From Michael Barrone:"The Illegal-Donor Loophole" is the headline
of a Daily Beast story by Peter Schweizer of the conservative Government
Accountability Institute and Peter Boyer, former reporter at the New
Yorker and the New York Times.
The article tells how Obama.com, a website
owned by an Obama fundraiser who lives in China but has visited the
Obama White House 11 times, sends solicitations mostly to foreign email
addresses and links to the Obama campaign website's donation page.
The Obama website, unlike those of most
campaigns, doesn't ask for the three- or four-digit credit card
verification number. That makes it easier for donors to use fictitious
names and addresses to send money in....
The campaign, as my former boss pollster Peter
Hart likes to say, always reflects the candidate. A campaign willing to
skirt the law or abet violations of it reflects a candidate who, as
president, has been doing the same thing.
Examples abound. Take the WARN Act, which
requires employers to give a 60-day notice of layoffs. It was sponsored
and passed by Democrats.
The WARN Act requires defense contractors to
give notice on Nov. 2 of layoffs that will be necessary on Jan. 3 when
the sequestration law requires big cutbacks in defense spending.
The administration has asked companies not to
send out the notices. And it has promised to pay companies' WARN Act
fines. Why the solicitude? The warnings could cost Obama Virginia's 13
electoral votes....
Or consider the welfare waivers that HHS
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gives to states that want to relax work
requirements. Democratic blogger Mickey Kaus makes a strong case that
this violates clear language in the welfare reform act signed by Bill
Clinton in 1996.
If Kaus is right, Sebelius and Obama are
brazenly rewriting the law -- one of the most successful reforms of the
last two decades.....
Then there's Obama's promise not to deport
young illegal immigrants brought into the U.S. as children who meet
certain conditions -- like going to college or serving in the military.
It's a policy that tests well in the polls.
The problem is that Congress, even when controlled by Democrats, refused
to relax immigration policy in this way.....
Article II of the Constitution (not Article I,
as Joe Biden appeared to say in the 2008 vice presidential debate) sets
out the duties and powers of the president. Section 3 states that "he
shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
It does not give him the power to make laws. That's given to Congress, in Article I.
Barack Obama was a lecturer in constitutional
law at the University of Chicago Law School. But he seems to take the
attitude familiar to me, as an alumnus of Yale Law School, that the law
is simply a bunch of words which people who are clever with words can
manipulate to get any result they want.
In public speeches he has defended such
policies by shouting, "We can't wait!" The results are good, or at least
politically convenient, so why be held back by a few words written on
paper?
The Constitution was written by men who had a different idea. They wanted a government bound by the rule of law. Do we? http://washingtonexaminer.com/a-lawyer-by-training-obama-ignores-rules-of-law/article/2510269#.UHUNuK48VXs
You can say many things about George Bush, but at least he respected the office of the presidency. Obama does not and his actions to this day shows, he couldn't care less about the rule of law or show respect to the American people.
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