The genius of our Constitution was that the people who worked out the details of our founding document and proposed it to a fledgling nation, not quite two decades old, realized that they were not perfect. The also realized that there would never be that perfect angel born, in whom we should place the entirety of our trust. They also gave us the ability to make changes to what they had done. To date, there have been 27 such changes officially enacted. With the powers of governing separated, and the three co-equal branches of government being given authority to act as a check and balance for the other two, Our founding fathers set up a system that was designed to limit the authority given to the government, that they would be forever bound by the consent of the people governed, and the minority protected against infringements by a majority upon their right to be secure in their lives, homes, effects, papers, and property.
Our founding law indeed is stronger than any one person who may win elective office, or even the takeover of an entire political party that would seek to replace that document with their own form of centralized control. We have seen previously in our history as a matter of fact, those who would try, and in the end the Constitution has survived, and the usurpations of would be tyrants have ended up occupying the ash heap of history. Fortunately, our founding fathers had the good sense to make those changes difficult to enact. Gridlock, ladies and gentlemen is a good thing indeed. Those people who proposed the Constitution to us realized that it has, for all of man kind's history, been possible to whip up the emotions of people into temporarily making bad decisions on a collective scale. Crises create mobs, and mobs can be convinced of doing terrible things.
There is a reason why we have been flying from one crisis to another, non stop for the past four years. Given the opportunity to cool down, people would never go for the whole sale changes to our laws that are being foisted upon us. Obamacare would never have passed in Congress in 2009, were it not for the economic crisis, almost entirely manufactured by previous bad government policy by the way. Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley, Tarp, Stimulus, Quantitative Easing, none of it would have happened without people being frightened into allowing the government to do basically anything that it wished to do.
No way the citizens of the United States allow our President to rule via executive fiat for those liberty encroaching dreams from his father, were they not distracted, and indeed frightened, constantly with the crisis du jour. Piece by piece, we have had our basic freedoms striped away, and indeed even had half of our numbers cheer it on, all under the guise of fairness and caring for the less capable, or my personal favorite, "it's for the children."
One of the problems with allowing huge swaths of unchecked power to any individual of course is the title question of this essay. What happens next? Let's pretend for a moment that Barack Obama is everything that he has been advertised to be. Let us further pretend that the 22nd Amendment gets repealed, because darn it, we need this man to be our President for life. Do we give the same trust to our next President for life after Barack? There will always be a future. As much as you liberals love Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, You hated Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Are you in favor of entrusting the same levels of authority to future Presidents more in their mold, as you are giving to our current President?
There is however a silver lining in all of this. To date, these people have not managed a single Amendment to our Constitution. All of the current assaults upon or Constitution are temporary, and can be undone. It will not be easy, and in fact has never happened, but the possibility is there. The even better news is that it takes about 75% support of the American People in order to make any changes to our Constitution. That is something that our current Demagogue in Chief does not have, and more importantly is not anywhere close to having.
All of the laws enacted by the current group of Marxists can be voted out in the same manner in which they were voted in. The executive orders can be countermanded with the same single stroke of a pen with which they were put into place. On January 21, 2017, Barack Obama will no longer be our President, but the Constitution of the United States, with its current 27 Amendments, and no more, will still be the ultimate law of our Republic. Barack Obama's attempt to destroy our nation will have failed, and history will begin its judgement of the Obama Presidency.
Today, Barack Obama surrounded himself with children and made the ultimate demagogic appeal in his announcement of 23 executive orders that he will unilaterally use to abridge our Second Amendment rights. At least two states have already enacted laws to incarcerate any federal officials who attempt to enforce those orders within the borders of their respective states. The legality of these measures, which bypassed the Legislative Branch, in direct contrast to the laws of our land will be argued probably all the way to the Supreme Court. Before the inevitable challenges make it that far however, the offending rules will probably be signed out of existence just as unilaterally.
America survived other dolts in the past, and our Constitution will survive Barack Obama as well. If one lesson has been taught to us in spades over the past four years, it is that elections have consequences. If you stayed home as a protest this November past, your share of the blame is twice as much as the dopes who voted this group in. Either way, this President and his damage will not last. History will judge him rather unkindly, and our Constitution will survive. Americans you see are capable of getting bored, and boredom with the current state of constant crisis is going to happen. When you boil down Obama's rap, crisis utilization is really his only political tool.
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Comment by John Wiseman on January 17, 2013 at 8:47am Somehow, you've gotten the wrong impression of me. My optimism is a call to keep fighting, not a signal to just allow this to all happen. The optimism is there because I feel that ultimately, we will win this fight, not lose it. It heartens me even further to learn that your meeting was so well attended by former military and current law enforcement personnel. That's a good sign indeed, and one I can only hope would be repeated in the broader sense of our fruited plane.
