Understanding our Constitution is easy if you make an effort. Truth be told, if the “Affordable” Care Act were written in the way the Constitution was, Congress might have passed a law not doomed to failure. Nevertheless, it’s nothing short of alarming to hear Barack Obama, who has been referred to as some sort of “scholar” and study of Constitutional law, and who was twice elected to the highest office in the land, make the statement he made recently regarding the use of his “pen” and “phone” as a default means of governing. Accordingly, I think it’s reasonable to conclude one of the following are true:
1. The President’s understanding and knowledge of our founding principles, as well as those documents and history which support them, is fundamentally flawed, thereby dramatically handicapping his ability to develop and execute sensible and prudent policy initiatives for the good of “We the People”.
2. The President is a total ideologue, entirely comfortable with a pre-determined strategy of remaking the American political landscape, by way of centralizing clearly un-constitutional power within the Oval Office, and demonizing a Congressional body as simply obstructionist, rather than the Constitutional check and balance it is intended to be.
Personally, I think it’s a little of both. Either way, I believe history will remember this President as the most divisive and irresponsible politician to ever hold the office.
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