Your Republic is going away

In case you have not noticed, we are given up our Constitutional Republic on agency and board at a time.  The EPA can go around congress and thwart the will of the people so expressed by implementing rules that get the country far down the road to cap and trade. They stopped oil exploration in Alaska because Shell did not account for the impact of air quality by the ships (a minor amount as it turns out)  The National Labor Relations Board is trying to tell Boeing it cannot open a new plant in South Carolina. And a little know and as yet board created in the health reform legislation, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, will have the power to reduce payment for Medicare without being subject to administrative or judicial review.  Further its decision can only be overturned by a three fifths vote of Congress.  Obama wishes to give this board even more power.  The Constitution is being subverted.  More and more legislative power is flowing to the Administration under various boards and agencies.  These agencies issue rules to implement law, but these rules often go beyond congressional intent.  Agencies are making law and our Constitution and Republic are  being destroyed.

Obama and Petards

As a preface, I totally support Obama's decision regarding Bin Laden.  Obama is learning however that words have meaning.  If you recall Obama and his administration eliminated the words "War on Terror".  If there is no War, how do you justify killing Bin Laden as a combatant commander in the field?.  If the enhanced interrogation techniques were illegal as Holder claims, and since the intel that led to Bin Laden started with these interrogations, was not the action that derived from that information therefore also illegal (fruit from a poisoned tree).  Obama said that the days of the US acting unilaterally were over that we in essence would stop being a rogue (my words) nation.  Yet we acted unilaterally.  Europe is full voice decrying what we have done.  The words of candidate and President Obama have come back on him.  Hoist with his own petard.

President Obama's Decision

The President Obama made a tough decision to have the SEALS go in and and kill Bin Laden.  Some of his advisers were against it.  The easy call was to try missiles.  Obama made the tougher but leave no doubt call. The President has now had to face the realities of we are up against.  It is a war.  There is evil.  Some people really do want to kill us.  He also has to face the reality that without the interrogations used by the Bush administration and the rebuilding of our intelligence network he would not have had a decision to make.  For all the criticism Obama has dished out to Bush, I hope he has come to realize that as Commander in Chief you have to make hard decisions, take actions that others may condemn and deal with our enemies in less than nice ways if you are going to protect and defend our country.