If a president ignores laws he doesn't like, or even parts of them, he is ruling as a dictator. This is tyranny. It is also an impeachable offense as he is willfully failing to uphold the oath he took.
Columnist Thomas Sowell has an excellent editorial in Investor's Business Daily's website. Part of what he wrote is as follows:
No president of the United States is authorized to repeal parts of legislation passed by Congress. He may veto the whole legislation, but then Congress can override his veto if they have enough votes. Nevertheless, every president takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws that have been passed and sustained — not just the ones he happens to agree with.
If laws passed by the elected representatives of the people can be simply over-ruled unilaterally by whoever is in the White House, then we are no longer a free people, choosing what laws we want to live under.
When a president can ignore the plain language of duly passed laws, and substitute his own executive orders, then we no longer have "a government of laws, and not of men" but a president ruling by decree, like the dictator in some banana republic
When we confine our debates to the merits or demerits of particular executive orders, we are tacitly accepting arbitrary rule. The Constitution of the United States cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution. But, if we allow ourselves to get bogged down in the details of particular policies imposed by executive orders, and vote solely on that basis, then we have failed to protect the Constitution — and ourselves.Why hasn't Congress taken action? It is because the system is broken and the GOP doesn't have the testicles to initiate action.
This is a must-read. To read the full article, go here.
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