In an article on The Hill website today we see yet another
example of the irrelevance of congress as well as the growing power of the
executive branch. Obama has discovered a secret that no other president has found,
or at the very least have certainly not been brave enough to use. Obama has
found that he can just make up new laws with executive orders. This is
certainly not a power the constitution every gave to the president.
Oddly our representatives seem afraid to do or say anything
about it. With each executive order the president issues that are
unconstitutional he becomes braver to do more and at the same time our
representatives become more afraid to say anything about it because they have
already let so many others go through without saying anything.
As Obama has said before: “When Congress refuses to act then
I have an obligation to do what I can without them?”
He has now shown a complete willingness to do exactly this.
It is not like this is only a one-time thing. The president has been making it
a regular habit of late and still nothing gets said about it.
Obama has shown on all too many occasions is contempt for
both the constitution and the American way of life. At the very least he feels
things should be socialist, and possibly severely Marxist. I believe he is at
the very least a fair ways left of European socialism. Those of his own party
who are frustrated with him are only so because they are true communist, are
open about it and feel that other true communists should be equally as open.
They are bothered with the idea that Obama, for political expediency has to
keep his communism under cover at least until he is elected to a second term.
He understands that the American people would never re-elect him otherwise. If
he is re-elected to another term then I have little doubt that his communism
will come out of the closet since it won’t make a difference after that point.
After all if he can’t forcibly stay in power he will also not be able to be voted
back in due to the term limits on the presidency.
This was a line taken from TheHill.com:
Republicans have already accused President Obama of making
illegal power grabs with his previous executive actions, and a cybersecurity
order would likely elicit similar howls of disapproval.
It seems the most any in congress can muster when they’re
constitutional rights and responsibilities are being stepped on is to say that
they disapprove, but no action accompanying that disapproval ever seems to
happen. They are more than content to simply wait for the next election. Their
attitude seems to be that the constitution and the American culture will
survive till the next election and they can try to fix things then, but they
never do fix them. They never undo anything previous presidents have done
through executive orders and as such they end up having the force of law.
They are ceding power to the president that the presidency
was never meant to have according to the constitution. There ought to be far
more than disapproval on Capitol Hill. There ought to be far more than outrage!
There ought to be impeachment when the president begins to exercise power that
is not his to exercise. There needs to be far more push back than just
disapproval.
I know the democrats are not complaining because the
president is using those orders to do things they want to do but can no longer
do because they don’t have a super majority. I suppose they either don’t think
about how those same powers will be used, based on precedent when the other
side gets in power. Either that or they figure they’ll just intimidate the
republican president if he tries to do the same because they always have the
power of the press behind them. Maybe they are right about being able to do
this, but it still doesn’t change the principle of the matter.
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