Posted on 04/17/2015 5:46:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The most precious virtues that made America's great experiment in freedom and individual liberty so unique have taken quite a beating under Barack Obama and his enablers. Now, after six years of abusing the Constitution on domestic policy issues the Senate has agreed that a White House deal with Iran that will lift Congressionally imposed sanctions is not really a "treaty."
This is no justification for ditching the very things that are supposed to give average Americans the last word on public policy through their representatives and major agreements involving nuclear weapons have always before required a vote of two-thirds of the Senate. And yet, the often-repeated White House rallying cry to "do something" has been largely accepted by the mainstream press as sufficient to ignore the Constitution, the rule of law and the will of citizens. Now a majority of Senators, conditioned by years of Constitutional abuse on domestic policy have agreed to "look the other way" on a major foreign policy initiative with the world's most prolific sponsor of terrorism. How did this happen?
Since then the White House has repeatedly changed this law without Congress to avoid voter's wrath and to smooth over one after another deficiency. Our Constitution does not allow this kind of unilateral action by the executive branch because laws enacted by Congress are, by design, products of the popular will. This central principle has mattered not at all to an administration that wants what it wants and is willing to lie to get it...or simply ignore standing laws and Constitutional limits.
But the White House largely got away with it on ObamaCare--and was even applauded by the liberal press--which may have emboldened Obama to also ditch standing laws on immigration, terrorist swaps, education, welfare-work and the environment. And now a nuclear deal with Iran. Goodbye rule of law. While citizens get no latitude on violating the law, no less than the president asserts that he can simply ignore the laws with which he disagrees. Why? Because he's frustrated.
A principled attorney general would have balked. It happened before under Richard Nixon. But Eric Holder has seized AP phone records illegally, refused to prosecute Lois Lerner, stonewalled Congress on gun running to Mexican cartels and has certainly shown no appetite for insisting that the Constitution and properly enacted laws be obeyed. Next up? Loretta Lynch. In this woman we'll get a champion of police departments seizing property and cash without ever filing any charges of a crime. This is America?
The founders who wrote the Constitution feared the power of kings. They designed a system that put the branches of government in conflict but provided rules to ensure accommodation. They foresaw passionate debate between citizens as healthy and welcome in a free, self-governing society. What they didn’t foresee was a president willing to “win” by erasing the base lines. In truth, no one wins when the Constitution is cast aside as inconvenient to the ambitions of any politician.
Hoagland is a grassroots activist, author and chairman of the Restore America’s Voice PAC.
And two-thirds of our government sits on its hands and just watches it all happen.
"We, the EXEMPT, totally, 100%, support our first Moslem Indonesian King ...
and will continue to direct the IRS to attack anyone
daring to cling to, or support, the now-void, US Constitution."
Anyone in the senate who voted to pretend that Obama’s looming deal with Iran is not a treaty should be in traitors prison in the cells right next to Obama.
If the deal isn’t approved by two-thirds of the Senators, as required by the Constitution, then it’s not a treaty, so in a year and a half, President Cruz can toss it aside.
Obama and his ilk are there simply because many simply want the good life without having to work for it. Things like television and ebt and credit cards are now far more important than looking after oneself and working hard and reaping the rewards for yourself and your family. Same thing going on up here in my country; how else do you explain the wealthiest province being run into the ground by our openly lesbian premier who is there because of her union thug buddies?
Well, in 2014, the voters of Kentucky and Mississippi did their share to aid Obama and returned two of his allies and enablers to the Senate.
Thinking about all ot the classified information that only the President knows, imagine how much danger Obama will be to the country even after he leaves office. I can imagine a time when he might be wanted just like Osama bin Laden. I hope it won’t take as long to find him, and I hope it ends the same.
redneck sez if the usa (or a shockingly large chunk of it) wasn’t ready to live out the buzzard role, it wouldn’t have tolerated barack. long ago i said that if you picked a random black person out of the phone book, that would 9 times out of 10 be a better president than barack... this is not a skin issue, this is a sin issue.
Even all those seemingly higher things mean nothing without a God revered and desired. By all means God please bless them. But He will not bless unless asked, and unless asked for the right reason.
If Ted Cruz manages to do nothing else (though his polling picture is quite bright now) he will force the gospel back on the national picture. A worse outcome could be envisioned.
and to add a possible line
“But by no means call on your God again. Because that might once again defeat the devil that gives my destructive program all its power.”
A dirty little secret is that mankind has always been falling by inclination.
Only faith in God (overt or covert) has bucked the trend. We chafe at this idea. We look for a prototype of self sufficiency in the proverbial noble savage. But if he managed to be noble it’s only because God managed to speak to him somehow.
Once we are thoroughly clear that this really is the Game, we can win it.
Yep, best to move on with the Restoration.
It’s not just Obama. Americans need to focus on removing the Congressional co-conpirators from office. 2014 was a good start but too many GOPe got through the gate.
Obama is successful because the Republicans that were elected to stop him are: A) Cowards; or, B) In complete agreement with what he’s doing.
Either way, the Republicans Party is dead.
Obama isn’t the problem.
Four years from today he could be a distant, nearly forgotten nightmare.
The voters, they’re the problem.
That nightmare we may not wake up from for a long while.
Amen.
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