Eric Holder can't explain constitutional basis for Obama's executive orders

[Biggsly]

Holder is focused on getting to the bottom of F&F.

 

[SMS]

Makes me wonder why Holder could not answer the questions in committee, unless he was just trying to be evasive.

Yeah, he doesn't come across as a very bright bulb but he's not entirely stupid. I bet contemptuous and evasive is probably the key here.

 

[farmerbyron]

Came across this quote the other day. Fits this discussion perfectly.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison

 

[tRidiot]

Oh wow, byron, that's an EXCELLENT quote!

 

[JonDough]

Holder's a punk............

That is all.

 

[Commander Keen]

Holder is focused on getting to the bottom of F&F.

Ha! Thanks for that one, I needed a good laugh today.

 

[dennishoddy]

Holder is not a stupid man. But his loyalty as AG was never to the law, only Obama.

Janet Reno comes to mind after reading your statement. Seems to follow that party.

 

[AKguy1985]

Janet Reno comes to mind after reading your statement. Seems to follow that party.

Janet Reno is busy having a dance party in somebodys basement.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/digital-shorts/video/janet-renos-dance-party/1356266/

 

[SoonerBorn]

Much of the uproar over Barry's executive orders and his alleged usurpation of Congress is overblown. Read the EOs. They are narrow in scope and in almost every case they exercise real authority given the Executive branch by the text of the legislation. For example, the EOs revolving around the Affordable Care Act are perfectly legal because the legislation is full of the the phrase "Such as the Secretary may decide/determine". The Secretary works for the President, the President can direct her, through and EO, to decide/determine how he wants. If anyone is to blame for Barry's EO-fest, it's Congress for writing those back doors into the legislation.

Once the SCOTUS ruled it as a tax, and legal because it is one, doesn't that leave caveats such as that inert?

 

[Old Fart]

They'll work it all out as they rewrite that silly constitution thingy.