Imagine My Surprise! (Freeper Editorial)

Original content | 8/4/2018 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

It’s been a fascinating ten years.

From 2009 to 2017, I was instructed that a President is unrestrained by the Constitution, and that they are all-powerful and can enact laws unilaterally, via Executive Order, and that they can ignore the Constitution as they see fit.

But NOW we learn that Presidents are completely powerless and cannot rescind any Executive Order, set any Administration Policy, or hew to the written law, about any topic, for any reason. That is because to do so would violate unwritten parts of the Constitution.

Let us review the actions that the News Misleadia and the Obama Administration championed, in their quest to inform us that a President is omnipotent:

• Obama appointed thirty-five Federal Czars without Senate advice and consent, which is required for appointees of this magnitude.
• After admitting twenty-two times that he had no Constitutional authority to enact the DREAM Act or DACA, he promptly enacted the DREAM Act / DACA.
• Despite the fact that the Executive Branch MAY NOT ALTER any legislation, but only interpret it, Obama unilaterally altered "Affordable" Care Act twenty-four times. Below are just a few of the examples:
  
  • Obama altered ACA law – Delaying the upholding of the Employer Mandate Law ("Affordable" Care Act) until 2015 – Individual Mandate will be enforced. A President does not have that authority.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – "Affordable" Care Act Medicare cuts were delayed until 2015.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – Enforcement of eligibility requirements for "Affordable" Care Act were delayed until 2015.
    
  • Obama waived "Affordable" Care Act Income Verification.
    
  • Obama altered ACA law – Delayed "Affordable" Care Act caps on out of pocket expenses until 2015. (When that date arrived, premiums did skyrocket)
    
  • Obama shelved part of the "Affordable" Care Act Law for Insurers, extending the life of non-qualifying (according to "Affordable" Care Act) plans until Jan. 1, 2015.
    
  • Obama waived "Affordable" Care Act individual mandate for those that lost their insurance.
    
  • Obama alters "Affordable" Care Act law and exempts companies employing between 50-100 full-time workers from business mandate until 2016.
• Obama issued a Directive instructing ICE to NOT enforce immigration laws in certain cases. This is in clear opposition to the mandate in the Constitution that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.

There are dozens, more, of examples of how a President is the ultimate lawgiver -- the pinnacle-politician, the final arbitrator of absolute law -- unshackled by any other power, person, or institution. Yet suddenly (and I admit complete surprise) we are instructed that Presidents have no powers whatsoever, and may not even invoke privileges detailed in the Constitution and in Legislation. Coincidentally, this new era of enlightenment occurred within seven days of President Trump ascending to this (unexpectedly diluted) position. To wit:

• Only one week after President Trump's Inauguration, a Federal Judge in Brooklyn issued a stay-order against Trump's Executive Order banning immigration from certain Muslim countries with a higher percentage of extremists and, presumably terrorists. This, despite the Congressionally-enacted law (8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible Aliens) that states, among other things, that the President has the authority to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” “for such period as he shall deem necessary, when he “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens … would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
  
• A Federal Judge in Hawaii, Derrick Kahala Watson -- one who was a classmate of Barack Obama, and who was visited by Obama briefly before his initial order, ordered a stay on the Muslim-country Travel Ban. He then extended it indefinitely. Again, this is in direct contradiction with the clear language in 8 U.S. Code § 118, and the Supreme Court eventually overturned this order from this judge.
  
• A federal judge in Pennsylvania temporarily blocked the Trump administration's recent rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare's birth control blocked the Trump administration's rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare's birth control requirements, despite the fact that Obama implemented the rule by the same Executive Order process.
  
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA (closely related to the Dream Act mentioned above) was illegally implemented by Executive Order -- even though Obama admitted he could not do so -- and had an expiration date of March 5th, 2018. Despite this, a Federal Judge (John D. Bates) ordered the Trump Administration to restart this illegal, expired program within 90 days.
  
• President Trump is not even allowed to block trolls on Twitter, Federal Judge Naomi Buchwald ordered, in effect denying the President his First Amendment rights.

So, we learn first that a President is all-powerful and unrestrained. Then, we learn that a President is utterly powerless and cannot exercise clearly legal and lawfully-delineated actions.

Imagine my surprise. I suppose it all depends on who the President is.

[Vendome]

These are facts?

Puhleeze

We can’t be bothered with reality or math.

2 + 2 doesn’t equal 5.

It’s obviously 3....

Sheesh!

[Vendome]

Are you Maya Angelou’s love child?

[Vendome]

Nietzsche also said “That which does not kill me, makes me laugh “

[Vendome]

LOL!

[Vendome]

I would hit that 6 days a week and sleep on the 7th day...”alot”

[Vendome]

LOL!

Get a room...

[Vendome]

You’ve been impeached here plenty so, that would be part for you.../S

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

0bama got to be state senator in Illinois, in part, by having all his primary opponents kicked off the ballot, including a communist mentor of his named Alice Palmer.

[rodguy911]

LoL problem is she may hit back!

[rodguy911]

His entire rise to fame is pocketed with abuse,playing dirty and having others do all the work for him. That’s the story of ozero,never the worker always the player.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Emanations from penumbras can be confusing/ sarc.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I’m in. Please add me to your no doubt hellish list.
Jimmy

[shoff]

Nice work there Laz. I know the amount of time it takes to get all the facts straight. It would be so much easier being a liberal writer where you can just make shit up.

[equaviator]

Records that were sealed (like his birth certificate and his school records) of his political opponents were magically unsealed just before elections so that the opposing party didn't have enough time to field a viable replacement.

Are you saying that even prior to both of his campaigns, some or all of Obama's Republican opponents' records had been sealed in the same way and for the same reason(s) that Obama had to have his sealed, but theirs were "magically unsealed" (October surprise?) before each of those two elections ('08 and '12) to run interference on the campaigns of McCain and Romney...and that the Republican Party might have replaced their '08 and '12 nominees if not for the unsealing and subsequent leaking of "actionable intelligence" on other Republican candidates by the Democrats and Drive-by media? I wouldn't have put it past them then, and seeing as how they're so desperate to recapture the old 'magic' of the '60s, '90s and the Obama years, they're more willing than ever to take even bigger risks because "by any means necessary" means exactly what it says.

[Celerity]

But but but but but but Snopes said that all these things are false !

I want my money back !!!11

[BraveMan]

Funny how we never hear from your brother/cousin/alter ego Razamataz. I often wonder . . .
Borrowing this in order to get banned on Facebook

[Vendome]

S ok

Io
I like that too...

[Eddie01]

Really good Laz.

Should be published.

[wolfpat]

It seem odd to me that they’re calling Trump’s dismantling of Obama’s dictatorship dictatorial.

[snowtigger]

Add me too, please...