Happy Constitution Day, while we have one

While we still have one, we should celebrate Constitution Day today.  Sadly, today we have The Empty Suit trampling our nation’s most sacred document.  Using his pen and phone TES has rendered the checks and balances found within the constitution moot.  His go to line on a whole host of issues these days is, “If congress won’t act, I will.”

Hmm, I don’t see where in Article II it says that the executive can act unilaterally if the legislative branch fails to act the way the executive branch wants it to act.  I think that’s where the whole “checks and balances” thing comes into play.  The executive can check the legislative branch with a veto and the legislative branch can check the executive with impeachment and the power of the purse.

Two presidents have been impeached, Andrew Johnson and rapist reprobate Billbo Billy Boy Clinton.  Neither was convicted by the senate.  Every time congress tries to assert itself through the power of the purse the government shut down.  That’s a good thing I my opinion, but it’s a dysfunctional way to govern.

So while the executive has a very reasonable way to check to legislative branch, the legislative branch has only the most draconian means to check the executive.  Essentially it has to use a sledgehammer to kill a fly and in the process destroy or damage everything in the fly’s path.  If you couple that with the fact that the legislative branch is comprised by almost 100% by life-time ruling class nit-wits with more in common with the Caligula D.C. ruling class than working Americans, you will arrive at the conclusion that there is no check on the executive branch.

Rush Limbaugh once noted that, because of the lack of a workable check on the executive branch, presidents have been on the honor system to act within the confines of the constitution.  That arrangement worked well until TES.  For the honor system to work the president must have honor. 

Whoa, there Lex you cannot say TES lacks honor.  That’s over the line.  Really?  If you swear an oath to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States and then proceed to ignore and undermine it, is that not a dishonorable act?  It’s not even debatable that TES has trashed the constitution.  Here’s the short list:

Unconfirmed unaccountable Tsars

Siccing the IRS on political enemies

Unilaterally enacting a DREAM act that failed in congress

Myriad unauthorized changes to TEScare

Waiving the work requirement for welfare

Selective enforcement of laws passed by congress and signed into law by the president (DOMA, drug laws, and others)

Recess appointments to NLRB

Ignoring at best and bastardizing at worst the 1^st, 2^nd, 4^th and 10^th Amendments

No.  Sorry, it’s not close.  TES views the constitution as an impediment to his own power that must be overcome and/or ignored rather than a construct within which to exercise his lawful powers.  He has no honor.

Try this piece on how to restrain an elected monarch.