Posted on 10/09/2012 8:44:38 AM PDT by Perseverando
Obama's executive orders more and more dispensing with Congress
Barack Obama has used executive orders to seal presidential records; create a faith council, an economic council, and a domestic policy council, a council on women and girls and dozens more; study bioethics, change pay grades, set up a team of governors to synchronize state and federal military operations in the U.S.; improve regulatory review; create a jobs council; set up immunity for Bosnia, revoke some earlier orders and talk about finances. GASP!
And he’s used them to talk about fiscal responsibility, ensure abortions through Obamacare; review Guantanamo Bay operations; promote diversity; amend court-martial procedures; launch a national women action plan, talk about Syria, talk about North Korea, encourage efficient government, target transnational crime groups, promote efficient spending and many, many more. WHEW!
Now critics are saying that if it looks like he’s trying to run the country single-handedly, their perceptions aren’t far off.
“It is very disconcerting,” said Richard Thompson, chief of the Thomas More Law Center. The organization is fighting the Obama administration on a number of the subjects that also have been raised in executive orders.
A viral email circulating now, just as the volume in the 2012 presidential race crescendos, states that Obama has issued 923 executive orders in three and a half years, up from George W. Bush’s 62 in eight years.
But that’s easily debunked by a quick visit to the National Archives website, where Obama’s 39 executive orders from 2009 are listed, his 35 from 2010, his 34 from 2011 and 27 so far in 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/presidenc1/a/executive_order.htm
I know that and you know that, but if Congress and the citizenry do nothing to challenge their issuance and enforcement, are they not deemed to be constitutional?
Despite what the government schools have taught us, silence does NOT imply consent when it comes to the Natural Rights of the People, as those Rights are the purpose for which it was instituted to preserve.
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.
The Federalist Papers No. 78, Alexander Hamilton
As the 3 branches of government are separate, but equal, I see no logical reason why Hamilton's words would not be applied to the Office of the Executive as well.
Thankfully November 6, 2012 cannot come here sooooooooooon enough!!!!!!!!!!
Romney’s first act should be to issue one executive order declaring all of the previous Presidents’ executive orders null and void and pledging never to use this unconstitutional power again.
The only rhetorical answer I can come up with is that the GOP wants to be able to exercise the same power when next they are in office.
Forget 4 more years! I worry about what the fool will do with the 2 1/2 months between the election and the inauguration!!
Perhaps because no branch of government wishes to admit the Original Intent of the Constitution was to primarily provide a place of arbitration for mutual resolution of issues between the States, not create an series of political elites to rule over us all.
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The only rhetorical answer I can come up with is that the GOP wants to be able to exercise the same power when next they are in office.
That IS the inherent problem with power. Whoever has it are always more concerned that they use it well when they should be worrying more about the next guy who won't.
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BTW - this is the first quote that came to mind when I read your post. Now that I finally found it, I figured I'd post it as well. :-)
If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.
John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
The Emperor does not issue executive orders, he issues Imperial Decrees.
IF this last sentence is correct, that still adds up to 135 in 3 1/2 years!!Teddy Roosevelt & forward they Geo Bush 43 total ===121.
Still way too many.
I don’t think there are only that many> Too many references here in the past 3 1/2 years.
I'll give you a 10 on a 5 scale with that one.
Good stuff.
I know you malcontents are constantly looking for ways to blame the Republicans for all the government's ills, but at least pretend to do some research.
***** “Still way too many.” *****
For me it isn’t the number of Orders, it is what they Are ... what they do, they are not trivial Orders
TT
(taking my BP Meds and returning to lurk mode)
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