Posted on 02/25/2014 3:31:19 PM PST by jazusamo
Among the many constitutional outrages President Barack Obama has perpetrated on the country is unilaterally amending legislation duly passed by Congress with a stroke of the pen.
He's done it several times now with Obamacare alone, perhaps thinking that since the monstrous law has been dubbed with his name, he has the power to change its terms.
The latest example is his decision to delay for three more years the penalty for employers not complying with the law.
Now think about this. If Obama has the power to delay certain provisions of the law for three years, would his successors not have the power to delay other provisions, or the same provisions, or even enforcement of the entire law for, say, another 50 years?
It would be a quantitative difference, but would it be a qualitative difference?
Somehow, I suspect that those who today wink at the constitutional abuses by Obama would be the very same people screaming at the top of their lungs should a future Republican president try this "stroke-of-the-pen, law-of-the-land" trickery in 2017 or beyond. Do you agree?
But Obama gets away with it.
And Republicans don't even have the courage to play this game. Republican legislators keep telling us there is nothing they can do about Obamacare, unless the American people give them majorities in both houses of Congress and a Republican president. Thus, on what basis are we to empower them? Their word?
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Let everyone be able to buy and build and use gun mufflers at will.
For every Allende, there is a Pinochet.
Yes, if only the GOP had a spine.
I need time to digest this all.
As long as it is done with the intent of RESTORING what the democrats have destroyed. Once the Constitution has been re instituted, we both go back to the original rules.
To those who think that our emulating the democrats would be "cheating" - crossing some kind of point of no return I would say that point has already been crossed.
But the left will never allow it - the minute the GOP deviates from the Marcus of Queensbury rules they will resort to violence, guaranteed.
The problem is ... I don’t see any future GOP Presidents.
He shouldn’t run for prez. I like him and he’s the current soul of the Conservative Party, but he’s a Senator and Senators rarely make good presidents. He needs a governorship or high impact Cabinet position for a while, but I would much rather have him as Senate Majority Leader.
Read the rest of the article. The GOP right now has the ability to stop Obama and refuses to exercise that power.
Does Barak Hussein Obama contemplate a successor, anytime soon?
Yep.
5.56mm
Here is the truth to all of the Democrats: a future GOP president WILL do it.
Nope. The Dems and the undocumented Dems inside the GOP tent would impeach him/her.
The elections aren’t real. They know this, that is why they are unafraid now.
The polls are open for weeks and they are cheating the entire time. Tick tock, tick tock.
Other than Palin and Cruz who would have the backbone?
I can’t think of any.
Here’s the truth-
A future GOP president will pretend his/ her/ its hands are tied when it comes to doing anything outside of advancing the government agenda.
Period, end of story.
It is certainly possible that some future republican president would refuse to enforce environmental restrictions enacted by congress or refuse to enforce the voting rights act or some of the restrictive labor laws or other laws that are so dear to the hearts of democrats. I am not sure they would be given the same level of protection by congress however.
While our constitution set up a clear division of powers, there is no real protection against a rouge president when hyper-partisanship and a divided congress exist. As much as democrats like to hold President Nixon out as an example of official corruption, it was members of his own party who forced his resignation by refusing to protect him from the consequences of his actions. So far, not one democrat member of the House or Senate has exhibited the courage to place respect for the constitutional framework above partisan support for this particular president. Republicans alone can’t solve the problem and democrats don’t seem to care.
Good reason to insist on voting for Palin/Cruz in spite of the WasteStream Media's pillorying of both of them.
The fact of the kenyan’s crumpling of the COnstitution and the Republicans’ acquiescence in that operation is a strong suggestion that the Republicans would not make a great difference in the Presidency. A change of parties would be as significant as a change in the ascendant cartel in the drug trade.
It also suggests that the obammunists think they will not be relinquishing power. They do have control of the output of the touch screen voting machines and are working mightily to hack access to all other electronic machines as well as essentially legalizing vote fraud through the DOJ. And the kenyan is more and more ruling by fiat. That phenomenon is increasing fast enough to suggest that his Word will be Law by November 2016.
The Republicans generally do what they are told to do by their bosses in the Parent Corporation, the Democrat Party.
Sadly I agree, the criminal in the WH picked his AG well for his purpose, they’re birds of a feather.
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