Take for example, his recent "recess' appointments to the NLRB. He gave the names of his nominees to the Senate just four days ago, waited for two whole days, apparently ran out of patience for heavens sake, and committed to another imitation of a South American dictator. This, in and of itself, proves that all this "processing" has nothing to do with a stubborn Congress and everything to do with giving him one more thing to brag about. He has completely given up on the Constitutionally prescribed procedure for getting things done, and has decided that the legal but unConstitutional process is his point of action. He is no longer my president. He didn't want me for a constituent, anyway. I'm a middle class white working type.
Here, in part, is what Machelle Malkin has to say about it:
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: "So let it be written, so let it be done!" Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments," the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions with an imperious wave of his hand. His entourage of insatiable usurpers never rests.
Can't delude legislators into adopting a $1.5 billion Kabuki summer-jobs makework boondoggle? Create an unfunded program through executive fiat.
Can't muster up a filibuster-proof majority for radical nominees? Czar-ify 'em.
Can't get Congress to approve vast wild lands designations? Grab them under cover of a holiday lame-duck session.
Can't get the illegal alien bailout DREAM Act passed on Capitol Hill? Executive-order it.
"So let it be written, so let it be done!"
In keeping with the dark and defiant habits of this administration, the new head of the half-billion-dollar Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was sworn in behind closed doors on Wednesday night. The nomination of former Democratic Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to serve as Dodd-Frank regulatory enforcer had been soundly defeated in the Senate before Christmas. But as I reported last month, progressive zealots funded by billionaire George Soros goaded Obama to ignore the Senate's constitutionally grounded advice and consent role.
At his left flank's urging, Obama vowed to follow in President Theodore Roosevelt's footsteps (TR recess-appointed 160 officials during a recess of less than one day) and install Cordray even though the Senate technically remained in pro forma session. Fresh from his Hawaii vacation, Obama returned to Washington and for once delivered on a promise. . . . . . continue reading here.
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