THEORY OF THE COUP

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Power Line :

POSTED ON AUGUST 6, 2014 BY SCOTT JOHNSON

THEORY OF THE COUP

Ross Douthat’s New York Times column this past Sunday eloquently warned against Obama’s threatened coup with respect to immigration law. Douthat characterized the action threatened by anonymous White House leakers as “executive fiat.” Douthat rightly condemned the threatened action as “lawless, reckless, a leap into the antidemocratic dark.”

 

University of Chicago Law School Professor Eric Posner comes to Obama’s defense and responds to Douthat in the New Republic column “Obama is legally allowed to enforce–or not enforce–the law.” Posner holds down an endowed chair at the law school, but this is not an impressive performance. Indeed, I would place it at the kindergarten level, as in this invocation of alleged precedent on Obama’a behalf: “Bush disregarded laws against torture and surveillance in order to prosecute the war against terror.”

[Cyber_Liberty]

There really isn't much we can do about it. Impeachment is off the table, at least until after November, and I don't think it would succeed even if he did the most outrageous things. The loony left in this country wants him to do them, and there aren't enough of us to sustain a movement to impeach him.

 

Besides, he's half-black. Anything we do would simply be branded "raciss." The country is going to hell in a handbasket, and most people deserve it. What sucks is they're going to drag us all down with them.