End Runs Could Tame Obama

 

 

"After four years of Barack Obama's presidency, we well know what to expect from the next four years. 

 

Obama's style of presidential "leadership" in relation to Congress is to talk on the phone with Congressional leaders every six months or so, while his preferred m.o. is to ignore Congress' constitutional mandate to "legislate" by making end runs around them. He issues executive orders and regulates everything he (or his "assistant" Valerie Jarrett) can think of to regulate through his scores of appointed "czars."

The House of Representatives holds the purse strings. The House is majority Republican and the House needs to unfund, de-fund, and refuse to fund the president's ridiculously destructive orders and regulations and even his signature legislation, the sadly misnamed "Affordable Care Act," which was rammed through Congress against the will of the majority of Americans and with not one single Republican vote. And the Republican governors of the several states need to arm themselves with the 10th Amendment and refuse to comply with any federally mandated rule or regulation that impacts the citizens of their states adversely."     [Carole Jackson]