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Obama Embraces the Imperial Presidency
National Review Online ^ | August 28, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on 08/28/2013 9:39:15 AM PDT by neverdem

Suddenly liberals are comfortable with monarchical war-making powers.



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1 posted on 08/28/2013 9:39:15 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Suddenly John Fund gives a flip about presidential war-making powers? There really is no sense of shame in our political elites.


2 posted on 08/28/2013 9:45:15 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: neverdem
how liberals have learned to love the imperial presidency they used to so scorn

I loathe these leftists and their god. May every last putrid one of them die a slow, agonizing death and then spend eternity on a bed of blazing coal.

3 posted on 08/28/2013 9:45:49 AM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: workerbee

obama acts as he does because he is confident there will be no reprisals, no holding him to account (not really), and no “checks and balances” carried out by the tepid justices on the Supreme Court (who know better) and the even weaker so-called “opposition party” (who lack courage and a commitment to traditional American values).


4 posted on 08/28/2013 9:50:55 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: neverdem

The president has taken the bit in his mouth. The constitution is out the window. Unless legislature reigns him in hard, it is going to be impossible to stop him soon.


5 posted on 08/28/2013 9:52:49 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: neverdem

Blah Blah Blah Obama Bad Blah Blah Blah

When the squeegee “Republicans” grow a set and DO something about this freak, give me a call

Otherwise, who cares? He’s clearly free to do what he wants other then a little carping from Cruz, Paul and Lee.


6 posted on 08/28/2013 10:01:01 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: neverdem
George III was probably more constrained by Parliament than Obama is today by Congress.

Back then, Parliament held a rather firm grip on the purse strings. Today's Congress? Want a trillion dollars? Here's a trillion dollars.

7 posted on 08/28/2013 10:10:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: workerbee

“...and then spend eternity on a bed of blazing coal....”

Oh, they will!!! But, rest assured, hell will be a lot hotter than just meager blazing coal. It will be an eternity, days without number, of sheer agony beyond the human mind’s ability to even conceive such pain in that fire that burns but does not consume. I wish it on no mortal human flesh and soul, but the communist/socialist libs throughout mankind’s history, especially the current breed that are set on destroying the greatest free country to have ever existed, are certainly most deserving of it. I struggle to even ask God to have mercy on their souls. Let em burn..and burn well.


8 posted on 08/28/2013 10:15:35 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: neverdem

LIBs/DIMs/Anti-American COMMIES...all do what they feel is expedoient when they feel it is expedient to justify their asshat/moonbbat policies. They will kill you, your sons & daughters, your unborn to advance their uber-idiocy.


9 posted on 08/28/2013 10:23:32 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Romulus
“Suddenly John Fund gives a flip about presidential war-making powers?”

Fund was merely exposing leftwing hypocrisy involving a non-alleged nuclear power (which Kerry, Gore, Biden, and the Clintons maintained Irag was)

10 posted on 08/28/2013 12:10:25 PM PDT by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: Insigne123

With so much of his own neocon hypocrisy to answer for, he’s the wrong messenger.


11 posted on 08/28/2013 1:16:37 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Romulus

Fund is correct to point out the hypocrisy of liberal Democrats who criticized Bush’s wars and Bush’s executive overreach while not saying a word about Obama’s. The trouble is, we get the exact mirror image of this hypocrisy from many Republicans. I wonder how many Republicans who (rightly) oppose intervention in Syria by Obama would be cheerleading for it if a Republican administration were advocating precisely the same policies (and ditto for about a dozen other issues).


12 posted on 08/28/2013 2:32:49 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

My point is that hypocrisy is an offense against truth, and that neither Fund nor Obama cares about truth. Therefore Fund is being manipulative, exploiting the truth to complain about Obama’s hypocrisy. Simply one devil chasing another. A plague on both, say I.


13 posted on 08/28/2013 3:03:48 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: oldbrowser

What will these same people say when he announces the constitution is no longer in effect? They’ll cheer!


14 posted on 08/28/2013 3:34:33 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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15 posted on 08/28/2013 3:36:27 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.

[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]


16 posted on 08/28/2013 4:47:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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