Carte Blanche Presidency

From the days of the Magna Carta, the king was theoretically, at least, under the law. Barack Hussein Obama is subject to the same law regarding the inspector general as his predecessors. The nature of the job of inspector general (IG) is to go where the evidence leads and IGs often end up stepping on the toes of people in power. Obama, as US Senator, even sponsored a measure protecting the independence of IGs by requiring a thirty day wait before an IG could be terminated (for cause). In the recent Walpin case, involving point guard become Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the Obama administration ignored Obama's own law. This is a President who seeks to widen the scope of regulation more than any previous US leader. Enormous, burdensome regulation of the financial industry is coming-regulation that lets slide the true cause of the fiscal collapse-the anti-"redlining" regulation that forced banks to give loans to those who were utterly unworthy of credit, which sparked the subprime loan crisis and led to the creation of liar loans and exotic derivative trading that fueled the fire of banking and insurance dominoes. Instead of ending the gifts disguised as low income loans, the new regulation proposed by Democrats fosters more of them. Obama wants to regulate industry and energy consumption with cap and trade and CAFE standards which will prevent you from driving the vehicle you want or that your large family may require. Obama wants to rob you of your choice in medical decisions with his national health care scheme which by the very nature of medical records will give the government access to the most intimate aspects of your lives. Obama reaches into every crevice of your life but exempts himself and his own from scrutiny. We have a leader whose missteps are covered up by his handmaiden media. Obama is not subject to law; he is above it, and we are rapidly losing the rights of citizenship and becoming subjects. Unless the public is roused from their slumber, we may have to endure eight more years of Obama (or more-if he ignores or bends the Constitution to his whim), but the damage Obama is doing, will last forever.