On whose authority does
the president assert this extraordinary power? His own.
Hail, Caesar and thank
you, Your Majesty.
The congressman is
rightly concerned. This subversion of the Constitution has been fully embraced
by George Bush and Barack Obama, and turns back the clock on democracy and the
rule of law.
But the Congressman's
bills do not need to be enacted. The Constitution provides a remedy for a
president who forswears the great oath to "faithfully execute" his office and
"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." The
remedy is impeachment.
But that remedy will not
be employed, and nor will the congressman's bills become law, because this
Congress has almost no support among the American people, who know full well
that only the one percent of the one percent who fund elections now have a
voice there.
The congressman is
shadow boxing.
The corruption of our
elections, the captured Congress they produce and an increasingly autocratic
presidency are pulling our hard won democracy back into the undemocratic
injustice of the old, feudal order which the first American patriots threw off.
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