Happy Halloween

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45087391#45087391

I don’t know about the rest of America, but this is getting scary (and just in time for Halloween)

In the above link, President Obama says that if Congress won’t pass his proposed jobs legislation, then he will do the same things by executive order.

Hello, does that not bother anyone. It bothers me, a lot.

Constitutionally, a president does not make the law, he enforces the law. He proposes,  Congress disposes.

I find it exceedingly uncomfortable when a president starts acting on domestic matters via executive fiat.

I am not sure, but I would hope our members in Congress would rise to this challenge and seek to restore the checks and balances that make the United States practically unique. Yes, those checks and balances make for gridlock. Yes, they make the government look inefficient and slow moving. But, honestly, that is more prudent than acting on impulse or seeking immediate gratification.

I think President Obama is wrong in seeking to enact his plans by executive order. Not because the policies are necessarily bad, misguided or wrong, but because it should not be in any president’s power to do so.