Midknight Review -- new and revised: Direct from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, we have this report documenting the Obama Administration's refusal to appear before the committee. What we have here, is an Administration that is operating above and beyond the law and there is not one damn thing we can do about it. Pathetic.

Pardon my language, but we have given the Executive Branch entirely too much power. A system that only worked because of tradition and trust, is now being abused, legally, while the other two branches of government [can] do nothing but watch and remember. Understand, that Obama has made a procedural practice of refusing legal subpoena's and ignoring court (even Supreme Court) decisions when those decisions go against its applied domestic policy. Obama has been challenged in the Supreme Court, as an example of his lawlessness, some 27 times and has lost 15 of those decisions, giving him the worst Executive Branch legal record in the history of this nation; proving that he and his have made a habit of violating Constitutional Law.

You might not know this, but Obama or any president, can serve as a dictator, legally, and there is nothing in Federal that will prevent that occurrence or being that conduct to a halt. A president has "executive privilege, preventing questioning of his actions or the actions of anyone he designates as staff. Those 40 plus ""czars" we talked about in the beginning of his rule? Well, all those people and THEIR staff serve under executive privilege. He has a "signing statement" that can be used, when he signs a bill into law, a statement that declares what part of the law he will and will not enforce !! He has made it easier to declare and maintain martial law; he can confiscate state and private property by presidential degree; he can move federal funds around, at will and without reporting or accounting those transactions. We have given that office, again, all the power it needs to accomplish a "hostile take over" and to do so legally . . . . and no one is doing anything about that.

From the committee:

Administration Rebuffs Invite to Testify at Full Committee Hearing On Health Care Law’s Botched Rollout; Leaders Press Sebelius to Reconsider

October 17, 2013

Chairman Upton: “Secretary Sebelius had time for Jon Stewart, and we expect her to have time for Congress.”

WASHINGTON, DC – The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a full committee hearing – PPACA Implementation Failures: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? – to examine the health care law’s troubled rollout on Thursday, October 24 in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Thus far, the administration has rejected the committee’s invitation to participate and publicly answer questions. Committee leaders sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting the administration reconsider its participation. The letter was signed by Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX), Full Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Vice Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX).

The administration and the companies involved with implementation repeatedly assured the committee that everything was “on track” for October 1; however, the first two and a half weeks of open enrollment have been defined by significant “glitches” that have prevented Americans from being able to even use the system.

"It's well past time for the administration to be straight and transparent with the American people. Top administration officials repeatedly testified everything was on track, but the broad technological failures reveal that was not the case,” said Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). "Either the administration was not ready for launch, or it was not up to the job. The president and top officials were quick to boast the number of visitors to HealthCare.gov, but they have since gone silent, refusing to disclose even basic enrollment figures. The rollout has been a complete mess, beyond the worst case scenario, and yet those administration officials responsible have indicated they will not be available to testify next week. This is wholly unacceptable. Secretary Sebelius had time for Jon Stewart, and we expect her to have time for Congress."

Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have sent letters to the administration as well as lead IT contractors regarding the “glitches” and failures that have plagued the roll

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."