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The Death of
Divided Government
When Iranian President Hasan Rouhani accused the U.S. Congress of
meddling in the negotiations over his country’s nuclear program, he was
simply reiterating the attitude of the U.S. President. Rouhani
said that the only parties with any right to be heard are the seven
nations involved in the talks. Now, some may say that his speech
on Iranian state television shows only that he does not understand how
our government works. Unfortunately, however, Barack Obama has
been doing quite a job of making the Congress irrelevant, trashing
states’ rights, and incinerating individual liberties. It’s
no wonder that Rouhani would get the idea that Congress had no place at
the table when clearly Barack Obama believes himself entitled to rule
by fiat.
The Executive and the Judiciary seem to hold sway, and Congress often
seems to merely carp ineffectually before ducking its head.
We learn now that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron
Machen, on his final day in that job, pronounced that he would not file
the contempt charges made by Congress against Lois Lerner. This,
according to the Wall Street Journal, shields Ms. Lerner from a grand
jury probe. Does this mean that the truly outrageous
offenses of Lois Lerner against ordinary American citizens will go
unpunished? How can this be?
When government assumes that it can rule us rather than serving its
assigned role of protecting us and securing our God-given rights, we
have strayed far from the essence of America’s constitutional
framework. State legislatures are hamstrung, able to pass laws
only if the federal regulators agree, or risk losing that precious
federal funding. Even K-12 schooling has been nationalized, and
the push for the Common Core Curriculum will even further advance the
loss of parental control over their children’s education.
Our legislators are the bulwark against despotism, but only if they
grow spines and do their duty to the people who have elected
them. Will people come to realize that the old joke about
one of the world’s biggest lies: “I’m from the government and I’m here
to help you” really is true, and insist that that government get off
our backs?
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