Posted on 04/04/2012 3:22:03 AM PDT by servo1969
America's constitutional structure is built on checks and balances. The idea behind these checks and balances is simple: We want interest counteracting interest, ego counteracting ego. We don't want any one person to gain too much power -- or any one faction or any one way of thought.
Gridlock, for lack of a better word, is good.
President Barack Obama, however, has a different idea. He believes that America must be fundamentally transformed. That fundamental transformation cannot be effectuated without a fundamental transformation of the system of American government.
The most important part of that transformation is the elevation of the presidency from a coequal branch of government to a pre-eminent branch of government. The president shouldn't be seen as just a player in the larger government struggle for power and policymaking; he should be seen as a larger-than-life figure, an almost godlike personage, the sort of fellow who can enact policy single-handedly.
No wonder, then, that President Obama declared war on the Supreme Court this week.
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he is one evil POS..
Hopefully, the Supremes will put this asswipe in his place. Computer does not like my spelling of asswipe ; maybe it is ass wipe.
Hopefully, the Supremes will put this asswipe in his place. Computer does not like my spelling of asswipe ; maybe it is ass wipe.
Baby Doc Barack
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................
The Constitution sets out how to oppose this tyranny.
Nothing at all wrong with it.
The problem ISSS............a complete, total LACK OF BALLS on the part of our (sic) “opposition” party.
Bone-er is a complete gutless idiot hiding behind a coterie of other bumbling cowardly idiots.
THAT’S the problem.
Nobody willing to kick ass and take names.
BTW—why is Holder still in office??
HUH???
Because the bucket is tipping to one side.
A little more power for the glorious leader is just what all revolutions need. Finally an American leader with the the stature and vision of a Mugabe or Hugo Chavez. (sarc)
I’m not sure I agree with the author on his use of the word ‘gridlock’ here. He gets the principle of Checks and Balances correct - it’s between branches of the government. But gridlock to me refers to the political parties being able to stymie each other’s agenda in the legislature. Gridlock is not an executive veto of af a bill, or judicial overturning of a law. These things are Checks and Balances in action, as it were.
I think Newt would if we would give him the chance!
I think he stepped into a bee hive by lambasting the judicial branch. Popcorn popped. Waiting for the DOJ to give the judges a middle finger.
Let’s hope so..
So long as the checks cash nobody cares about balances.
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