Friday, September 17, 2010

Another Capricious Appointment

President Barack Hussein Obama has once again gone outside of the typical bounds of the United States Constitution in appointing Elizabeth Warren as what I will call the new "consumer" czar. She may be the most fair-minded person to ever enter the District of Columbia with Solomonic wisdom to boot, but why was the normal process of advise and consent of Congress bypassed? Why has she been placed in an ad hoc position on the whim of Mister Obama? How many extra-Constitutional officers does Barack Obama intend to appoint in the form of czars with mandates and authority which are unprecedented and at best nebulous to the American public? Why does the President feel the need to go around the US Senate (which at least for the moment, is still under the control of members of his own party)? Does Barack Obama feel fellow Democrats would not give such a reputedly staunch advocate of the middle class as Ms. Warren a fair hearing? Is there some past event or statement of Ms. Warren that could emerge that would cloud her chances of passing such scrutiny or taint the way the public would perceive her? We have had a process in this nation of laws that has yielded order and success, but now, we are "transcending" those traditional and Constitutional strictures to become a nation of elites being provided with unprecedented power to dictate the conditions and rules for our lives.

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