Barack Obama took time yesterday to assure the American people that
this year, he doesn't intend to let little things like Congress, the Constitution, or laws in general stand between him and his fiendish plans. Which isn't
exactly how he phrased it, but people with fiendish plans
really like to use a lot of euphemisms when speaking.
Declaring that he no longer intends to wait for the legislative process to work (what with all of those annoying elected officials representing pesky citizens, and the nitpicking Supreme Court interpreting the outdated Constitution), Obama announced "
I've got a pen, and I've got a phone!" Which he
presumably keeps in the same desk drawer as his hammer and sickle.
In much the way steel-drivin' John Henry swung his hammer, lawd, lawd, Barry intends to swing his mighty pen to assure that
"kids are getting the best education possible, (make) sure that our
businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow
and advance, and to make sure that people are getting the skills that they
need to get those jobs that our businesses are creating."
In other words, he'll skip Congressional oversight and funnel more money to teachers' unions, create more business-destroying regulations, and authorize more college loans to make sure our young are never out of debt and our nation will never fall behind in the critical production of Gender Studies professors.
Meanwhile, with his mighty phone he intends to personally speak to a
lot of academic types about his potential executive orders, thereby collecting the same kind of expert opinions which have made Obamacare such a rousing success. What could possibly go wrong?
All of this is, of course,
exactly the kind of
banana republic dictatorial powerplay that our Founding Fathers warned us against.
And why they designed the Articles of Impeachment in such a way that any executive who
abuses the power of the federal pen might well be
sent to the Federal Pen.
Intrepid reporters take pictures of Obama's Magic Pen.
