Barack Insane Obama is the most dangerous man, to this
country's well being, in its history.
His policies have destroyed the private sector and I firmly believe his
presidency will mean total doom for America
if he is re-elected. I must admit he has
had help from congress, from both sides of the aisle, but the main problem is
and has been his total disregard for constitutional limits on his authority.
Congress should move in a bipartisan rebuke of Obama's overreach before he neuters that institution.
The Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security issued a memorandum instructing U.S. immigration officials to use their “prosecutorial discretion” to create a policy scheme contrary to existing law, designed to implement legislation that Congress hasn’t passed.
The President himself has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to do this. “The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how our system works,” he told Hispanic activists last year . “That’s not how our democracy functions.”
In a blatant challenge to the legislative branch, Obama by executive order tossed out the Clinton-era welfare reform that required able-bodied aid recipients to work, saying the federal government will no longer enforce the law. He also has thumbed his nose at the “no child left behind act”, and has put in place cap-and-trade carbon rules that were specifically rejected by Congress.
After an Internet regulation proposal failed to make it through Congress, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would regulate the Web anyway, even despite a federal court’s ruling that it had no authority to do so.
Rather than push Congress to repeal federal laws against marijuana use, the Department of Justice (DOJ) simply decided it would no longer enforce those laws.
DOJ also has announced that it would stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act or defending it from legal challenge rather than seeking legislative recourse.
He can't do these things, by any interpretation of the Constitution. And yet he is. So why has Congress, whose powers he is usurping, not gotten off their butts and risen to stop him.
The Constitution separates powers between the legislative, administrative and judicial branches to more effectively limit government authority, and thus protect individual liberty. Obama knows this, but he refuses to recognize those constitutional limits on his power.
He is doing these things under the rallying cry of "We Can't Wait," contending that the gridlock in Congress caused by the Republicans is impeding his agenda. This is of course exactly how the founders intended government to work. The responsibility is on the president to forge a working relationship with Congress. Obama's inability to do that does not give him the power to act unilaterally, even if it were true that the opposition wants to see him fail.
The imperial presidency Obama is building should worry Democrats as much as it does Republicans. This has never been an "end justifies the means" nation. Even if you agree with the outcomes the president is seeking, his running roughshod over the rule of law should be objectionable, because the powers he is claiming will not be forfeited by the next Republican president.
The founders were justifiably worried about an aggressive president using the office to claim dictatorial control of the nation. That's why they so carefully limited and separated the powers.
Every president has tried to push those limits, some with a degree of success. But none have so boldly rejected established law and taken it upon themselves to write and enact legislation.
Wake
up Congress and get up off your butts and do what the American people are
paying you to do.
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