Obama’s Executive Orders in Defiance of the Constitution

By Clash Daily / 14 January 2013 / 16 Comments
by Andrew Linn
Clash Daily Guest Contributor
In the midst of the gun control debate, as well as the arguments over the national debt, there is the chance Obama might bypass Congress and instead rely on Executive Orders to push forth his agenda.




Joe Biden is recommending that Obama issue gun control regulations via Executive Order. Biden met with pro-gun and anti-gun groups in the past few days in an attempt to work out a solution. While meeting with the pro-gun groups, I wonder if he tried to rely on the same bizarre behavior he used in the Vice Presidential debate with Paul Ryan.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid is recommending the same tactic for the debt ceiling.
Such suggestions demonstrate the Obama Administration’s (and its supporters) disregard for the Constitution.
An Executive Order is an order by the President given to departments and agencies within the Executive Department to carry out laws or policies passed by Congress. However, some Executive Orders have been contrary to Congressional intentions, or the Constitution for that matter. One example would be Clinton issuing Executive Order 12852 in 1993, establishing a Council of Sustainable Development in order to advance Agenda 21.
Now Obama wishes to implement his policies via Executive Order, since gun control legislation is unlikely to pass in Congress, and since there has been practically a standstill over the national debt.
But Obama must think he is the honey badger. One thing is certain, and that is he doesn’t care. He takes what he wants, whether it be people’s guns, money, property, or their rights.
And neither do his supporters. Harry Belafonte wanted him to act like a Third World dictator and put Republicans in jail. Woody Allen wanted Obama to be a dictator in order to get things done.
Apparently Biden and Reid feel the same way.
And to make matters worse, there is a bill in Congress to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment, thus eliminating presidential term limits. Obama would no doubt love that idea, since it would give him a chance to be in the White House indefinitely (if not for life).
I guess since Obama was re-elected, some liberals think conservatives will just cave in to his agenda. But they are quite mistaken. The American people will not surrender their rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution, and that includes the Second Amendment. Americans will not surrender their freedom to Obama, nor to the United Nations.
Andrew Linn is a member of the Owensboro Tea Party and a former Field Representative for the Media Research Center. An ex-Democrat, he became a Republican one week after the 2008 Presidential Election. He has an M.A. in history from the University of Louisville, where he became a member of the Phi Alpha Theta historical honors society. He has also contributed to examiner.com and Right Impulse Media.



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