A lawless administration is getting away with it

Andrew McCarthy identifies the nature of the Obama presidency in an article in The National Review Magazine part of which is excerpted below.  Clearly this administration is selective in the laws it chooses to enforce, for the most part ignoring the Constitution and it separation of powers clauses.  This is regrettable because this flagrant behavior undermines the rule of law and will encourage subsequent administrations that are so inclined to do likewise.  As McCarthy points out, we have at least taken a step toward dictatorship, and if one does not believe this he should read up on the acquisition of power in a constitutional democracy as it occurred during the 1930's in Germany.

Obama’s Rule by Decree | National Review Online

Thus Obama eschews enforcement of the immigration laws not because they are comparatively trivial or adequately covered by state police — indeed, his most notable enforcement efforts are directed not at illegal aliens but at states who dare attempt to see to the law’s faithful execution. Obama’s discretionary non-enforcement is not a good-faith husbanding of federal resources but a cynical enterprise in rewarding lawbreakers and cultivating them as a dependable political constituency. His Justice Department practices racial discrimination in the enforcement of the civil-rights laws, a grievous betrayal of the Constitution, in order to appease and empower his political base.

The faithful execution of laws is never partisan; under Obama, the execution of laws is intensely partisan. He purports to make “recess appointments” when Congress is not in recess. He skirts Congress’s constitutional war powers by pretending that attacking another country (Libya) is not making war. If his core supporters are damaged by the suffocating laws he champions — most prominently, Obamacare — he claims the power to “waive” their provisions selectively. Meanwhile, huge bureaucracies are encouraged, expressly or by nod-and-wink, to harass the president’s opponents and push forward his redistributionist, production-strangling, Islamist-empowering agenda. The executive order — formerly an intra-branch efficiency device designed to organize the exercise of the president’s constitutional powers and the enforcement of Congress’s laws — has effectively become legislation, the president substituting his edicts for our laws.

In a vibrant, pluralistic society, law, as an expression of the sovereign will, is unavoidably a product of compromise. In the contentious process, the competing sides bend; they settle on something that neither, given their druthers, would support; and they honorably agree to abide by the result. Under Obama, however, massive laws are enacted — such that no one can conceivably know what the law is. Then the president enforces the parts he approves of, contemptuously disregards the parts that enticed naysayers into compromising, and presumes to amend or repeal inconvenient provisions at his whim.

That is not the rule of law. It is how a dictatorship works.

— Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He is the author, most recently, of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.

James O'Keefe a bonafide Breitbart sucessor

James O'Keefe is an unrecognized national resource who has more than done his part to expose the corrupt nexus between the so-called MSM and the Obama administration.  For this yeoman work he has been vilified and prosecuted by the DOJ.  He nonetheless managed to destroy the farcical anti-democratic ACORN and effect the change of several states's voting laws as well as embarrass MSM, at least to the extend that corrupt collection of faux journalists can be embarrassed.  As usual, Jack Cashill takes on the stories that almost no other media is willing to touch.

Before James Rosen, There Was James O'Keefe

By Jack Cashill

"On the morning of January 25, 2010, I woke curled up in a fetal position, on a green mattress stained with seminal fluid, to the sound of my fellow prisoners chanting the Qu'ran."  So begins the bestselling new action-adventure memoir/battle plan by James O'Keefe,Breakthough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy.

Although Fox reporter James Rosen has gotten much-deserved attention for the Obama administration's assault on his privacy, according to the liberal Huffington Post, at least, he "got off easy."  As Ryan Grim writes, presumably with a straight face, "[a]fter searching his email and tracking his whereabouts, the Department of Justice has not jailed or prosecuted the Fox News journalist, which the Obama administration says reflects its deep respect for the role of a free press."

Even the Huffington Post cannot say the same about twenty-something guerilla journalist James O'Keefe.  Some three and a half years ago, the New Orleans wing of the Obama Justice Department arrested O'Keefe and indicted him and three of his colleagues on the bogus charge of entering a federal building under false pretenses.  For its part, the media celebrated their arrest.

The four young men, then all in their mid-twenties, were hoping to record staffers in Senator Mary Landrieu's office tell two phony telephone repairmen how they had blown off Tea Party activists trying to change Landrieu's mind on the ObamaCare vote.  It was not a well-planned venture, and the four were caught in the act.

Although there was nothing illegal about recording the staffers and the four had all entered the building using their own IDs, the Justice Department wanted revenge for O'Keefe's and Hannah Giles's stunning takedown of the corrupt ACORN enterprise months earlier.  O'Keefe was put on federal probation for this misdemeanor, and for the next three-plus years, he needed the permission of a federal judge just to leave his home state of New Jersey.

