Obama trashes another law

morning journal ^ | September 2, 2015

[bob_denard]

What would William McKinley, who served as president from 1897 until he was assassinated in 1901, think of a chief executive who refused to obey the law of the land? Modern-day Americans can only speculate about that.

But they have first-hand knowledge of President Barack Obama's predilection for insisting the law is what he says it is, not what Congress has written in the statute books.

Obama did it again this week, declaring that henceforth, the highest point in North America will be known as Mount Denali. For decades, the official name had been Mount McKinley.

Regardless of how you feel about how the peak is referred to - and there are good arguments in favor of Denali - the bottom line is that a law enacted in 1917 and never changed gave it the late president's name.

That may be the law of the land, but little details such as that never stopped Obama before. In fact, he has been arrogant about it, declaring no one could prevent him from using a stroke of his pen to create, in effect, his own laws. He did it so many times with Obamacare that it is difficult to keep track of the changes he ordered in the law his administration wrote.

But now, by order of the president, another law has been trashed. One wonders what other statutes Obama will overrule during his remaining months in office.

[ridesthemiles]

When Obama renames Kenya “Obamaland” & moves there.........

[WayneS]

One wonders what other statutes Obama will overrule during his remaining months in office.

All of them?

[Sasparilla]

Arrogance. Next, changing the name of the Constitution.

[A CA Guy]

Knowing the history some, McKinley had never been to Alaska or seen that mountain.
I think this goes down as one of two right things Obama may have done in as President . Nobody in Alaska called it McKinley when I was there.

The other right thing was when he was forced to let our troops get Bin Laden.

The rest is pretty much failure unless you are a fan of his golf game.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

Maybe the change is buried in the Obamacare bill, or some othe porkulous monstrosity that no one reads. Just saying.

[AU72]

The other right thing was when he was forced to let our troops get Bin Laden.

He was golfing when it started to do down and VJ could get a hold of him in time to stop it like he did the 3 times before.

[headstamp 2]

Congress is now irrelevant. The GOP saw to that today with the Iran agreement.

[originalbuckeye]

Sorry, I am a cynic when it comes to Obama’s intentions. He saw the opportunity to pit native Alaskans against the Republicans, who will not take kindly to this renaming. And he hopes the animosity will stretch to the Native American community as a whole. Meanwhile, wasn't the naming of Mt McKinley done by LAW? How can he just ‘rename it Denali’ without the Congress approving it?

[SES1066]

Prior to “His Excellency’s” action, it was Mount McKinley in the Denali National Park, an obvious compromise to retain a name honoring an assassinated President and the local aboriginal peoples. Just goes to prove that compromises are useless when dealing with “I know I am right and I have the power” Progressive Egos!

Note: If this mountain had been named Kennedy, do you suppose he would have done the same thing? [duck and cover!]

[Slyfox]

It is what a tyrant does.

[TomGuy]

The feckless Republicans in Congress allow him to get away with it. They even enable him to do it by claiming they are making DC work.

We will likely see many more such executive orders and arbitrary actions in the coming months, as January 20, 2017 approaches.

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the Vanderbilts supposedly said, "Law? What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?"

Pretty much Obama's attitude towards the Constitution and the laws of the US.

[mkjessup]

The Bible directs us to pray for our leaders, and that is exactly what I’ve been doing for years, praying that Almighty God will soon get to the end of His patience, and will lob an Old Testament-style lightning bolt that will light up that filthy Kenyan’s ass like a 4th of July display.

[mkjessup]

We will likely see many more such executive orders and arbitrary actions in the coming months, as January 20, 2017 approaches.

He who lives by the executive order, dies by the executive order, and whatever Emperor Barky signs before he (hopefully) leaves office can be undone by the same pen by his successor.

Paul 'The Forehead' Begala is the one who said "stroke of the pen, law of the land, neat huh?" and as long as we elect a strong conservative next year (I'm thinking ideally Ted Cruz), we'll see the Cruz Administration ram those words of Begala right up the asses of each and every one of those Obamunist traitors.

[knarf]

Renaming a designated name for an already identified mountain is not trashing a law .... it's nothing more than someone making fun of your name ....

If anything, it's just another adolescent girlie response to the fabric of The United States ... clipping another thread ...

The line is no longer, chip .. chip

but

snip .. snip.

[Genoa]

I have read that Congress passed a law in 1947 (30 years later) that gave the Secretary of the Interior the right to determine names of such geographical items on federal land.

[mkjessup]

Good points, and I submit that we will see many more acts of Obamunist-progressive pandering in this final 1+ year, I'm expecting some national monuments like:

Mt. Wellstone, in honor of the great progressive Senator lost tragically (?!?) in a small plane crash for which the phrase 'Wellstone Gag-A-Palooza' was coined.

Margaret Sanger Memorial Park, honoring the genocidal views and policies which led to the American holocaust of unborn children, but in the Obamunist view, it prevented women from being 'punished' with a baby, and helped 'medical research', you know, just like Mengele did in WWII.

U.S.S. Edward M. Kennedy, next naval ship to be named for Fat Teddy the Traitorous 'RAT, diabolically appropriate considering how Teddy eagerly worked to undermine the Reagan Administration's military and foreign policies by making overtures to the Soviet Union's Chairman Andropov. There are my three projected executive orders coming from lil boy Barky, anyone care to add to them?

[Magnum44]

I watched and waited for years for the USS J.F.K. to be retired so I wouldn't have to watch that old rust bucket (no offense to her fine crew and airwing) steal headlines from all the other ships doing fine work in whatever region of the world needed US power projection. It did not matter how many ships or troops were around or what each ones accomplishments were. The media only cared about how many times they could print "USS John F Kennedy" in the story.

Now I see the US Navy did not wait even one generation to rename one of its next Nimitz class boats (OK, Ford class, sheesh) after who else? JFK. God help us if they ever name a boat the "Clinton". The progressive will never let it die.

[FES0844]

Closing Gitmo next order.