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Senate Seeks to Create Caesar (Republic to Dictatorship in senate bill)
http://noisyroom.net/blog ^ | 5.8.11 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Posted on 05/08/2011 7:42:03 PM PDT by Whenifhow

While all of America is distracted and focused on the death of Osama bin Laden, our President and his minions have been fast at work laying the groundwork for S. 679: Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 to speed through the Senate and then make its way into the House and then to the President to sign. Yes, the other hand is quickly forming into a dictatorial fist that is about to smash our Constitution.

As you will recall, the beginning of the end of liberty in Rome commenced with Augustus Caesar who compromised the authority of the Senate through the force of arms and basically the Senate became a facade. America is poised with this proposed bill, to morph immediately from a Republic into an empire with the privileged eunuchs of the Senate as window dressing and a dictator – the first American Caesar – at the country’s helm.

And leading the progressive charge is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). No big surprise there. Schumer is an elitist Marxist and a first class progressive who hates America almost as much as he loves power. He introduced S. 679 on March 30th, 2011. He was joined by a gaggle of progressives from the left and the right. This is something I have been warning Americans about for a long time. If we are to survive as a nation, we must rid ourselves of ALL progressives or our nation is doomed and freedom will be swept into the dustbin of history. Schumer’s esteemed list of constitutional traitors is as follows:

* Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

* Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

* Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

* Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA)

* Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE)

* Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)

* Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)

* Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE)

* Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

* Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)

* Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN)

* Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

* Sen. John Reed (D-RI)

* Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)

* Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

From The Heritage Foundation, here is a succinct explanation of the bill:

"The bill reduces the number of presidential appointments that require the consent of the Senate and establishes within the executive branch a Working Group on Streamlining Paperwork for Executive Nominations. Individuals nominated to senior executive offices suffer slow and detailed background investigations and mounds of duplicative paperwork before a President sends their nominations to the Senate. After nomination, many nominees suffer time-consuming inaction or time-consuming and excruciating action as the Senate proceeds (or does not) with consideration of the nomination. The sponsors of S. 679 have identified a valid problem, but proposed the wrong solution. Congress should not enact S. 679."

In essence they want to give the President the sole power to appoint people to positions of his choosing within our government. Obama would be free to do this without the approval of the Senate. Senate approval of such positions is mandated by the U.S. Constitution in Article II, Section 2 under the “Appointments Clause”:

"… shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. (emphasis added)"

This bill will do away with the checks and balances that separate an American form of government from those such as Venezuela and Brazil. Already we have power mongers such as Cass Sunstein our Regulatory Czar (more commonly known as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and more aptly titled the Office of Government Propaganda) running amok across the US using agencies such as the EPA as a weapon of regulation and control. There is not a single area in our country that Sunstein does not have his claws sunk deep into. It should scare the crap out of Americans, but all I hear are crickets. The silence of capitulation seals our fate as surely as the thunderous applause of approval – so ends the Republic.

More from The Heritage Foundation:

" When the delegates of the states gathered in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and wrote the Constitution, they distributed the powers of the federal government among two Houses of Congress, a President, and a judiciary, and required in many cases that two of them work together to exercise a particular constitutional power. That separation of powers protects the liberties of the American people by preventing any one officer of the government from aggregating too much power.

The Framers of the Constitution did not give the President the kingly power to appoint the senior officers of the government by himself. Instead, they allowed the President to name an individual for a senior office, but then required the President to obtain the Senate’s consent before appointing the individual to office. Thus, they required the cooperation of the President and the Senate to put someone in high office."

I know Americans have not forgotten about Obama’s string of Czars. Czars that he was supposed to downsize or get rid of. Czars, which in my personal viewpoint, were and still are illegal under the Constitution. But progressives never go away, they just shift… As has done so many of Obama’s Czars. With this sweeping bill, over 200 positions will no longer require Senate approval. Obama will dictate who are his powerful lieutenants and who will control America. The Senate will merely be a sham to parrot Obama’s dictates. With this bill, checks and balances will be effectively nullified.

What does that portend you say? One day, your right to own a gun will be gone, just regulated away. Businesses will be nationalized even more than they are now. Heavy regulation will ensue concerning communications and the Internet. Many, many private businesses will whither and die. You will be told what and how much to eat – food and gas rationing will become the norm. Poverty and squalor will become equal for all as wealth is redistributed to other nations. If there are elections, they will be a joke and pointless. There will be a few powerful elites and then the masses. Guess which camp you and I will be in?

Our best hope at this juncture is that this abomination will be stopped in the House. We must weed out the progressives and we must win in 2012. This country will not survive another four years of progressive policies. Not as a Republic and not as a free entity anyway.

