This past weekend I was able to drive to Arizona with my
wife, daughter, and granddaughter to visit with my 82-year-old father for the
first time since my mother had passed away. It was a wonderful visit, my Dad
got to see his great granddaughter for the first, and what will most likely be
the only time. It’s strange, but I think that both of us knew deep down inside
that this would be the last time we would see each other. At least see each
other with both of us alive. I never thought that I would see or even
contemplate the fact that the one constant in my life would one day no longer
be there for me to talk to or even have him yelling at me for some bone headed
thing I might have or would possibly do in my life. Yet here it is, staring me in
the face. Someday soon, my father will one day not be there and I will have to
depend upon the lessons that he tried to teach me to carry me through to the
end of my own time.
As you can see, I love my Dad. I know that it’s kind of cliché’
and corny to admit it in public, but it is never the less true. Most
importantly, despite the mistakes that he made in his life, I am proud of him.
I am proud of his genius with electronics and the contributions he’s made to
the world, which believe it or not are many, and I am especial proud of his
accomplishments in his political life, as the Representative for District 9, in
the State of Arizona.
Many years ago, a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star asked
me what I thought of my father being re-elected to the state legislature. I
described him as being at that time, the Republicans Republican. I don’t know
that that description would hold true now. As we visited, we talked politics,
as we usually do. As we talked, he asked me; what do you think of the
Republican Party? Knowing my Dad, I knew that he had a reason for asking me
that question. I also knew that in a way it was a loaded question. Nevertheless,
being fearless and knowing that he would detect a lie faster than a dog goes
for raw meat I replied; I think the Republican Party has failed. I think that
they no longer represent the ideas and issues that are important to the
American people. Surprisingly, he looked at me and smiled and said that he
agreed.
He went on to say that in light of Obama’s past actions and
what he has currently been doing he felt that Obama would attempt a coup of
sorts and try to become the Dictator of America. Strong statement from a man
who four years previously said that he believed that Obama might do some good
for this country. Although he would say it, I think that’s the closest I have
ever seen him come to admitting he was wrong. Yet, at the same time, his
statement about Obama attempting to become the Dictator of America was
frightening. He’s very rarely wrong about these things, and would have said it
if he didn’t feel that it could be true.
Some of you would say; well, he’s just an old man, and doesn’t
understand the way things are now days. You’d be wrong. They say that with age
comes wisdom, most certainly experience if not wisdom, and Dad has a lot of
both.
Let’s take a look at some of
the top ten Constitutional Violations that Obama has committed since he’s
been in office, then you decide for yourself;
1. The individual mandate
No list of President Obama’s constitutional violations would
be complete without including the requirement that every American purchase
health insurance, on penalty of civil fine. The individual mandate is
unprecedented and exceeds Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. If
it is allowed to stand, Congress will be able to impose any kind of economic
mandate as part of any kind of national regulatory scheme. Fortunately, the
Supreme Court has a chance to strike this down during its current term.
2. Medicaid coercion
The Court will also be taking up Obamacare’s massive
intrusion on federal-state relations in the form of a coercive Medicaid
expansion. The law compels states to drastically increase their Medicaid
expenditures and reorganize their health care bureaucracies, on penalty of
losing all (not just additional) Medicaid funds. No state contemplated such a
program when it signed onto Medicaid — Arizona was the last to join, in 1982 —
and now no state can afford to withdraw. Indeed, even if some withdrawal
mechanism existed, withdrawn states’ taxpayers would still be funding complying
states’ Medicaid programs. As the Supreme Court held in South Dakota v. Dole,
there comes a point when “the financial inducement offered by Congress might be
so coercive as to pass the point at which pressure turns into compulsion.”
3. The Independent Payment Advisory Board (a.k.a. “The Death
Panel”)
IPAB is the group of 15 presidential appointees who,
beginning in 2014, are tasked with reducing Medicare spending. Any decisions
IPAB makes automatically become law that can only be overridden by a
three-fifths majority vote in the Senate. Unlike other federal agencies, IPAB
is subject to no external review — no public notification in advance of
proposed rules or opportunity for comment, no administrative guidelines and no
judicial review. Medicare comprises about 13 percent of the federal budget, so
that’s an awesome amount of power for Congress to delegate to unelected executive-branch
bureaucrats. Indeed, it’s so basic a violation of traditional separation of
powers that there’s no historical analog. The Goldwater Institute has filed a
strong lawsuit challenging this (yet another) unprecedented aspect of
Obamacare, which will continue wending its way through the lower courts
regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate and
Medicaid-coercion issues.
4. The Chrysler bailout
Building on the Bush administration’s illegal use of TARP
funds to bail out the auto industry, the Obama administration bullied
Chrysler’s secured creditors — who were entitled to “absolute priority” — into
accepting 30 cents on the dollar, while junior creditors such as labor unions
received much more. This subversion of creditor rights violates not just
bankruptcy law but also the Constitution’s Takings and Due Process Clauses.
