“A while back... say in the days of Nixon, the President was held in check by the other branches of government, especially Congress.”
Nixon’s enemy was the press. They brought him down, not Congress. With the press firmly in Barry’s corner, he can do no wrong, and as a result, Congress feels no need to act.
That’s why David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and George Soros threatened the media in October of 2008, resulting in the media heads telling their on-air personalities that they had been told that if any hosts or guests were allowed to speak about Obama’s eligibility problem or his Muslim leanings that news company would be annihilated through the FCC and anti-monopoly harassment. The media heads passed that on to the on-air personalities as a promise that if they spoke about those things their career would be over and the lives of them and their loved ones were questionable.
And the threat was repeated after the election also.
You have to have the propaganda in place, and Obama’s thugs knew how to get that done.
I’ll quickly add this too. Andrew Breitbart hired a researcher to debunk the birthers. The person he hired instead told Breitbart that the birthers were right about Obama having documentation problems. According to that investigator, Breitbart told him he wasn’t going to do anything with it because he feared IRS harassment.
Government bureaucracy is a weapon that we’re paying to have used against us for political purposes. Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, etc - these people are the teeth of the beast that is devouring this country. It is the lawlessness of these high-placed political operatives that has allowed this country to LITERALLY be taken hostage.