OF COURSE HE IS. THAT IS WHAT HE HAS BEEN SAYING AND DOING FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS. HE IS NOT STUPID. HE IS NOT MISINFORMED. HE DOES NOT MAKE BAD DECISIONS. HE IS DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO. AND WE ARE LETTING HIM DO IT.
We (the majority of the American people) apparently elected him to do it.
I am disgusted, but, my sense of outrage is muted. We (as a nation) are getting what we asked for. We (as a nation) are the problem. He’s just a terrible symptom.
Yes - he is not stupid or clueless because that assumes he really takes his oath to protect and defend the Constitution seriously. Maybe to him this doesn’t matter since he’s swearing on the Bible and not the koran.
His real enemies are people like me, freepers, and other conservatives who don’t want to give up our liberty to be “taken care of” by the bureaucrats.
All that citizens need to know from the Constituton and Supreme Court case precedents in order to close down Obama and the unconstitutionally big federal government would fill about two or three pages. The problem, as Thomas Jefferson prophetically wrote, is widespread citizen apathy.
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature." - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Citizens need to know the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment, and a few excerpts from case opinions to shut down Obamacare and stop Congress's gun grab.
In fact, Judge Andrew Napolitano will read Section 8, Congress's limited powers, to you.
Judge Napolitano & the Constitution
The following excerpts from case opinions would shut down constitutionally indefensible federal Obamacare.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws (emphasis added) of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
And the following excerpt from a case opinion would stop Congress dead in its tracks concerning gun control.
"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes (emphasis added), to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the "powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States." --United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.
Sadly, as much as patriots accuse Obama of ignoring the Constitution, I often think that many patriots haven't taken the initiative to read the Constitution and related material. Otherwise, Obama and corrupt Congress would have been put out of business with respect to wrongly usurping 10th Amendment protected state powers long ago.