Posted on 08/05/2014 6:05:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tell me: Has any other United States president ever goaded the opposition party to bring impeachment proceedings against himself? Has any other so sneeringly mocked and taunted the other party?
President Obama is not only not the uniter he promised to be; he is the agitator in chief. Just consider the contrast with President George W. Bush, who didn't even defend himself often, much less deride, needle and dare Democrats to oppose him.
It's just like Obama, the dutiful disciple of 1960s leftist radical Saul Alinsky, to divert our attention from his official misconduct by demonizing Republicans and conservatives rightfully challenging his lawlessness.
Obama knows he has habitually exceeded his executive authority, but it's not so much the frequency of his overreaches that is unique. He boastfully claims he hasn't issued so many executive orders as his predecessors did. But that's just more of his misdirection.
It's not unlike his absurd statement that there has been more oil drilling under his administration than under others. What tripe. He conveniently omits that most of the drilling has occurred on private, not government-owned, land.
It's the substance of his executive orders -- their dangerous scope and magnitude -- that makes them so dangerous and troubling. Even liberal law professor Jonathan Turley notes that it is not the number of his executive orders that matters but their content and reach.
We must recognize that he is doing this premeditatedly. Shortly before issuing his executive order to implement parts of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, he openly acknowledged -- in lobbying for passage of the DREAM Act -- that he had no constitutional authority to do it on his own. But when he couldn't get Congress to go along with his ill-advised bill, he issued the order anyway, in total defiance of Congress' legislative prerogative and of his own admission that he couldn't do so.
The law is no obstacle to him. He will not be denied. His latest ploy is to ridicule Republicans for blocking his various amnesty schemes, which he euphemistically describes as "comprehensive immigration reform." He says he wouldn't have to act on his own if Congress would do its job. His adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, "The president has no choice but to act" on immigration.
Excuse me? Congress' job is not to rubber-stamp his statist policies. It is not to get along with him. Its duty is not to President Obama, his agenda or his legacy. It is to do what it believes is best for America and to check his power when he is acting beyond his authority.
There is nothing in the Constitution or case law that empowers a president to act unilaterally when Congress won't go along with him. If this were the case, the Constitution and its entire system of separation of powers would be meaningless.
How cynical this man is to tell the American people that he has a right to act outside the scope of his authority if his intention is "to help people" -- as if to turn lawlessness into a virtue. How can members of his own party not be sickened by his contemptuousness toward the Constitution? This isn't just a matter of Obama's jabbing the Republican Party. It's a calculated assault on the Constitution that transcends partisan politics and will come back to haunt all Americans.
Obama realizes that his egregious record in office has finally come home to roost and that in November, assuming things continue on their current course, his party is going to receive a shellacking at the polls because of him.
This is why he is willing to go to any lengths to distract attention from his failures. He figures the best way he can do that is by further vilifying Republicans as irresponsible extremists, racists, bigots, homophobes and the rest, hoping that he can dupe Americans into ignoring his disastrous record by convincing them that Republicans would be even worse.
He desperately needs to gin up his base and energize his own extremists, and his tried-and-true method for the past six years to accomplish that has been to use fear-mongering against Republicans.
So he is not only ratcheting up his rhetoric to accuse Republicans of a plot to impeach him, though House Speaker John Boehner has clearly indicated that is not in the cards, but also trying to force their hand into actually impeaching him. To this end, he is planning on upping the ante by issuing a far-reaching unilateral order granting amnesty to millions.
That's right. The leader of the Free World is trying to provoke Republicans into impeaching him or otherwise stirring a constitutional crisis.
This is stunningly unprecedented. But more and more people are wising up to his serial abuses of power and his partisan agitation.
I don't have a great track record as a prognosticator of elections, but I am strongly sensing his party, as a direct result of his policies and lawlessness and its shameless refusal to rein him in, is going to get a titanic comeuppance in November.
What would happen if 10 million citizens showed up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Would he get out on the porch and repeat the dare?
No, it shows the GOP stupidity. I am one grand ODimwit loather, but this is as stupid ploy as the GOP ever considered. First of all, they are not serious. It is only an attempt to get the Right to the polls. This has zero chance of success and especially give the likes of the GOPers who have “run” previous investigations (Issa anyone), this would turn the House into a clown car. Add to that the fact that the Pubic will hate it and that those that want it are in a minority ... and did I say ... Senate? Dem fundraising? GOTV?
If I were on the Left I’d BEG the GOP to pull the impeachment trigger.
Let's just remind ourselves of James Madison's words from THE FEDERALIST, the Framers' authoritative explanation of their Constitution, directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in 1825 to be used as the text for its law school in its studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man," and said by Jefferson to "constitute 'the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S., on questions as to its genuine meaning'.":
"The house of representatives... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
How can Democrats put up with Emperor Obama?
Very simple, for the last 50 plus years Democrats have put loyalty to their political party over loyalty to the Republic. In doing so they also ignore their individual oaths of office.
How else can you explain their unrestricted support for the Emperor when he said in a State of the Union address to Congress that he was going to bypass them and rule by decree because Congress was doing what he wanted them to do?
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.
This is exactly why he wants impeachment....this and he knows full well it would split the republican party....and its a loser issue because 1) The MSM controls the narrative and 2) The GOP is HORRIBLE at editing the narrative.
There are many fool conservatives out there willing to give it to him. The lack of strategic planning is STUNNING...which is of course why he's POTUS in the first place.
Make no mistake, everything you see going on now is in some way tied to the same goal: Centralize the executive power by destabilizing the country. Illegals. Fund raising. Disease. Executive overreach. EPA madness. Foreign policy. Impeachment. They are all tied to the same tangled web of martial law.
He was a broken child and became a broken man. He doesn’t know who or what he is or what he believes. Sweet nothings were blown in his youthful ears and he was conscripted for an anti-white, anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-Zionist cause. He thinks he’s The One, The Messiah, The Great Hope and all that, when he is actually mostly nothing at all.
And he'll do whatever it takes to make it happen. He's prepared. The camps are ready, the coffins are stacked, the private army has its ammunition. The smart ones have vacated the US.
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