2014 Obama Executive Amnesty Decree “Flagrant Assault On Constitution” Says....2011 Obama

by JASmius

Ah, the magic of digital audio/video.



2011 Obama was, of course, twenty months out from his re-election bid, and was thus constrained to pay lip service to the Constitution and the rule of law.  But his La Raza-oid listeners knew that, saw him subtley nudge-nudge and wink-wink and "uh-uh" and poured out in droves to help give him another term a year and a half later.  And now cometh their payoff.

But just because he paid lip service to checks and balances and the separation of powers then doesn't mean that he doesn't know how they're supposed to work now - and how they actually work in practice.  He knows that our constitutional system only works when everybody voluntarily abides by and submits to the same set of rules and laws - making it very easy for an aspiring tyrant like him to just take over with the stroke of a pen - and he knows that while the system eventually administers justice, it can take a very long time to do so.  Historical example: The Tenure of Office Act, a blatantly unconstitutional statute passed by the "radical Republican" Congress in 1867 over President Andrew Johnson's veto during a post-Civil War constitutional crisis where the Legislative Branch was making a blatant oligarchical power grab over the disposition of the defeated Confederate States.  President Johnson's congressional enemies knew the TOOA was illegal, but they passed it as impeachment bait, for which Johnson's subsequent attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - the "radical Republicans'" ally in the Executive Branch - was the trigger.  In the subsequent impeachment trial, the Senate came within a single vote of removing Johnson from office, an effective coup de tat in which Stanton would have seized power and effectively become a dictator.  That is, until now, the last time America came that close to falling under totalitarian rule.

The American Republic barely dodged that bullet in 1867, but the interesting postscript to the saga was that the unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act was enforced for the ensuing two decades and remained in the Federal Register until 1926 when the U.S. Supreme Court finally struck it down.  So while the immediate political passions that gave rise to the TOOA passed relatively quickly, the underlying illegality remained for over half a century.

And that is what Barack Obama understands better than anybody.  As Dr. Krauthammer points out, this is hardly the first time that The One has used Article I, Section 1 as bathroom tissue, and thus a dangerous precedent has been set.  But O only needs a few years to legalize all illegal aliens in the country, import millions more, and get them all registered as robotic Democrat voters.  The courts will catch up with this power grab eventually, but by that time there won't be any more "red" states, and America will be a one-party communist state indistinguishable from the old Evil Empire, minus the huge military.

One more "mission accomplished".

And that is why Dr. Krauthammer is wrong about shrinking from another government shutdown confrontation with the White House over this if it comes to that.  First, there simply isn't time to wait for the "system to work"; he's taking this undisguised tyrannical action right now, and he has to be stopped (if he can be) right now.  And second, the GOP just won a huge midterm election victory fueled in large part by vehement public opposition to his "unilateral" amnesty drive.  If ever there was a government shutdown showdown that took place on PR ground more pro-Republican than this, I can't imagine what it would be.

The idea of letting a lame duck Harry (G)Reid set federal spending priorities for half the tenure of the Republican majority that defeated him is retarded just on general principles, and certainly nothing Democrats would ever have tolerated in December of 2006 when they were the incoming majority.  Doing so and including funding for Barack Obama's despotic attempt to effectively slit all their electoral throats would be clinically insane.

Republicans should call Red Barry's bluff, in the highly unlikely case that he is bluffing.  And if he isn't, he and Dirty Harry are more than welcome to "shut down" the government over an issue on which three quarters of the electorate are passionately against them.

To evoke another Dirty Harry....