Posted on 08/04/2014 4:33:33 PM PDT by Starman417
This is essentially the nexus of three articles that caught my eye. Barack Obama is on the edge of forcing a Constitutional crisis. Obama has already acted in an unconstitutional manner when he unilaterally rewrote IRS rules regarding Obamacare. Now he's on the verge of doing it again. Remember- these aren't extremists.
LET’S HOPE THIS IS A SIGN THAT SOMEONE THERE IS IN TOUCH WITH REALITY: WH: Obama undecided on immigration steps. “White House officials are downplaying stories that President Obama is prepared to take executive action on immigration that would allow millions of undocumented people to stay in the United States.” Such an action would be an extraconstitutional coup, entirely justifying the impeachment talk.Actually, it might justify more. I can imagine governors — Rick Perry, perhaps — simply taking matters into their own hands. They’d have a better argument for self-help there under the Constitution — Article I sec. 10′s authorization to go to war when actually invaded, or in such danger as will admit of no delay — and the federal government’s default on its duty under the Constitution to protect them from invasion. There’s a lot of room for constitutional self-help there, and realistically what’s Obama going to do about it?
This is the tone of the media coverage right now: The president may get the occasional rebuke for impeachment-baiting, but what the White House wants to do on immigration is assumed to be reasonable, legitimate, within normal political bounds.It is not: It would be lawless, reckless, a leap into the antidemocratic dark.
And an American political class that lets this Rubicon be crossed without demurral will deserve to live with the consequences for the republic, in what remains of this presidency and in presidencies yet to come.
That seems like an awfully strong word, but it is the term that distinguished law professor Glenn Reynolds, no hysteric, uses to describe the Obama administration’s oft-reported plan to issue executive amnesty to five or six million illegal immigrants in violation of federal law. Glenn’s characterization is a fair one. When a tyrant asserts the right to rule by decree in a state that has formerly been subject to the rule of law, he is commonly described as carrying out a coup d’etat.That is just what the Obama administration has done, and reportedly will continue to do. When Obama changed the Affordable Care Act by decree–to name just one example, substituting “2014″ for “2013″ in a critical provision of the statute–he acted as a tyrant. In his refusal to enforce the immigration laws, contrary to the Constitution which requires him to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” he has acted like a tinpot dictator, asserting the right to change or ignore the law by fiat. If he now directly nullifies Section 274(a) of the Immigration and Nationalities Act by legalizing, and issuing work permits to, five or six million illegal immigrants, thereby repealing federal law by decree, how else can we describe his action but as a coup? The Obama administration openly takes the position that the rule of law no longer applies.
Hideraker creates the litmus test for a coup- could Nixon have gotten away with this?
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The coup occurred in 2008.
He don’t want to go there.
Obama will call it a “Coupe D’etat! Just like Corpsemen.
Why wouldn’t he go farther? It isn’t going to hurt him. He has nothing to lose.
“And an American political class that lets this Rubicon be crossed without demurral will deserve to live with the consequences for the republic, in what remains of this presidency and in presidencies yet to come.”
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The republic is already dead. And it hasn’t been “free” since the Department of Homeland of Security was created.
Coupe DeVille!
“Coupe DeVille”
Yup!
Excuse me, but the coup has been going on for years. Bronco Bama isn’t acting alone. He’s got an almost entirely complicit Congress and Judiciary. This is no one-man show. He could have done NOTHING without the gutless wonders surrounding him. Blame him, certainly, but if the others think they can play “victim”, they need a kick in the butt.
Have to agree. It may not be complete — but it is well underway.
You’re exactly right.
He TOLD us what he was gonna do.
The majority of Americans didn’t CARE to listen; THEY just wanted to ‘make history’ by electing a HALF black man.
He was VERY clear that he was gonna do this!! We lose.
Will our military stand with the People and the Constitution or will they stand with the regime?
Obama will not make sign executive orders regarding the border mess. The Democratic party will suffer too severely this election cycle and the public is against him as well. At some point reality will meet up with politics.
Life after the White House: Doesn't liar Obama realize that his life AFTER the White House will be a living HELL if he goes ahead and legalizes 6 million illegal aliens with a stroke of his pen at the end of this summer, when America is shouting over and over "No!No!No!"
The Commie pink fag will be impeached if he does Shamnesty.
“The majority of Americans didn’t CARE to listen; THEY just wanted to ‘make history’ by electing a HALF black man.”
Can you imagine what he would be doing if they would have elected a WHOLE black man?
I doubt it. The majority of the public won’t care.
Leftist ideology is inherently self destructive, which defines leftists themselves as inherently foolish.
The handbook of the leftists in power amounts to the teachings of Alinsky, whose book is dedicated to a wannabe and a proven loser.
Leftists consistently accomplish the opposite not only of what they tell others about their intentions, but also the opposite of what they tell themselves.
I’m not worried about any coup at present. The chancre in the White House seems to have gotten the hint that opposition is building and he could well split the party. He’s starting to back-track a little.
Now he’s looking at the long game: get the illegals in settled and registered, wreck the economy, military and international relations. Then, he’ll make a photogenic exit in 2016 to a townhouse in Georgetown and run his mouth non-stop. He can’t imagine right now that any president can succeed with what he’s left.
That’s when he’ll come back.
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