Posted on 12/07/2013 3:55:57 PM PST by raptor22
Executive Orders: A liberal constitutional scholar warns of the concentration of power not only in the hands of one branch of government but in a single man who ignores the Constitution and acts of Congress on a whim.
As the story goes, Benjamin Franklin emerged from Independence Hall at the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on Sept. 18, 1787, when a woman asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin is said to have replied, "A republic, madam — if you can keep it."
The Founders designed a system of checks and balances among three branches of government that was based on the consent of the governed. The power grab that is ObamaCare, nationalizing one-sixth of the economy, is just the latest example of an increasingly imperial presidency that ignores the Constitution, the will of Congress, the laws sworn to be faithfully executed and the will of the people who never wanted it in the first place.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, recently noted to Fox News' Sean Hannity how President Obama "extended the employer mandate for a year, even though the law says 'shall commence in each month after December of 2013.' He extended the individual mandate, stretched that out and now the small-package plans. There's at least three times that he's violated the Constitution with ObamaCare."
When confronted with his lies that under ObamaCare you could keep your plan and doctor if you like them, and millions were losing the coverage they liked, the president held a press conference where he decreed that insurance companies could violate the "law of the land" and reissue policies that did not contain Obama-Care's 10 essential mandates, if only for a year.
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The other day someone here posted, almost verbatim I believe,
“Government was set up to protect our liberty.” My jaw hit my chest, clunk.
Exactly.
“Not enough spine in the House to impeach the poofter. Doesn’t matter if the Senate wouldn’t convict; it’s Congress’ duty to act against Zero and the sodomite’s high crimes and misdemeanors.”
It certainly matters if doing it, and especially doing it prematurely, causes you to lose the ability to resist at all...see 1998.
The better case is, now that people’s attention is there, to show what has been going on and develop a political will amongst the people. The will to remove must be th among the greater part of the people. It’s going to take more than even winning all of the races in 2014 to remove him.
“SO! I ask.... where are the ‘lawsuits’ by conservatives on this point???? “
They’ve been made, and even posted on FR. Via Oklahoma, for example.
The big problem is standing.
Obama Tyranny Ping
I ask.... where are the 'lawsuits' by conservatives on this point?
We 'lack standing' to sue. Obama's men in black said so.
The Constitution and the Government was written and formed when we had men with balls leading the country.
Todays Congress is very short of men like that.
If they had any balls they would be removing this clown from the WH through Impeachment.
Thanks raptor22.
maybe some few patiotic air force folks decide not to let him back in after crying at the thug murderer socialist’s funeral.
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