The Daily Caller:
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer warned Democrats they will “rue the day” they failed to even once oppose President Obama’s lawless disregard for the constitutional separation of powers, noting his actions establish a precedent a Republican president will one day exploit.
Krauthammer spoke on a Fox News panel along with The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes and The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard, discussing the Department of Justice’s sweeping new clemency push for thousands of non-violent drug offenders.
Krauthammer expressed tentative agreement with the initiative, but noted that yet another congressional work-around by the White House makes it clear the Obama administration is sliding into a dangerous habit.
“It’s not just that he’s negligent in executing his job,” he said. “He’s being unconstitutional. And if it becomes a habit — which it’s becoming, and that’s the problem — it’s going to establish a principle that a Republican will come into office and he will say, ‘I campaigned against capital gains taxes, so I’m going to order the FBI not to collect it.’”
“That’s not how you — if that were to happen, you could be sure that the liberals would be screaming,” he claimed. “That’s the point. This is eroding the rule of law in a systemic way, time after time.”
Krauthammer later explained that Democrats “will rue the day that they did not, at one point — any point, on immigration, on sentencing, on any of the things that Obama has done unilaterally — simply stand up and say, ‘It ought not be done this way.’ And it’s a precedent that’s going to haunt us in the future.”
Obama has only set a precedent for future Democrat presidents.
Were a Republican to try this unusual view of the Constitution the media would scream and jump up and down until it stopped. When reminded that Obama did it first the media would feign surprise and wonderment and say that it was a totally different situation. Democrats operate by a set of rules that apply only to them.
You’d think Krauthammer would know this.
The constitution is all about “We the people” . These idiots in congress have forgotten that but the wake up call is coming.
If Obama had actually broken the law or done something that was unconstitutional, republicans would be able do something about it. They’ve had control of the House for over a year. There’s nothing stopping them from initiating action—other than the fact that their claims are a load of horse manure, and they know it.
@Greg:
Your propaganda is the only manure, Greg. With Reid being tbe mafioso in charge of the Senate, and that criminal thug Holder running interference at DOJ, the House cannot remove Obama from office. Sure they can impeach him, but there is no way the Senate would ever – under Reid’s control – actually vote to remove him.
Boehner Getting Medical Procedure for Back Issue
We have already diagnosed Boehner’s problem: The Speaker has no spine to stand against Obama and the Democrats. The solution: permanent retirement for him and his fellow spineless establishment pals.