*Conservatives Fight Against Excessive Presidential Power * Posted 2 hours ago <http://godfatherpolitics.com/27408/conservatives-fight-against-excessive-presidential-power/> by Onan Coca <http://godfatherpolitics.com/author/onan/>
Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) is one of a handful of young conservatives who are leading the fight to protect the Constitution. These young Congressmen, with names like Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Justin Amash (R-MI), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ted Yoho (R-FL), Matt Salmon (R-AZ) are standing up to the entrenched establishment of both parties and demanding a return to our constitutional core values. In a recent speech before the Senate, Sasse began what will be a series of different arguments demanding that Congress fight back against the unlawful misuse of Executive Power being demonstrated by President Obama in recent years. It’s a powerful speech that brilliantly underscores our need for better leadership in Congress and a return to Constitutional principles in the Republican Party. *The problem of a weak Congress and executive growth should be bad news to all of us and, more importantly, to every constituent who cast their votes for us under the impression that Congress made decisions— not suggestions. I think the weakness of the Congress is not just undesirable, but is actually a dangerous thing for America.* Excerpts of the Senator’s remarks <http://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=F92AC9BC-330D-44E9-9731-9B4283D20CF9> : *"Imagine President Trump has been propelled into the White House... He signs an executive order to turn the Peace Corps into stone masons and build a wall. He shutters the Department of Education and, by executive order, turns the Department of the Interior into the classiest oil company the world has ever known."* *"So what happens next?... After having raged against a supposedly lawless President [would Republicans] suddenly find that they are actually okay with a strongman President, so long as he’s wearing the same color jersey that they are? He may be a lawless sonuvagun but, some would say, he’s our lawless sonuvagun. Would the ends justify the means?"* *"... the problem of a weak Congress and executive growth should be bad news to all of us but, more importantly, to every constituent who cast their votes for us under the impression that Congress makes decisions— not just suggestions."* *"I think the weakness of the Congress is not just undesirable, but is actually a dangerous thing for America... I don’t think this because I am a Republican and the current occupant of the White House is a Democrat. In fact, I think we need to have this debate now precisely because we don’t know who is going to control the White House next."* *"I think it, rather, because I have taken an oath of office to the Constitution; and I’ll still hold this same view when a Republican president next tries to reach beyond his or her constitutional powers."* *"In this series of addresses on the growth of the administrative state and on the unbalanced nature of executive branch and legislative branch relations, my goal is not primarily to advocate. My first goal is just to do some history together..."* Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/27408/conservatives-fight-against-excessive-presidential-power/#oAY98oGmWJplG9Ct.99 __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmMnVlMmI3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NTEyNDM3MDQ-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbXN0ZzJ2BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ1MTI0MzcwNA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
