Really? For years, the left beat the drum that President
Bush was shredding the Constitution with the USA Patriot Act, Guantanamo detainments, rendition and execution of the
Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. When President
Obama adopted those policies as his own, the left suddenly went as silent as
Al Gore during a blizzard.
Mr. Obama infamously said the Constitution is “an imperfect document … a document that reflects some deep flaws … [and] an enormous blind spot.” Evidently, the former constitutional law professor has his own blind spot for Article III, which establishes the judiciary as a coequal branch of our government. Just ask U.S. District Judges
Martin Feldman and
Roger
Vinson.
If an administration made it its expressly stated goal to devastate domestic oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, destroy thousands of jobs, make America more vulnerable to Middle East instability, raise American families’ energy costs and, in the process, assault the constitutional authority of the judicial branch, it would be hard to imagine how the strategy would be any different from the
Obama administration‘s approach to the Gulf.
In its zeal to put a “boot on the neck” of America’s energy supply, the
administration was caught falsifying an
Interior Department scientific report to ram through its Gulf deep-water drilling moratorium. When the ban was overturned by Judge
Feldman, the
administration thumbed its nose at the court and the American people. With “determined disregard,” as Judge
Feldman put it, the
administration dropped its moratorium all right, but then simply concocted another, similar ban in its place.
