Judge Andrew Napolitano: Congress Can Serve Obama a "Poison Pill" to Stop Him from Implementing Amnesty Unilaterally

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Congress Can Serve Obama a "Poison Pill" to Stop Him from Implementing Amnesty Unilaterally

The sign of the times for the president could become very bleak, very soon, ladies and gentlemen. Considering Princeton University declared today that the United State of America is no longer a democratic nation, this informative commentary by Judge Andrew Napolitano is comforting. The issue therein becomes will Congress stand up to Obama, or continue to be intimated and "limp" before him? After all, the president's approval rating has dipped into the 35% range, and we have yet to complete his six year in office.

And about the report from Princeton? Well, I will include it below in a .PDF format:

  

It is a sad but fundamental truth. The American people elected congressmen and senators to serve our interests, but they are being completely and criminally bypassed. The actual document is a few pages, and it is of course available for your consumption. I will, however, provide a synopsis of it from Mad World News which I believe you may find a bit more expedient in understanding the controls of the project:

Princeton University conducted a recent study on the past 20 years of legislation. What they concluded should alarm both Liberals and Conservatives. What they found is that the government of the United States has been replaced. It is not a Democracy as many are calling it. It is not even a Republic as it was founded by the Constitution. We are not a government for the people, nor are we by the people.

The scientific study being attributed to Princeton was conducted by Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin I. Page of Northwestern University, and they combed through years of legislation from the 1990’s until the modern era. What they concluded is that we have left the Republic in shambles and have formed a new form of government despite the Constitution. They conclude that the Teaparty, Occupy Movement, Libertarians, and others are all correct.

They conclude that the United States has became an Oligarchy.

When the Tea Party yells, “the elite ‘Main Street’ Republicans are working on their own agenda, not the people,” they could very well be correct.

When Occupy yells, “we are a nation ruled by the 1%,” they might also be correct.

When the Libertarians yell, “both sides have betrayed us for their own agenda of the elite ruling class”, they may also be correct.

They use four theoretical traditions to base their conclusions.

1. Majoritarian Electoral Democracy – or the tyranny of the elected majority from the 1800’s.
2. Economic Elite Domination – a tradition implemented to where the policy making is dominated by those who have substantial economic resources.
3. Majoritarian Pluralism – warned about in the Federalist Papers which helped found our Republic
4. Biased Pluralism – or policy driven with an “upper class” accent.

Out of 1923 policy changes, 1779 of them raised an alarming question as to who controls the country. What they found is that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

In other words, if you are an average American citizen with middle to lower-income, your opinion is not even recognized.

Frantic Liberal Progressives are right on a few things in light of the new data. Economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez constructed income statistics based on income from 1913 through 2013, and the data lent credence to Princeton’s research.

 

Piketty and Saez also calculated that as of September 2013 the top 1% of earners had captured 95% of all income gains since the Great Recession ended. The other 99% saw a net 12% drop to their income. So not only is oligarchy making the rich richer, it’s driving policy that’s made everyone else poorer. ~MIC

However, they have some things wrong in their panic as well.

For one, they agree that everyone believes that there should be mandatory background checks, even at gun shows. What they fail to note is that the argument is not for background checks, but that the majority of US Citizens reject the notion of gun registration, as history has shown registration leads to confiscation 99% of the time. Since the 1986 gun law, background checks have been mandatory, even at gun shows. The slipping through the cracks are on illegal guns, not legally purchased guns. IF the database was updated properly by the FBI and people were reported as REQUIRED…

The next point is Progressives using this to back Hairy Reed’s attempt to change the Constitution and obliterate the First Amendment, which is being voted on in secret on September 9th. That’s right, while everyone is blindsided by terrorist attacks, an open border, ISIS, and everything else, the Senate’s now shown Oligarchy is using it to attack FEC vs Citizens United and McCutcheon vs FEC. Progressives are trying to twist it with the view that it gives power to the Oligarchy to allow them to exist. It does quite the opposite. In fact, the proposed amendment does nothing to stop the top 50 political donors, but would empower them to maintain their Oligarchy! They would still be able to keep up business as usual. It would stop you from being able to oppose them!

In fact, the conclusion is even more dismal if you look at the two lists. The first is the group that sees 90% of their legislation passed. The second sees 43% to 60% of their legislation passed.

