings that he is doing what he is intentionally.

We currently have a man as president who may single-handedly bring down the nation because of the inaction of the other 2 branches of government. This cannot be what our founding fathers intended!