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Ron Paul Rages "Will No One Challenge Obama’s Executive Orders?"
zero hedge ^ | 2/10/14 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/10/2014 5:23:42 PM PST by 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

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe AG was really Santa.


101 posted on 02/10/2014 9:26:39 PM PST by plainshame
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To: plainshame

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


102 posted on 02/10/2014 9:27:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: plainshame

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.


103 posted on 02/10/2014 9:28:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Nachum
"Don't nobody do any thing rash"

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

104 posted on 02/10/2014 9:49:41 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


105 posted on 02/10/2014 10:50:58 PM PST by plainshame
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You sound silly or drunk vet.


106 posted on 02/10/2014 10:52:41 PM PST by plainshame
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To: plainshame

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


107 posted on 02/10/2014 10:53:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think you have the wrong guy.


108 posted on 02/10/2014 10:56:14 PM PST by plainshame
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To: Bryanw92
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.

109 posted on 02/10/2014 10:56:31 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


110 posted on 02/10/2014 10:58:15 PM PST by plainshame
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To: Mmmike

[ 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.


111 posted on 02/10/2014 11:52:49 PM PST by GraceG
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To: sargon

>>The price is blood.

That won’t happen in this generation.


112 posted on 02/11/2014 4:43:08 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: All

Imagine if GWB did this?


113 posted on 02/11/2014 4:45:11 AM PST by Rodney Dangerfield ("It's not a good time for me right now" -- http://therealwendy.com/)
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To: Nachum

Nope.


114 posted on 02/11/2014 4:46:28 AM PST by sport
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To: hinckley buzzard
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.
115 posted on 02/11/2014 5:00:29 AM PST by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


116 posted on 02/11/2014 6:30:27 AM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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To: Nachum
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.
117 posted on 02/11/2014 6:53:46 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe he’s from Colorado. [wink, wink]

You know..?..

118 posted on 02/11/2014 7:09:45 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: plainshame; 2ndDivisionVet
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.

119 posted on 02/11/2014 9:43:22 AM PST by humblegunner
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