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| Why the law does not matter to Obama |
| 2013-08-15 |
| ...No one in America has both the power and the determination to hinder Obama from doing whatever he wants. ...And so with President Obama and federal courts' rulings: they have no means of enforcing their rulings. As any intemperate two-year old knows, you can do anything you want until someone compels you to stop. And so Obama can order whatever he wishes until he is compelled to stop. The courts lacks the means of such compulsion. That leaves the Congress to rein in the executive. (Please excuse me while I erupt in peals of derisive laughter.) Congress's only authority to rein in a president consists of two things: Withhold funding for departments and agencies under executive authority, or That's it. (In 1834, the Congress voted to censure President Andrew Jackson. Jackson correctly declared that there was no Constitutional authority for it and basically told the Congress they could either impeach him or get stuffed, although he put it a little more pithily.) Since those are the only two options available, and since the Congress is controlled by the Democrats (the Republican majority in the House meaning nothing here), neither loss of funding nor impeachment will ever be used to restrain this president. The goal of the entire Democrat party is to be the permanent, sole political authority in the country. This is the actual transformation that Barack Obama promised to great applause in his 2008 campaign. And we are getting transformed good and hard: No one, and I mean absolutely no one, in the Democrat party is in the slightest interested in reining in Obama's expansion of executive diktat because they know what few of the rest of us are awakening to: the Democrats are never going to lose that executive authority again. Let me be clear, with a promise to elucidate another day: there is never going to be another Republican president. Ever. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 When you wake up and start telling your sons and daughters, cousins, etc to don't enlist/re-enlist to defend the oligarchy, they'll find out that when no one will defend their system, it collapses. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-15 20:56 |
| #3 That's a cheery little essay you've found for us, g(r)omgoru. |
| Posted by: Matt 2013-08-15 20:28 |
| #2 One big happy family of con artists |
| Posted by: Dale 2013-08-15 19:25 |
| #1 I'll agree that no Republican will ever be president of the future People's Democratic Slavery Union of Subhumans, vermin and things-that-slithered-out-from-under-rocks. As for me, I plan on remaining in The Republic of Texas. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division 2013-08-15 18:38 |