All that is necessary for the triumph of evil...

Chris0nllyn

Chris0nllyn

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...is for good folks to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Why is Congress so silent on Obama's obvious over reach of power?

We all know Presidents put their own spin on Federal law. Jefferson pardoned all those convicted under the Alien and Sedition Acts because he hated a statute that punished free speech and he boasted that he would not enforce that part of the acts. FDR, barely two weeks in office, issued an executive order criminalizing the possession of gold because he thought it would stabilize the banks, until an adviser reminded him that only Congress can write criminal laws.

Yet in President Obama we have a president whose personal interferences in the enforcement of federal laws reveal his view that he can rewrite them and even nullify them.

Obama bombed Libya without a declaration of war from Congress. This arguably brought down the Gadhafi government, which led to the current state of lawlessness there, which produced the environment in which our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi in 2012 and established a dangerous precedent because Congress remained officially silent.

He has told the 11 million illegal immigrants who are here and subject to deportation that if they comply with a new set of rules they will not be deported. The constitutional problem is that the president wrote those rules. Only Congress can craft such rules, and by the president's doing so, he has schooled immigrants in how to avoid compliance with federal law.

The president has used drones to kill Americans, but claims he has done so lawfully because he complied with secret rules that he crafted. Under the Constitution, if the president wants someone dead, he must afford the person due process or ask Congress to declare war on the country housing the person. No worries, he says -- he has followed the secret rules that he wrote to govern himself when deciding whom to kill.

The president's agents now acknowledge that they spy on all of us all the time, including members of the judiciary and Congress. This, too, was done pursuant to a secret presidential directive, secretly approved by judges acting as clerks and not under the Constitution, and by a dozen members of Congress sworn to secrecy. No law authorized this, and the president won't discuss it meaningfully, except to condemn its revelation.

And in a series of salvos that hit home, the president has modified the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) 29 times, by changing its various dates of effectiveness for some but not for others, by changing the meanings of terms for some but not for others, and even by diluting the signature obligation we all have to obtain the platinum insurance policies it commands for some and not for others. He has done all of this on his own, with no input from Congress. He has even threatened to veto any congressional effort to enact into law the very changes he alone has made.

His latest assault on the Constitution consists of a plan by the Department of Homeland Security, revealed earlier this week, effectively to follow us as we drive on public roads by photographing the license plate of all motor vehicles. This, too, was formulated without congressional approval or constitutional authority.
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BTW, the license plate scanner plan was canned.
DHS cancels plan to collect license plate data | Fox News

And while all of this is going on, Congress largely sits as a potted plant. In the Senate, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have complained long and loud, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will not permit legislation that addresses presidential lawlessness to reach the Senate floor. A few dozen Republicans in the House have complained, but Speaker John Boehner will not permit the House to address corrective legislation. Institutionally and officially, Congress is sleeping.

Can you imagine how a Democratic Congress would have reacted if Ronald Reagan had instructed the IRS to cease collecting capital gains taxes so as to spur economic activity; or how a Republican Congress would have reacted if Bill Clinton had instructed the IRS to add a one percent rate increase to the tax bills of billionaires so as to close a budget gap?

These are dangerous times because this is a lawless presidency and a pliant Congress. The president's willingness to violate the Constitution publicly calls into question his fitness for office. And that deafening silence from Capitol Hill manifests a spineless refusal to preserve constitutional government.

The whole purpose of dividing and separating governmental powers is the preservation of personal liberty by preventing the accumulation of too much power in one branch or, heaven forbid, in one person. Whoever permits this to take place lacks fidelity to the Constitution, is unworthy of holding governmental power in a free society and should be removed from office.
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Congress Unconscionably Silent on Obama's Constitutional Crimes - Reason.com
 
Sweet 16

Sweet 16

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Pretty sure a majority of the country isn't even aware any of this is going on, or knows and doesn't care. And therein lies the problem: that those too ignorant to know what's going on are still allowed to vote, and those that are aware are too lazy to do anything. If we had been this complacent in the late 1700's, we'd all be bowing down to a king right now. Oh, wait.....
 
Hijinx

Hijinx

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Might as well venture my opinion.

The Democrats will not impeach him because they are too busy doing whatever it is he wants the, to do. The Democrats own the black and Hispanic vote and have no intention of doing anything to disturb that. Also the Democrats cry about Partisan Republicans, but the Democrat record of partisanship is without limits.

The Republicans will not try to impeach him because he has the melanin immunity, they are frightened to come up against. In fact the Republicans are stupid enough to believe they can make inroads into that Black and Hispanic vote.

So we have a situation where race and partisan politics weigh heavily against the Congress doing what is right.

Now some may deny this ,but the fact is his race is playing a big part in the media and Democrats protecting him and the republicans lacking the courage to make the try.
 
b23hqb

b23hqb

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Evil will win out here - on earth - we do not know when. When that trump sounds, start the clock ticking for seven years. If peeps think it is bad now, wait until the halfway mark.

The rest will be former history.

Then, all they have to face is eternity, which is forever + a day.:buddies:

It is what is is, and will be.
 
Vince

Vince

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b23hqb said:
Evil will win out here - on earth - we do not know when. When that trump sounds, start the clock ticking for seven years. If peeps think it is bad now, wait until the halfway mark.

The rest will be former history.

Then, all they have to face is eternity, which is forever + a day.:buddies:

It is what is is, and will be.
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Have to agree. I don't think I'll be around for it, but judgement day is coming. The Lord can't fault me for playing a little golf and enjoying my children.
 
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