VERBATIM
I’ve heard of looking at the world through rose colored glasses, but
David Brooks of the New York Times has to be looking through black glasses to see what he saw.
Speaking
on the PBS News Hour post-election coverage, Brooks told his fellow
commentators that Barack Obama’s first term in office was very clean and
free of scandal. He did say that Obama was arrogant at times and
subject to overconfidence but was a man of high integrity.
“First
of all, I would say if anybody is subject to overconfidence, I would
say it’s Barack Obama. But I do think there are a couple of things that
are character-logical that will guard against some of the common flaws
of second terms. First, he’s a man of high integrity who has run a very
clean administration. You can argue with this or that or behavior. There
have been signs of insularity and arrogance, but there have been no
scandals. And the rate of scandals plaguing second terms is extremely
high. I think he’s less prone to that.”
I saw this report I had to wonder what ivory tower in New York City
Brooks lived and worked in. Even if he couldn’t see past the skyscraper
skyline of New York I find it hard to believe that he hasn’t paid any
attention to the numerous reports of Obama’s willful disobedience of
federal law, corrupt Justice Department, and growing scandals including
Operation Fast and Furious and Benghazi.
Operation Fast and
Furious has been a scandal that has plagued Obama for over a year and
has yet to be resolved. Congress has launched at least 2 investigations
into Fast and Furious and has subpoenaed thousands and thousands of
pages of documents. Over 120 members of Congress asked for the
resignation of US Attorney General Eric Holder.
What
took place at Benghazi, Libya and that the administration’s role in the
deaths of four Americans has just erupted into what well could be a
full-blown scandal. To date,
53 members of Congress
are demanding that Obama tell them more about what happened and if the
bombings that took place at the Benghazi Consulate earlier in the year
had anything to do with the September 11 attack.
Evidently Brooks must think these are just minor irritations to a flawless administration.
As
far as running a clean administration, I am not sure where to start in
the list of federal laws Obama and his administration have broken. The
president of United States is not above the law but sworn to uphold the
law of the land. The United States Constitution does not give the
president the power to bypass Congress and create law. Nor is the
president of the United States given the power to un-enforce the laws of
his choosing.
Yet President Obama knowingly instructed the
Justice Department to not enforce the Defense of Marriage Act. He also
violated federal law by instructing the Department of Homeland Security
to not enforce certain immigration laws. In addition Obama has
intentionally trampled upon the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
every opportunity he has had.
In the past year president Obama
has illegally bypassed Congress by using executive orders and new
regulations to enact pieces of legislation that Congress would not pass,
thus using his powers to illegally create new laws in violation of the
Constitution of the United States. One example was his Dream Act which
allowed nearly 1,000,000 illegal aliens to remain in the US illegally
and obtain certain rights of citizenship.
If Mr. David Brooks of
the New York Times believes that these are the acts of a clean
administration free of scandal than he has to be one of the most
uninformed and delusional people in this country.
