{"id":636,"date":"2009-07-05T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-07-05T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:04:33","slug":"constitution-in-obamas-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/constitution-in-obamas-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution in Obama&#8217;s way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/05\/obama-hey-lets-bypass-the-senate-on-treaty-ratifications\/\">By way of Hot Air<\/a> is this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/07\/us-russian-arms-negotiators-under-the-gun-might-temporarily-bypass-senate-ratification-for-treaty.html\">Jack Tapper story<\/a> about our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> wanting to ignore the Rule of Law and bypass the Constitution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate\u2019s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a \u201cprovisional basis\u201d until the Senate ratifies the treaty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Bypass<\/em> the Constitution?  Well, Team Lightgiver doesn&#8217;t like the thing anyway, with it&#8217;s pesky concepts like limiting the power of government and ensuring the rights of individuals.<br \/>\nAs Ed Morrissey points out, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a> hold sixty seats in the Senate. Getting this passed should be no problem.  Unless our Dear Leader thinks he can&#8217;t get a majority of his own party to approve this Charlie Fox of a treaty, which is why he is considering violating the Rule of Law.  Not that he&#8217;s losing much sleep over that, probably because the <a href=\"http:\/\/cassandra2004.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/msmdnc-singular-noun.html\">MSM<\/a>, with the exception of ABC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daybydaycartoon.com\/2009\/06\/27\/\">Jake Tapper<\/a>,  not covering the story about the President of the United States, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, is publicly discussing violating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/constitution.articleii.html#section2\">Article 2, Section 2, of the Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of Hot Air is this Jack Tapper story about our Dear Leader wanting to ignore the Rule of Law and bypass the Constitution. 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