In a press conference today Obama basically stated that his taking actions as a dictator is democratic:
President Obama threatened to write his own laws through executive orders while claiming “that’s how democracy works.”Responding to the Republican takeover of Congress yesterday, Obama said he will use executive orders if Congress doesn’t pass bills he wants to sign into law.
“I’m pretty sure I’ll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,” he said. “That’s natural.”
“That’s how our democracy works.”
Obama singled out amnesty for illegals in particular, stating that if Congress passes an immigration bill which allows millions of illegal aliens to stay in the U.S., his executive actions will disappear.
“You send me a bill that I can sign, and those executive actions go away,” he said.
Obama is equating dictatorship with democracy.
“The president’s taste for unilateral action to circumvent Congress should concern every citizen, regardless of party or ideology,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) wrote in an op/ed in January. “The great 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed: ‘There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates.’”
“America’s Founding Fathers took this warning to heart, and we should too.”
The father of the Constitution, James Madison, spoke about the dangers of an executive holding legislative power in the Federalist Papers No. 47.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” he wrote.
Even if Obama wasn’t equating a dictatorship with democracy, he still believes that the U.S. was founded as a democracy, which is false; it was founded as a republic.
“Democracy is the ‘direct’ rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success,” states a U.S. Army training manual from 1928. “Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government.”
“They made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic.”
In other words, the Founding Fathers feared a democracy in which the birth rights of the minority could be voted away by the majority, so they founded a republic meant to protect the rights of all.
But Obama has surpassed their greatest fears by turning the presidency into an autocracy which can whittle away the republic – and the birth rights of all – through executive orders.
Will we EVER be rid of this scourge??
WRONGO,Pres.
It’s how HE works!
Calling your bluff Mr president, don’t push your luck .
Liar
NO. IT. IS. NOT.
B.S. Mister!! You are sorely mistaken!!!!!
The Founders counted on the US Constitution to “restrain” Governmental powers, but that is harder since the advent of the American Progressive in the 20th century.
Progressives and the Politically Correct are not without some education, but it’s the perspective that “I have a degree and now know BETTER than you” – it’s an arrogance, there is no humbleness that in acquiring more education, they now realize just how IGNORANT they are, and so there is no humility, no Socratic moment of realizing that for all your wisdom and what you know your IGNORANCE is vastly greater.
No, in their minds they have ARRIVED! Whereas for Christians following in the steps of Christ, we know we NEVER arrive in this lifetime, that we are always growing and learning in our relationship with our omniscient and infinite God.
Progressives have to blaspheme our History of Religion in this country and make it a boogie man and try to convince you that thousands of Christian Denominations who cannot agree upon mutual “Articles of Faith” let alone a single dominating Hermeneutic of the Bible, can somehow form a majority to form a Christian Theocracy to overthrow the Republic. It’s the RED HERRING the Progressives throw out in the Media EVERY ELECTION CYCLE.
Meanwhile, Progressives don’t mind dumbing down the education to the point where the majority of Americans don’t even realize it was the National Sunday School Movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that founded the public education system that the Federal Government then stepped in and took over -https://www.facebook.com/notes/george-walter-bratcher-iii/why-progressives-fear-religion-in-america-/10150563200101373- in fact they’ll threaten you with expulsion in many Progressive Districts if a student even dares to put God into a diagram or essay for their class.
Also, they don’t want you looking behind the curtain to see that Progressives think we need to progress past the US Constitution because it’s too old, tend to like to call it a “living, breathing document” so they can get past what is not lawful in it, in Universities they don’t have law students study the US Constitution, instead they have them study “case law” which many times violates the US Constitution (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6EB4D72C22473EE), and always call our Government a “Democracy” instead of “a Republic” because they know the founding Father’s despised”Democracies.”
The Progressive movement of the early 20th century culminated in Progressive plans like those hatched by Cloward and Piven in the 1960’s to infiltrate the Government system(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=595917153799253) and destroy the Republic from within by overburdening it with debt and deficit spending until the Government programs cause the Capitalist system to collapse in on itself so they can PROGRESS PAST the Republic – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dnLgTo6MU&list=PLB73F1A002438E057 – and on to better things!
Basically if the Tea Party doesn’t wake up the general populous, and take power away from the 50% of the 1% in DC in the next 5 to 10 years (http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/32757-boomtown-fox-news-exposes-corporate-cronyism-in-big-government/), we are going to see the downfall of our Republic same as happened to the Romans, and we are already more than half way there.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/george-walter-bratcher-iii/christians-have-not-arrived-but-progressives-assume-they-have-/10152092993271373
Impeach him.
We are a Republic forwhich within are inlaid democratic principles which do not bespeake this tyrany!