FLASHBACK: Just what happened last week on Election Day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution of the United States. Such judges — perhaps including Supreme Court justices — would have been confirmed by Senate Democrats, and could spend the rest of their lifetime appointments ruling in favor of expansions of federal government power that would make the freedom of we the people only a distant memory and a painful mockery. We dodged that bullet. But what about the rest of Barack Obamas term? Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame-duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past. Despite the Republican sweep of elections across the country, Obama has issued an ultimatum to Congress to either pass the kind of immigration law he wants before the end of this year or he will issue executive orders changing the countrys immigration laws unilaterally. Does that sound like a lame-duck president? On the contrary, it sounds more like some banana republics dictator. Nor is Obama making an idle bluff. He has already changed other laws unilaterally, including the work requirement in welfare reform laws passed during the Clinton administration. The very idea of Congress rushing a bill into law in less than two months, on a subject as complex, and with such irreversible long-run consequences as immigration, is staggering. But there is already a precedent for such hasty action, without congressional hearings to bring out facts or air different views. That is how ObamaCare was passed. And we see how that has turned out. People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obamas competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do. When Obama made a brief public statement about Americans being beheaded by terrorists, and then went on out to play golf, that was seen as a sign of political ineptness, rather than a stark revelation of what kind of man he is, underneath the smooth image and lofty rhetoric. Read More At Investors Business Daily: news.investors/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/111014-725756-thomas-sowell-congress-judiciary-will-have-to-stop-obamas-reckless-agenda-in-final-two-years.htm#ixzz3L4erWliU Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:35:15 +0000