World Net Daily-July 12, 2000
Abuse of presidential power
By Joseph Farah
President Clinton is guilty of many crimes of office, but none
more blatant, more audacious nor egregious than one he openly
brags about.
There's no need for congressional hearings or an independent
counsel or even an investigative news report to prove this one.
The Clinton administration has consistently boasted that it has
ignored the Constitution with regard to this abuse of power, does
so today and will continue to do so right up until the day the
president leaves office next year.
I'm talking about Clinton's brazen use of executive orders,
memoranda, proclamations, regulations and other forms of
legislating and policymaking and statements that these actions
are a direct challenge to Congress, which, under the
Constitution, has sole authority to legislate.
Even more insulting to our system of government is Clinton's
pattern of making such pronouncements right around Independence
Day.
The New York Times published a story last week quoting
administration officials as saying the White House will continue
drafting and carrying out initiatives with or without Congress
right up until Clinton's last day in office.
Among the action items on Clinton's agenda, according to the
story, are: Placing more federal land off-limits to development,
reorganizing government agencies, tightening pollution rules and
"pushing other measures that would stand little chance of
congressional passage."
"This president will be signing executive orders right up until
the morning of Jan. 20, 2001," said Bruce Reid, the president's
domestic policy adviser. "In our experience, when the
administration takes executive action, it not only leads to
results while the political process is stuck in neutral, but it
often spurs Congress to follow suit."
Clinton has signed an average of one executive order or other
policy-making declaration a week, or 450 in all in the last
seven-plus years, according to the Office of Management and
Budget.
It was Independence Day in 1998 when Clinton aide Paul Begala
first went public with this illegal Clinton administration
political strategy. Remember that one?
"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." It was this
column that brought that otherwise obscure quotation to
prominence -- at least in the informed world of the Internet
community.
I don't think it's a coincidence that Clinton officials make this
point around the Fourth of July. I think it's intentional. It's
the kind of in-your-face, law-breaking recklessness that
illustrates why Clinton and his gang are would-be tyrants.
You see, the trouble with the way Clinton uses executive orders
is that they violate the Constitution. It's not even a close
call, because Clinton comes right out and admits he is issuing
them to bypass Congress.
"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a
Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate
and House of Representatives," says Article 1 of the U.S.
Constitution. To that, the Clinton administration replies,
"Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool."
I don't know about you or Congress, but I don't think there's
anything cool about totalitarianism. Evidently Clinton, Begala,
Reid and company disagree. Imagine how impressed they would be
with Hitler or Mussolini. They must have been really cool dudes,
huh?
The greatest fears of the Founding Fathers was the establishment
of a strong central government and an ambitious, power-hungry
political leader at the center of that government. They had had
their fill of kings and dictators. They believed the best
assurance against centralized authority was a loose association
of sovereign states, which maintained most governmental power at
the local level.
How far we've come from the days of statesmen like James Madison,
who believed "That all power is originally vested in, and
consequently derived from, the people. That government is
instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the
people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and
the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and
obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an
indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or
change their government whenever it be found adverse or
inadequate to the purpose of its institution."
Note that Madison said "the people" -- not the government -- have
a right to change their government.
Bill Clinton has taken on this mission as his own God-given
responsibility. He is acting like a strongman, an ayatollah, a
czar, a potentate, a fuehrer.
And Congress sits by and watches.
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