Newt Gingrich lays it out at Newsmax:
…Imagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone’s right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment…
I was listening a bit to Rush Limbaugh as I traveled about today – and noted with relish that he’s on the same page as I am about a shutdown – and he has it right: Obama is being lawless. The duty of the President of the United States is to enforce the laws, not decide if they are constitutional. Congress enacted DOMA, President Clinton signed it – until Congress repeals or the courts void the law, Obama must vigorously enforce every last bit of the law. He has no choice in the matter. Refusing to enforce it is a dereliction of duty…and, in my view, an impeachable offense.
This is not to say that it will happen – even if articles of impeachment were passed in the House, the Senate Democrats will never, no matter what, vote to convict Obama. It literally does not matter what Obama does – Democrats are uninterested in the law, only in their power…and they know that if it comes to punishing Obama, it would cost them power. So, nothing will happen – but that doesn’t change the fact of what Obama has done.
America is in need of deep reform – the only reason we’re at this condition is because we have allowed a criminal class of people to gain control of our nation. Criminal not just in the rank corruption of office, but in the fact that they have no awareness of, or concern for, what is it that makes America work. More than any other nation, we are a people governed by consent…but we only consent because we feel, at the end of the day, that the rules are being observed. By breaking the rules – and not just on DOMA but on a lot of issues…such as ignoring a federal judge’s ruling that ObamaCare is unconstitutional – Obama and his Democrats are cutting at the very heart of the American way of life. In order to save our nation, it now becomes a requirement to reduce government to its proper, constitutional functions.
The reason Obama and his Democrats just go ahead and do this is because it is the way they have been schooled. To them, as to all on the left, the law is whatever they want it to be at the moment. When government was smaller, this had less effect – now that government is pervasive, our lives and our liberty are at stake. Not because of some absurd leftwing or libertarian worry that Uncle Sam will listen in on a phone call, but in rock hard reality – where it matters the most; in the question of whether we’ll be ruled by laws, or by men. If Obama can set aside one law because he wants to, then he can set aside any law…and enforce any rule he likes, whether or not he has the legal authority to do so. And that puts us under tyranny – because we’ll never know what the law is until Obama decrees it.
By reducing government power we’ll essentially cut out the ability of liberals like Obama to become tin plated, little dictators. The only way we can be sure that Obama can’t decide if we’ll have this kind of health care or that kind of marriage is to take the federal government entirely out of such equations. Then, and only then, will our liberties be secure.
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