Stephanie
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Seems a dictator is what the people want in this country. Or else they wouldn't have voted the thug in for second term and they would have been on the line with their Congresscritters threatening to vote them out of office FOR not doing what they Swore an OATH to do for us American citizens.
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Obama’s Chief Of Staff Admits They Want Tyranny
Denis McDonough says Obama’s administration doesn’t want his executive orders subject to anything so piddly and irritating as Congress.
January 26, 2016 By Derek Monson
The White House recently made an amazing—and disturbingly un-American—pronouncement regarding its desire to move its agenda via executive actions. In describing the administration’s intent to pursue “audacious” executive orders, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough stated the Obama administration’s desire that its actions “not be subjected to undoing through [Congress] or otherwise.”
Of course, Americans are accustomed to presidents using executive authority to forward their preferred public policies, especially when the popular will reflected in Congress stymies their agenda. But think carefully about the end goal animating the Obama administration’s upcoming actions, as articulated by McDonough: policy decisions that cannot be undone by Congress “or otherwise,” which seems broad enough a term to encompass the judiciary or any other source of government authority.
Unchecked Power Degrades Into Tyranny
The Founders had a term for the idea of government actions being “subject to undoing” by other public institutions. As noted and explained in Federalist 51, they were called “checks and balances.” James Madison summarized the wisdom and need for these checks: “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
all of the article here:
Obama’s Chief Of Staff Admits They Want Tyranny
snip:
Obama’s Chief Of Staff Admits They Want Tyranny
Denis McDonough says Obama’s administration doesn’t want his executive orders subject to anything so piddly and irritating as Congress.
January 26, 2016 By Derek Monson
The White House recently made an amazing—and disturbingly un-American—pronouncement regarding its desire to move its agenda via executive actions. In describing the administration’s intent to pursue “audacious” executive orders, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough stated the Obama administration’s desire that its actions “not be subjected to undoing through [Congress] or otherwise.”
Of course, Americans are accustomed to presidents using executive authority to forward their preferred public policies, especially when the popular will reflected in Congress stymies their agenda. But think carefully about the end goal animating the Obama administration’s upcoming actions, as articulated by McDonough: policy decisions that cannot be undone by Congress “or otherwise,” which seems broad enough a term to encompass the judiciary or any other source of government authority.
Unchecked Power Degrades Into Tyranny
The Founders had a term for the idea of government actions being “subject to undoing” by other public institutions. As noted and explained in Federalist 51, they were called “checks and balances.” James Madison summarized the wisdom and need for these checks: “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
all of the article here:
Obama’s Chief Of Staff Admits They Want Tyranny