The Imperial Presidency - The Firearms Forum

armedandsafe · 10-31-2012, 07:13 PM

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/24/...dency-part-ii/

Quote:

Sometimes the law just gets in the way.

The Obama Administration hasn’t needed Congress to enact new regulations on the Internet, businesses, energy production, and religious institutions. It has used its power to give struggling labor unions a new edge. It has granted amnesty to illegal immigrants.

This blatant disregard for the law—and unilateral creation of new laws—is documented in a detailed new report from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). Based on investigations in committees of the House of Representatives, the report lays out more than 40 examples of the Administration’s going around Congress to make its own “laws,” ignoring existing laws, circumventing the regulatory process, making its own “law” by waiving existing laws, creating “super agencies,” and setting up federal programs that were not authorized by Congress.

Read the rest. It is worth the time. The clicks are available there, also.

Pops

GunnyGene · 10-31-2012, 07:46 PM

Reading some of the comments at heritage.org, a lot of the posters seemed to be lamenting their (our) lack of any ability to rectify the situation. I wonder how many of them have read the Declaration of Independence?

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

zkovach · 10-31-2012, 08:50 PM

Imperialist no way!! Its a dictatorship! No media coverage is why it exists

10-31-2012, 07:46 PM	#2
GunnyGene Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,962	Re: The Imperial Presidency Reading some of the comments at heritage.org, a lot of the posters seemed to be lamenting their (our) lack of any ability to rectify the situation. I wonder how many of them have read the Declaration of Independence? "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Last edited by GunnyGene; 10-31-2012 at 07:48 PM..

10-31-2012, 08:50 PM	#3
zkovach Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,005	Re: The Imperial Presidency Imperialist no way!! Its a dictatorship! No media coverage is why it exists __________________ Liberalism: Poverty for ALL!!