The bitter irony on display here, is that the same jackals that have barked and snarled and feigned horror at “American Imperialism,” are the very ones who now howl their support for a true American empire. All hail Caesar!


TOPICS: Education; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: adviceandconsent; czars; dictatorship; obama; s679; schumer; senate; tyranny
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1 posted on 05/08/2011 7:42:06 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

“...with the privileged eunuchs of the Senate as window dressing...”

NEVER pay for window dressing........

Time for a taxpayer revolt.

Let them try to put us ALL in jail.


2 posted on 05/08/2011 7:46:28 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mortrey; Nachum; LucyT

Time for a taxpayer revolt.

Let them try to put us ALL in jail.
^^^^^^
I agree!


3 posted on 05/08/2011 7:48:06 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow
It'll NEVER pass the House.

On the other hand, I bet President Palin will be able to make great use of such a bill...

Cheers!

4 posted on 05/08/2011 7:50:03 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Whenifhow
Let them try to put us ALL in jail. ^^^^^^ I agree!

Let's put them all in jail.

5 posted on 05/08/2011 7:51:00 PM PDT by Digger (would have fought on the souths side.)
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To: Whenifhow

6 posted on 05/08/2011 7:55:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Whenifhow

Why would the Senate vote to eliminate their own power? Doesn’t make sense.


7 posted on 05/08/2011 7:57:21 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Whenifhow
The purpose of Senate confirmation was as a check on the President, to ensure that any person through which the President sought to control the bureaucracy could be trusted to not relay unconstitutional orders.

Who needs Senate confirmation? If he reports to the president (rather than to a senate-confirmed cabinet secretary) and he is to have the power to issue orders into the federal bureaucracy, or to issue orders to the public at large, then he needs Senate confirmation.

That is also the reason why senior military officers (colonel and above) require Senate confirmation for their promotions.

8 posted on 05/08/2011 8:06:41 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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9 posted on 05/08/2011 8:09:25 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Whenifhow
Thanks for the "heads-up".

I e-mailed Mike Johanns.

10 posted on 05/08/2011 8:14:51 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: Whenifhow

What the heck are these fools doing? Call your senator.


11 posted on 05/08/2011 8:21:13 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: grey_whiskers

I agree. They’ll wish they never did this.


13 posted on 05/08/2011 8:26:28 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
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Senate Seeks to Create Caesar (Republic to Dictatorship in senate bill)

While all of America is distracted and focused on the death of Osama bin Laden, our President and his minions have been fast at work laying the groundwork for S. 679: Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 to speed through the Senate and then make its way into the House and then to the President to sign. Yes, the other hand is quickly forming into a dictatorial fist that is about to smash our Constitution.

As you will recall, the beginning of the end of liberty in Rome commenced with Augustus Caesar who compromised the authority of the Senate through the force of arms and basically the Senate became a facade. America is poised with this proposed bill, to morph immediately from a Republic into an empire with the privileged eunuchs of the Senate as window dressing and a dictator – the first American Caesar – at the country’s helm.

And leading the progressive charge is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). No big surprise there. Schumer is an elitist Marxist and a first class progressive who hates America almost as much as he loves power. He introduced S. 679 on March 30th, 2011. He was joined by a gaggle of progressives from the left and the right. This is something I have been warning Americans about for a long time. If we are to survive as a nation, we must rid ourselves of ALL progressives or our nation is doomed and freedom will be swept into the dustbin of history. Schumer’s esteemed list of constitutional traitors is as follows:

. . . . Check out article.

Thanks, Whenifhow.

14 posted on 05/08/2011 8:31:13 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: 240B

Agreed. This is baffling.


15 posted on 05/08/2011 8:34:56 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: 240B

Why would the Senate vote to eliminate their own power? Doesn’t make sense.


Because most of the bastards don’t comprehend their Constitutional responsibilities.


16 posted on 05/08/2011 8:36:09 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Whenifhow; Mortrey; grey_whiskers; Digger; Diogenesis; 240B; PapaBear3625; musicman; MountainDad; ..

Might be time for everyone to read this:

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


17 posted on 05/08/2011 8:38:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BTTT !!


18 posted on 05/08/2011 8:43:36 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Whenifhow

sfl


19 posted on 05/08/2011 8:57:03 PM PDT by phockthis
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To: Whenifhow
As you will recall, the beginning of the end of liberty in Rome commenced with Augustus Caesar who compromised the authority of the Senate through the force of arms and basically the Senate became a facade.

Somebody should read their history of the Roman Republic...
20 posted on 05/08/2011 9:22:00 PM PDT by Kozak ("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
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