Thursday, October 13, 2011

Democrats hate democracy

Just read an article about how Jessie Jackson, Jr. is suggesting that President Obama declare Congress to be "in rebellion" and take "extra-constitutional" (does that mean illegal?) action to deal with the economy. It should first be noted that the President is head of the executive branch of government and not head of the entire government. Congress is a co-equal branch of government and the President can no more declare them to be in rebellion than Congress can declare the President to be in rebellion (although they can impeach him). President Obama told Boehner that elections have consequences, and so they do. The democrats can't simply ignore the consequences to them and their programs of the last election. Congress is not obligated to pass whatever bills the President sends to them and the President can't simply ignore those results and govern as an absolute monarch. The extra-constitutional action that the good Congressperson suggests is the government employing all of the unemployed (I'm not sure doing what) and a cost of around 600 billion and provide another 100 billion to bail out the states (I think it would take more to bail out California) and 100 billion to bail out the cities. He doesn't say where this money is coming from, I'm sure he doesn't care, or how long we would continue to "employ" all of these people. Presumably forever. I was going to say he hadn't thought through the inflationary effect this would have but it's obvious he hasn't put any real thought into this at all.

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