Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, pointed out some interesting facts concerning the November 2008 Presidential election:

• Number of States won by: Obama:19; McCain: 29

• Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000

• Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain 143,000 million

• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by taxpaying citizens of the country.

“Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenement housing and living off various forms of government welfare…”

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million illegal aliens and they vote, the United States will become a nation of the past.

Obama keeps appointing “czars” with massive government power, answering only to him. The top-ranking Democrat in the Senate wrote Obama a letter saying that these czars are unconstitutional. Obama’s “czar strategy” is an unprecedented power grab centralizing authority in the White House, OUTSIDE Congressional oversight and in violation of the Constitution.

Czar Kenneth Feinberg has the authority to set the pay scale for executives at any company receiving government money. Czar Feinberg has the power, however unconstitutional it is, to say that someone’s pay is excessive, and to make companies cut that pay until the czar is pleased.

Congress did not give Czar Feinberg this authority. For that matter, Congress has not authorized ANY of the czars Obama has created. Over the past thirty years, presidents have each had one or two czars for various issues, and once the number went as high as five. But now Obama has created twenty czars, with maybe more on the way! Each of these has enormous government power, and answers only to the president – not the Congress.

Ever since this practice of appointing czars began years ago, it has always been considered that it was unconstitutional. But it never built to a critical mass to take it to court. These czars were few and far between, and rarely did anything that seriously threatened our Constitution. Obama has taken this to an unprecedented level, to the point where these appointments are dangerous to our Constitutional Republic.

This has become too much for the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history to stomach. Democratic Senator Robert Byrd is the president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate. Even though Senate rules vest most powers in the Senate majority leader, the president pro tempore is a constitutional officer, and third in line to the U.S. presidency, after the vice president and Speaker of the House. The office of president pro tempore was held by a Democrat in 2009-2010. Senator Byrd has been serving in the Senate since before Obama was ever born.

Senator Byrd wrote a letter to Obama in February 2009, criticizing his strategy of creating czars to manage important areas of national policy. Senator Byrd said that these appointments violate BOTH the constitutional system of checks and balances and the constitutional separation of powers, and is a clear attempt to evade congressional oversight.

Senator Byrd was exactly right! The Constitution commands that government officers with significant authority, called “principle officers,” are to be nominated by the president. But then are subject to a confirmation vote by the U.S. Senate. Principle officers include not only cabinet-level department heads, and go five levels deep in executive appointments, to include assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries.

The Founding Fathers specifically wrote the Constitution in a way to deny such absolute power to emanate from one person. That was why they required that no principle officer could exercise any power unless the U.S. Senate decided to confirm them. That was also why they specified that even for interior officers only Congress could create their positions and could still require them to answer to Congress. The Founding Fathers were specifically blocking centralized power that Obama wants.

Sincerely,

David J. Smith

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