March 4, 2011 08:56 by
KRM
King Obama or Justice Obama?I’m probably a little late to this, but after finally reading Eric Holder’s statement, regarding the Obama administration’s decision to cease defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, I decided to weigh in. I initially thought the calls from the right for impeachment were a bit over-reaching. But after reading Holder’s statement, I’m not so sure. With the arrogance being demonstrated by this administration, it’s hard to tell if Obama fancies himself King or The Chief Justice. One thing is for sure, no matter how you dissect the issue, Obama is a flat-out liar.
Consider Holder’s statement:
After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny. The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President’s determination.
These aren’t just the off-the-cuff pronouncements of some lone operative in the Justice Department.
This is the Attorney General of the United States, on record, relaying the guidance from the White House not to faithfully defend the laws of this country. Especially consider this – “and is therefore
unconstitutional”, in light of these two statements from the Constitution of the United States:
Article 1, Section - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Article 2, Section 1 - The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
Article 3, Section 1 – The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Anyone who has been through the public schools in the last 50 years (I’m not sure about the last 20), understands that our Founders created a system of checks and balances. Executive power is not imperial.
It is the ability to execute the laws of the land. The president was not given the ability to set the laws or determine if they were valid. The only power he has is to execute the laws. The Congress only has
power to set the laws, but no power to execute or adjudicate them. Similarly, the Supreme Court only has power to adjudicate law, but no power to set the laws or execute them. The beauty of this arrangement is that it keeps any one branch of government from becoming too powerful and becoming tyrannical. When anyone branch oversteps its bounds, it is the job of the other branches to hold the wayward branch accountable and put back into alignment the correct balance of power.
So what we have here, no matter how righteous you believe the position may be, is a total abuse of executive power and an attempt by the President Obama to grab power that by law he does not have. The only branch that has any power to correct this imbalance and repel Obama’s power grab is the Congress. The two options the Congress has to remedy the situation are to either defund the Obama Justice Department until it sees fit to defend the laws as prescribed in the Constitution or rebuke the president via impeachment. With Democratic Senate, impeachment may pass the house but would surely fail in the
Senate, so the only real option that will hold Obama’s lust for power in check is to defund the Justice Department.
If they don’t, and Obama’s power grab goes uncontested, it won’t be long before King or Judge won’t be enough.
As for being called a liar, you might think that harsh. But in 2008, on the Human Rights Campaign Presidential Questionnaire, he commented that, "However, I do not support gay marriage. Marriage has religious and social connotations, and I consider marriage to be between a man and a woman." To go now and break his oath to defend the Constitution and laws of this country to appease a minority group in America is evident of an outright lie. The question is, was he lying when he said he'd defend the laws of this country, or was he lying when he said that marriage was between a man and a woman?
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