Good line:
“Thomas Friedman is famous for musing that he wishes America could be China for a day. It turns out we’ve been China for a while.”
Any legitimate authority comes from the Constitution and ultimately from God.
This administration is operating outside of that legitimate authority and only have authority that extends from the use of or the threat of the use of force.
They are a thugocracy with no legitimate authority.
Since he was elected and at each and every turn in the road, there is noghing O has done as consistently and openly as delegate responsibility. So much so that the hallmark of Os administration is this smooth (and for the most part, NOT SO SMOOTH) handing off of all responsibility to people he appoints or to that guy over there who looks like he doesn’t have anything else to do-and needs a govt. paycheck.
We NEVER know the criteria he uses to hand off responsibility for his Presidential mission, but we DO know that it is inevitable, routine and inscrutable. Whether it is to escape blame or to place blame or to avoid blame O is nothing, if not a guy who writhes like a dying worm at the mention of personal or professions responsibility. The concept appears to be alien and abhorrent to him.
O is the perfect model for a spineless and irresolute jack a^% who in his entire life never had and SHOULD never have responbibility. He has set the worst possible example to the people around him and to the nation at large.
He’s too stupid, irresponsible, lazy and naive to comprehend the fact that handing off responsibility is tantamount to renouncing authority as well.
What the he%*... ‘authority’ and ‘responsibility’ are establishment values .... and NOT anything he ever had or HAS to bother about! Right?
“The administrative state, in thrall to a decadent cultural elite, has lost the consent of the governed.”
Taranto gets right to the heart of it. When the secession/revolution talk reaches the pitch we have today the govt has lost the consent of the governed.
We give the Democrats too much credit when we attribute their motives to anything other than greed. We are starting to see how the Democrats truly behave. The question now is, “Why do they behave this way?” Is Harry Reid a socialist? Is Nancy Pelosi a Moslem? Are there socialists and Moslems in the Obama administration? Sure. Enough to throw investigators off the track of these thieves. We can sit around and develop a strategy to defeat socialists and Moslems and we lose because we would be fighting shadows. The real motivation of the Democrat party is personal wealth. That is where they can be hurt and defeated.