Posted on 08/16/2013 11:20:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
As a reaction to the crack epidemic of the 1980s, many federal drug laws carry strict mandatory sentences. This has stirred unease in Congress and sparked a bipartisan effort to revise and relax some of the more draconian laws.
Traditionally — meaning before Barack Obama — that’s how laws were changed: We have a problem, we hold hearings, we find some new arrangement ratified by Congress and signed by the president.
That was then. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences. Find some lesser, non-triggering charge. How might you do that? Withhold evidence — for example, the amount of dope involved.
In other words, evade the law, by deceiving the court if necessary. “If the companies that I represent in federal criminal cases” did that, said former deputy attorney general George Terwilliger, “they could be charged with a felony.”
But such niceties must not stand in the way of an administration’s agenda. Indeed, the very next day, it was revealed that the administration had unilaterally waived Obamacare’s cap on a patient’s annual out-of-pocket expenses — a one-year exemption for selected health insurers that is nowhere permitted in the law. It was simply decreed by an obscure Labor Department regulation.
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Apparently he can since thee is no one who either wishes or has the power to stop him.
“We Baracus, Emperor Imperial, declare that Republicans are proscribed, and that all those who profess such views shall be sent to sensitivity training”
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
The problem is less Obama, and more the fact that someone like Obama could rise to the top. Were Obama to disappear tomorrow, someone exactly like him would simply take his place because that’s the scum that rises to the top in American culture today.
Until someone says “no”, yes.
John Boehner has just about worn out his Presidential kneepads.
Also, the Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote the 1941 play "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" which transforms the Nazi hierarchy into a bunch of Chicago gangsters. The gangsters are ultimately defeated, but the play ends on a pessimistic note:
"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."
Today we have Chicago gangster Obama. Tomorrow, we will have someone else. The key is not to elect better men. The key is to make government small and rather insignificant. Then even bad men will be limited in the harm they can do.
The House Reps need to grow a pair and impeach him.
As long as congress is kowtowed into fear for their lives and blackmail, barry can do whatever he wants.
Of course he can write his own laws! A tyrant-king can do anything he wants. Us silly peasants just need to shut up and get out of the way so King Zero and his consort wife can have all kinds of fun on our nickel partying, vacationing, and golfing while our nation descends into (the planned) chaos our tyrant-king wants for us. Us, not them!
Obama has suspended the Constitution, so yes, he can.
It's good to be the king.
In closing Mr. Robinson, get ready for the Republicans [House] to send an immigration Bill to the Senate.
Poll numbers dropping may pressage a soon to be flurry of “Impeach the Clown” bumper stickers. Mine is at the ready.
I say we are doing it wrong. We need to bring up lefties in the MSM on charges of sedition.
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