The Tectonic Shift from Democracy to Autocracy

Dick-Baynton-Print-MugThere must be some compelling reason why several million people continue to support the Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. However, there may be a shift by the electorate regarding his inability to manage the diverse tasks required of one of the most important executive positions in the world. The one notable success is Mr. Obama’s mastery of golf that may lead him to the PGA to compete with Tiger and Phil after all the practice rounds he has played over the past six years.

Mr. Obama is still running for the office he secured in 2009 and again in 2013. A few days ago the President was campaigning in Minneapolis, a safe haven for liberal thought. One notable comment by the President in criticism (of the Republican Congress) was that “even basic common sense ideas can’t get through the Congress.”

He didn’t mention the many bills that have been sent to the (Democratic) Senate where Majority Leader Harry Reid has refused to place them on the docket to be voted upon. In his speech Mr. Obama mentioned that he came to Minneapolis to escape the “tone deaf” capital and engage with everyday American workers. Mr. Obama is in the vanguard of ‘tone deaf’ politicians.

If common sense is absent from the Congress, here are some Presidential actions that might place stress on the words ‘common sense.’ Consider the Economic stimulus program called the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.’ This $787 billion program passed in February 2009 was hailed as a plan to create jobs for 900,000 workers. Perhaps as many as 600,000 jobs were attributed to the program by October of 2009. The abject failure of the program was the $275 billion allocated for ‘shovel-ready’ infrastructure projects that didn’t exist.

We are all aware of the overwhelming effort to pass the healthcare bill into law in 2010. Suggestions by Republicans were rebuffed by the President and his minions. Special consideration was given to certain states to get the mis-named ‘Affordable Care Act’ passed. The premium costs to consumers will start to skyrocket in 2015. More doctors will be leaving the practice of medicine because of the constraints of government regulation and administration. Among the biggest cost-drivers of Obamacare will be subsidies for low-income people and families. University of Chicago Professor Casey Mulligan made the following insightful statement, “When you pay people for being low income you are going to have more low income people.”

For those of you who remain in lockstep with President Obama’s policies and decisions, heed the words of liberal Jonathon Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University that appeared in the Washington Post last year: “There were times this past week when it seemed like the 19th –century Know-Nothing Party had returned to Washington. President Obama insisted he knew nothing about major decisions in the State Department, or the Justice Department, or the Internal Revenue Service. The heads of those agencies, in turn, insisted they knew nothing about major decisions by their subordinates. It was as if the government functioned by some hidden hand. Clearly there was a degree of willful blindness in these claims. However, the suggestion that someone, even the president, is in control of today’s government may be an illusion.

The growing dominance of the federal government over the states has obscured more fundamental changes within the federal government itself: It is not just bigger, it is dangerously off kilter. Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.”

Commenting on Speaker Boehner’s recent decision to sue the President over the separation of powers,  Professor Turley said that he believes the House has a real case. He explained, “There’s no license for going it alone in our system.”

Mr. Obama has demonstrated a total lack of common sense; he has it confused with ‘autocratic rule.’

 – Dick Baynton

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