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The Spectacle Blog
For those of you who get the print edition of the Spectator, I have a feature story on Barack Obama’s strategy for making end runs around Congress, via regulations and executive orders, for the next two years. My piece is a broad overview. Now comes John Fund today at the WSJ with a very important column explaining, in far more depth and with great clarity, one example of that approach that I warned about:
On Sept. 22, Labor’s Office of the Solicitor—which employs 400 attorneys to enforce the nation’s labor laws—issued a draft “operating plan” to dramatically increase pressure on employers. A source inside the department says the plan has been adopted.
This is the sort of thing that will be going on in every department, in every agency. Meanwhile, as Fund explains, while the administration will crack down on employers, it will go easy on unions:
But while the Department of Labor prepares for a hyper-aggressive enforcement strategy against business, it has rolled back Bush-era reforms mandating greater union transparency. Just this week the department rescinded its Form T-1, which required unions to report on strike funds and other accounts under union control.
Fund’s piece is superb, and chilling. We’re in for a wild, wild ride.
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Mikecampbelly2k| 12.3.10 @ 11:25AM
Repeat after me: "Nullification," "Civil Disobedience," "States Rights," "10th Amendment," "Massive Non-compliance." What is Dear Leader going to do if enough of us defy Him? If enough businesses, large and small, refuse to comply with draconian and unconstitutional executive branch regulations? Defiance, defiance, defiance!
martin j smith| 12.3.10 @ 11:30AM
The New Republican House majority should st up investigations for every goverrnment agency that appears to skirt the Constitution . Stop Obama's end run around Constitutional limits of power.
james wilson| 12.3.10 @ 1:07PM
This is an old (and successful) playbook. Garet Garrett wrote of what the Hoover Commission, organized by the new Republican Congress in 1947, discovered in examining the sprawl of New Deal government.
"(Three hundred) men and women spent sixteen months exploring and charting the domain of Executive Government. Some of it was jungle, some of it was lawless, here and there were little bureaucratic monarchies that seemed to have grown up by themselves; and yet every part of it was very much alive and exercised powers of government, touching the lives of people.
The full report of the Hoover Commission was never published; its bulk was too repellent."
We're way beyond that now.
CalMark| 12.3.10 @ 1:22PM
We are dealing with power-crazed zealots. They are so frightening because they cannot be reasoned with or defeated in any of the routine ways such as elections, legislative defeats, and even public pressure. Anyone who has ever tried to have a rational discussion with one of the bearded Marxist, terrorist-hugging "professors" who have taken over "liberal" arts knows what I mean.
It's almost impossible to defeat zealots because they will continue to do what they do, heedless of their own destruction. Their cry seems to be, "If it can't be America OUR way, let there not be an America!"
Absent a miracle, the time is fast coming when our only choice will be revolution (its form hopefully peaceful, but as yet undetermined)--or serfdom.
Seek| 12.3.10 @ 1:54PM
DOL Solicitor is M. Patricia Smith, who laid the groundwork for the same arrangement in New York a few years ago when she served as State Labor Commissioner in Albany. None of this surprises me. She's way on the Left.
Oldefarte| 12.3.10 @ 3:01PM
This is shocking, yet upon reflection, it is not so. This administration is completely composed of Chicago-Way thugs and crooks, and for the American voters to allow their access to controlling our government is way beyond STUPIDITY. I have never been more ashamed of Americans than I am at present. Ignorance is one thing, but there were volumns of billboards of information available pre 11/4/08 regarding who/what this guy was/is; and his election is nothing short of a complete disgrace!!!!!!!!!
Dude| 12.3.10 @ 10:00PM
It's not that I disagree with you, but where have you been for the last forty years, and where will you be when we next have a Republican president (probably in 2012, but in 2016 at any rate)? Will you be just as strident about the abuse of executive power? I certainly doubt it.
I'll believe that the right-wing has principles when they start identifying abuses perpetrated by any of Reagan, Bush I and Bush II.
And I'll believe that the left wing has principles when they can say anything bad about Clinton or Obama.
As far as I can see, the blogosphere is just full of partisan hacks screaming about the motes in the other guys' eyes.
Oldefarte| 12.4.10 @ 10:50AM
Wrong, DUDE! Some of us have been screaming about the intrusiveness of government for the entirety of our adult life, be they Democrat or Republican [and to equate the two parties is ludicrous and acting/opining STUPIDLY]. The R's might be sometimes corrupt or excessive [ie Nixon,etc], but at least they are not domestic terrorists like the D's of the last decade. The R's have generally not been foreign sympathizers and subversives attempting to overthrow their country [and for the most part are patriotic politicians concerned with the well being of same]. The D's are socialists, communists, Marxists, anti-colonists, or whatever else you use to as a description. Their favored government policies is a Castro/Chavez/Lenin,etc type in which the all powerful government controls the population, from their education to the way they comb their hair. R's conversly prefer limited government and a small government that's not invasive into people lives any more than is necessary, providing a strong defense, and limited taxiation. D's idea of government is simply a WELFARE STATE, and your political correct reasoning that both parties are equally and similarily guilty of the same type offenses is beyond stupidity!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 12.4.10 @ 10:55AM
Additionally, DUDE, if/when we have our next R president [and /or congressmen] and they go astray, I'll [and most others here] will be screaming for their impeachment [and or placement in jail if necessary], just as I/we are concerning this current group of domestic terrorists D's that are in control of our government. So go back to the PC Holder D of J office and try selling your political bullexcrement to someone else, okay??????????