The
Judiciary does not have a monopoly on defending the Constitution. Every federal
official, including Congressmen, Senators, federal officials and members of the
military, takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United
States. I did twice, once when I joined ROTC as a cadet and again when I was
sworn in as a US Air Force 2nd Lieutenant. So if the president is violating his
oath of office by issuing "executive actions" contrary to
Constitutional processes, Congressmen and Senators have a duty to stop it any
way they can in order to fulfill their oath. Congressional Republicans gave it
a good old college try, then gave up and funded DHS including two
unconstitutional executive programs. In effect, Republicans punted to the
courts.
The
Democrats put party over country and violated their oaths of office in order to
support their president's rule by decree. If this precedent is allowed to
stand, the Constitution is a dead letter. We will have replaced it with an
elective dictatorship, at least until the incumbent dictator decides election
are no longer needed. That’s a very high
stakes bet on what Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts had for lunch.
So
how did we get here? "What we've
got here is a failure to communicate!" The problem is that Republicans
fought this as if the issue was amnesty when the issue really should have been
defending the Constitution. It was worse that the Republicans did not
vigorously complain about all the previous decrees issued by His Highness Barry
the Brilliant, such as postponing the Employer Mandate Tax under Obamacare. We
didn't complain about the executive action implementation of the Dream Act by
decree as an unconstitutional act either. Instead of having a unified message
that the Chicago Machine Prodigy had no respect for the Constitution, we had a
fragmented message that was spread over multiple issues with no unified theme.
Given that the Pravda Press is the Public Relations arm of the DNC, this was
fatal to our cause. We were maneuvered into a position where the vast majority
of voters thinks we want to shut down DHS because we don't like immigrants.
Even conservative pundits barely mention that the Constitutional Lecturer in
Chief has a pattern of taking numerous executive actions contrary to law.
Boehner was forced to surrender, because all the alternatives were worse. He
did push it all the way and made the Democrats vote not to compromise.
What
we should learn from this is that we need a unified message that this
administration from top to bottom has no respect for the Constitution and no
respect for the law. Every spokesman should tie every issue to this theme. The
next time we try to stop His Majesty from issuing another decree, we need to
have laid the ground work so that even the lowest information voter gets it.
For starters, every Republican spokesman should be referring to the SNL skit
about how bills become law. They get it, even if Republican office holders and
spokesmen don’t.
SNL
skit on executive action:
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