Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, February 24, 2011 5:01:20 PM
This is a statement to the press from Attorney General Eric Holder:
"After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation . . . The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President's determination."
Doesn't sound like anarchy, but it is.
DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, decrees that marriage, for purposes of all federal laws, is between one man and one woman. It is, therefore, the duty of both Obama and the DOJ to defend that law until such time as it has been overturned by congress or the courts. Attempting to mend fences with the gay wing of his party, however, Obama has taken it upon himself to declare the law unconstitutional and instruct the DOJ not to defend it.
Deciding whether or not a law is constitutional or un is the exclusive right of the judiciary, at least according to the Constitution, which seems to be of no interest to this administration.
Without so much as batting an eye, the Executive Branch (of which both Obama and Holder are members) have usurped the power of the judiciary because they don't like a law. They don't like it, and they're not going to enforce it.
This is only the latest example of the Obama administration's contempt for the law:
(1) The FCC after being told by a federal court that it had no power over the internet, voted to control the internet. Those members of the FCC who voted to do should be cited for contempt of court.
(2) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is in contempt of court.
(3) HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, if she continues to enforce Obamacare, will be in contempt of court. Judge Roger Vinson specifically did not issue an injunction because he expected the administration to honor his ruling, a mighty big presumption considering the adolescents running amok in DC.
(4) Unable to get a cap-and-tax bill through congress, Obama has instructed the EPA (also a part of the Executive Branch) to issue such laws.
No one, up to and including the President, is above the law. Clinton tested this regularly during his administration and was repeatedly slapped down.
Yet here we are, with a president who thinks he can pick and choose what laws he will or will not obey . . . thinks nothing of both ignoring and trampling all over a separate but co-equal branch of government . . . and knows that he won't pay any price for it because the media is in his pocket.
We need an adult in the White House, and we don't have one. We have an arrogant, spoiled child who doesn't believe in limits and doesn't believe there are no checks on his desires.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The more power Obama takes, the more he will want. Such is the way of children and dictators.