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| 2012-06-16 |
| I hear tell that peeps from the government and other high places read the 'Burg, so I thought I'd post a link to the Constitution in case anyone from the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, or the White House general counsel's office, stops by. Come on guys - did you throw your copy out with yesterday's newspaper? Lose it in the seat cushions? Your attention is particularly directed to this bit: [The president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.... Let's have a little Con Law pop quiz. When the Constitution says that the Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, that means: a. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. b. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless he disagrees with them. c. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless those laws imperil his re-election. d. L'État, c'est moi. |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #8 It is not his decision to make, At all. The POTUS is bound by laws. Yet he, the lawless one continues to oversee lawlessness. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-06-16 23:15 |
| #7 You mean like sebilius already has, except not cherry picking who is in and who is out? A law passed by lawmakers who, if they even read the bill, fail to understand and communicate what that law is. The de-facto leader of the bill passage actually bragging that as a sales point. Then, law is circumvented by the HHS, the executive blatently stating which laws it will or will not enforce. Its a bum law, not evenly enforced, or even defined, let to be defined by fine, fiat, and fortune. Its no way to tile a bathroom, nevermind forcing a behavior by penalty onto people. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-06-16 16:41 |
| #6 Well, regardless, I expect President Romney to issue amnesty to all those who fail to register for individual mandates and employers who fail to comply with Obamacare. It's fundamentally the same principle. So much for a nation of laws. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-16 16:27 |
| #5 Answer to the quiz: d (at least for these clowns) |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-06-16 16:16 |
| #4 If the constitution was the official structure of a bank, and the president acted in such a way, the government would shut the bank down. What sux furthermore, is el prez is supposed to be this scholerly scholer of constitutional law-theory, yet all we have been priviliged to are decrees about police searches and homeo-diddling legality, no real lectures or ideas from his hard hitting times as a substitute notegiver. Gonna sell the brand as warrior-poet, where's the damned poetry? Reading a screen, thanking the corpsemen, and splitting on bills don't quite cut it..in fact it looks at sharp as a bowling ball, promptly rolled into the gutter and quitting after 7 frames then blaming the special olympics. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-06-16 15:34 |
| #3 Plus, it is old. Like one hundred years old. /liberal |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-06-16 15:29 |
| #2 It's just like everything else. If they cannot make political hay out of it, it serves no purpose. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-06-16 15:22 |
| #1 I suspect the Constitution is regarded by Obummer and his minions as is the Ten Commandments or the Lord's Prayer. They selectively obey what is convenient or not at all. Probably view such things as antiquated or historical mistakes. The Constitution is so un-European in their view. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-06-16 14:56 |