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.

[Lazamataz]

I imagine you are all surprised, too.

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[BenLurkin]

bttt!

[DrDude]

Nice read Laz. It all seems 100% accurate to me. It can be resolved in one Act. Trump can have one major player from the DS Cabal arrested. That would shut them all down. Not sure what he is waiting for. Start with Meuller or HRC.

[1_Inch_Group]

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Not your peepee!

Well, at least you’ll be able to get cheaper car insurance and beat that female wrestling team.

[50mm]

Racist!

[chajin]

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. As Strelnikoff put it, nothing is more important than the revolution.

[rktman]

Well DUH! All you had to do was ask us. We could have saved you some effort. 🍿🍻💸😹🇺🇸

[Lazamataz]

[MV=PY]

Excellent points, well argued Laz.

Obama went well beyond his legal powers. I hope Trump doesn’t.

[equaviator]

Obama should never have been President or a Senator. Exactly how it was made to happen is what I’d like to know. I don’t think I need to be told why but once we know how...

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Lazamataz]

Nice read Laz. It all seems 100% accurate to me.

Thanks for noticing.... I take the time and put in some research to try to make sure I am accurate.

The main point of this post is to point out the sheer, galling hypocrisy that both the News Misleadia and Democrats (but I repeat myself) display, constantly.

[Slyfox]

I hear Hillary was planning on canceling out the Bill of Rights and the Constitution through Executive Orders.

[Zeneta]

A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
So
Bye, bye Miss American Pie

[Lazamataz]

Well DUH! All you had to do was ask us. We could have saved you some effort.

Well, shoot, why didn't you call before I started writing this???!?

[rockinqsranch]

I’m missing Judge Janine.

[thecodont]

Obama went well beyond his legal powers. I hope Trump doesn’t.

The Left keeps expressing fears that Trump is or will become a dictator. They're blind to the fact that this is what BO actually WAS (and not a peep out of them).

[Lazamataz]

Excellent points, well argued Laz.

Thank you, kind sir.

Obama went well beyond his legal powers. I hope Trump doesn’t.

Part of me almost wishes Trump does, but, as the famous quote by Nietzsche says, "If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."

[rktman]

I wanted to see just how much faux ink you would commit to it. 😹👍🏼