Posted on 06/21/2014 6:13:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy’s abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of modern politics. It is now more urgent in the United States than at any time since the Founders, having rebelled against George III’s unfettered exercise of “royal prerogative,” stipulated that presidents “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Serious as are the policy disagreements roiling Washington, none is as important as the structural distortion threatening constitutional equilibrium. Institutional derangement driven by unchecked presidential aggrandizement did not begin with Barack Obama, but his offenses against the separation of powers have been egregious in quantity and qualitatively different.
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Why don’t we start taking over. Congress should approve the XL pipeine. Just start ignoring O.. O IS failing the American ppl in so many ways. Since he can’t do his job congress should.
In fact because of the many messups they should send in the men with the white coats and ‘take him away’ haha
Why don’t we start taking over. Congress should approve the XL pipeine. Just start ignoring O.. O IS failing the American ppl in so many ways. Since he can’t do his job congress should.
In fact because of the many messups they should send in the men with the white coats and ‘take him away’ haha
If there was anybody in DC who believed that, they would INVITE Obama’s temper tantrum economic collapse, EMP, martial law, etc, knowing it is the labor necessary before birth can happen. They would press for that labor to start before the people are disarmed.
In short, they would expose Obama’s ineligibility and the threats that have so far kept anybody from being willing to touch the issue - so that Obama’s handlers would have to make good on their threats and actually induce “labor” while people are still armed to fight and before any more weapons are given to terrorists who can enter our border freely.
If the war has to happen, they should carefully choose WHEN it should happen. As fast as Obama is arming our enemies and potentially moving them here to be able to war against us, I’m thinking sooner may be a heckuva lot better than later...
I hear that from liberals all the time if I ever bother to try to talk to them. They do not care about the rule of law. They think a one-party system would be just fine, as long as it's a stew of lefty fantasy utopia doublethink.
Who will step up and SAVE this country???
Thanks for a good laugh.
I lived in Minneapolis in the early 1990’s.
In those days, the Republican Party in Minnesota was known as “Independent-Republicans,” or “I-R” for short.
Obviously, the temptation to call us “Irrational” Republicans was irresistible to the Left.
Around 1992, a philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota ran for US Congress as a Republican.
He created a magnificent campaign slogan - in part a comic send up of Descartes, and, in part, a mockery of the Left:
“I think. Therefore, I-R.”
Indeed. He fancies himself a master of polysyllabic sesquipedalianism.
He ain’t.
Of course you do realize that most 'Congressional Staffers' are very partisan Democrats? This is one of DC's great mysteries: i.e., why do Republicans employ so many Democrat 'staffers.'
Ask'em.
Why do you think it got canceled? It was hitting way to close to home for some people.
How about a grand jury?
The offenses done by 0 are current.
About judges....
They can’t ALL be ‘bought off’ or otherwise coerced.
Judge in arpaio’s county?
Judge Moore?
I must disagree with Will here. The specific power Congress has to address a runaway Executive is impeachment. The courts have been part of the destruction of the constitution and they will protect socialists/marxists just as the dims in the senate and progressive pubbies protect them. This is the fundamental problem with governing our republic. Once there is a significant minority of immoral, corrupt, and criminal people in congress, there is no remedy to despotism. Yes I know about Article V, and I support the convention of states, but I don’t believe the necessary amendments to the constitution can be effected in time to save the republic. Perhaps it will be in time to initiate or save the second republic.
It is getting more and more clear that the GOP(e) considers us to be a bigger enemy than the democrats. I’d hope it wouldn’t boil down to a creating 3rd party (Tea Party), (like the UK), but we are moving closer to that each day.
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sounds about right. And also I wonder if being under attack himself by the progressives recently has made him begin to feel the squeeze that we poor peons have felt for years.
Of course congress can impeach SCOTUS judges. Better still, congress can eliminate any judges seat any time they want. Congress is the ultimate power in our government. Congress will not act because enough of the members of congress (house and senate) support the destruction of our constitutional republic and the implementation of socialist marxist tyranny. If the propaganda media told the citizens the truth of the situation, things would start changing. And this change has to be led by congress. It is the only government agency with the power to do so, absent a successful Article V Convention.
Well said.
That is an interesting thought. 0 and his government minions would do just fine. Hmmm. Dangerous times.
-— Return to a senate of the states. -—
To do that, we need a convention of the states. At the very least, we could pass congressional term limits.
1) The courts have allowed big government to write its own laws ever since the New Deal, and they aren't going to stop it now; and,
2) Our politicized judiciary now serves the interests of big government, and views its role as legitimizing its actions. The federal courts could care less about Constitutional niceties like the separation of powers, which they have been undermining with their rulings for decades.
The traitor John Roberts and the majority essentially REWROTE 0bamacare to say that the individual mandate was a tax, when the legislation was clearly not a tax, and not the legislative intent. And what about Roe? Another egregious example of legislating from the bench.
In all this, congress has raised nary a peep in defense of itself and the Constitution.
If the Supreme Court feels free to rewrite the law to suit its interests of the moment, why shouldn't the president enjoy the same prerogative?
If congress suddenly feels the need to defend the separation of powers, they are going to need to do something a bit more forceful than filing a lawsuit in the DC district court.
But with cryin’ Johnny B. at the helm, I doubt they'd even go that far.
I think of 0 as our Hugo Chavez. If 0 believes he has a chance of success he will not step down in 2016. This will be driven by how he polls. Heck, he may decide to run again in 2016. Who will stop him?
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