Over
the past few months, Progressives and Democrats who favor the Affordable Care
Act (Obamacare) - both elected and not - have insisted that the new and
expanding entitlement will go forward as planned because, after all, it is "the
law of the land." When I ponder this statement I find myself less inclined to
laugh and more inclined to succumb to sadness. That a faction that holds the
Constitution in such disregard would so disingenuously foist the hypocrisy of
this statement in defense of what is arguably an unconstitutional law, defies
humor.
A
cursory recollection of how this horrific, economy-killing piece of legislation
came to be, not only illustrates a fundamental transgression of the spirit of
American government, it shows how the Progressive movement executes an "ends
justifies the means" political game plan. Because Progressives believe that the
United States should provide socialized healthcare to every living being
existing legally in the United States (and some who do not), they purposefully
circumvented the legislative process, crafting the legislation with special
interest groups - including labor unions, Progressive think tank operatives and
foreign aligned special interest groups, behind closed doors and excluding
members of the minority party. They then moved the legislation forward - at
times threatening to "deem it passed" - along party lines, ignoring the protests
of the minority party and howls of discontent from the American citizenry, and
into law.
Today,
as Republicans in the US House, which has the constitutionally mandated power of
the purse, threaten to exclude any aspect of Obamacare from the funding of
government operations - which is their constitutional right to do, Progressives
and toady Democrats protest that the ACA is "the law of the land." The
proclamation would have even the slightest bit of weight if these same
hypocrites always acquiesced to "the law of the land." The fact is that they
transgress the "law of the land" as a matter of policy; to advance an agenda
that is often times anathema to the American system of government and the rule
of law.
One
can look back to the first Obama Administration's abdication of the rule of law
when newly installed Attorney General Eric Holder approved of political
appointees at the Justice Department quashing the prosecution of New Black
Panther Party members who executed one of the most egregious instances of voter
intimidation in modern history. The "law of the land" mandated that the DoJ
prosecute these constitutional transgressors to "the fullest extent" of the law.
If "the law of the land" was so precious to these Obama-ite Progressives and
Democrats, they would have been exploring ways to include charges of racial
discrimination (as the perpetrators were Black and targeting White voters) and
hate crimes. But, "the law of the land" wasn't so important as to be followed in
this instance.
One
could look into the non-enforcement of immigration laws by the Obama
Administration to evidence their selective support of "the law of the land." For
the entire tenure of Mr. Obama's presidency we have witnessed border patrol
members and their union representatives catalog a litany of directives emanating
from DHS obfuscating efforts to secure our nation's borders and hold to justice
those who have broken our laws to exist here. Yet, in a post-911 world, when we
hold proof-positive in our hands that Hezbollah, Hamas and al Qaeda are working
with Mexican and South American drug cartels, the "law of the land" isn't so
important to the Progressives and their sycophant Democrats so as to be
honored.
The
several Congressional investigations into operational and political malfeasance
executed under the Obama Administration provide ample evidence that the
Executive Branch Progressives have little use for "the law of the land" when it
does not suit their need or the advancement of their ideological, globalist or
social justice agendas. The US Constitution gives the power of oversight -
including subpoena powers - to Congress. Yet today the Obama Administration
routinely obstructs congressional investigators, usurping "the law of the
land":
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Fast & Furious saw the Holder Justice Department illegally facilitating the
movement of banned weapons across the Mexican border. And even in the face of
the deaths of US Border Patrol Agents, the Obama Administration - to this day -
thwarts efforts to fully investigate the program.
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The politically motivated use of the Internal Revenue Service to target what can
only be described as opposition groups, i.e. TEA Party, Conservative and
Libertarian advocacy groups, stands as one of the more serious misuses of a
federal agency to affect politics in the history of the country. In fact, it was
the second count in the impeachment indictment leveled against former-Pres.
Richard Nixon. Yet, the Obama Administration shows little interest in assisting
congressional investigators in their pursuit of protecting the American
citizenry from their own government's unlawful actions. (Note to Mr.
Obama...President Nixon at least had the nobility to resign).
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The expansion - not just the continuation - of the NSA domestic surveillance
program arguably usurps the Fourth Amendment protections provided the citizenry,
but under the guise of protecting the country, even some members of Congress who
have Top Secret clearances are kept in the dark on the program by members of the
Obama Administration.
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And as four brave Americans - Amb. Christopher Stevens, Ty Woods, Sean Smith
& Glen Doherty - lay cold in their graves, exclusively because Mr. Obama and
his Progressive crew couldn't be exposed for their putting politics ahead of
protecting American assets overseas; American soil in the form of Embassy
grounds, the "most transparent" administration in American history hides behind
anything that will give them cover so as not to act in the spirit of
"the law of the land"; so as not to afford the justice "the law of the land" is
owed those four dead Americans (Note to former-Secretary of State and potential
2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: Yes, it does matter, to every
American but the Progressive elected class, evidently).
But
getting back to Obamacare being "the law of the land," and the fact that these
Progressive ideologues intend to inflict this economy-killing, divisive,
wealth-redistributing program onto the American people, regardless of the fact
that it has never - never - been popular with over half of the nation,
and that it now falls well short of providing health insurance to "every
American," I have two questions:
1)
If "the law of the land" is so very important to follow, then how is it that
these same people ignore the fact that "the law of the land" allows the House of
Representatives to refuse to fund the entitlement program?
2)
If the "law of the land" is so sacrosanct then how can these Progressive elitist
oligarchs decry any part of the US Constitution - the literal "law of
the land" - as malleable; as subject to dictates of the day?
The
truth be told, the only time "the law of the land" means anything to
Progressives is when it serves their purpose. In any other case it is an edict
to be scorned, rebuked, castigated and/or ignored. That Harry Reid, Nancy
Pelosi, the White House Communications Office and President Obama himself
shamelessly hide behind the "It's the law of the land" declaration in their
defense of the legitimate House effort to save the country from this legislative
mistake would be laughable if it weren't so deadly serious.
So,
let's dispense with this rhetoric, shall we?
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