brushrunretiree
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o is yndermining THE CONSTITUTION!!
WND commentator Thomas Sowell has said Obama is fundamentally “undermining” the American constitutional government system with his orders.
“The separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches of government is at the heart of the Constitution of the United States – and the Constitution is at the heart of freedom for Americans,” he wrote. “No president of the United States is authorized to repeal parts of legislation passed by Congress. He may veto the whole legislation, but then Congress can override his veto if they have enough votes. Nevertheless, every president takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed and sustained – not just the ones he happens to agree with.
“If laws passed by the elected representatives of the people can be simply overruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House, then we are no longer a free people, choosing what laws we want to live under,” he continued. “When a president can ignore the plain language of duly passed laws and substitute his own executive orders, then we no longer have ‘a government of laws, and not of men’ but a president ruling by decree, like the dictator in some banana republic.”
WND columnist David Limbaugh also recently addressed the concern.
He said the Obama “overreach” by issuing executive orders was “nothing new.”
“He has frequently complained about how democracy and the Constitution are ‘messy’ and do not permit him to exercise the authority of a Chinese president. But he nevertheless warned us that he would be pushing forward with his agenda through executive orders and administrative actions ‘on a wide range of fronts,’” Limbaugh warned.
Former U.S. Rep. Allan West recently commented on the power of the president, writing online that, “Sure seems there is a lot of ‘unconstitutional’ activity going on in Washington, D.C., these days – as well as lots of lying. … When Benjamin Franklin was leaving that storied hall in Philadelphia after the construct of our U.S. Constitution, a woman supposedly asked whether our nation would have a monarchy or a republic. Franklin’s response then is our challenge today: ‘A republic Ma’am, if you can keep it.’”
I BET PEOPLE WISHED THEY'D LISTENED TO US!!!
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