Ron Paul Rages "Will No One Challenge Obama’s Executive Orders?"

zero hedge ^ | 2/10/14 | Tyler Durden

[Nachum]

Submitted by Ron Paul of the Ron Paul Institute,

President Obama’s state of the union pledge to “act with or without Congress” marks a milestone in presidential usurpation of Congressional authority. Most modern presidents have used executive orders to change and even create laws without Congressional approval. However President Obama is unusually brazen, in that most Presidents do not brag about their plans to rule by executive order in state of the union speeches.

Sadly, his pledge to use his pen to implement laws and polices without the consent of Congress not only received thunderous applause from representatives of the president’s party, some representatives have even pledged to help Obama get around Congress by providing him with ideas for executive orders. The Constitution’s authors would be horrified to see legislators actively aiding and abetting a president taking power away from the legislature.

Executive orders are perfectly legitimate and even necessary if, in the words of leading Constitutional Scholar Judge Andrew Napolitano, they “…. guide the executive branch on how to enforce a law or…complement and supplement what Congress has already done.” The problem is that most modern presidents have abused this power to issue orders that, as Judge Napolitano puts it, “restates federal law, or contradicts federal law, or does the opposite of what the federal law is supposed to do.”

Political opponents of the president rightly condemned Obama for disregarding the Constitution. However, it was not that long ago that many of the same politicians were labeling as “unpatriotic” or worse anyone who dared question President Bush’s assertions the he had the “inherent” authority to launch wars, spy on Americans, and even indefinitely detain American citizens.

Partisan considerations also make some members of the opposition party hesitate to reign in the president. These members are reluctant to set a

[miliantnutcase]

Yeah, I get irritated because of the in-fighting here. Conservatives, libertarians need to be united against Obama.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You mean like the gal who sold the state jet airplane on e-bay the minute she was elected governor and got rid of her personal chef?

[plainshame]

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[bgill]

No.

[plainshame]

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[Kackikat]

The Black Republicans have already filed Impeachment last year...see their papers, and if the Republicans had any balls they would back them up!

http://www.nbra.info/

[plainshame]

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[mac_truck]

Hey, his kid’s a Senator. Instead of suing the Kenyan prick, he could always submit a bill on the Senate floor to nullify the Imperial Decrees.

Do you really think that's how things work in the Democrat controlled US Senate? Try again.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

For once, I agree with Ron Paul! He should have never retired. As far a domestic politics, he was good. But, on international stuff, not so much. That said:

Warning! Warning! Warning!

Don't trust RAND Paul!

[2ndDivisionVet]

What are you going on about? Are you saying your name used to be “Geezer” here or some such? So you’re a retread?

[plainshame]

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[Kackikat]

So help the National Black Republican Assoc who file Impeachment Papers last year, and get your Representative

http://www.nbra.info/

or Senator to back them up; that’s not racist then.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How would you prove that you’re an old hand?

[plainshame]

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[Bikkuri]

[2ndDivisionVet]

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[Windflier]

I’m a late “baby boomer” (born 1960)

I always figured you for an early 50s kid. You must have been ahead of your class :-)

[plainshame]

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[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve always “hung around” with adults and older kids even when I was young.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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