The Examiner
Last Wednesday marked the anniversary of President Clinton’s historic pronouncement, in the 1996 State of the Union, that “the era of big government is over.” “Not by a long shot,” President Obama seemed to say in his second inaugural last week.
It was “a surprisingly liberal speech” remarked MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Obama warned us we were in for a “long and sometimes difficult” march toward “sustainable energy sources” and — because this president “reject[s] the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future” — perhaps a presidential war on math.
Maybe it’s the era of “collective action.” “Preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action,” Obama insisted — but given his frequent, first-term recourse to government-by-fiat, you could translate that to “expanding my administration’s power requires unilateral action.”
It looks like Obama has a dictatorship in our future and the congress or the courts are doing much about it. Article II of the Constitution explains the power of the presidency, nothing more and nothing less. If Obama over reaches those powers he should be impeached, nothing more and nothing less.
And the MSM isn’t doing much to alert the American public of his overreach. If anything, they are abetting it.