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
They better hurry and make a stand on something, or the only thing they and the rest of the country will be standing on are gallows.
It’s certainly getting spooky.
The separation of powers are the bedrock foundation of the republic. Three coequal branches of government that are barred from intruding on each other’s turf. The system was designed to ensure that no single branch of government became too powerful — with the fully intended idea that if it were to occur, the other two would band together to drag the third back down into place.
If the Bamster can get away with this, what else might he be tempted to try?
Perhaps deciding that certain voices would be better locked away?
Is this the point historians will someday figure as the day Obama began his unconstitutional dictatorship? Was that point ever identified for Hitler?
Hitler was also elected, but at some point in time...