Dictatorial powers!

It’s interesting that the democrats are attacking Trump for wanting to use the Presidency in the same way in which Biden, and every President before him, through Clinton, has done. A democrat in 1912 was elected on the idea of the President being the chief legislator and that whatever he wanted to do should be what gets done. Wilson started it, FDR used it more and nearly every President since has done the same. There have been a few notable exceptions, Eisenhower and JFK being among them. But starting with Clinton America has seemed to elect a dictator for 8 years. Trump is the exception to that, he only got four years (before the real tyranny could even begin) and now we have Biden who has done more damage in four years than any President previous to him.

The US Constitution gives the President the authority to execute laws previously passed by Congress, not to make his own laws did, or at least threatened to do, when Obama said He could do what he wanted because he had a pen and a phone.

Let’s go thru Article 2 Sec. 2 where it describes what the President can do.

• Be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy (and now the other branches as well).

• Require written opinions from a department on a subject within their authority.

• Grant reprieves and pardons.

• Make treaties with foreign nations, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

• Shall nominate ambassadors, ministers and consuls, Supreme Court judges and all other officers of the United States; again with the advice and consent of the Senate.

• Fill vacancies while the Senate is in recess.

Hmmm, I don’t see ‘assuming dictatorial powers to get anything done I want’ in that list.

Let’s start making the process more important than the results again. It worked well for a century.

By Tom Ward