Posted on 07/16/2014 6:02:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Via the Daily Caller, an elegant opening statement from todays House Rules Committee hearing on Boehners separation-of-powers lawsuit. Youve heard him make this argument before but hes getting more apocalyptic with each appearance before Congress and who can blame him? The last time he testified, Obama wasnt babbling to activists about amnestizing five million illegals with a stroke of his pen. Today Turley calls Os rhetoric about unilateral action extreme and warns the committee that Congress will effectively self-destruct if the executive is allowed to do what he wants whenever theres gridlock. After all, in a system of limited powers, gridlock produces paralysis, not government by executive diktat; the whole point of checks and balances, he says correctly, is to protect the individual citizens liberty by getting the different arms of the federal government to police each other.
If the president can override Congress whenever its at an impasse, the minority party will be forced to choose between letting the president do what he wants by executive order and compromising by signing onto a bill that lets the president do what he wants in exchange for a few concessions. Thats the end of Congress, and the end of checks and balances.
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More so every day.
Hasn’t Obama built his own at this point?
More so every day.
And Boehner cares because why? As long as he and his criminal buddies get their bribes from their corporate handlers, why should they care what Obama does?
Congress has been abdicating its constitutional powers and privileges for a hundred years, and they aren’t going to stop now.
The Republic has fallen. Voting isn’t going to bring it back.
That would be a huge mess.
I don't care for the man or his regime but I certainly don't want him to become a martyr for the left.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
bill w.
Great idea. Pray it happens in spite of all the over paid losers.
But Turley - he’s one of your own fellow leftwingers, just doing what leftwingers do best, collecting power unto themselves.....
Will Jonathan be accused of racism, soon?
Only The Shadow knows.
It’s a Congress of eunuchs, like ours, that breeds a tyrant.
Correct.
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