Ron Paul Rages "Will No One Challenge Obama’s Executive Orders?"

zero hedge ^ | 2/10/14 | Tyler Durden

[Nachum]

Submitted by Ron Paul of the Ron Paul Institute,

President Obama’s state of the union pledge to “act with or without Congress” marks a milestone in presidential usurpation of Congressional authority. Most modern presidents have used executive orders to change and even create laws without Congressional approval. However President Obama is unusually brazen, in that most Presidents do not brag about their plans to rule by executive order in state of the union speeches.

Sadly, his pledge to use his pen to implement laws and polices without the consent of Congress not only received thunderous applause from representatives of the president’s party, some representatives have even pledged to help Obama get around Congress by providing him with ideas for executive orders. The Constitution’s authors would be horrified to see legislators actively aiding and abetting a president taking power away from the legislature.

Executive orders are perfectly legitimate and even necessary if, in the words of leading Constitutional Scholar Judge Andrew Napolitano, they “…. guide the executive branch on how to enforce a law or…complement and supplement what Congress has already done.” The problem is that most modern presidents have abused this power to issue orders that, as Judge Napolitano puts it, “restates federal law, or contradicts federal law, or does the opposite of what the federal law is supposed to do.”

Political opponents of the president rightly condemned Obama for disregarding the Constitution. However, it was not that long ago that many of the same politicians were labeling as “unpatriotic” or worse anyone who dared question President Bush’s assertions the he had the “inherent” authority to launch wars, spy on Americans, and even indefinitely detain American citizens.

Partisan considerations also make some members of the opposition party hesitate to reign in the president. These members are reluctant to set a

[plainshame]

Maybe AG was really Santa.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Well, if you really knew how this site operated, from your 15 or so years here, you’d know that you could find my “born on” date by waving the cursor over my screen name. I didn’t own a personal computer or have Internet service back in the 1990s, which made it somewhat impossible to sign-up here back then. We’re not all millionaires like you are. LOL

[2ndDivisionVet]

You know that cheap scotch really isn’t good for you. I’d recommend a nice single malt or at least a better blended scotch than whatever no-name or store brand you’re drinking.

[VideoDoctor]

"Don't nobody do any thing rash"

That's GOP code for "Nutless in D.C."

[plainshame]

Sorry,I don’t drink.Never have and never will.

[plainshame]

You sound silly or drunk vet.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Right back at ya X 10. Go sleep it off, Otis.

[plainshame]

I think you have the wrong guy.

[sargon]

The Progressive Republicans and Progressive Democrats are not going to stop Obama. He’s on a roll and we’re almost an irrevocably socialist nation now.

Oh, we can revoke it, alright.

The price is blood.

[plainshame]

Don’t drink vet!You got the wrong guy.Sleep it off.Good night.

[GraceG]

[ We’ve been trained to be this way. From Ann Barnhardt:

I don’t care how many bee-ess college degrees you have, because all “education” today consists of is pumping and dumping information onto multiple-choice tests and occasionally faking a short-answer or occasional paper. That isn’t education. That’s beta pack animals learning the gestures of submission to the alpha. ]

Nice to see another freeper here follows “Ann of Arc Barnhardt” besides myself.

[Bryanw92]

>>The price is blood.

That won’t happen in this generation.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Imagine if GWB did this?

[sport]

Nope.

[sport]

Cambodia and Germany are two examples Conservatives should study. People of good character in both Nations said or thought it could never happen in their respective Countries. Yet it did happen. The remnants of both Nations had to be saved by outside sources. Germany by the allies and Cambodia by North Vietnam. I understand that it will never happen here because we got guns. The police going from door to door in Boston driving people from their houses at gun point was a figment of my imagination because, well the police are on our side. Or at least support the Constitution.

[Theodore R.]

Not really, our parents and grandparents paved the way for the future with the consistent election of semi-socialists as far back as 1958, or even earlier.

[Amagi]

The little commie creep promised he was going to "fundamentally transform" the United States of America....
... thus brazenly declaring his intention to undermine the Constitution he dishonestly would later swear to preserve, protect and defend.

[Windflier]

Maybe he’s from Colorado. [wink, wink]

You know..?..

[humblegunner]

People like you shouldn’t even be on this site.You give the site a BAD NAME.

While I may disagree with 2DV about a couple of things, I can tell you for a fact that he's a net asset to FR.

You, on the other hand, are just the newest in a long line of n00bs claiming to have been here for years.

So STFU n00b.