Posted on 04/04/2015 9:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Colbert King published an odd piece in the Washington Post on Friday that was equal parts hysteria, constitutional ignorance, and alternate history. He suggests that resistance to some of President Barack Obama’s executive orders amounts to nothing more than “insurrection.” Indeed, he compares this resistance to the actions of white southerners to President Abraham Lincoln. The assessment is bone chilling since the proper response to insurrection is to send in troops and start shooting people, just as Lincoln did when the Southern states tried to secede and form their own country.
King focuses on legislation being passed by the Arizona legislature that seeks to nullify some of the more constitutionally suspect executive orders regarding illegal immigration. One can argue whether this move is the most appropriate strategy, but it hardly constitutes raising the Stars and Bars. At worse, the legislation will set up a court battle over whether the supremacy clause, which states that federal law trumps state law, also applies to an executive order.
In the meantime, a number of states are seeking relief in the federal courts, asking that the executive orders be overturned as an unconstitutional overreach of executive power. This little bit of “insurrection” will likely be decided in the Supreme Court and not on the battlefield....
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“This little bit of “insurrection” will likely be decided in the Supreme Court and not on the battlefield.”
I’d hope so but I distrust the current ruling class to the extent that I doubt it.
Executive orders are supposed to be written to clarify laws passed by Congress. For example, if a law states that “ widgets are not to be sold across state lines.” A president can issue an executive order declaring how he plans on enforcing illegal widget transfers. Executive orders along these lines are common and all presidents have written them.
Executive orders are “announcements of new laws” . The president cannot raise the voting age, declare 5 million illegal aliens legal, or allow states without exchanges to get Obamacare subsidies by executive order.
States, like Arizona, defying the latter type of executive orders are not in insurrection. President Obama is. Our system is designed such that the Federal Courts are now supposed to side against Obama. This is part of the “checks and balances” . If they do not, it will be the saddest day of my adult life.
In addition, the Iran Nuclear deal, is only legal if ratified by the Senate. This is also how our system works. Shock!
What does he call Obama’s disdain for The Constitution?
The reality that Colbert King and the millions like him refuse to recognize, or more likely are covering up is, based on the Declaration of Independence the long term evisceration of our Constitution is nothing but the political parties abusing the power of government to rebel against US citizens who are now beginning to recognize our survival is at stake.
It’s not insurrection; it’s our civic duty.
“The Union, next to our liberty, most dear.” —John C Calhoun (1782-1850)
Ins... erection ?
The Defenders Of 0bama clutch, grasp and flail blindly grasping at ever more important-sounding large words in a constantly increasing desperation attempt to intimidate their self-perceived-as-weak-minded enemies into silence while failing at every turn. Also, he don’t know what that ten-dollar word he used means... Heh.
Like there aren’t already a thousand plus ‘micro-insurrections’ occurring daily all over this country in ghettos, in Polar Bear attacks, in Knock-Out games, in smash’n’grabs, in “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” burn and loots, etc.
No kidding.....you just know that ANY column like this is either written by a black or gay.
A violent atempt to control the government...............really? Throwing sh## on the wall to see what sticks. Add one more to the dolt racially progressive liberal parade
No, we have this in common. Their parasitic dependence on us!
Free daiquiris pass it on!
We could use a little “insurrection” now and again.
Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed the POS posing as a black man In the WH. I thought the blacks judged men by the content of their character not the color of their skin. Why he be siding with the POS then?
Yeah,
Cause obammy has done such great things for blacks?
What is black unemployment at this point?
What a dumb SOB
No wonder the Post is in the crapper
Obama’s disdain for the Constitution is rebellion against the Constitution and the American people.
I’m shocked. /sar
“I am Spartacus”
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