Obama trashes another law

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.

"Too bad we don’t have enough CONSERVATIVES in government to uphold the law instead of allowing it to be VIOLATED and then HOPE to restore it later"

Yeah, you would think if Republicans had control of either the house or the senate, they would have immediately passed a referendum reminding the President that Mt. McKinley's name was established by law, and that as President he is sworn to uphold the laws.

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.

I am glad to see this thread, because that is the first question that occurred to me when this new controversy first appeared: How have mountains, rivers, physical geographical features traditionally been "named?" worldwide, as well as nationally?

Clearly, it can't be a political process, subject to the whims of each new administration in any and all countries of the world? That sounds like chaos.
We take many things to be self-evident. People never give it a second thought, because it is so irrational to do otherwise that it would make the ridiculed Idiocracy a reality.

I assume that among adults with average intelligence and education it would be common knowledge that to know that no tedious explanations or justifications should be necessary to justify stability and permanence to certain things about our entire country, and even about our immediate neighborhood.

If it takes a law to name very prominent geographic feature world wide, which should a sociopathic megalomaniac be allowed, yes, allowed to take it upon himself to change 225 years of cultural history?

I know that it is a trivial issue compared to more pressing monumental stupidities we are all laboring under.

Imagine if the Kennedy Airport name were unexpectedly changed to Al Sharpie International Airport, where would all the flights in the air land?

Hey Congress, you snooze you lose! We all lose. How much insanity is tolerable?

Who pays for the stupidity? How many documents, forms, computer programs, maps, books, schedules, phone books ad infinitum would have to be changed? All to satisfy the whims of the insane?

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