After seeing this blog post on the Weekly Standard's website this afternoon it took all the strength I could muster to not scream and hit the wall of my dorm room. The videos the blog post contains are from President Obama's most recent Google hangout in which he addressed a question about how his administration has deported a record number of illegal aliens. His response to the question, as you will be able to see, was that his problem is that he's "not the emperor of the United States".
Obama said he has to "execute the laws that are passed" and used that as an excuse for why he has to keep deporting illegal aliens. Reading between the lines, not only does that mean Obama wishes to totally disregard Congress and the Constitution, but he seems to think illegal immigration is totally okay.
Mr. President, the problem is not that you aren't emperor of the United States. The problem is that you think you ARE the emperor of the United States. Ever since you took office way back in 2009, you've been deciding which laws you felt were worth enforcing and which laws you just wanted to ignore or completely circumvent.
The Obama administration is now completely ignoring the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Both Obama and Eric Holder now believe the law, specifically section 3, is "unconstitutional" and therefore have refused to stop defending it in legal cases. Not only that, but the Department of Justice is now backing legal challenges in court to attack DOMA. According to a nonpartisan panel interviewed by World Net Daily, this is a constitutional violation.
The signing of an executive order to grant amnesty to "accidental undocumented immigrants" was another gross misuse of executive power. Obama completely ignored existing immigration law to do what he did for those illegal aliens. Yeah, that's totally executing "the laws that are passed". The WND panel referenced earlier labeled this decision, the actions taken on recess appointments (Which the administration is STILL fighting for despite the courts ruling CORRECTLY that they were illegal) and the use of executive privilege in Fast and Furious "dubious actions".
The Obama administration has misused the court system and used intimidation and other threats on big issues as well, notably the Arizona immigration law. The administration has the right to sue a state, but when it loses in court it needs to respect the decision of the court instead of making threats and taking away resources, as was the case with Arizona when the Supreme Court upheld the key provision of S.B. 1070. The administration moved to punish Arizona by telling Arizona that any calls asking for federal agents to help pursue illegals would go unanswered.
And let's not forget the drone "hit list" for U.S. citizens and Obama's illegal war in Libya, both of which WND's panel classified as "impeachable high crimes". Both of these only further signal that Obama doesn't care about that Constitution and will do whatever the hell he wants to do if he can get away with it.
BUT, when something happens that prevents Obama from getting what he wants, then all the sudden he cares about rather or not an action is permissible under the Constitution. After Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense yesterday was postponed (not defeated, just postponed) by Senate Republicans, Obama was out there whining about how "there's nothing in the Constitution that says somebody should get 60 votes."
Well, Mr. President, if you would actually open those giant ears of yours and listen, then you would have realized the Senate wasn't taking an actual vote on Mr. Hagel's nomination. All that happened was a vote to postpone the nomination until after the upcoming recess. And that action by Senate Republicans is entirely legal. Yet, because it doesn't benefit Emperor Obama, he whines and says it's unconstitutional. Funny how that works out.
Jimmy Williams
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