Thursday, December 04, 2014

MUST READ: An Open Letter to Republicans in Washington

By Daniel Horowitz

Dear Republicans in Washington,

Houston, we’ve got a problem. 

We have a president who has made it clear he will unilaterally change laws in a way that will harm America’s economy for years to come – whether they pertain to labor, energy, health care, and of course, immigration.  He openly brags about his newfound ability to “change the law,” and he is only emboldened to continue building on the lawlessness for the next two years.

This begs the deeply uncomfortable and inconvenient question of our time: is there anything this president cannot get away with over the next two years?

Yet, at the same time that Obama has assumed the powers Alexander Hamilton referred to as the prerogative of perpetual and hereditary prince, you have publicly and preemptively ceded all powers Congress has to stop this regime.  You have made it clear to the president that no matter how egregious and unpopular his edicts are with the people, you will not wield the power of the purse in any consequential way.  You have telegraphed to him your fervent belief that Republicans would be blamed for any brinkmanship – no matter the issue, no matter how much you fund critical aspects of government, no matter the results of the election.

This begs the deeply uncomfortable and inconvenient question of our time: is there anything this president cannot get away with over the next two years?  He can violate any and every law on the books, yet what are you going to do about it?  Won’t it lead to a government shutdown?    

And this two-year constitutional crisis is based on the assumption that he doesn’t unilaterally nullify the 22nd Amendment and run for a third term.  Ironically, the only thing stopping him from doing so is Hillary Clinton, not you and your fellow Republicans.  After all, we can’t have a government shutdown.    

Make no mistake about it, immigration is just the beginning.

Some of you badly want to spend your time focusing on corporate tax “reform” that Obama will veto in a heartbeat (and if he signs it, God help us) or sundry projects promoted by K Street during your daily conference calls. But at some point, Obama will make you care about his legislative activities.

Let’s talk candidly for a moment, especially with those of you who are regarded as conservatives in the media, by your constituents, and even many in the conservative political movement.  You don’t give a rip about the immigration issue, and many of you downright agree with Obama on the issue.  You know who you are.  You are among those who stand up and pontificate arguments similar to liberation theology with regards to putting illegal immigrants ahead of Americans. 

Accordingly, you are not gripped with a sense of pain and fear over Obama’s executive order.  Sure, some of you would rather Obama had not violated the Constitution; however, you will not lose sleep over it. 

But this is not about immigration.  You will be made to care.  You might not care about immigration, but if the truculent trajectory of Obama’s behavior is not blunted, rest assured that he will act in a similar vein on an issue you care about.

Some of you badly want to spend your time focusing on corporate tax “reform” that Obama will veto in a heartbeat (and if he signs it, God help us) or sundry projects promoted by K Street during your daily conference calls. 

But at some point, Obama will make you care about his legislative activities. 

Senator, you campaigned on stopping the war on coal and ran up historic margins in those counties hardest hit by Obama’s EPA lawlessness.

Senator McConnell: we all know that your K Street associates want amnesty for illegals and they don’t want to fully repeal Obamacare.  But undoubtedly, you must care about the thousands of people in your state who are now impoverished as a result of Obama’s war on coal.  Obama is about to unleash 3,400 new regulations, including a new ozone-layer regulation on power plants and factories that will destroy the economy in states like Kentucky.

Senator, you campaigned on stopping the war on coal and ran up historic margins in those counties hardest hit by Obama’s EPA lawlessness.  Much of your success came from the district of Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the man who has dedicated his energy and passion to blocking the use of the budget to stop Obama’s lawlessness. 

So what will you do to stop the war on coal?  After all, you have suggested that any effort to fund the government sans the executive orders would lead to a government shutdown, which under all circumstances, would reflect badly only on Republicans.  So what is the end game?  Silence is not an answer.


 
Daniel Horowitz is Senior Editor of Conservative Review. Follow him on twitter @RMConservative

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6 comments:

Unknown said...

This is a farce your as bad as Limbaugh.. Lets all admit the emperor has no clothes and we have no representation they are all against us, our values and the country as a whole. They both built a massive security and propaganda machine to control yo u and me. You are deliberately ignorant or disingenuous at this point.. Red / Blue = no difference at all

Anonymous said...

The only difference between the GOP establishment and Democrats isn't the size of government, it's who gets to run it, get rich from it, and reward their contributors with taxpayer dollars. A pox on both their houses.

Anonymous said...

I've sent e-mails to both Of my Senators and my Representative asking them to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution until March for all Federal agencies with the exception of the budgets for DHS and HHS whose budgets must prohibit the use or redirection of any funds to be used in any aspect of Obama's unconstitutional amnesty. I reminded my Congressional reps that they are responsible for protecting the Constitution and that Obama's amnesty is clearly unconstitutional and told them if they didn't do this they are putting our country at risk of ending up with a President who thinks he can disband both Congress and the Supreme Court by issuing an Executive Order.

TheFineReport.com said...

An open letter to the GOP leadership is like an open letter to President Scumbag: a total waste of paper and ink.

We need to boot that raging a-hole Boehner out of office, and quick and carry him out of town on a rail. We can load McTurtle and Pee Wee Prebus in the same rail.

Anonymous said...

What a waste of trees that was! The Dead Elephants have no more shame than the commie-libs. Recalls are in order, BIG TIME, but at the end of the day even the "activists" are going to be going about their usual routines, getting ready to spend more than they can afford at Christmas, melting their brains in front of the boob tube, feeling occasional momentary outrage at the crap their kids are being propagandized with during this season but doing nothing but muttering under their breath(rather than getting their kids out), and many will even be trying to find some way to capitalize on the ruthless overthrow of the country.
If everyone took the tax delay of six weeks, or a month, or whatever it is, they could INSTANTLY defund the gov't themselves, but they won't do it. It's just meaningless blather after awhile.
Obama isn't leaving in '16, and there isn't anything substantial the Dead Elephants will end up doing about that either. ObolaCare and Amnesty unpunished, and fully funded,are literally the end of our sovereign Republic.

fjord said...

Waste of paper, time and effort. Torches and pitchforks will come out when rolling blackouts or intermittent power, higher death toll from obamacare and criminal violence from illegal invasion and we have lots of time on our hands because there are no jobs to go to.

By that time itll be too late.