Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse

Barack Obama keeps talking about our horrible economy and every time he opens his mouth the stock market drops. The circus over Roland Burris seems to have quieted down and the media’s given him a pass on Bill Richardson. His odd choice of Leon Panetta as head of the CIA raised eyebrows, but again, he’s been given a pass. 

All this drama must have you believing that at least it’s all out there. We know what we’re in for so let’s just prepare ourselves. But how do we the people prepare for this?

President Gulliver’s Lawyer – The Wall Street Journal

“In other words, Mr. Obama has nominated as his main executive branch lawyer someone who believes in diminishing the powers of the executive branch. This is akin to naming a conscientious objector as the head of the armed forces, or hiring your wife’s divorce lawyer to handle your side of the settlement too.

It’s also a radical reinvention of the Framers’ view that the three branches of the federal government would vigorously assert their powers to achieve the proper political balance. For this reason, OLC’s longstanding jurisprudence — reaching across Administrations of both parties — emphasizes an expansive reading of Presidential authority. For example, the office has always filed opinions opposing the 1973 War Powers Act, which sought to limit the chief executive’s ability to send military forces abroad. Such opinions covered both Bill Clinton’s intervention in Kosovo and George H.W. Bush’s in Somalia.

Ms. Johnsen’s work ignores all of this in an attempt to assail the entire scope of Bush counterterrorism policy, from surveillance to detention to interrogation. She claims that the OLC “misinterpreted relevant constitutional authorities, particularly when seeking to justify actions otherwise prohibited by law.” She pays special attention to John Yoo’s August 2002 OLC memorandum that set down the legal limits for interrogation, which she calls “the Torture Opinion.”…..”

“Suffocating our terror fighters with excessive legal caution can only impair the difficult task of defending a free society that believes in the rule of law from terrorists who believe in neither freedom nor law. If President Obama matures under the burden and accountability of stopping the next terror attack, he may come to regret having Dawn Johnsen around.”

The single most important job of the government is to protect us from harm from outside forces. This fact seems to be lost on Mr. Obama. He believes the government’s main role is to control the economy (as if that’s even possible.)

While the new administration is plotting to spend our money in a manner most living Americans have never before seen, our enemies will be plotting our destruction. I’m not convinced Barack Obama gets that.