One wonders what the Supremes are thinking about this.
Obama has already made it very plain he doesn’t respect their institution. How much respect do they think he will give any decisions he disagrees with?
Keeping quiet will just embolden Obama to take even greater bites. Actual laws mean nothing to him. There is only “what he wants” and does not want. People against him are defacto outlaws with no standing because they are not supporting him.
I knew it from the first. He intends to rule, permanently.
When someone like the Senate Majority Leader openly cheers Obama flouting the Constitution on a matter that Reid previously used himself against Republicans, you understand that the Democrats never negotiate in good faith. Good faith is for suckers, to them.
What makes a representative republic work is that all the parties to the Constitution act in good faith, believing that their counterparts on the "other side of the aisle" agree to the rules of engagement, and therefore agree to the outcomes that result from fairly executing those rules.
With Obama, he is not a good-faith negotiator. He will say anything or agree to anything, and then do what he wants whether it's constitutional or not.
Furthermore, as he foreshadowed with the word "audicity," Obama the Community Organizer knows that you have to take bold, "audacious" moves to stun your opposition into silence and hesitation while they figure out what to do.
When one player breaks all the rules that the others swore an oath to uphold, the rule-breaker can get away with a lot during the interim inactivity while the law followers figure out what to do about it.
The problem with Republicans, however, is that they never do anything about it. It's always the next hill to die on, not this one. Nothing seems to be worthy enough of an issue for Republicans to finally take a stand.
-PJ