When a president rules by edict and intimidation and
by-passes the constitutionally provided legislature, especially when that
legislature is the cowardly bunch of Republicans we had in our nation’s capital
during the Obama years, who allowed their fear of being called nasty names by
Democrats and the press to silence them and offer no opposition to Obama’s
dictatorial rule as he trashed the constitution, it means that his policies are
put in place, often with constitutionally questionable means, just as he wants
them to be. But it also means that as soon as the president is gone his
policies can be blown away as easily and quickly as they were established. Additionally,
when a president rules by edict you can bet that the laws he establishes are
not appropriately thought through and are not vetted sufficiently to have any
lasting value and meaning with the citizens that the laws were imposed on.
At the close of his administration, Barack Obama attempted
to explain, and even seemed to wish he could take back, some of his
unconstitutional actions, and he even used words that suggested his fear that
his Obamacare (which was never discussed in public and was passed hurriedly by
a Democrat-majority legislature without even being completely written nor read
by those doing the voting) was going to be repealed as soon as Donald Trump
took office. And it appears he was right about the repeal. Obama’s error was
that in his complete self-absorption and self-centeredness, he assumed his policies
would reign forever with the inevitable Hillary Clinton administration to follow
his own eight years. But Hillary proved to be less inevitable than the arrogant
Democrats thought, so Obama’s reign ended in a puff of smoke as his pen-and-phone
administration headed out of Washington, with Donald Trump’s inaugural tongue-lashing
of a speech echoing in their heads.
Big-shot Obama can consider it a lesson learned,
though belatedly, and Republicans will neither make law the way Obama did nor
repeal laws that way; Republicans will be deliberate and will include Democrats
in all discussions prior to voting on the measure. Obama is just the latest in
a series of rulers, throughout time and all over the world, always on the left,
who rule by the fist and allow no real opposition as they move forward with
their repressive and destructive agenda. Leftists must always be suspected of
dealing dishonestly when it comes to the subject of power.
And on the subject of lawless, destructive power, the
radical left has taken the election they lost to the streets and are, in their
idiotic violence and their rejection of the vote of the majority of Americans,
further alienating decent Americans from their radical cause as they attempt to
fulfill Obama’s pledge to “fundamentally transform America”. During Obama’s
term of office he made great strides to fully implement his anti-American “transformation”
pledge, and now his paid rabble are destroying private and public property to
extend the damage Obama did. But it ain’t gonna work! Americans oppose the
destruction of the last eight years, and the more the Occupy crowd acts up, the
more decent Americans will deny them legitimacy.
