Michael Patrick Leahy: Obama Pursues Royal Prerogative as MSM Remains Silent
Throughout the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, President Obama promised to transform America into something better, a land filled with hope and change. It appears, however, that the man who vacations in Martha’s Vineyard, golfs with Tiger Woods, and sends the Secret Service to accompany his wife and daughters on international vacations to Spain, Mexico, and now the Bahamas has another agenda in mind. He seeks to transform constitutional presidential authority into royal prerogative. Judging by the failure of any media source other than Breitbart, Drudge, and Instapundit to cover this story, it is also quite clear that the mainstream media has decided to play the role of dutiful courtiers to this expansion of presidential powers. (emphasis added)
No surpise the editorial page of the local paper, The Daily Camera, has been noticeably quiet on President Obama’s golf game, the debt and deficit, lack of a serious budget and a myriad of other issues that would have resulted in a plethora of snarky comments snuck into editorials if George Bush or most any other Republican were President. It appears to me that Erika Stutzman won’t lift her pen against Obama as long as he follows the Progressive agenda when it comes to
- Healthcare
- gun control
- gay/lesbian rights
- green energy…
If healthcare, in all of its forms, and green energy bankrupt the nation, no big deal. No cost is too high for the Progressive entitlement agenda. The $16 trillion dollar debt and over $1 trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see is apparently not a problem. As long as the government provides 99 weeks of unemployment and social security disability to more than cushion the fall, no worries. It doesn’t matter if we’re borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the government spends.
I have news for you, when the financial system comes under stress again, as it most assuridly will, all of a sudden green energy subsidies and healthcare for everyone with all of it’s “freebies” won’t be so important or the system will simply “break”.
One has to wonder where Progressives think money comes from? Do we just print it? If we print too much, will it effect the value as in rising prices? No problem, the cost of living adjustment will make up for it.
The Progressvie trust in Government simply boggles my imagination. Good luck with that.
