About that SOTU: Did Anyone Realize Obama Was Working Off a New Constitution?

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Feb 24

Written by: Diana West
Sunday, February 24, 2013 6:16 AM 

My latest Dispatch International article is an analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union address of February 12, 2013. The title my European editors gave it is, “President Obama Proposes New Constitution.” An eye-catching headline to be sure — although maybe what the president was really telling us is that he has already ratified his own new constitution and is busy enacting it.

From Dispatch International:

“Checks and balances” to be replaced by “the greater good”

WASHINGTON, D.C. President Barack Obama opened his 2013 State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress by quoting John F. Kennedy. Fifty-one years ago, JFK told assembled government leaders in the same ornate House chamber – the president’s cabinet, members of Congress, the twelve justices of the Supreme Court – that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress”.

Such rhetoric, then and now, couldn’t be more at odds with the “checks and balances” that America’s founding fathers built into the Constitution when they created three co-equal branches of government: the executive (the president), the legislative (Congress) and the judicial (the courts).

In 1962, Kennedy was addressing Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, which, one could argue, were more likely to be political (if not constitutional) partners than rivals. Today, however, Obama faces a divided Congress: a Democrat majority in the Senate but a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. In order to be “partners” in Obama’s idea of “progress”, House Republicans would have to surrender all remaining political and constitutional powers.

The presidential address that followed, in effect, laid out how they could do exactly that as President Obama ahistorically re-conceived the country’s core concepts in a manner best described as revolutionary. He further re-imagined the powers of the presidency itself.

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One Reply to “About that SOTU: Did Anyone Realize Obama Was Working Off a New Constitution?”

  1. People have recognized that our Constitution is being ignored and that most of the media is refusing to talk about it a line has been drawn and people are waiting for Obama to cross it. He and the other leftist are ignoring the line and are rushing to cross the line.