"For seven years, the President has gradually expanded his powers through executive overreach,” Palazzo said in a statement. “His actions this week to take away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens is just the latest, if not most egregious, violation of the separation of powers found in the United States Constitution.”
“Congress must go on record to stand up as an equal branch of government — both against this President and any future president who attempts to use his authority to write the law instead of enforce the law.”
When President Bill Clinton found himself embroiled in a sex scandal that almost destroyed his presidency, fellow Democrats drafted resolutions of censure in both chambers. In 2014, John Fund wrote in National Review that Congress “can and should” consider censure resolutions against President Obama for his executive overreach. Concerning impeachment, there’s little to go on with those charges, and it would be viewed as a “personal attack” on the president. Nevertheless, it serves as a “yellow card” for presidents who may have gone too far in their use of executive authority. That goes for both parties.
The Congressional Research Service has identified a number of historical precedents in which the Senate or the House has adopted a resolution of censure or disapproval of a president or other executive or judicial officers. Indeed, in 1998, Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein and 37 co-sponsors introduced a joint resolution in the Senate that enumerated President Clinton’s various misdeeds, and “condemn[ed] his wrongful conduct in the strongest terms.” Likewise, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic members of the House proposed similar resolutions, declaring that President Clinton’s actions “fully deserve the censure and condemnation of the American people and the Congress.”
It is important for our overall political health that we focus our criticism on President Obama’s unconstitutional acts and omissions rather than on the president himself. Lawmakers can word a censure resolution carefully to do this. Impeachment, on the other hand, would inevitably be viewed by many as a personal attack on President Obama.
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A resolution of censure would serve as a warning, a sort of constitutional yellow card, that Congress and the American people will not tolerate abuses of power indefinitely and that presidents who so overreach risk having a permanent blot on their record. President Obama should not be removed from office, but we will need more than mere criticism or even a lawsuit to remind him that his first duty is to uphold the laws, and that he is falling short.
Obama should have been impeached long ago.
ReplyDeleteNow he is intentionally bringing Islamic terrorists into the United States.
I do not say that he wants to bring Islamic terrorists here, although that is a distinct possibility. But legally, when one does an act that he knows is substantially certain to bring about a result, he intends that result, whether it is something he actively desires or not.
And Obama knows, as we all do, that ISIS and other Islamic terrorist organizations will put some terrorists into the Islamic refugee population and they will enter under Obama's auspices. Obama will have more American blood on his hands, as if his Benghazi betrayal and his token opposition to ISIS was not enough.
As long as islam can hide under the protective cover of religious freedom things will only get worse.
But since islam is a subversive political ideology mixed with religion and uses its religious front as a tool to subvert our constitution with sharia law, and to fuse mosque and state, it should not be afforded the protection we would afford a religion that was only a religion.
We need a constitutional amendment that says that Islam is not a religion within the meaning of our constitution and laws and that sharia law will not be recognized or enforced in the U S or any state or territory thereof.
I wrote about just that a few years ago and you can find it in my top header...Islam is NOT a Religion.
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