The first group consists of:

Business and professional groups

Airlines

American Bankers Association

American Council of Life Insurance

American Farm Bureau Federation

American Hospital Association

American Medical Association

Association of Trial Lawyers

Automobile companies

Chamber of Commerce

Computer software and hardware

Credit Union National Association

Defense contractors

Electric companies

Health Insurance Association

Independent Insurance Agents of America

Motion Picture Association of America

National Association of Broadcasters

National Association of Home Builders

National Association of Manufacturers

National Association of Realtors

National Beer Wholesalers Association

National Federation of Independent Business

National Restaurant Association

Oil Companies

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers

Recording Industry Association

Securities and investment companies

Telephone companies

Tobacco companies

Note: You can see why GE does not pay income tax despite operating a business on American soil, or why the disaster of Obamacare is being allowed despite unpopularity. No matter what group spins it, these are the associations that get their way most of the time.

The second group consists of:

AARP

AFL-CIO

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

American Legion

Christian Coalition

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

National Rifle Association

National Right to Life Committee

United Auto Workers union

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S.

Note: The second group sees most of their legislation in the 60%-43% range passed. It’s not nearly the 90%+ of the first group.

What about the majority of the American People? Well, unless you side with one of these groups, your legislation is passed at a negative percentile.

Using their data, they have accurately predicted, with a margin of error, that if you are an average citizen, you may see 20% of your legislation passed as compared to the lobbyists, special interests, and economic elite who will find they get their way the majority of time.

It really is disheartening. This is not what our Founding Fathers intended. This is not even Constitutional.

It is past time that we quit bickering over silly arguments that have been made to divide a country to continue an elite rule. Stop arguing over race, it is just a pigmentation of our skin and inside we are all the same. Stop arguing over idiotic ideologies that have no sound evidence. Socialism has failed in every society, resulting in Cuba and China moving to a free market system. Do you want to see proof of Obamacare in action? Take a look at our VA system!

Start arguing to the elite that Congress needs to put patches on their suits like NASCAR. Start demanding accountability of Senators that list their parents basement as an address to stay in power. Start demanding term limits. Start demanding accountability of the political elite to stop scamming the welfare and disability system. Start demanding that Senators stop saying they know what is best and instead do their JOB.  Start demanding they stop arguing if a team name is racist and start taking care of the 355 bills left on the Majority Leader’s desk to rot.

You want to see a change back to the Constitution and a true “change you can believe in”? That starts with us. We have to put aside our political party and work together to fix it. With this study, it is no longer an argument of left or right, but right or wrong.

If this study sickens you, then the solution to fixing it begins with us “Average American” people.

“To know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of one hundred battles.”~ Sun Tzu.  You can follow more of my work on Facebook at Journalist Brandon Walker.

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The concept that the American people are one nation, indivisible is not accurate at all. When the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of wealthy billionaire tycoons and labor unions or powerful PACs and special interests to donate as much as they would like, Main Street, U.S.A. suffers. We do not have a voice any longer, and we have not since before most of you and myself were born. We vote, and our elected officials instead serve Wall Street, the UAW and the Teamsters or the AFL-CIO, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and of course Hollywood and our musicians. They preach they are individuals who know what is best for we, the people, but they are instead padding their wallets at our expense, exploiting us all while we continue to cater to their whims by paying their salaries through our taxed incomes or through consumerism. At some point, this issue must be resolved, but I am not certain as to how it will be accomplished.

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Judge Andrew Napolitano: Obama Can Be Served a "Poison Pill" on Amnesty

Rather than humble pie, I would rather see the president engage in projectile regurgitation. America's favorite judge stated this on Fox News Blog, albeit it was televised. The possibilities are endless if it is actually employed:

'Poison Pill': How Republicans Could Nullify Obama's Executive Action on Immigration

President Obama spoke last week of his intention to take executive action on immigration reform. Then over the weekend, the White House said any action will be delayed until after the November midterm elections.

President Obama spoke last week of his intention to take executive action on immigration reform. Then over the weekend, the White House said any action will be delayed until after the November midterm elections.

 win control of the Senate in November?

Fox and Friends asked Judge Andrew Napolitano, who outlined a "poison pill" scenario in which the GOP-controlled Senate could seek to nullify the actions on immigration reform.

He explained that the most significant thing that the House and Senate could do would be to insert the language into a larger bill, since the president does not have line-item veto power. 

"He can't cross out something that he doesn't like and sign the rest. So if there's legislation he really needs and the country really wants and must have - like funding the Defense Department - they could sneak in there legislation nullifying these executive orders [and] he'd be forced to sign it," said Napolitano, adding that President Obama remains devoted to an "ideological view of transforming American society."

"These are not happy times in Washington ... [and] it's going to get worse in the next two years."

Watch his full analysis above.BY 

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In hearkening Dirty Harry played by the legendary Clint Eastwood, I will simply close with this:

(Let's pray that our GOP congressmen and senators grow a set soon.)