Barack Obama: The President Who Would Be King
Walter Olson posts at Overlawyered about a Cato Institute panel discussing the way Obama flagrantly ignores the Constitution's "Take Care Clause," refusing to adhere to his obligation to faithfully execute the laws:
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz noted that the Constitution's Take Care Clause directs the President to take care that the laws are faithfully executed......Rosenkranz pointed to a number of Obama executive actions that are hard to reconcile with the Take Care clause. The text of the Affordable Care Act, for example, states that the employer mandate prescribed by the law was to begin Jan. 1, 2014. "You don't need a lawyer to interpret this, you need a calendar." Yet President Obama elected unilaterally to delay the mandate and substitute a later effective date of his own choice.
..."President Obama is being the kind of President Nixon wanted to be," said panelist Jonathan Turley, a well-known legal commentator and law professor at George Washington University: "Many Democrats will rue the day they stood by while the President asserted these kinds of powers."
I dint think they will. One, they know Republicans are to chicken to abuse power the way they do. And two, there saving all their outrage for the next Republican who does anything in any way similar to Barry.
Nick Gardner at June 11, 2014 8:48 AM
And two, there saving all their outrage for the next Republican who does anything in any way similar to Barry.
The proper response to that outrage is to note that I have a pen and a phone.
I R A Darth Aggie at June 11, 2014 11:36 AM
"One, they know Republicans are to chicken to abuse power the way they do."
Funniest thing I've read all week!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at June 11, 2014 4:07 PM
As the saying goes, what are you going to do about it? Congress isn't going to lift a finger. The entitlement classes are good with pretty much anything the government does as long as they get their checks. The low-information voters will vote whoever's cooler and more popular. And to the leftists, their ends justify their means, even when they don't quite know what their ends actually are.
Cousin Dave at June 12, 2014 7:22 AM
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