Reply #11: It occurred to me the other day that Obama really *does* have a "magic wand" to wave if he wants. [View All]

[LooseWilly]

It's called "a complete lack of accountability for presidents". He's obviously using it to ignore laws he doesn't feel like obeying, and he could just as easily do so to simply stop enforcing DADT... and to simply sign an exec order declaring DOMA unconstitutional and stating that there will be prosecution by the DoJ of anyone who tries to enforce it at any state or local level.

Who's gonna stop him? If there weren't enough votes to impeach Bush, there sure as shit aren't enough votes to impeach Obama. If there are no after the fact investigations of Bush's war crimes, how would investigations of Obama's "equality crimes" be justified?

Hell, maybe he should do it just to see if he can spark a future administration to actually investigate "abuses of authority by the President"... but at this point I just don't think it'll ever happen.

It's not the executive branch any more. It's an elective emperorship. Of course... just because he could do all that... we all know he won't...

Priorities, and all that.