This blatant crony capitalism — government-directed industrial policy to help
political insiders — discourages investors and generally undermines confidence
in American rule of law.
5. Dodd-Frank
Intended to remedy weaknesses in the U.S. financial system —
ensuring transparency and accountability — the Dodd-Frank financial “reform”
empowered unlimited, unreviewable and often secret bureaucratic discretion. The
administrative bodies the legislation created face no constraints on the
exercise of arbitrary authority. For example, the Treasury Department now has
broad and essentially unchecked power to seize banks and other financial
entities that it determines are unsound but “too big to fail.” The new Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau and Financial Stability Oversight Council,
meanwhile, craft, execute and interpret their own law. Due process and
separation of powers issues abound.
6. The deep-water drilling ban
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Interior
Department issued a blanket six-month moratorium on new oil and gas drilling in
the Gulf of Mexico. A federal judge struck down that moratorium as arbitrary
and capricious, but the government issued a new order to replace the one that
was struck down. That order was subsequently withdrawn, but the judge was so
shocked by the administration’s conduct that he found the government in civil
contempt of court.
7. Political-speech disclosure for federal contractors
In April of this year, President Obama released a draft
executive order (still pending) that would require businesses with federal
contracts to disclose independent expenditures on federal elections (political
speech independent of candidates and parties). This order is intended to
undermine the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision — allowing independent
expenditures by corporations, unions and other associations — by discouraging
federal contractors and their executives from engaging in political speech.
Citizens United held that such expenditures do not enable the kind of quid pro
quo corruption that campaign finance laws are allowed to regulate, so this
draft executive order shows contempt for the First Amendment by chilling
protected speech.
8. Taxing political contributions
Earlier this year, the IRS tried to muzzle political speech
by asserting that donations to certain nonprofit advocacy groups (so-called
501(c)(4) organizations) would be subject to the gift tax. Historically, the
IRS has not applied the gift tax in this way — donations to advocacy groups are
not likely to be used to circumvent the estate tax — and when the IRS
previously tried to tax political donations, it was rebuffed by the courts on
the grounds that such transfers are not gifts (i.e., the donor is getting
something in return). The IRS has since backed down, but the suspicion remains
that it was trying to chill the political speech of those opposed to President
Obama’s policies, in violation of the First Amendment.
9. Graphic tobacco warnings
Late last year, the FDA issued regulations requiring
cigarette manufacturers to display graphic warnings on all packs of cigarettes
that must cover at least 50% of the packaging and graphically portray
tobacco-related illnesses. These warnings violate the First Amendment because
the government is compelling the cigarette manufacturers to discourage their
customers from buying their lawful products. Last month, a federal judge
blocked the new regulation, which was due to go into effect in January, but the
administration is appealing.
10. Health care waivers
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted
nearly 2,000 waivers to employers seeking relief from Obamacare’s onerous
regulations. Nearly 20 percent of these waivers went to gourmet restaurants and
other businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Nevada, home to
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, got a blanket waiver, while
Republican-controlled states like Indiana and Louisiana were denied. Even
beyond the unseemly political favoritism, such arbitrary dispensations violate
a host of constitutional and administrative law provisions ranging from equal
protection to the “intelligible principle” required for congressional
delegation of authority to cabinet agencies. Unlike 17th-century English
monarchs, American presidents were not granted dispensing powers: As we’ve
seen, the power to suspend a legal requirement can and will be used to
arbitrarily favor the politically connected. Moreover, most of these waivers
were never authorized by Congress in the first place!
What is most frightening is that these are just ten of what
already amounts to hundreds of violations to our Constitution. Both he and that
cow he’s married too are already on the public record stating that the
Constitution is an inconvenience to what needs to be done to America. What
needs to be done to America?
Here is a man that has driven this country into a financial
crisis of mega proportions, yet he refuses to acknowledge that fact, blaming
every one of his predecessors for the problems he has caused.
Is the old man wrong about Obama? Will Obama try and become
the Dictator of America? Already there are rumors all across the country saying
that his supporters are going to try for a repeal of the 22nd
Amendment that would allow him to run for a third term. Rumors that seem to be substantiated
are growing in intensity that Obama is asking members of the American military
if they would fire upon American citizens if ordered to. If they say, no they
wouldn’t then they are immediately dismissed from military service.
I guess that sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness,
trying to convince Americans that we are in dangerous and threatening times.
The next question is this; what will you do if the old man is right? Will you
stand up and fight, or will you allow it to happen? Will you fight to take back
America and everything that it stands for, or will you just sit there and say, “there’s
nothing that I can do about it?”
Whether or not you realize it, we are indeed becoming a
third world nation, and my statements concerning Obama acting like an African
Dictator are more true now than ever before. Think about it when you get to be
82 and they are about to slip a needle into your arm because they can no longer
afford you and you are no longer productive to the state.
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