When Rule of Law is Dead - Long Live The King...or something. - Granite Grok

When Rule of Law is Dead – Long Live The King…or something.

Yahoo! news has surprised me almost every day this week by posting stories that present the Democrat signature health care reform (ObamaCare) is an unflattering light.  The most recent visits a point I’ve made as recently as this past week.  If no one knows what the law is or can even predict what it might be there is no law.  And this is not only an imperial presidency it is one Democrats are more than willing to ignore because it is their tyrant who ignores it.

No one can safely plan in this environment. Jay Carney’s declarations have a shelf life of hours, not weeks, but the more lasting damage inheres in the idea that the law can be dictated by the White House. The changes are not matters of implementation but structural elements going to the heart of the law. The administration feels free to issue such changes — though doing so violates (at the very least) the Administrative Procedure Act and arguably the Constitution — because President Barack Obama has successfully flouted the law since 2009.

Bankruptcy law was ignored in the auto bailout. Secured creditors were undermined in favor of unions purely on the president’s say-so. After the Gulf oil spill, the administration, without any authority, summarily ordered BP to set aside $20 billion for restitution. In the pre-Obama world, this would have been the province of the courts. Obama behaved like a dictator, and few protested. He then issued a moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico — again, without authority. The president demonstrated the same contempt for law and procedure when he made flagrantly unlawful recess appointments.

Regarding Obamacare, the administration has issued 1,231 waivers to unions, businesses, trade associations and others. In a display of government by decree, the administration has delayed or altered the law no fewer than 14 times (as of this writing).

So king Barack gets do whatever he likes and no one is going to call him out on it.  Not one Democrat who wailed at the injustice and abuse of the people’s trust over something as ineffectual as a signing statement is going to point out in the name of those same people who elected them that the President has broken the law, dozens of times now.  That he has violated his oath of office.  Broken the bounds of the constitution.  Infringed on peoples liberties or the rights of sovereign states.

That makes them complicit in the crime.

Until such time as we are no longer permitted to vote for our representatives, and don’t laugh because nothing is beyond the hubris of an imperial president, the only punishment we appear to have left is to vote them out of office.

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