Not at all.
The president is not obliged to enforce a law he (or she) believes is unconstitutional. In fact, the president is bound by oath to refuse to do so.
Of course, he should veto a law if one comes across his desk that he thinks is unconstitutional. But not all laws are submitted to the current president - most were passed in prior years. And sometimes Congress overrides vetoes.
Obama made a mistake when he said he wasn’t going to wait for Congress to act, he’d act anyway. That fed right into the “King Obama” line.
He has the power to issue certain executive actions, and he’s done so. But they are very limited. For instance, he ordered a sort of minimum wage increase or something - for federal contractors only. It’s not like he just ordered it for all private businesses instead of letting Congress do it. He can’t do that, and hasn’t. But he didn’t explain the distinction very well.
Exactly - the president takes an oath to uphold the Constitution just like members of Congress and judges do, and that includes refusing to enforce unconstitutional laws. Just like judges can overturn such laws.
I’d argue that believing in a benevolent omnipotent god that does that in the first place is indeed conclusively stupid.
Funny, that.
A few years back when Robertson said God would send a hurricane to Florida to punish Disney for being nice to gays, the very next hurricane to hit land that season struck an almost direct hit…on his headquarters in Va. Beach, Va.
God’s way of saying “STFU already.”
Even if such a nonsensical rule was passed, it would simply invite a “required” defense along the lines of: “Hey, Judge, if you ain’t one of them icky queers you’re gonna vote to uphold.”
Well, yeah, but if you work in an attorney general’s office that’s part of the job.
http://www.thelostogle.com/2014/03/1…es/#more-42994
Oklahoma politico wannabe Pam Pollard. She’s the former Vice-Chair of the Oklahoma GOP and currently the President of the Oklahoma Federation of Republican Women.
Highlights :eek:
No public school - women should stay home and school the children.
Textbooks? Nah - the Bible has it all.
Girls won’t need much education other than helping mom cook for the husband.
Just WOW - Alas, this is what a significant portion of the American Taliban want.
American Taliban. I like that. 
I like the corrollary - “Talibangelists.”
*Teahadists *is my favorite.
Tealiban?
:smack: Of course. Thanks for powering my brain back on :).
Someone please tell him that while we do have a tradition of secession, it is a source of mixed feelings to put it mildly.
I expect he was talking about the thirteen colonies seceding from the British Empire but yeah, poor choice of words.
Can some-one help me out again? It’s been few decades since my last history class. What “tradition” of secession?
the Civil War, I guess.
The colonies seceded from the British Empire – though there’s not much mixed feeling about that any more, AFAIK; but then later the Southern states tried to secede from the Union, and there was among Americans some measure of mixed feelings about that at the time, and to some extent they continue to this day – there are still Neo-Confederates and Lost-Cause sympathizers and apologists.
Right. Let’s give Ron Paulthe benefit of the doubt when it comes to neo-Confederate sympathies. I think he’s earned it.