"At least the President knows he can't do that."
The BS is Washington is flying fast and furious. Yesterday there was a group of congressmen saying that Obama should sign an executive order to increase the debt limit and do an end run around congress altogether.
May I please object? Government by executive order is called a dictatorship, and generally speaking in this country those are considered to be bad things. Are we really ready to give up on our Constitution and our way of life because a few boneheads (duly elected by the people, of course) can't come to consensus?
Besides, if we're going to use executive orders, why not do something really dramatic that actually solves the problem?
Why not nationalize the banking system by executive order? A whole bunch of debt that's pushing the discussions in Washington was used to bail them out a couple of years ago. God knows they're making money now.
How about the energy sector? Oil companies are bad guys anyway according to the Obama rhetoric. Let's seize their assets and apply all of the profit from the energy sector to the national debt.
What about the transportation system? We subsidize most of it anyway.
That's how they did it in China. A stroke of the pen and we could be just like them.
And, by executive order of course, we could ask the CIA to assassinate anyone who thinks these executive orders are bad ideas. We'll tell everyone else that it's in their best interests and for their own good.
A few well written executive orders and we could forget about the national debt, never again have to endure the mindless, senseless bickering among the various branches and institutions of government, and lose the expense, drama, wasted resources and hassle of all these damn elections once and for all.
Bill Clinton said he would do it without hesitation and "let the courts figure it out." Clearly Bill has some latent contempt for the US Constitution and our system of government.
I'm glad Obama has sense enough to know that he can't do things this way. It's unAmerican and unthinkable.