Wall Street Journal (By Sen. Ted Cruz R-TX) -- Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president’s persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat. On Monday, Mr. Obama acted unilaterally to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contracts, the first of many executive actions the White House promised would be a theme of his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
The president’s taste for unilateral action to circumvent Congress should concern every citizen, regardless of party or ideology. The great 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed: “There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates.” America’s Founding Fathers took this warning to Rule of law doesn't simply mean that society has laws; dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. Rather, rule of law means that we are a nation ruled by laws, not men. That no one—and especially not the president—is above the law. For that reason, the U.S. Constitution imposes on every president the express duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." America's Founding Fathers took this warning to heart, and we should too.[...]
President Obama has a different approach. As he said recently, describing his executive powers: "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone." Under the Constitution, that is not the way federal law is supposed to work.
The Obama administration has been so brazen in its attempts to expand federal power that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Justice Department's efforts to expand federal power nine times since January 2012.
There is no example of lawlessness more egregious than the enforcement—or nonenforcement—of the president's signature policy, the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Obama has repeatedly declared that "it's the law of the land." Yet he has repeatedly violated ObamaCare's statutory text.
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Blog author’s comments - The fact that Obama does what he wants with no consequences is what bothers me. But apparently no one is going to stop him or anyone else in his administration. Obama had to take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Once in office, he has many times ignored the Constitution. Now we see him trample on the Constitution. A good column by Senator Ted Cruz concerning his opinion about what Obama is doing and has done.
We cannot assume that the GOP will win the Senate or even retain the House in 2014. There are less than ten months before the midterm elections, and a lot can happen for Obama to convince the voters that the Democrats should again be in full control. Obama and the Democrats know that they cannot be honest and sell their beliefs. So they have to sound like people they are not, and they are good at doing this. We shall see what the Republicans will do to show the voters they can and want to change what is now happening in Washington.
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