The President Who Would be king

[Author's note:  This is the testimony that will hopefully prompt Congress to reassert its authority, it will motivate and justify the anti-Obama actions taken by a growing number of military leaders, and it puts you and me on solid ground in defense and support of the Constitution.  In short, the battle lines for the Republic are being drawn.  The battle itself is not far off.

Professor Turley is refreshingly candid and admits his support for Obama.  Constitutionally, however, he aims sharp criticism at our “little king george”, our failed, delusional and self-absorbed president.]

RE:  https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SNCA_enUS565&q=professor+turley's+testimony+before+house+judiciary

Some excerpts from the attached document (bold added for my emphasis):

 

"The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws"

 

Committee on the Judiciary

United States House of Representatives

2141 Rayburn House Office Building

December 3, 2013

Jonathan Turley,

Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law

George Washington University

2000 H St., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20052

The issue before the Committee is clearly a difficult one. It is often difficult to separate the merits of the underlying policies from the means used to achieve them. It so happens that I agree with many of the goals of the Administration in the various areas where the President has circumvented Congress. However, in the Madisonian system, it is often more important how you do things than what you do. We have long benefited from a system designed to channel and transform factional interests in the political system.

When any branch encroaches upon the authority of another, it not only introduces instability into the system but leaves political issues raw and unresolved. However, to paraphrase one of Benjamin Franklin’s favorite sayings, the Constitution helps those branches that help themselves. Each branch is given the tools to defend itself and the Framers assumed that they would have the ambition and institutional self-interest to use them. That assumption is now being put to the test as many members remain silent in the face of open executive encroachment by the Executive Branch.

 

While I believe that the White House has clearly “exceeded its brief” in these areas, this question of presidential non-enforcement has arisen periodically in our history. In the current controversy, the White House has suggested an array of arguments, citing the interpretation of statutory text, agency discretion, or other rationales to mask what is clearly a circumvention of Congress. It also appears to be relying on the expectation that no one will be able to secure standing to challenge such decisions in court.

There is ample room given to a president in setting priorities in the enforcement of laws. A president is not required to enforce all laws equally or dedicate the same resources to every federal program. Even with this ample allowance, however, I believe that President Barack Obama has crossed the constitutional line between discretionary enforcement and defiance of federal law.

When a president claims the inherent power of both legislation and enforcement, he becomes a virtual government unto himself. He is not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system; he becomes the very danger that the Constitution was designed to avoid.

 

The actions of the Obama Administration challenge core principles of the separation of powers and lack meaningful limiting principles for future executive orders.

 

Clearly, these are times of bitter and intractable divisions between the parties. It is not the first time such divisions have emerged in Congress. However, Madison and others believed that petty partisanship would ultimately yield to common institutional interests when faced with the “danger of attack.” After all, members have a common article of faith. It is Article I of the Constitution and the words “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.”

He like other foreign dictators, tyrants, monarchs and globalists are so absorbed in their own sense of grandeur that they overlook the sleeping giant.  The axis powers learned their lesson the hard way in WWII and the fascist globalists are close to learning their lesson.  We the People and the Constitution of the United States of America will prevail and we will plant our flag into your despotic political corpse.


Obama's push for a third term?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAyfJZTd3bs



Strength and Honor.

Hugh