4/17/2015 - David Limbaugh
We live in a constitutional republic
in which our elected officials are bound by the constraints of the
Constitution, which means they don't have a license to do whatever they please,
even if they think it would be best for the country.
That President Barack Obama so
flagrantly violates this enshrined legal principle and much of his Democratic
Party supports him in doing so is why so many other people are outraged and, at
times, fear for their country.
Under past presidents in my lifetime
(I was born after FDR), Republican and Democratic, we have not had to live in
fear that the party controlling the executive branch would become a law unto
itself. Mockers will cite President Richard Nixon's transgressions, but they
don't register a blip on the radar compared with the colossal abuses of power
this president and his party routinely engage in.
Many of us -- and I'm not talking
about the type inclined toward conspiracy theories, which I most definitely am
not -- truly wonder what these people will do next. How will they act outside
the scope of their constitutional authority to take action they claim will be
beneficial?
It doesn't matter if their planned actions will be beneficial.
Illegal actions are not permitted, even if for ostensibly benign purposes, lest
we descend into tyranny and lose our liberties.
Leftists, who own and control the
Democratic Party, subscribe to the axiom that the ends justify the means, so it
is hardly surprising that they are so casual about the limitations on
government institutionally imposed by the Constitution. They believe -- and
daily demonstrate, in general terms -- that if a policy is desirable, they will
find a way to implement it, irrespective of whether they have the
constitutional authority to do so. It's such an antiquated document, after all.
This is such a dangerous mindset and
one that will inevitably lead to the end of the republic as we know it if we
don't get control of it.
Under no other president, for
example, would I have worried that we might find the executive branch
attempting to enter into an agreement with a foreign country involving
something as monumentally important as nuclear weapons without acknowledging
the obvious truth of its being a treaty and requiring the Senate's approval.
Indeed, it is so clear that Obama has no authority to do this I am almost
surprised that even he has had the audacity to attempt it. But nothing from
this man should surprise me or anyone else anymore.
Intellectually dishonest leftists
can play semantic games and engage in legal sophistry all day long about such
an agreement's not falling within the legal parameters of a treaty, but every
last one of them knows better.
Thank goodness that some Democrats
have taken the honorable position and forced Obama to confer with the Senate,
but it is deplorable that we would ever get to the point that the Senate needs
to be voting on a matter validating its own unambiguous authority and duty
under the Constitution. This is disgraceful.
Given that Obama told a group he had
no authority under the Constitution to grant amnesty on his own when Congress
had affirmatively rejected the DREAM Act, we know he intellectually comprehends
the constraints on his executive power. When he reneged on his statement within
a short period of time and took unilateral action anyway, we had further
confirmation that he is not only disingenuous and insincere but also an
opportunistically rogue president.
People think they know the
difference between a democracy and a republic. But some of them don't appear to
understand that for our republic to work, the rule of law has to be honored.
This means that we are a nation of laws, not men, such that all people, even
our president and all other elected officials, are bound by the law.
Our constitutional republic has a
major democratic element: The people elect their representatives, and they are
also the ones with the vested interest in ensuring that these representatives
act within the law. When elected officials thumb their noses at the law and do
what they please, they are disenfranchising the voters and systematically
dismantling the very system that ensures our liberties.
Obama, with his faux compassion and
tolerance, has, with the sinister stroke of his poison pen, not only granted
legal status to millions of immigrants in wanton violation of the Constitution
but also bestowed major substantive benefits on them that affect the rest of
us. He has granted some 541,000 people Social Security numbers, which,
according to Sen. Jeff Sessions, will enable them to draw federal tax credits
and Social Security retirement and disability benefits.
If this is anywhere close to
accurate, people should be utterly outraged and appalled. The people, through
their elected representatives, are supposed to have a say in these matters, and
they've already spoken legislatively against Obama's action, which, along with
so many of his other ones, shows he has no respect for the rights of the people
and that he has cynical contempt for the Constitution.
If you think I'm being too harsh,
then I think you are being too complacent. This is our nation unraveling before
our eyes. When will more people speak up against these abuses? When will
Obama's party, including its rank and file, demand law and order from the
highest elected official in the land?
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