His Royal Imperial Highness, Barack Obama II

Townhall.com ^ | 4/4/2012 | Ben Shapiro

[servo1969]

America's constitutional structure is built on checks and balances. The idea behind these checks and balances is simple: We want interest counteracting interest, ego counteracting ego. We don't want any one person to gain too much power -- or any one faction or any one way of thought.

Gridlock, for lack of a better word, is good.

President Barack Obama, however, has a different idea. He believes that America must be fundamentally transformed. That fundamental transformation cannot be effectuated without a fundamental transformation of the system of American government.

The most important part of that transformation is the elevation of the presidency from a coequal branch of government to a pre-eminent branch of government. The president shouldn't be seen as just a player in the larger government struggle for power and policymaking; he should be seen as a larger-than-life figure, an almost godlike personage, the sort of fellow who can enact policy single-handedly.

No wonder, then, that President Obama declared war on the Supreme Court this week.

[aces]

he is one evil POS..

[DooDahhhh]

Hopefully, the Supremes will put this asswipe in his place. Computer does not like my spelling of asswipe ; maybe it is ass wipe.

[DooDahhhh]

Hopefully, the Supremes will put this asswipe in his place. Computer does not like my spelling of asswipe ; maybe it is ass wipe.

[GlockThe Vote]

Baby Doc Barack

[servo1969]

The entire point of the founding fathers' design was that they had learned through personal experience that it is impossible to give that much power to one person without them becoming corrupted by it. Not to mention the fact that such a position would tend to attract people who were already power-hungry to begin with. They essentially created a system of government which operated like a bucket of crabs: None of the crabs were to be able to escape and do as they pleased without one of the other crabs grabbing them and pulling them back down (to Earth.) Of course, this makes it hard for the government to accomplish things very quickly. Which was kind of the point.

Many people, Obama for example, would like the Executive branch to be the King crab.

[Flintlock]

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................
The Constitution sets out how to oppose this tyranny.
Nothing at all wrong with it.
The problem ISSS............a complete, total LACK OF BALLS on the part of our (sic) “opposition” party.
Bone-er is a complete gutless idiot hiding behind a coterie of other bumbling cowardly idiots.
THAT’S the problem.
Nobody willing to kick ass and take names.

[Flintlock]

BTW—why is Holder still in office??
HUH???

[servo1969]

Because the bucket is tipping to one side.

[dog breath]

A little more power for the glorious leader is just what all revolutions need. Finally an American leader with the the stature and vision of a Mugabe or Hugo Chavez. (sarc)

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

I’m not sure I agree with the author on his use of the word ‘gridlock’ here. He gets the principle of Checks and Balances correct - it’s between branches of the government. But gridlock to me refers to the political parties being able to stymie each other’s agenda in the legislature. Gridlock is not an executive veto of af a bill, or judicial overturning of a law. These things are Checks and Balances in action, as it were.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"Nobody willing to kick ass and take names."

I think Newt would if we would give him the chance!

[halfright]

I think he stepped into a bee hive by lambasting the judicial branch. Popcorn popped. Waiting for the DOJ to give the judges a middle finger.

[paulcissa]

[aces]

Let’s hope so..

[ctdonath2]

So long as the checks cash nobody cares about balances.