Obama's Constitutional Crisis: What Should the House Do?

Brietbart ^ | December 11, 2014 | Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA)

[upbeat5]

The constitutional issues involving President Barack Obama's executive orders on amnesty far transcend the issue of illegal immigration. The president’s action strikes at the very heart of our separation of powers. The Constitution reserves to Congress alone the power to enact and alter law, and charges the president with the responsibility to faithfully execute those laws.

If the president can seize legislative power in this manner and then boast to an audience that he himself has changed the law, then the separation of powers becomes meaningless, and our constitutional Republic will have crossed a very bright line that separates a nation of laws from the unhappy societies where rulers boast the “law is in their mouths.”

If this precedent stands, every succeeding president, Republican and Democrat, will cite it as authority to make or alter law by decree. That cannot be allowed to happen.........

The Roman Republic died when Julius Caesar seized the legislative authority of the Roman Senate. Repeated acts of usurpation went unchallenged until the constitutional structure of the Republic simply disintegrated.

Let that not be the epitaph of the American Republic. Of this crisis, let history record that men and women of good will on both sides of the aisle joined together to defend the Constitution they swore to uphold, and that this generation passed that Constitution--and all the freedoms it has preserved--intact and inviolate--to the many generations who followed.

[upbeat5]

Long, but worth the read. Notice written by a Congressman. What are the people to do if our own elected representatives do nothing about this lawless President?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Tom is a good man.

” What are the people to do if our own elected representatives do nothing about this lawless President? “

Outlaw the Chamber of Commerce.

[txnativegop]

Resolution of Impeachment is in order, but Boehner doesn’t have the requisite courage to do what is right.

[11th_VA]

I’m confident the GOP House/Senate will deal with this in Feb 2015 with budgets getting zero’d out ...

[INVAR]

Obama’s Constitutional Crisis: What Should the House Do?

GROW A PAIR.

However, the GOP Ruling Class Oligarchy WANT what Obama wants - so they have no intention of arresting this ‘constitutional crisis’. Instead, they seek to assist in it.

[EQAndyBuzz]

If our Republic fails, and we fall into chaos, the one bright spot is we have the guns and can defend our property. The libs will rot in the cesspool of the inner city. The rich will wall themselves off and the libs would eventually realize what has happened and will eat the rich.

[Travis McGee]

10. OBAMA’S AMAZING LUCK: A PATTERN OF BLACKMAIL

Next, please recall the bizarre history of President Obama’s unlikely string of incredible luck that resulted in his election victories first in Illinois and then to the United States Senate. At each level, sudden embarrassing personal disclosures about his rivals forced their last-minute withdrawals. Sealed divorce records, for example, suddenly became unsealed, and were handed to Obama-friendly reporters. Just as in the removal of General Petraeus, blackmail and the well-timed disclosure of hidden scandals are an established part of Team Obama’s modus operandi.

Therefore, is it reasonable to assume that agents of the Obama administration would not seek and then misuse embarrassing personal information in order to blackmail and control key members of Congress, or even the Supreme Court? Rumors surrounding Chief Justice Roberts, and his 11th hour conversion on the constitutionality of Obamacare come to mind.

I contend that after Barack Obama’s history of mysterious election victories resulting from last-minute disclosures about his opponents, and the manipulation and forced resignation of CIA director Petraeus, it would take an unwarranted leap of faith to assume that the Obama administration’s bad actors would not engage in spying upon and blackmailing Congressional leaders.

Therefore, in light of the recent extra-constitutional “executive actions” taken by President Obama, it is dangerously naive to assume that we can expect remedies to this creeping tyranny either from Congress or the Supreme Court. I would contend that for our national safety, we must assume that many of our key leaders are already under the control of blackmail and the threat of scandalous disclosures.

Spying upon and then blackmailing opponents is in President Obama’s political DNA down to the center of his bone marrow. Consider that key Obama advisors such as Valerie Jarrett have been part of his team since his early political life in Chicago, when the blackmail pattern first became evident.

