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Obama Has Declared Himself King
Townhall.com ^ | September 5, 2014 | Conn Carroll

Posted on 09/06/2014 8:10:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

He had help with an incompetent nonConservative GOP leadership.


21 posted on 09/06/2014 8:53:43 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: Logical me

Your post makes absolutely no sense, as neither does your freeper name.


22 posted on 09/06/2014 8:56:51 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: A CA Guy

very barely at that


23 posted on 09/06/2014 8:57:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: A CA Guy

I think you’re being a”Trifle”Generous???


24 posted on 09/06/2014 9:34:05 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Jacquerie

:: but the executive precedents he has established, the tyranny will remain. ::

Michelle is staying in the White Hut!?!

Oh....^tyranny^. Never mind.


25 posted on 09/06/2014 9:41:03 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: F15Eagle

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.


26 posted on 09/06/2014 9:43:41 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Kaslin

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


28 posted on 09/06/2014 9:47:43 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Jacquerie

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.


29 posted on 09/06/2014 9:54:22 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Starboard
Well, it isn't uncommon for first term congressmen or senators who ran as Tea Party conservatives, to go wobbly or rino or worse.

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.

30 posted on 09/06/2014 12:48:03 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Jacquerie
With respects, your "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."

31 posted on 09/07/2014 4:00:57 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Jacquerie

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.


32 posted on 09/07/2014 6:26:07 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

The thought on my mind is Louis XVI, then Caligula and then Julius Caesar.


33 posted on 09/07/2014 6:29:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Kaslin
Only Congress has the power to check Obama's unprecedented use of executive power through the use of the appropriations process

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.

34 posted on 09/07/2014 6:41:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: SERE_DOC

Return to a federal republic is hardly a half step.


35 posted on 09/07/2014 7:24:39 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Starboard

Apt term, ‘Potomac Fever.’


36 posted on 09/07/2014 8:00:40 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Jacquerie

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.


37 posted on 09/07/2014 2:59:00 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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