HISTORY LESSON FOR THE PRESIDENT

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Human Events:

Congressional speeches are generally hot air: politicians blathering to a largely empty chamber. But on Jan. 9, a discussion in the House of Representatives soared above that mediocrity. For those Americans who worry that Congress no longer cares about preserving the Constitution, the words below will provide reassurance that there are a few people with backbone in Washington, D.C.

 

Congressman Tom Rice, R-S.C., and several of his 29 co-sponsors defended their resolution calling on the House to sue President Barack Obama in order to compel him to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” as the U.S. Constitution commands. They cited his changes to Obamacare by fiat, his defiance of U.S. immigration law and his waiving the federal work requirement for welfare benefits.

 

In the past, the Supreme Court has ruled that members of Congress cannot sue the president, and that power struggles between the branches must be resolved politically rather than by judges. Therefore, Resolution 442 has an uphill battle. But the resolution’s backers expressed the bedrock principles of this nation and addressed our gravest danger. Their words are worth remembering. Obama is the danger the U.S. Constitution was written to prevent, because he repeatedly seizes more power than the Constitution allows a president to have.