Obama Completes His Trifecta

American Thinker ^ | February 24, 2011 | Richard N. Weltz

[livius]

With a bold political announcement, President Barack Obama has completed the trifecta -- de facto coups which bring into his White House the powers and functions of the other two branches, as outlined in our Constitution.

That document assigns the legislative function to Congress, but the Executive Branch blithely and routinely co-opts that power by run-arounds and choosing to enforce or not enforce duly passed laws of the Legislature. Notable examples in the scant couple of years The One has been in office include: refusal to enforce voting laws against intimidation at the polls in Chicago, efforts to use the regulatory functions of the EPA to circumvent the specific legislation of Congress to ban cap-and-trade, refusal to enforce immigration laws, and attempts by the FCC to regulate matters banned from its jurisdiction by law.

...On the judiciary side...Obama has arrogated to himself, in the matter of DOMA, the power to declare that law unconstitutional and order his Justice Department not to contest lawsuits challenging it...

[livius]

That’s true. The thing that I find really disturbing is that when he started doing this, which was as soon as he was inaugurated, there was some stir about it and a fair amount of negative reaction (to his “czars,” his arrogant comments, his seizure of companies, etc.).

But now it seems that people have decided it doesn’t matter anymore and this latest outrage...which should have people out in the streets, IMHO...is barely getting any reaction.

[cricket]

He’s sealing off one recourse after another.

No question. Amazing, how many thought, like surviving Jimmy Carter, 'we will insure a 'one-term' Obama.

In another world and time, perhaps. The handwriting was certainly on the wall, that times, indeed had changed - not to mention the threat - with the rise and election of Obama.

[Venturer]

Republicans in name only are as bad as the Democrats, what we need are Conservative Republicans with courage. Something sorely lacking in today’s Congress.