Imagine My Surprise! (Freeper Editorial)

Original content | 8/4/2018 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

It’s been a fascinating ten years.

From 2009 to 2017, I was instructed that a President is unrestrained by the Constitution, and that they are all-powerful and can enact laws unilaterally, via Executive Order, and that they can ignore the Constitution as they see fit.

But NOW we learn that Presidents are completely powerless and cannot rescind any Executive Order, set any Administration Policy, or hew to the written law, about any topic, for any reason. That is because to do so would violate unwritten parts of the Constitution.

Let us review the actions that the News Misleadia and the Obama Administration championed, in their quest to inform us that a President is omnipotent:

• Obama appointed thirty-five Federal Czars without Senate advice and consent, which is required for appointees of this magnitude.
• After admitting twenty-two times that he had no Constitutional authority to enact the DREAM Act or DACA, he promptly enacted the DREAM Act / DACA.
• Despite the fact that the Executive Branch MAY NOT ALTER any legislation, but only interpret it, Obama unilaterally altered "Affordable" Care Act twenty-four times. Below are just a few of the examples:
  
  • Obama altered ACA law – Delaying the upholding of the Employer Mandate Law ("Affordable" Care Act) until 2015 – Individual Mandate will be enforced. A President does not have that authority.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – "Affordable" Care Act Medicare cuts were delayed until 2015.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – Enforcement of eligibility requirements for "Affordable" Care Act were delayed until 2015.
    
  • Obama waived "Affordable" Care Act Income Verification.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – Delayed "Affordable" Care Act caps on out of pocket expenses until 2015. (When that date arrived, premiums did skyrocket)
    
  • Obama shelved part of the "Affordable" Care Act Law for Insurers, extending the life of non-qualifying (according to "Affordable" Care Act) plans until Jan. 1, 2015.
    
  • Obama waived "Affordable" Care Act individual mandate for those that lost their insurance.
    
  • Obama alters "Affordable" Care Act law and exempts companies employing between 50-100 full-time workers from business mandate until 2016.
• Obama issued a Directive instructing ICE to NOT enforce immigration laws in certain cases. This is in clear opposition to the mandate in the Constitution that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.

There are dozens, more, of examples of how a President is the ultimate lawgiver -- the pinnacle-politician, the final arbitrator of absolute law -- unshackled by any other power, person, or institution. Yet suddenly (and I admit complete surprise) we are instructed that Presidents have no powers whatsoever, and may not even invoke privileges detailed in the Constitution and in Legislation. Coincidentally, this new era of enlightenment occurred within seven days of President Trump ascending to this (unexpectedly diluted) position. To wit:

• Only one week after President Trump's Inauguration, a Federal Judge in Brooklyn issued a stay-order against Trump's Executive Order banning immigration from certain Muslim countries with a higher percentage of extremists and, presumably terrorists. This, despite the Congressionally-enacted law (8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible Aliens) that states, among other things, that the President has the authority to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” “for such period as he shall deem necessary, when he “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens … would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
  
• A Federal Judge in Hawaii, Derrick Kahala Watson -- one who was a classmate of Barack Obama, and who was visited by Obama briefly before his initial order, ordered a stay on the Muslim-country Travel Ban. He then extended it indefinitely. Again, this is in direct contradiction with the clear language in 8 U.S. Code § 118, and the Supreme Court eventually overturned this order from this judge.
  
• A federal judge in Pennsylvania temporarily blocked the Trump administration's recent rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare's birth control blocked the Trump administration's rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare's birth control requirements, despite the fact that Obama implemented the rule by the same Executive Order process.
  
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA (closely related to the Dream Act mentioned above) was illegally implemented by Executive Order -- even though Obama admitted he could not do so -- and had an expiration date of March 5th, 2018. Despite this, a Federal Judge (John D. Bates) ordered the Trump Administration to restart this illegal, expired program within 90 days.
  
• President Trump is not even allowed to block trolls on Twitter, Federal Judge Naomi Buchwald ordered, in effect denying the President his First Amendment rights.

So, we learn first that a President is all-powerful and unrestrained. Then, we learn that a President is utterly powerless and cannot exercise clearly legal and lawfully-delineated actions.

Imagine my surprise. I suppose it all depends on who the President is.

[Lurkinanloomin]

And most of the worst ones would not be judges without the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
The Constitution was violated.

[bagster]

Well done, Laz. Please submit this manuscript to Breitbart. You can take Milo's place. You're much more dangerous than him.

p.s. Where's my ping?

And twice as pretty.

Bagster

[Lazamataz]

Well done, Laz. Please submit this manuscript to Breitbart. You can take Milo's place. You're much more dangerous than him.

I shall!

p.s. Where's my ping?

Are you not in the list? I shall add you, but I want to wait until position 400 is open. Position 398 was just taken. One more.

And twice as pretty.

Are you FLIRTING with me?

Because I'm available next weekend.

[Delta 21]

[bagster]

Are you FLIRTING with me?

I thought I was being obvious.

I shall up my game.

Bagster

[wastedyears]

If I were elected to the US congress, my big thing would be impeaching judges that abrogate their duty to the Constitution, and by that act are in rebellion against it.

[bagster]

Oh, wait. I got your ping after all.

Derp on me.

Bagster

[foundedonpurpose]

Please add.

Good article.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent review. Thank you.

“...the mandate in the Constitution [is] that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.”

I approve. Following the law with humility to serve the common good under the Kingship of Christ is the duty of every politician. The problem with traitors is that they are always right. Just ask my liberal friends. They are always right and reject the possibility that Hillary has one flaw.

[Nifster]

Well done

[outofsalt]

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Nice...Compact presentation.

Boy...I'll say.

[outofsalt]

"Well done, Laz. Please submit this manuscript to Breitbart"!

I want to send this to my local radio station talk DJ!

[Gator113]

Well done. It could use a sex scene, but it was still enjoyable.

[Lazamataz]

In my best Johnny Carson voice: “I did not know that!”

HEYYYYOOOOOO

[Lazamataz]

Oh God. You just got me a subpeona from Meuller.

[Lazamataz]

Please, be my guest. I do want credit, though. Laz A. Mataz is my pen name, but Mr. Mataz will do. :)

[Lazamataz]

If I were elected to the US congress, my big thing would be impeaching judges that abrogate their duty to the Constitution, and by that act are in rebellion against it.

If I were elected to the US congress, MY big thing would get me impeached for sexual misconduct.

[Lazamataz]

I shall up my game.

I shall not make the obvious joke.

Too easy.

[bagster]

I shall not make the obvious joke.

Laz is kind.

Bagster