The House
Judiciary Committee held hearings on Barack Obama’s abuse of power this
week, leading to a good deal of dismissive commentary and general neglect from
the media, because apparently it’s not even worth talking about the proper
checks and balances of government power if you’re not ready to impeach the
President as the grand finale. It’s too bad more attention was not paid to the
hearings, because there was much powerful criticism of the imperial presidency,
not all of it from conservative Republicans. Law professor Jonathan Turley of
George Washington University warned that Obama has “become the very danger the
Constitution was designed to avoid.” That’s pretty heavy talk.
The arguments
from Obama defenders were interesting, too, and I say that as a champion of the
Old Republic who has more than a few reservations about where Emperor Palpatine
is taking us, how much this sweet Death Star project is going to cost
taxpayers, and why we’re still putting up with Hutt gangsters running our
desert planets. We heard much discussion of the popular will, and how it
doesn’t make sense to hold elections that just result in gridlock. People want
Washington to Get Things Done, you know! And if that means the President has to
make a few end runs around the tar pits of Congress, and violate the letter of
the Affordable Care Act to protect its spirit, so be it. He’s the most powerful
man in the world, the one and only public official everyone gets to vote
for.......
One
cannot help noticing that the quest to manufacture “unity” and consensus leads
the Ruling Class to tell a lot of
lies....To Read More.....
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