A link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[Nifster]

McClintock has been for the most part a solid conservative. The House ought to stand tall and go ahead and let O shut the government down. Defund everything except the military.

[afsnco]

Agreed completely. Blackmail is really the only thing that makes any sense. I think this is the primary motivation for NSA snooping. The lowlife scumbag in the WH is capable of anything.

People like Cruz must therefore either have no skeletons, or don’t care if they’re revealed.

[Travis McGee]

We must assume blackmail at this point, especially after Roberts’ 11th hour 180* flip on the ACA. His decision was 180* against what he had just written about it. Here is a little more from my “Stonewalled” piece. I really recommend Atkisson’s book.

8. EXACTLY WHO CONTROLS CONGRESS?

In Stonewalled, Atkisson also has a lot to say about National Intelligence Director James Clapper, and his infamous straight-faced lies to Congress concerning the NSA’s mass-spying upon unsuspected ordinary American citizens. Like with the shape-shifting “former” spook and CBS News “consultant” Mike Morell, I am reminded of the famous (but unattributed) saying: “In acting, once you learn how to fake sincerity, the rest is easy.” (Question: is this a subject taught during CIA training? Undoubtedly it is. How else to recruit foreign agents of influence, which is the CIA’s bailiwick? Or at least, it used to be, before they started operating on domestic soil against Americans once again.)

After recounting Clappers’ apparently sincere but always changing testimony, Atkisson had this to say: “Allowing Clapper and other government officials to be in charge of solving their own surveillance controversies is like inviting the fox to guard the henhouse. Except the fox is also getting the keys to the henhouse and the recipe for chicken fricassee.

“In a fictitious world, one can imagine a meeting in which any member of Congress calling for Clapper’s head gets a closed-door visit from Clapper or his team. They slide a file bearing the name of the member of Congress or someone close to him across the desk, J. Edger Hoover-style. The file contains materials surreptitiously gathered under the auspices of a government leak investigation or surveillance program. The member of Congress opens the file. Perhaps his eyes flicker. Maybe his face becomes white. The materials are very...personal. The imaginary Clapper rubs his forehead with his four fingers. No words are spoken because no words are necessary. The file is closed and Clapper drags it back across the desk, never to be spoken of again. Unless necessary. Suddenly the member of Congress is no longer out for Clapper’s head.

“Or here’s another fictitious premise. CIA director Petraeus deviates from the Obama administration’s official line on Benghazi. Somewhere in a private room, a small group of government operatives culls through data to find out who Petraeus had been emailing and calling. Any skeletons in that closet? A review of his file reveals some unseemly contacts with his former biographer. That information could come in very handy.”

[mosesdapoet]

Edit (insert name) and print up and fill out this short questionaire which should fit on a letter or better yet faxed to your your US Representative’s Washington office.

Let your Rep ought to know how you feel about these issues...Please encircle which and send in.

Dear (insert name)
Bills are not being read and billion$ and trillion$ of dollars in legislation called omnibus bills get passed. Fundings then get shoveled into agencies with the results being government intrusion as well as its employees that grow into our lives regulating US how we; eat, sleep, pray, get married , and think.

Should (insert name) vote no on such bills if congress doesn’t do it’s job and consider (read) what it’s passing? (Yes) or (NO) ? If he votes no the socialists will scream.

