Talk show host claims Obama riding roughshod over Constitution
FoxNews.com
1/14/2013
Via Real Clear Politics, this transcription:
MARK LEVIN: I’m not into imperial presidents who act imperial and speak imperial and Obama forgets there’s a Constitution. Yes, he keeps telling us he won reelection. Congratulations, but guess what? The Constitution wasn’t up for election, it’s not up for a referendum. He has to comply with it, too.
He was sent back to Washington, but he’s got a strict list of rules that he has to follow as president. When he gets up there and starts saying, if Congress doesn’t do this, I’m going to do this unilaterally, it violates separation of power a lot of the times. And this is a man pushing the edge of the envelope as far as i’m concerned, whether it’s the appointment clause, whether it’s his unilateral action on immigration, whether it’s trashing the commerce clause and the tax clauses under Obamacare. Now they’re talking about executive orders on the Second Amendment. They’ve issued regulations on First Amendment attacking religious liberty. This notion that he might be able to lift the debt ceiling, you know, unilaterally under the Fourteenth Amendment.
What the hell is this? He was elected president. Congratulations. This guy makes Richard Nixon look like a man who followed the law all the time. I think we have an imperial president, he sounds imperial, he’s arrogant as hell and I’m furious about this and I’m going to tell you why. We are a magnificent country. We don’t need to be turned upside down. We don’t need to run from crisis to crisis to crisis. He’s bankrupting this country.
He said we’ve had a discussion about the debt. When did we have a discussion about the debt? We’ve had a debate about taxes. The man’s never around to have a discussion about anything. So, yes, he causes me to be furious when I watch and listen to him.
Also at Real Clear Politics, Full Video: President Obama’s Final News Conference Of First Term
CAJ note: Obama demands debit limit hike, rejects negotiations. Our military and their families, veterans, and Social Security recipients will be used as his hostages, evidently…again. Oh, and he will use executive orders to implement gun control. That’s the press conference in a nutshell.
Major Garrett To Obama: “You Yourself” Voted Against The Debt Ceiling
As you well know, sir, finding votes for the debt ceiling can sometimes be complicated. You yourself as a member of the Senate voted against a debt ceiling increase. And in previous aspects of American history: President Reagan in 1985, President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, President Clinton in 1997, all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of in raising the debt ceiling. You yourself four times have done that; three times those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers.
Related: ME Sen. Angus King Skeptical of another “Assault Weapons Ban”
Update: Schumer to gun retailers: Stop selling until we can make sales illegal
Update 2: WELL, HE CAN’T EVEN SHOW UP ON TIME TO HIS OWN PRESS CONFERENCE: White House tells Paul Ryan it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress.
Biden Identifies 19 Different Executive Orders Obama Should Take On Gun Control…
George Soros Group Calls For 13 New Anti-Gun Laws…
Update 3: Obama’s Festival of Lies