Comment by C.E. Moore on January 17, 2013 at 2:02am For these actions whether constitutional or not to be stopped, someone will have to challenge them and not allow them to happen. They are, of course unconstitutional but unless Congress, or the courts stop them, they will occur. This is not really an oversimplification, just someone has to have the will, nerve and guts to do it. Congress of course should not allow this usurpation of its powers, but again someone in Congress has to lead on the matter and challenge successfully on these matters. And they arent. Nor will they. A few patriotic congressmen will state their case and try to lead on these matters. And they will be given lip service, ignored or ridiculed . The Republicans are so gun shy, apparently they lost their core beliefs during the last election, or never actually had them . either way to keep their jobs and lifestyles they capitulated and Obamma knows that. He also knows, having studied his heroes Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, that if no one stops you then its all effectively legal. So if he has success ignoring congress and the will of the American People by using Presidential orders there is no reason for him to stop using them as a power grab. The Constitution to him is an impediment, an evil document written by evil old white guys two hundred years ago, something to be destroyed. This countries high water mark was reached sometime before November 6, 2012. It will not recover to anywhere near its former greatness in our lifetime I fear. It takes a long time for a country as strong as ours to completely deteriorate, but once started something more powerful than our patriotic minority will have to occur to turn this around. I think our goal should be to maintain our Americanism and teach our children so someday in the future the dream, hope and Greatness that was our Country will be remembered and maybe rekindled by better people than our present freeloading non thinking majority.
Comment by Don Johnson on January 17, 2013 at 12:10am Mr. Wiseman:
I am very tired after having a long day and attending a Militia Meeting attended by three of four invited county Sheriff's and approx. 300 people, who would have a real problem with your optimism that we will survive "O" and his policies for another four years, and the other useful idiots in congress to boot !
In fact, I would have liked to have been able to conduct a survey on just how many there, would dare anyone, including the Sheriff's they were talking with, to attempt to ban their guns and the capacity of their magazines and come knocking on their doors to confiscate them !
One gentlemen in the group stated he was 66 years old and stated that "If" someone, anyone, came to his door of his home and demanded his guns for any reason, or by force, that it would be the last door they knocked on and that he had lived a good life !
The applause from the crowd was way past the majority of those attending the event ! By the way, this event had many law enforcement officers and veterans attending along with everyday citizens that came from ( 4 ) surrounding counties to express their anger at "O" and anyone who thinks like him ! This event is a "Spec of Dust" under a microscope, in comparison to events and discussions going on all over this country about gun control and about our government's abuses !
Several states have passed laws and resolutions, serving notice to "O" and the federal government that they will not allow "ANY" unconstitutional mandates, executive orders or federal laws or anything like it, to be imposed on the citizens of their respective states ! This along with the many lawsuits file for "Obamacare" including the "RFID" chip mandate in March 2013, will fill the courts up until "We The People" kick his sorry butt out of office along with his other useful idiots !
In my entire life and as a veteran and retired law enforcement officer, I would have never dreamed this country would be in the shape it is today !
I take responsibility for not seeing this train wreck many years ago and attempting to do some-thing about it while we still had a reasonable chance of success, which at this moment in my life is very hard to accept.
10-20 years ago, I would have thought most people who think like I am thinking today along with many others, were nuts ! Now I have pitched my tent in their camp and I am thankful to have their company !
January 2017 is like 100 years from now in the grand scheme of things if we survive that long !
I do not want to even allow myself to consider how much damage "O" can do to us in the next four years along with congress, #1 and have to deal with the reality #2 of not "Ever" being able to recover from all the damage done and to lose everything we all have worked for all our lives !
You can sir, but I am afraid you won't have much company sharing your optimism !
Comment by Linny Redd on January 16, 2013 at 10:57pm With HIGH TREASON invovled, I PRAY that the Bozo will be removed long before 2017!
Comment by Roger Davies on January 16, 2013 at 9:05pm You are making a huge assumption! You are assuming that this government is following our Constitution. THEY ARE NOT! They have not been for decades! They make a good show if it, don’t they? The few that want to follow our Constitution are either “voted” out of office (Col. Allen West) or told to back off (Rand Paul). IF more of our former military officers would stand up and honor the oath they, and all us former military took, we would have a better chance of getting this done. You do understand that that oath did not have an end date!?
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Comment by Ronald Sorrells on January 16, 2013 at 9:02pm 
Comment by Edward M. Plitt on January 16, 2013 at 8:30pm Obama the first terrorist president. Turning law abiding gun owners into criminals. Turning doctors into inquisitors/interrogators.
Gun control never has worked. Just look at Chicago. That city has the most draconian gun laws in the country and still it is the murder capital of the country. When you take guns away from law-abiding people only criminals and the criminal elite have them, which proves to me, we have an entirely different agenda here. What we have is a tyrant dictator's attempt to disarm the country so he can become a totalarian king.
Comment by Doug Sheets on January 16, 2013 at 8:23pm Linda, I'll buy!
Comment by Linda Sills on January 16, 2013 at 8:16pm If that bastard thinks he hates this country more than I hate him.. he is sadly mistaken. If he gets impeached, or offed, There is not enough Champagne at Bev Mo to celebrate
Comment by Thomas Angle on January 16, 2013 at 8:00pm Hector, We the People are the last line of defence against a tyrannical government. Also if the intent of an unconstitutional act is the usurpation of the Constitution, I would say that is treason.
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