Posted on 08/28/2015 9:23:50 AM PDT by Steelfish
Have Republicans Grown Tired of Supporting the Rule of Law?
by MONA CHAREN August 28, 2015
Among a very long list of harms inflicted upon the United States by Barack Obama and his party, perhaps the worst was Caesarism. Obama relished the worship of millions in 2008. From his star turn at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he was treated not as a political candidate but as a savior. Progressives fell into a swoon, typified by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas’s 2008 comment that “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above — above the world, he’s sort of God.”
Now, a similar kind of unreasoning adulation is greeting (improbably enough) Donald Trump. Fred Barnes reports that a focus group of Trump supporters is swept up in a kind of worship, too: “He’s not just their favorite candidate. Their tie to him is almost mystical. He’s a kind of political savior, someone who says what they think.” If Obama had accepted the reverence of the crowd but governed as a normal president, his sin would have been merely aesthetic. But he did not.
Contempt for law and tradition has been the hallmark of his presidency. His lawlessness makes Richard Nixon’s look penny ante. In addition to his blatantly illegal grant of legal status to 4 million illegal immigrants — a move Obama himself declared he lacked the authority to make — Obama has acted as an autocrat in dozens of other instances. Without any legal basis, he imposed a fine on BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and unilaterally suspended offshore drilling. He bypassed the plain language of Obamacare multiple times, whenever enforcing the unpopular or unworkable aspects of the law would be politically inconvenient.
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The party apparachiks have abandoned the rule of law, the citizens have not, thus the support for Trump.
Trump’s immigration plan would restore the law after 30 years of administrations refusing to enforce the law.
Trump is likely to be the MOST law abiding President we’ve had in a long time.
There is no rule of law.
GOPe = Amnesty = Rewarding Lawbreakers.
What Obama has served to do if anything is show just how irrelevant and impotent the Congress is now. Especially the RINO Congress of Mitch Boehner.
“There is no rule of law.”
We have a Uniparty Oligarchy.
DEATH TO THE UNIPARTY!
The Libs ran roughshod over the constitution. The GOPe in congress sat silently when Obama raped America. When the pendulum swings back in the form of Trump/Cruz, the Libs can't complain. They brought it upon themselves.
The appeal of Trump falls into this category. Though one might suppose that his borderline pathological narcissism, his arrested emotional development, and his nearly incoherent ramblings would exclude him from consideration for county clerk, he sits atop the GOP field. The message from a segment of the Republican party is: “Okay, we’re an autocracy now. So let’s have this guy govern by fiat.”
Tell me, Mona - how is wanting existing immigration law enforced governing by fiat?
Hint: it's not.
In all truth, Trump has nothing to do with Mona’s complaint. It’s the readership hook.....grab current attention because of “Trump”.
The guts of the article is really about her question of “Republicans” and their loss of vision or something with respect to the rule of law - which Obama has consistently ignored throughout his Presidency and will continue to do so.
Mona, I submit that your use of “Republican” shows a very misplaced and ill defined premise. Establishment Republicans don’t give a damn about the rule of law. Never did, else they would have done something in the years since 2012 when they retook the House of Representatives.
The only steadfast supporters of RoL are conservatives - at the condemnation of our quisling Republican leadership who say we are “loony,” “crazies” and whatnot.
Just because you put some demeaning language about Trump in your article with scant relevancy to your too-late plaint doesn’t mean he is the problem of it all. For that, look back to what you’re calling Republican, missy.
But enforcing existing laws is racist!
Not just racist.
We are told it simply CAN’T be done.
Let’s ask Hillary Clinton about the rule of law.
For us, I mean, not her, obviously.
“Have Republicans Grown Tired of Supporting the Rule of Law? by MONA CHAREN August 28, 2015 “
Well Mona Charen ought to know. For years she’s been one of the main GOPe apologists for illegal immigration. A female Michael Medved.
Since when did either one of them care about the rule of law?
They’ve been more than willing to advocate wholesale lawbreaking whenever it benefits the GOP’s desire to replace Americans with latino invaders.
democrats gave up on it ens ago. only pretend to support it when its a law they love.
2016: Year of the PenAndPhone.
TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK....
confusion IS CREATED BY ACCUSATIONNS THAT ARE NOT TRUE. stop!
WE ARE IN EFFECT ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT SUICIDE AS A NATION WITH THIS STUPID RETHETORIC.
GOD bless America. LET US REPENT AND TURN TO THE LORD IN FAITH AND TRUTH. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!
Most Americans, and most Republicans, don’t even know what the basis of the rule of law is any more.
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There is sort of a rule of law. If you are not a in a “favored group”, you will be prosecuted to the limit of the law. If you are in a “favored group”, anything goes. We live in a time surrounded by malignant criminals at all levels.
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