When George Washington was asked how he should be addressed,
he had to think about it. The country had just fought a hard and costly war for
freedom from monarchical rule. Washington decided it would not do to have any
trappings of royalty. He said simply refer to the holder of the presidential
office as Mr. President.
Such has been the address of 43 Presidents. Will we now need
to refer to Obama as Your Highness or Excellency? I’m sure he would like that.
Okay, nearly every President has used executive orders and
executive actions. Why is this action by Obama special? Even Obama has on
several occasions stated that he did not have authority to take immigration actions of this nature.
This is not the first time Obama has ignored the law and
acted on his own. This June he traded five high-level terrorists being held in
Guantanamo for an Army deserter being held by the Taliban without the consent
of congress. The law says he has to confer with congress before he can make
such a trade.
Now he has circumvented congress and taken illegal actions
to give illegal aliens immunity from deportation, i.e. amnesty.
He then told Congress they could submit their own bill to
reform immigration. In other words, Obama has flipped the bird to congress and
dared them to do something about it. This, my fellow Americans, is the act of
an emperor. When a tyrant wants to strengthen his position, he dismisses
peoples’ representatives. Caesar did it. Hitler did it, and Stalin did it.
Even if the new Republican controlled congress does manage
to pass an immigration reform bill, without any language giving current illegal
immigrants amnesty and an easy path to citizenship, Obama is certain to veto
it.
Why are Obama and the Democrats so keen on amnesty? Votes!
Sure, we know there are some illegal aliens voting in elections – and
prosecution has been unbelievably lax – but by giving these people amnesty and
a easy path to citizenship the Democrats can instantly get millions of legal votes. This would give the Democrats single party
rule in our country.
So, Obama has given the finger to congress and the incoming
Republicans. According to polls that I have seen, he may even be giving the
finger to the majority of citizens in the country. What can be done about it?
The obvious solution would be to simply impeach this wannabe
emperor. Would there be enough votes in the house and senate to get it done?
Probably. Will they do it? I don’t see any movement in that direction. Even if
the House votes to impeach, getting two-thirds votes for impeachment in the
Senate is a very unlikely possibility. Would it make a difference? Think about
it. The next in line is Joe Biden. Even if he could get his foot out of his
mouth long enough to take the oath of office, there would be little hope the
man with sub-room temperature IQ would ever sign any bills from a Republican controlled
congress.
The ace-in-the hole for congress may be to overrule Obama’s
executive order. Can this be done? It not only can be done, it must be done.
Whether Obama likes it or not, ours is a constitutional republic. Obama needs
to learn that there are three branches of our government. No matter how
narcissistic this man is the people of this country will not stand for imperial
rule.
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