Posted on 11/22/2014 11:03:13 AM PST by zencycler
Maybe the best way to fight the Obama power grab is to show how it opens up the floodgates. So maybe all the GOP candidates should now start talking about what executive orders they would impose. After all, if we establish the precedent that the POTUS can flout the will of Congress by using EO's, then we would naturally start expecting presidents to use that to pursue their agenda, and we would want to know in advance for which issues they would likely consider using that new found power.
So let's put that out there! If this precedent gets established, then what EO's would the GOP base expect to get from a President Cruz, Paul, Huckabee, Ryan, Perry, Rubio, or fill-in-the-blank? Let's start posting all over the place about what EO's the GOP base will now expect from their candidate if they get into office - that might just freak out people on the left enough to make them realize that they just might want to keep the Constitutional checks and balances in place, rather than take that cork out of the bottle and then deal with how some future president may use those new powers.
Nice ones!
That should keep everyone busy the first week.
The second week? Good bye department of Education.
Here is another one: If you owe the Federal Government any money, all the money you use for education, for yourself or any dependent, is good towards that debt!
By the Imperial power invested in me and the various emanations of nebulous penumbras I hereby decree there are now 50 lower courts under the Supreme court and the Governor of each state gets to pick who sits on the one for his state. Oh, by the way , Sotomyer, Kagen, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Roberts are fired. To be replaced by Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh , Jim Robinson and ME! (Hey , if I can strip power from Congress why not from the courts as well? Being a dictator is fun! It’s GOOD to be the King!)
Nice, but these days I’d prefer Malkin over Coulter.
Can you imagine if any president held a little press conference and said “effective today, I’m eliminating the department of education?” I bet the lamestream media would report that...
By the power invested in me by my pen and my phone is it henceforth decreed by royal whim to be so!
This question will be asked (by liberal moderators) ONLY at the GOP primary debates.
“issue every citizen a federal concealed carry permit. Stop enforcement of ... 1986 Automatic Weapon Ban.”
Actually there is a loophole: a federal agency (which obviously POTUS is the ultimate head of) may exempt someone from the 922(o) prohibition. Imagine: “as POTUS, and in accordance with 922(o)(2)(A), I direct the BATFE to approve possession via NFA Form 4 or Form 1 application of any post-1986 machinegun for any otherwise law-abiding citizen, both for those declared members of the US Unorganized Militia who obviously must equip and train to modern military standards on their own, and to any citizen of the US in accordance with their right to keep and bear arms without infringement.” Perfectly legal, no weird EO or Memo abuse.
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