How Does Going From Being a Senator to a President Rewrite the Constitution?

[Cebu_4_2]

‘How Does Going From Being a Senator to a President Rewrite the Constitution?’: Trey Gowdy Explodes on Obama in Stirring Floor Speech

Mar. 12, 2014 9:35pm Jason Howerton (http://www.theblaze.com/author/jason-howerton/)

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Ignoring President Barack Obama’s veto threat, the House voted on Wednesday for a bill that would expedite congressional lawsuits against the chief executive for failure to enforce federal laws.

The vote was 233-181 in the Republican-led House as GOP lawmakers excoriated Obama for multiple changes to his 4-year-old health care law, steps he’s taken to allow young immigrants to remain in the United States and the administration’s resistance to defend the federal law banning gay marriage.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the ENFORCE the Law Act, delivered a fiery speech and read a series of statements by Obama when he was an Illinois senator in which he warned of the encroachment of the executive on the powers of the other branches of government.

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“How does going from being a senator to a president rewrite the Constitution?” Gowdy asked. “What’s different from when he was a senator? Mr. Speaker, I don’t think there’s an amendment to the Constitution that I’ve missed. I try to keep up with those with regularity.”

Gowdy went on to argue that “process matters” in law enforcement, noting that evidence gathered with a legitimate search warrant is thrown out if an officer so much as accidentally checks the wrong box on the application.

“Even though he was well-intended, even though he had good motivations, even though he got the evidence — because process matters,” he added.

“We all swore an allegiance to the same document that the president swears allegiance to, to faithfully execute the law,” Gowdy continued. “If a president does not faithfully execute the law… what are our remedies?”

He then argued that Congress should do exactly what then-Sen. Obama suggested before he was president of the United States: “To go to the Supreme Court and have the Supreme Court say once and for all: ‘We don’t pass suggestions in this body. … We don’t pass ideas — we pass laws. And we expect them to be faithfully executed.”
Watch the amazing speech here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw0AsBanu-o&feature=share&list=UUVvxvugtuNZSygB4z4aVfsg&in de x=1

[madfranks]

ENFORCE the Law Act

Really? They think if the buffoon in chief doesn't follow the law they can make a new law that will force him to follow the law? This couldn't be more retarded if it was an onion article.

[mick silver]

here the only law thats needed http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.607994604126145327&pid=1.7http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6F2SevIcrYw/TUzQZXpra2I/AAAAAAAAAB8/lf9dlXaFwTs/s1600/tar-and-feather.jpg

[Cebu_4_2]

It seems they want to push the ACA into full production, at least that's what I think they want.

[Hatha Sunahara]

There is another abuse these clowns should concern themselves with. Not enforcing laws is bad enough, but the clown in chief makes up his own laws called Executive Orders (Edicts) most of which are unconstitutional.

The Congress is One with the President, and waives its power by not acting on the abuses of the President. The victims are the people who have lost an honest form of government. Germany's Reichstag deferred to Hitler, and we all can see where Germany went and what happened when they did that. Instead of Congress making laws, its a free for all among the Neocons, Zionists, Corporations, and the wealthy. Until this changes, we, the people are screwed.


Hatha

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

He's going to use his abuse of power to veto a bill that tries to reign in his abuse of power.

[Horn]

Of course that executive act (order) that he issued to freeze Russian assets recently still holds and is O.K. per Repugs and just about everyone else.