Posted on 09/06/2014 8:10:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
He had help with an incompetent nonConservative GOP leadership.
Your post makes absolutely no sense, as neither does your freeper name.
very barely at that
I think you’re being a”Trifle”Generous???
:: but the executive precedents he has established, the tyranny will remain. ::
Michelle is staying in the White Hut!?!
Oh....^tyranny^. Never mind.
The frightening thing of doing the changes/edicts after the mid-terms is that he still has the existing Democrat dominated Senate to ratify and approve it, even if they are all lame ducks to an incoming Republican majority.
as Americans, we overthrow ‘kings’ and toss them out on their butt
I really hope he slips up and declares himself king. I really do
Even if stepping down, he would still harass and agitate against undoing his policies.
We saw how Madelein Notsobright kept trying to back seat Bush during the Iraq war.
OTOH, I'm not aware of a single rat who moderated, who became conservative with time spent in office.
It would appear that the institution of congress itself tends to prod their members toward leftism.
That is why I regard repeal of the 17th Amendment so important.
Until the current crop of criminals in congress are routed and in prison for treason any "half stepping" is an exercise in futility because, any "threat is not a threat unless it is viable."
It would appear that the institution of congress itself tends to prod their members toward leftism.
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That’s a very perceptive and insightful observation. Someone shoud write a book about this.
I have some familiarity with the “workings” of congress and believe you hit on a key problem. Our representatives may have been regular folks back home but when they come to Washington DC they quickly contract the “disease” known as Potomac Fever. They become creatures of the system and its culture of big government and reckless spending.
People constantly call, write and ask them for this and that special favor, assistance or program and before long they come to believe that they have to be seen as “doing something” for their constituients. So you’re right, the institutional environment prods them toward liberalism.
And then there is pressure from the media, colleagues, and innumerable interest groups, lobbies and associations. It takes a strong person to stand up to these pressures and vote to reduce the size of government.
The thought on my mind is Louis XVI, then Caligula and then Julius Caesar.
Or, Congress could stop f***ing around, follow the Constitution and do this:
JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that a state of war exists between the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same.
Whereas the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has committed unprovoked acts of war against the people of the United States of America:
Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Return to a federal republic is hardly a half step.
Apt term, ‘Potomac Fever.’
No it is not, and the statement was unless you arrest and hold trials on the present members of congress, albeit cutting the cancer out nothing will change, or half stepping to get the corruption out of the system.
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