His Presidency Spurns Our Elected Representation

 

The Foundry's Morning Bell:

The Obama Administration generally employs one of two strategies to legislate without—and often in spite of—congressional action: 

• administrative decree establishing a new federal rule, or
• a refusal to enforce existing federal law.

In five separate policy areas, the President and the federal agencies under his command have spurned congressional authority to achieve Obama’s objectives.

1. Environmental Regulation....
2. Labor Law....
3. Immigration Law....
4. Selective Enforcement of Federal Law....
5. Regulating the Internet....

 

More Bureaucratic Legislating Ahead: All of these examples demonstrate a striking lack of respect for the role of the legislative branch in American government. Despite paying lip service to Congress’s constitutional role as the sole source of the nation’s laws, the Obama Administration has ignored Congress wherever the people’s representatives have declined to codify his agenda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: His Presidency will be holding a press conference at 11:30 this morning. Chris Stirewalt wonders, "Which Obama Will Show Up...? Will he be Nasty or Nice?"