by Seton Motley
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The New Normal
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These last several days - while
we here were giving Thanks:
An exhaustive Sunday morning
Web search located as yet no response from the Barack Obama Administration to
this troubling Morsi Fiat Fest. Why the hesitancy? Perhaps it’s Pot-Meet-Kettle
Syndrome. Or lawyer-shark
professional courtesy.
President Morsi has been
busy.
Egypt's president on Thursday issued constitutional
amendments that placed him above judicial oversight....
Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated
panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve
it, a threat that had been hanging over the controversial
assembly....
Sound
familiar?
President Barack Obama...blocked a House Republican
subpoena of Justice Department deliberations over a botched gun trafficking
investigation and set up a potentially explosive political confrontation just as
the presidential election heats up.
The votes approved in the Republican-controlled House
covered two contempt of Congress citations — one as a criminal matter referring
the issue to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington for prosecution, the other
authorizing the House to hire a special attorney to bring a civil
lawsuit.
Ramifications?
Nah.
With two branches of power (Executive and Legislative)
in his hands, Morsi has had repeated frictions with the third, the Judiciary,
over recent months.
Network
Neutrality never passed
Congress - the President just imposed it, in December 2010. Ditto the
Administration’s
power grab of wireless cellular phone networks.
The Administration is being
sued on both
of these. Having - like Morsi - usurped Legislative Branch powers, it is
left to the Judiciary to restore legal order.
Tech lessons not learned,
President Obama presses ever further forward:
A
new executive order addresses how the country deals with the Internet during
natural disasters and security emergencies, but it also puts a lot of power in
the government's hands.
How’s Barack the First doing
nearly everywhere else? Just as terrible.
And on,
and on,
and on....
This is a fairly comprehensive, ongoing power grab effort by our Pharaoh Obama.
We would say “How very Morsi of him” - but it was our President who set the
precedent for Egypt’s
new dictator.
"Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed
himself Egypt's new pharaoh," pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his
Twitter account....
The moves...come as Morsi is riding high on lavish
praise from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
for mediating an end to eight days of fighting between Israel and Gaza's Hamas
rulers....
Again, President Obama has not
been nearly so vocal about Morsi’s all-encompassing power grabs.
We can clearly understand
why.
Seton
Motley is the founder and president of Less Government. He is a writer,
television and radio commentator, political and policy strategist, lecturer,
debater, and activist. Please feel free to follow him on Twitter and Facebook
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