Or, put another way, according to the number 3 Democrat, the President has the Constitutional right to rule as a dictator, and the Constitution essentially provides for a complete rejection of the notion of separation of powers the framers put in place to prevent a dictatorial centralized authority of the kind they’d just fought a revolution to free themselves of.
— Which, that sounds about right. Just so long as chief executives don’t start acting like imperial presidents. Like that evil Chimpy McHitlerburton did. When he, you know, did all that stuff that was, like, imperial and all.
Racists.
When in the course of human events…
Remember that I said “by 2025”, and start stocking ammo.
Racists.
MSNBC Host: 9/11 Gave America ‘PTSD’, ‘Muslim Terrorists’ Were An ‘Imagined Racial Enemy’ for White America
So, the Holder/Issa meeting was not productive and the contempt vote goes forward tomorrow.
That Jack Goldsmith book is coming? Right? Or if he won’t be writing anew on the subject, surely he’ll be speaking out in public? Right? I mean, from Goldsmith’s thesis against Bush (even against the better established Presidential commander-in-chief powers, no less), this usurpation of legislative authority is clearly a big deal. Right?
I’m issuing my contempt vote for the vast majority of the left, and the entirety of the current administration, right now.
I predicted this turn of events *removes Karnack hat*
So, after Ricky is held in contempt, then what? Janet Reno was held in contempt and still worked two full terms.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/burton080798.htm
Try this.
I swear I think I just heard Obama proclaim that our political differences stop at the water’s edge. This, he’s saying about criticism of him, spoken by someone who’s at home! It’s Obama that’s abroad bad-mouthing the United States. What a putz.
Yup. Whatta putz.
Did you hear him say “blah blah underlying strength of Europe’s economies blah blah” The man is clueless.
TV has made many voters conclude that intelligence is indicated a tone of voice and cadence that they like. And big words. They don’t even have to be the right words. Just big. Obama could give a speech and say that economic amniocentesis and inverted formative streptococcus micro parallax chart shifts prove that the private sector is doing fine and Chris Matthew sure isn’t going to call him on it.
Cool. I can’t wait for President Romney to sign an executive order exercising prosecutorial discretion not to enforce laws regulating the importation of automatic weapons. And, as the Justice Department tells us, because the Federal government has chosen not to enforce its own laws, the states have no business fucking around with my shipment of H&K MP5s.
Democrats ought to find this level of shamelessness shameful. That they don’t is embarrassing.
Yeah. I thought they were bad during Clinton’s impeachment. I lost all faith in government (not too far a leap) when all the wimmins in his cainet trooped out and announced, one at a time, “I believe him!” when he said “I never lied. Not one time.”
cabinet, that is
This cocksucker Obama and his Democrat pals gave George Bush’s war policy just such precious deference while men were in the field fighting and dying, didn’t they? Oh, wait, no, they didn’t.
Too. Dishonest. For. Civil. Society.
sdferr, these people lie like they breathe.
I think Hoyer must have studied Con Law at the University of Chicago.
Memory lane: Meeting Assad, Pelosi calls visit to Syria the ‘road to peace’
Oh. Well. As much as I don’t like this, Hoyer may have a certain point. Obama could have preemptively pardoned some illegals, then used his powers as president to grant them work visas. Bingo.
But he didn’t do that, as far as I can tell.
In fact, he hasn’t yet written executive orders to do anything of the kind.
Just so everyone has a quick reference of XOs.
OT, save for the House connection: C-Span 3 will be covering the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting to vote on a contempt of Congress citation for Eric Holder, live at 10:00 am eastern.
Andrew McCarthy:
For too long?
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‘Scuse me y’all, the Secret Service is at my door.