[IndePundit]

We may have to sue Obama if his brazen attempt to take over the American government isn't stopped! We created this country to avoid this kind of tyranny....

[tomkat]

One can only assume that to be a rhetorical question.

[MrB]

The only restriction on what a president does is the threat of being voted out of office or impeachment.

IE, this president can do whatever he desires with no consequences.

[jiggyboy]

What part of our government isn’t so similarly corrupted that they would make any effort? Congress? How’s that Fast and Furious investigation going? The courts? One judge said that the Courts don’t exist to protect people from the consequences of their votes for lawmakers who make bad law, which is EXACTLY why the highest-level courts exist! How about a regular businessman who wants to just say no to an unconstitutional law passed by a crooked congress, tell it to the SWAT team, buddy!

Our Founders began the great experiment with the implicit requirement that the whole damn system can’t be corrupt in every branch and at every level. That’s what’s gone wrong here.

[Pollster1]

The constitutional remedies are in the legislative and judicial branches. The House will not impeach that traitor, no matter how much he deserves it (and the Senate would not convict). The courts are being packed with corrupt judges who don't care what the law says. We are running out of constitutional options to restrain Obama. Fortunately, there are still options, and those will become more evident as FedGov continues to lose its remaining aura of legitimacy.

[alloysteel]

So the Current Occupant now squatting in the Oval Orifice arrogates to himself the power to unilaterally change “things that I know are good for the American people” purely because he somehow KNOWS better than all of us what is good or not good for our own circumstances.

Re-read the words of the Declaration of Independence, dated July 4, 1776, and compare with the situation today. The parallels grow more striking every day.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Yeah, it could be stopped, but there is no one in politics, business, or the judiciary with enough power, money, or courage to do it. That leaves brute force as the only solution. Neither the American people nor the military are ready to use it.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Do you think it is mainly because he is black that he is getting away with breaking the Constitution? If a white man had done what he has done, he would have been impeached and removed from office. Two more years! Cna’t wait!

[TexasCajun]

With a wimp like John Boehner as Speaker of the House, nothing will change!

[Lucky9teen]

I still say bring him up on RICO charges...

[The Duke]

We may have to sue Obama if his brazen attempt to take over the American government isn't stopped! We created this country to avoid this kind of tyranny....

And while we're suing him I guess we can squirt him with water too! :O

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— the president has unilaterally amended the law multiple times -—

I’m old enough to remember when Obamacare was the law of the land.

[CincyRichieRich]

So the Left (Politico) is even noticing, finally?

[grania]

We can't even stop the HOR, which has a majority that was elected to support conservative values, to stop from supporting Obama. They have caved EVERY SINGLE TIME they could've used the power of the purse to stop Obama. We can't even get a majority of Republican US Senators to vote with their constituents.

I'm disgusted. Instead of supporting those who elect them, they vote the interests of those who can enrich them. Until we can get Republicans to vote with us, their constituency, why are we even talking about getting Obama to stop abusing his authority?

[ExTexasRedhead]

IMPEACHMENT AT THE DEMAND OF WE THE PEOPLE.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Unless they are prepared to remove him from office they cannot stop him. He knows they will do nothing so he is going to keep pushing the envelope. It would not suprise me to see him declare martial law and take over. It will kick off CWII but he doesn’t care. He’s an idiot. Idiots do stupid things all the time.

[M Kehoe]

Maybe impeachment is the only remedy?

I know, convict the Kenyan and get Slow Joe.

T'is rough living here...

5.56mm

[mabarker1]

Impeachment for Treason and then???

Well the next in line looks pitiful:

# Office Current officer
1 Vice President of the United States Joe Biden (D)
2 Speaker of the House John Boehner (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy (D)
4 Secretary of State John Kerry (D)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew (D)
6 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (R)
7 Attorney General Eric Holder (D)
— Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (D)*
8 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D)
9 Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (D)
10 Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez (D)
11 Sec. of Health&Human Serv. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
12 Secretary of HUD Shaun Donovan (D)
13 Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx (D)+
14 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (D)
15 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (D)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki (I)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (D)

* Naturalized U.S. citizen born in the United Kingdom.
+ Ex Mayor of Charlotte. NC (only there because of Race)

Looks pretty depressing to Me.

[Jim Noble]

Can Obama’s Legal End-Run Around Congress Be Stopped?

Of course it can - but it won't be.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Some old Chinese dude said that.

The root of our worsening crisis is that Congress, beginning in the early 20th century, has abdicated its powers, one by one and now in an accelerating fashion. Those powers are OURS, and WE delegated them (ALL legislative powers herein granted) to a Congress which is now comprised of whoremasters, drunkards, and filth of every stripe.

Why have they abdicated? Why have they given away what does not belong to them to begin with?

That's simple. To legislate is to choose. When you choose, you piss somebody off. That somebody then can become obsessed with removing you from office in a competitive election, and if these people, who magically become multimillionaires on a $174 000 salary could be removed by plebians, THEN where the hell would we be?