Posted by
Steve on Friday, January 23, 2009 11:23:28 AM
From his actions in the first three days after taking office, it looks like Barack Hussein Obama has decided to govern by fiat instead of by legislation. He has issued 5 executive orders in the first three days after taking office. That is more than the combined executive orders of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush. Their total made it up to three. Most of them issued no executive orders in the first three days, Carter and Clinton issued two of the three.
We have a system where the legislative branch passes laws and the executive branch carries out laws. The judicial branch rules on the legality of the laws passed by the legislature. The executive branch is supposed to issue the executive orders only when the legislative branch does not do its job. Obama did not give the legislative branch any chance to do their job. He decided that something should be done and it should be done now.
If I was in the legislature, I would scream bloody murder. He is taking away the right of the legislative branch to do its job. If Obama is going to be the legislative as well as the executive branch, we might as well send all the Senators and Congressmen home. That would save the government a lot of money in overhead. But, then we would have a dictator ruling our country. If Obama keeps this up, we will have a dictator.
One of the things I feared about Obama before he was elected was that he was a closet Fascist. I do not mean a Nazi. I mean a Fascist after the style of Benito Mussolini. I also feared the leftist mindset that Obama had shown in the few votes that were on the record and the few comments where he actually said something. Both of these sides are showing themselves right now.
The mindset behind the executive orders that Obama has issued show that he does not understand the problem we are facing with Islamo-Fascism. He thinks that if we play nice and by a set of rules, the Islamo-Fascists will play nice and by the same set of rules. He is sadly mistaken. The Islamo-Fascists want us to either be Muslim or dead. There is no nice in those options. The dead part does not mean letting us die in our sleep, it means killing us in the most gruesome fashion possible.
The most disturbing of the executive orders closes our primary place to house the worst of the enemy that we capture on foreign battlefields. We now house them there because it is outside of the United States and it keeps them from using our laws against us. By closing the facility, he wants to move these people into the United States. That will give them access to our courts and access to liberal judges appointed by liberal Presidents. When the liberal judges throw out the enemy that wants to kill us by any means onto our streets, they will have the chance they have been looking for. They will be in our heartland where there are millions of us. They can kill lots of people before being stopped. That should surely get them into heaven, or at least the heaven they envision.
This problem will not show up tomorrow. It will show up in about 1-2 years when people have forgotten why they were housed away from the US. Then, the terror will be on our streets to kill and destroy. We will have to live like the Israelis. I do not want to have to live like that. I want to be free to do what I want, when I want and where I want.
We may not have a United States in two years. We may have a place where the United States was and it may still be called the United States. But, I fear we will have a dictator in place instead of a President. We will have a socialist form of economy instead of the free economy that has made us the envy of the world. Nothing that was good about America will be left. Everything good will be gone and only a semblance of the United States will be left in its place. I just wish that I was not here to see it happen.