Something interesting recently occurred to me. Barack Obama, the man who would be king, has made a mockery of the U.S. Constitution by whipping out his “executive authority” pen and circumventing Congress whenever he feels that legislative body is not doing his bidding.
Dysfunctional or not, only Congress has the Constitutional authority to raise taxes and appropriate expenditures — not the president, nor his appointed department czars. Only the Senate can ratify treaties, though king Obama sneaks around that clause by saying a treaty isn’t really a treaty. After all, in Obamaland, if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it is a hippopotamus (should king Obama say so).
The list could go on.
When challenged about his abuse of the Constitutional separation of powers, his response was tantamount to the old saying — so sue me.
Democrats should consider this: It is no longer outlandish to think Donald Trump might be the next president. Imagine him inheriting the executive authority bequeathed to the next president by Obama’s precedent. It would be interesting to see how much the left likes executive authority in those circumstances.
Andrew Hall, Lewiston
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