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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-— I believe our own media spokesmen and educators are either really stupid, or bought and paid for, or have been threatened into compliance -—
They’re fellow travelers, helping to bring about the Glorious Revolution, for some reason they know not of. It’s a strange religion.
"The Founding Fathers wouldn’t have put up with any of this $h|t. The Founders started blowing people’s heads off because the government put a tax on their breakfast beverage… and it wasn’t even coffee. Can you imagine how bat$h!t those guys would have been on a double espresso?" -- Dennis Miller
Remember always that most of the readers of the Compost are the minions and apparatchiks of the sprawling administrative state surrounding DC. Lawless big government is their daily bread and mother's milk, and they will defend it like the good Leninists that they are. They are not representative of the world outside the Beltway.
Agree. Ambition and avarice meet in DC like no other place on earth.
The way I look at Congress now is that they are all the same as “o”. Their actions and inactions support this. It’s like after awhile of watching o come out of the closet as a dictator, they all sighed with relief that they didn’t have to pretend anymore.
Agreed.
As far as a mild atheist knows, the POTUS is the most powerful authority in the universe. Obama is the law so how could he be lawless.
The HOuse did its job with Clinton; the Lott-led Senate might as well have not bothered with the ‘trial.’ I’m not seeing a lot of change in Senatorial fortitude all these years later, are you?
Awful; and we are in the same situation now, if my understanding is correct: that the House can bring the Articles of Impeachment, but it is the Senate who must make the impeached president step down. The Democrat Senate didn't do it then; and they wouldn't do it now. Lord -- and I'm not just saying this -- have mercy.
Obama, Biden, Holder and Kerry are lowly, sissy-cowards for using the lives of innocent children to ram through their Amnesty for Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexico Law.
As the truth comes out of Mexico, I predict that there will be many gory incidents of despicable brutality by Drug Gang Members as these innocent children traveled through the Drug Lord Gangs various territories.
At that time, Obama, Biden, Holder and Kerry should stand trial in the World Court for Illegal Human Trafficking of Children across International Borders.
Was it a D-controlled or R-controlled Senate that held the “trial?” (is there really a difference?) But it was clear from Lott practically the day of the impeachment that the Senate wasn’t gonna do a thing ‘cept put on a show.
Just did a wiki check: Trent Lott was Sen. Majority Leader from ‘96-’01, the Clinton trial was in ‘99.
The President is a Chicago thug who has figured out he can do whatever he wants, as long there are not 67 Republican senators.
.....”The problem the U.S. is facing right now isn’t an abusive executive branch of government: it’s a legislative branch that is perfectly comfortable with the arrangement”.....
I couldn’t agree more with your statement and dead on! The few who are ‘un-comfortable’ seem to do no more than talk a walk, at best they shuffle from one foot to the other which misleads people to imagine something might be done...it never is.
First, gotta fix the lawless GOP establishment.
Mark
One wonders for whom George writes. The ability for the public to read and understand people like George has fallen way off since the passing of Bill Buckley.
The only people who win in court are the lawyers; everyone else loses.
Whenever it says “George F. Will”, I read no further.
Yah, we’re scrooed.
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