Posted on 04/27/2015 4:47:27 PM PDT by markomalley
President Barack Obamas abuse of executive power privileges has essentially frozen Congress out of the government for the past six years, leading to foreign policy disasters across the globe and systemic domestic problems, according to Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.), who blasted the White Houses abuse of power during a speech on the Senate floor Monday evening.
Perdue, in his first wide-ranging speech from the Senate floor, blasted what he said is the Obama administrations unprecedented abuse of the presidency and failure to set America on stable path.
Unbridled use of executive orders and regulatory mandates has basically allowed this president to run the country without Congress for the past six years, Perdue said, according to text of his speech.
The abuse of executive power, the significant deterioration of American foreign policy, and our out-of-control debt has fundamentally endangered the United States standing the world, he said.
Quoting Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University constitutional law professor, Perdue noted that what we are witnessing today is one of the greatest challenges to our constitutional system in the history of this country.
According to Professor Turley, this sets dangerous precedents for future courts and future presidents, he said.
The Obama administrations actions on the international front have created a situation where our allies dont trust us and our enemies dont fear us, according to Perdue. Leading from behind has failed as a foreign policy.
As the administration seeks to ink a nuclear agreement with Iran that would permit it to build nuclear weapons after a temporary, decade-long freeze, Perdue blasted the president for endangering global security.
A nuclear Iran whose leaders are committed to the death of Israel and America would spark an unprecedented wave of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and potentially worldwide, he said. Under no circumstances, can we allow Iran to become a nuclear weapons state not now, not in 10 years, not ever.
Perdue also warned that the administrations reluctance to thwart terrorist activities abroad could lead to an future attack on U.S. soil.
After battling terrorism for the past 14 years, and fighting two major wars with thousands of American lives lost and billions spent, we still face terrorist threats from jihadist Islamic groups who openly vow to do us harm, he said. We face a tough choice: deal with them over there or wait and deal with the consequences here at home.
These issues, combined with severe funding cuts to the U.S. military, have jeopardized Americas ability to protect itself and its allies, Perdue said.
New asymmetric threats combined with traditional symmetric challenges create unprecedented demand on our military at the very time that this administration has reduced military spending to the point that we are about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever, he said. This is simply unacceptable.
To have a strong defense, though, we must have a strong economy, Perdue added. Our own fiscal irresponsibility jeopardizes our ability to fund a strong military. Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the greatest threat to our national security is our own federal debt.
Perdue also warned that the growing and unchecked federal deficit threatens to erode Americas domestic and international agenda.
The Senate must step up to the plate and deal with the countrys most pressing issues.
To create a new beginning, its time for this eminent body, the United States Senate, to rise above partisan politics and do the right thing, he said. It starts with leadership. It starts with making hard decisions. It starts with telling the American people the unvarnished truth. It starts with no longer kicking the can down the road. It starts with having the courage to actually solve these problems, independent of how it might affect our own re-election.
My motivation is very simple, Perdue added. I do not want to be a member of the first generation in American history that has to tell its kids that we are leaving them a country that is worse off than the one our parents left us.
I blame Boner and the Ditch Turtle and those who selected same.
Perdy needs to talk to his boss about it.
Or is this just for local consumption.
It isn’t an abuse of power when Congress sits on their hands, refuse to use all of The Constitutional checks and balances, and let the president do whatever he wants.
If anything, Congress seems complicit.
He has the full cooperation of the Congress. They keep funding everything he wants. They approve his nominees even when they testify that they will not adhere to federal law.
How did you vote on Cromnibus and DHS Sen Perdue?
Did you stand with Ted Cruz last December?
I agree. The Democrats stay in line like robots in a dystopian novel. And numerous Republicans deserve criticism also.
I have called their offices and raked them over the coals about this BS. Of course he didn’t vote for Lynch, etc., and they (all GA reps) pass the blame and act as if they are powerless. The Dems seem to get what they want even when they aren’t officially in power. There seem to be no consequences for denying the wishes of the voters. Anybody got any tar?
My Rep. Mike Kelly, District 3 Pa, seems disinterested and it seems like I am bothering him. I guess our priorities are just not the same.
It’s a serious problem that will be addressed by Congress during a GOP administration, and ignored again by the following Dem administration.
I’ve heard it said that he’s just simply treating Congress a lot like the way ones like Richard Daley, Jr and other Chicago mayors did (and still do) with the city council there. Just simply using bribes and intimidation in order to ram through agendas. And we all know what wonderful places Chicago and Detroit and other cities controlled by Democrats are (sarc).
And I wasted my vote on him.
Congress is full of cowardly critters. They have allowed him to do what he wants because they are afraid of being seen as mean by the beltway crowd. America by and large hates owebowma and what he is doing, but the talkign heads in DC seem to think it’s all OK.
“President Barack Obamas abuse of executive power privileges has essentially frozen Congress out of the government for the past six years.......”
That is because Congress has, and continues to allow him to get away with it. They can only blame themselves.
Ditto. The GOP surrendered. Its their fault Obama rules as dictator.
I’ve mentioned it elsewhere (forgive for repeating myself), but that there is a scene in the 1985 movie “Witness” that really captures my thoughts about the current situation with Congress and the Senate. After the Amish boy picks out the police officer (played by Danny Glover) as the perpetrator of the murder he saw in the bathroom, the Harrison Ford character figures out the corruption ring involving the crooked cop and the disappearance of a valuable ingredient needed to make speed and that Philadelphia was an important centre of the amphetamine drug traffic.
You can see the same sort of connection: the wealthy corporate masters need the cheap labour from the Mexicans and also (due to interest rates being kept artificially low) use the taxpayer as their unlimited credit card. So they will use ones like Boehner and McConnell and the rest of them to play these games with things like immigration and blowing out the national debt.
“They need the P2P stuff to make the speed and they’ll pay up to $5000 for a pint of it”-John Book, Witness (1985)
If only the Constitution allowed Congress to have the authority to challenge the President’s actions.....
An ineligible President voids the US Constitution which includes Article I (Congress) and Article III (Federal Courts). The People are sovereign. The People must form a new, national governing document.
"We have supported, and will continue to support, ALL treason against America.
It is what we do.
As for conservatives, you will soon get yet another IRS audit."
Did those who did not vote for Obama deserve him? No, but when it rains, it rains upon the just as well as the unjust.
An ineligible President voids all US federal law, rules, regulations, debt, grants, and contracts. The Washington Elitist have put America into bankruptcy.
The sovereignty of the People is granted by God. The People must establish a new, national governing document to form a more perfect union.
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