Will you still support him? (Y) (N) (Maybe). Should Obama care be (fixed) or (dumped) And if he votes to fix it will you support him or her for another term (YES) or (NO)

EPA...This agency is out of control INS....Immigration out of control IRS...Out of Control

The people who head these agencies get approved by the senate and swear an oath to support the constitution not the executive branch or the president. Should he or she support House or Senate hearings ? investigating their funding and operation (Y)(N)
If found guilty should he or she support ( censure) (impeachment) (defunding)
Place return address sticker here date ___________

Respectfully signature below

Republicans on House Rules Committee:

Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), DC Phone:202-225-2071DC Fax:202-225-2995

Rob Bishop (R-UT), Phone: 202-225-0453
Fax: 202-225-5857

Tom Cole (R-OK), Phone: (202) 225-6165
Fax: (202) 225-3512

Rob Woodall (R-GA), Phone: (202) 225-4272
Fax: (202) 225-4696

Richard Nugent (R-FL), (P) (202) 225-1002(F) (202) 226-6559

Daniel Webster (R-FL), Phone: (202) 225-2176
Fax: (202) 225-0999

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Phone: (202) 225-3931
Fax: (202) 225-5620

Michael Burgess (R-TX)Phone: (202) 225-7772
Fax: (202) 225-2919

EPA Own waterfront property?You can’t clear your waterfront jungle.Pay more for the b/s in your gas & idiot lites in your car. Watch what you flush because higher electric bills will save the world and the bankrupt campaign contributers in the solar industry.
Is it time to reign in EPA Funding? (Y)(N)

INS Forget about Ebola
We don’t allow cattle to enter without a background health and ancestry check. Letting children and gang bangers in as they spread disease and dope.While legal immigrants wait years and still go thru health and record checks. In “hispanic” countries American “illegals”can’t vote. Own land in their own name.Face steep fines before getting kicked out let aione get subsidies, food stamps, or bring in their family

If illegals, given this favored treatment miss their INS hearing shouldn’t they be deported fortwith ? (Y) (N)) In the early days of this country’s formation Thomas Jefferson sent Marines to Tripoli another President sent the US Navy to Puerto Soledad and expelled the pirates and burned it down (Falkland Islands) because of their mistreatment of being an American emphasizing the the value of being a US citizen..Now it seems the democrat (in name only) party wants US to leave our borders open and offer US citizenship to all citizens of the world.
Should Congress permit the continued devaluation of being a US citizen (Yes) (No) Should those members permitting this be held accountable and thrown out at the next election(Yes) (No)

[GraceG]

What should the House do: SOMETHING!

What WILL the House do: NOTHING!!!!

[afsnco]

The title of at least one of your books comes to mind...

[Paladin2]

Shut down AF1 and all gov’t golf courses.

[IronJack]

He’s absolutely right. This is a constitutional issue that goes far beyond a mere Barack Obama, straight to the heart of this republic’s separation of powers. The precedent established if this is allowed to go unchallenged could erode our whole system of government.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article upbeat5. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"The Constitution reserves to Congress alone the power to enact and alter law, and charges the president with the responsibility to faithfully execute those laws."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

With respect to federal immigration laws and other federal laws, beware of PC interpretations of the Supremacy Clause (6.2). Federal laws trump state laws only when a federal law is based on powers which the states have delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution.

In fact, the Supreme Court has clarified that powers not delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Regarding so-called federal immigration laws, please consider the following. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution’s “Uniform Rules of Naturalization” clause (1.8.4) and the slavery clause (1.9.1) aside, interpretations wrongly used to justify federal immigration laws, it turns out that both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had written that the Founding States did not constitutionally delegate to the feds the specific power to regulate immigration. This is evidenced by the excerpts below.

• “4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

• "That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, ...

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  … the General Assembly doth solemenly appeal to the like dispositions of the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid, are unconstitutional; and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each, for co-operating with this state, in maintaining the Authorities, Rights, and Liberties, referred to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]. ”— James Madison, Draft of the Virginia Resolutions - December 1798.

So PC federal immigration laws are based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers imo.

[Old Yeller]

What are the people to do if our own elected representatives do nothing about this lawless President?

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[Jacquerie]

Her scenarios are not just plausible, but probable.

If taking up arms against the US constitutes treason, can actual overthrow of the republic not be a high crime?

[Slyfox]

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

[Bigg Red]

Very thoughtful essay. Are you listening, House of Representatives?