President Obama is wiping his feet with the Constitution

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Feb 18, 2014

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We don’t think that Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) is real high on President Obama’s “guys I love” list. We know the President isn’t high on Rice’s list.

Rep. Rice notes a couple of ObamaCare unilateral changes that the President has made, he’s actually made 24 unilateral changes to the Affordable Care Act. Changes to black letter law that any other President would have been required to go back to the Congress and negotiate a change in the law.
Of course Barack Obama isn’t any other President, and he’s made it perfectly clear that he don’t need no stinking Congress.
Rice is also quite right about selective enforcement, or non-enforcement.
While we personally like the idea of a President Walker (for example) taking his pen out and eliminating ObamaCare and the capital gains tax, we fall back on the belief that what is done must be done according to the Constitution.
(That’s why we know that the idiots currently running around insisting that the US military needs to arrest the President for God knows what – they have a list – are not just idiots but complete fools.)
So, that brings us to this: yeah, the President is wiping his feet on the Constitution. So what?
Now we’re not saying that because we don’t care or we think his conduct isn’t wrong or important. We’re saying it because the Congress has been engaging in mental masturbation for the past couple of years. Darrell Issa has been holding all kinds of hearings in the House and he’s been successfully stonewalled on a daily basis. At one point the House issued a subpoena and when the Department of Justice refused to comply they promptly held Eric Holder in contempt. And since then? Yep, crickets.
Apparently the Congress doesn’t have legal standing to sue the President. Even if they did, it would take about two years to get from a district court to SCOTUS and by then it won’t make any difference.
The bottom line here is that the Republican leadership has to get willing to fight to the death. Without that, absolutely nothing gets done.
Now, close your eyes and try and picture John Boehner and Mitch McConnell – and the US Chamber of Commerce for good measure – finding enough spine to stand up to the President.
It’s gonna be a long three years, but if we actually get off the couch and work hard for November, we can at least make the last two years of this President’s the very worst two years of his life.