The same media that tried to ignore O'Keefe's ACORN sting all but celebrated O'Keefe's New Orleans bust.  "4 Arrested in Phone Tampering at Landrieu Office" headlined the New York Times on its front-page story.  "It was not clear precisely what the men were trying to do in Ms. Landrieu's office," admitted theTimes, but the accompanying photo was captioned, "Four people were arrested for trying to tap the phones of Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, at left, on Capital Hill on Tuesday."

The Washington Post was no more accurate.  "ACORN foe charged in alleged plot to wiretap Landrieu," read its January 27 headline.  Both the Post and the Times eventually offered retractions, but the damage had been done.

Still, O'Keefe remained undaunted.  Breakthrough tells the tale of his adventures over the next several years and the lessons he learned along the way.  By the time O'Keefe and his Project Veritas crew launched a series of election stings in 2012 -- what the late Andrew Breitbart called "the most consequential thing" O'Keefe ever did -- he had lived an incredibly full life.  As he recounts:

I was 27 years-old, five years into my self-created career as a citizen journalist, and I had already been arrested, imprisoned, nearly killed during my coerced "community service," commended along with Hannah Giles by the House of Representatives for exposing ACORN, publicly accused of everything from racism to rape, lauded by the governor of New Jersey for exposing a corrupt union, pursued recklessly on an Interstate by a teacher I caught on tape, denounced by Keith Olbermann as the "worst person in the world," applauded for causing major resignations at NPR, sued multiple times, slandered by half the working journalists in America, and finally inspired to expose voter fraud in the heat of a presidential election.

The vote fraud investigation would make waves across the nation, but even that effort failed to impress the folks at the Times.  Less than two months before the November 2012 election, the Times' Stephanie Saul wrote a mocking 3,000-word article disparaging the work of Project Veritas and dismissing any concerns about vote fraud.

In turn, O'Keefe wrote to Saul asking, "Is there a particular reason why you chose to selectively edit out the following events over the last eight months?"  He then listed some of the Project Veritas accomplishments she chose not to notice:

- Our video in New Hampshire was cited in passing a voter ID law.

- Our video in Minnesota was cited in passing a Constitutional amendment for Voter ID.

- Our video showing the Attorney General's ballot being offered to a stranger was cited in a House Judiciary Committee Hearing.

- Our video showing the Attorney General's ballot being offered to a stranger was discussed with the Director of the FBI.

- Our videos in Washington, D. C. prompted an investigation by the District Board of elections.

- Attorney General Holder, while under oath, cleared us of breaking the law.

- Attorney General Holder pre-cleared Voter ID law in New Hampshire after representatives cited Project Veritas in the passing of that law.

- The State of New Hampshire attempted to issue a criminal grand jury subpoena against me despite Attorney General Holder's statements.

- Our Vermont investigation showing ballots offered in the name of the dead prompted an investigation by the Secretary of State in Vermont.

By this time, O'Keefe was imagining a new slogan for Project Veritas: "Undocumented journalists -- doing the work that American journalists refuse to do."

Last week, Rush Limbaugh gave one of his rare interview spots to O'Keefe.  O'Keefe so impressed Limbaugh with his energy and enthusiasm -- two virtues in short supply on the right -- that Limbaugh blew through his break and kept O'Keefe on for two segments.

The exposure pushed Breakthrough to the number-two spot on the Amazon bestseller list.  There may be hope for the future after all.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/before_james_rosen_there_was_james_okeefe.html#ixzz2YTQtUnMA
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Yet another sterling Democrat Party machine politician

Perhaps next tp Bill Clinton, Terry MacCauliffe is the face and soul of the Democrat Party.  He is at once, a polished political performer (hack?), a lying, contriving rogue, the essence of crony capitalism, all in all a prototypical democrat.  Oh, and he's very close to the Clintons.  Here's what one editorialist (Leffe) had to say about this disgusting politician.

The so-called conventional wisdom would seem to indicate that McAuliffe’s money, contacts, notoriety and speaking ability would make him unbeatable. But he has some big problems, and I don’t mean the Clintons.This is a bad time to have a reputation for making lots of money, primarily due to your personal connections. Ten years ago, McAuliffe turned a $100K stock buy into $18M thanks to his relationship with the CEO of Internet firm Global Crossing. Shortly thereafter the company went bankrupt, the stock price collapsed and 10,000 employees lost their jobs.

This was not the only questionable deal he was associated with. But it was part of a pattern in his business life of using insider connections that made him very wealthy.
Incidentally, in 2005 then DNC-chair McAuliffe gave $5M in DNC money to gubernatorial candidate Tim Kaine. Now Kaine is DNC chair and McAuliffe is running. Would look icky to see Kaine return the favor.

MacCauliffe is running for governor in Virginia and will probably win which simply proves our democracy is unable to find and run decent people for public office anymore.  He will undoubtedly employ the same techniques and strategy that got Obama elected which includes getting lo-fo voters to the polls in great numbers, and all the rest of the by now well known and disreputable schemes dems have been using since FDR showed them the way during the '30's.