Lisa Benson for August 01, 2014

My government at work. The populous isn’t litigious enough as it is, so lead by example. Whatever happened to the good old days when people either shot with dueling pistols or beat each other with a cane to settle their philosophical and procedural disputes.

@ Radish and Mikefive – It does seem that the President has taken the position that it’s time “to do something, even if it’s wrong”. The life raft is filling with water and because the Senate and HoR won’t let bills advance for votes on how to get rid of the water, the President is bailing it out by himself. I have sympathy for his position and great disgust with Reid and Boehnor and wonder what else the POTUS can do if the legislature refuses to let things happen.And while the executive orders issued may be fewer in number than presidents past, there is debate on the degree to which they ‘make law’ rather than implement law. People have been fired, gone to jail and been fined for doing the right thing, a delivery driver who stopped to help at an accident comes to mind, he lost his job. Whether or not you agree with the President’s actions, they are actions, and that is more than we are getting from Congress. He has invited them to participate. I hope they do.Respectfully,C.

Spicy, I guess the conservatives in the House are acting only to preserve the best interests of the US? The Republican party has become seriously dysfunctional. The Congress is paralyzed. All they can do is spend months and millions to investigate and sue while all the problems facing the country are not addressed. The public should turn them out of office and try to find some Congressmen who will actually do the work they were elected to do.

I wouldn’t mind that the congress is doing absolutely nothing, creating a situation where the president has to do whatever he can using presidential orders. That’s pretty much standard procedure, stupid but standard. I wouldn’t even mind that they are suing him for doing it less often that either of the Bush’s. But when they indulge in this insanity using tax payer money, and there is going to be gobs of it involved, I’m voting from out and donating money and work to the Democrats every chance I get. Vote Democratic- We’re not Perfect, but they’re nuts.

Obama says that he has to run the country as best he can on his own because the Republicans refuse to do their job. This simply makes it clear that he doesn’t understand what the Republican’s job is. The Republicans in congress are doing their job very well. If they can’t accomplish anything that Obama won’t veto, then they can stall so that the Democrats can’t accomplish anything either. Their intention is to keep everything just as it is, unless they can manage to return to the “good old days” of the 19th century, before there was a middle class and when only the landed gentry were voters. And, they have a great strategy for accomplishing this. 1. Disenfranchise everyone you possibly can, unless they are dependable Republican voters.2. Produce ads and media emphasis which emphasizes those politicians who are corrupt and incompetent. Paint all Democrats with the same slime. Lacking sufficient actual slime, simply make some up. This undermines the people’s trust in their government and makes them feel like helpless pawns, so they tune out the whole process and accept the status quo. 3. Support the “job creators”, who are the recipients of a huge portion of the GNP, although that GNP was produced by working people, who are receiving less benefit from it every day. This gives them the money to accomplish the other two goals, and leaves everyone except the “job creators” with increasingly less money to mount a counter campaign. So, this is the way we are going lose the middle class and become a country inhabited only by the very rich 1%, and a 99% who are too busy working two jobs to survive to notice.

That is the way it works.

It is not OK for the President to say “They won’t do what I want so I’m going to take over.” That has been the justification of dictators and tyrants for as long as history has been recorded.

Things are not going Obama’s way because he is a terrible leader. He has never been able to effectively reach across the aisle and work with the other side and he has been unwilling to recognize that the other side has a legitimate right to their position.

Now he is stuck unable to get things done. Those of you who cheer him on when he tries to act illegally should remember that Hitler had many supporters in Germany when he took the reigns in the 1930s.

We have laws and procedures in the country to protect us from tyrants. Instead of cheering on his lawlessness – you should be encouraging him to find ways to reach across the aisle which means he will have to compromise and accept less then he wants.

You seem to think the Republicans in congress are somehow rogue because they aren’t following Obamas lead. Remember – they were elected by their constituents as well. And their constituents don’t want Obama to enact his liberal agenda. And they want that just as fervently as Obama’s supporters want him to make changes.

I wonder how supportive the Obama apologists would be if George W Bush said – Congress isn’t moving fast enough so I will change the laws by Executive order?

I think that whole “President as King” clause shows up in the lib Constitution somewhere between the right to an abortion and the right to free health care. They made room for it by erasing the Second and Ninth Amendments.

dear wolf starting with obamacare when bho met with the gop he first lectured them and when mccain tried to make some suggestion he was told you lost so sit down and shut up

hear ruff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i0bDbYUUhY

HUH?Don’t get this one at all!