Unconstitutional Acts: This president continues to pile up extralegal ambitions, his latest being an attempt to skirt the Senate and commit the U.S. to a de facto global warming treaty. Would Robert Byrd have stood for that? We had our troubles with the late Democratic senator from West Virginia. The longest-serving member of Congress in history was not the taxpayers friend. But Byrd did zealously guard Congress constitutional role. He believed in the separation of powers and the checks and balances the founders created among the three branches of government. We cant say the same for the current Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada. Nearly six years into the Obama presidency hes done nothing to stop the president from, in the words of radio talk show host and constitutional lawyer Mark Levin, conducting himself in defiance of our system, in defiance of our Constitution. What Obama cant get through law, he tries to get through executive order. Since assuming office in January 2009, the president, who has threatened that he has a phone and a pen he can use to make law, has racked up an impressive list of executive moves that ignored constitutional restraints. Read what they are here....
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:37:14 +0000
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