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Peter1469
11-23-2014, 06:10 AM
School House Rock. And Obama (http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/23/snl-mocks-obamas-executive-orders-in-hil)

SNL gets the current state of our government correct.

Video inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0

Peter1469
11-23-2014, 08:35 AM
Even the Telegraph gets it. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/11247888/Obama-plays-dirty-politics-with-the-Constitution.html)


The Founders, in their wisdom, pit ambition against ambition. This adversarial relationship was by design, intended to be a check on power. Even unpopular features of our democratic process – like gridlock – can be seen as a feature, not a bug. Roles and responsibilities were simplistically defined thusly: Congress passes the laws, the judicial branch interprets those laws, and the executive branch (the president) enforces those laws. Less simplistic, but still understandable, is that in enforcing those laws, the president has some leeway – some discretion, if you will.

But any schoolboy watching President Obama’s speech on Thursday night – where he laid out his plan to act unilaterally on immigration (without Congress) -- might rightly be confused. For it seems that the president has crossed that fine line between enforcing the law (his proper role) and simply rewriting laws that do not suit him. And in so doing, he has directly contradicted at least 22 of his own past statements, including very specific quotes like: “I’m president, I’m not king. I can’t do these things just by myself’” and “I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.”

Polecat
11-23-2014, 02:05 PM
The world is too distracted to notice the approaching storm.

Peter1469
11-24-2014, 10:09 PM
It is a funny video.

texan
11-25-2014, 11:49 AM
Should be combined...........................LMAO!

Cigar
11-25-2014, 11:51 AM
Twice as Funny