Sunday, July 6, 2014

A Constitutional Crisis

Time and again, we read that the U.S. is basically a center-right country. This fact has to be discouraging to Democrats who range from center-left to left. Logic suggests if they don't like the existing American electorate, they should change it.

President Obama - a Democrat - has figured out how to solve the problem: refuse to defend our borders. He believes he can import future voters-on-the-left by opening the floodgates to millions of poor illegal immigrants, creating facts on the ground.

We are largely powerless to stop Obama. He faces no reelection challenge and a gridlocked Congress cannot gainsay him. That combined with his minority status makes him unimpeachable.

A scofflaw president is a situation which the wise framers of our constitution could not foresee, an emergent defect in our system. What remains? We must take up his challenge and sue him. The judiciary is not entirely gridlocked.

Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner plans to sue the President to force compliance with our laws, even if the President doesn't agree with some of those laws. See what Boehner writes for CNN about why the lawsuit is necessary.

I wonder what an Eric Holder-led Justice Department would do if tasked by the courts to compel compliance by the executive branch - perhaps refuse? Then what?