{"id":4593,"date":"2014-01-30T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:03:49","slug":"ready-for-court-fight-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4593","title":{"rendered":"Ready for court fight, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The overheated and inflated response of congressional Republicans to President Obama&#8217;s vow to use executive authority to move issues forward would make you think the president is imposing some brand of imperial law on the country.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not happening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k550pSFwgq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/196745-see-you-in-court-says-gop\/\">See you in court, says GOP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;See you in court, says GOP&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/196745-see-you-in-court-says-gop\/embed\/#?secret=WMtAY0TZAW#?secret=k550pSFwgq\" data-secret=\"k550pSFwgq\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sound had barely been turned off in the House of Representatives chamber after Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech Tuesday night before we heard GOP lawmakers proclaiming the president was overstepping his constitutional authority, was trying to crown himself King Barack the First or seeking to render Congress totally irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Give &#8230; me &#8230; a &#8230; bleeping &#8230; break.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s use of executive orders is but a fraction of its use by many of his predecessors. He&#8217;s acted in such a manner less frequently than President George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, two heroes of the GOP right\/far-right wing.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., believes Obama is abusing &#8220;the intent of the Constitution.&#8221; Really? What precisely is that intent, senator? He doesn&#8217;t offer specifics, other than to rattle his sword and bluster about taking the Obama administration to court.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s quit hyperventilating here. President Obama&#8217;s legal team is fully aware of the constraints placed on him by the Constitution. He cannot write law. He cannot raises taxes. He cannot increase the minimum wage for every American &#8212; but he can, and did, raise the minimum wage for <em>some<\/em> Americans, such as federal government contract employees. This is small stuff, ladies and gentlemen of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s lose the righteous indignation and take Barack Obama up on another pledge he made at the State of the Union: let&#8217;s work together.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overheated and inflated response of congressional Republicans to President Obama&#8217;s vow to use executive authority to move issues forward would make you think the president is imposing some brand of imperial law on the country. It&#8217;s not happening. See you in court, says GOP The sound had barely been turned off in the House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for court fight, Mr. President?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,1661,1899,2183,2546,4401],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-action","tag-george-w-bush","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-john-mccain","tag-state-of-the-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}