Netanyahu’s predictions coming true; Congress hands power to executive branch

Covering these two issues may seem dissociated but they are not.

Speaker of the House John Boehner showed his teeth when inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress March 3. Amid the vicious attacks by democrats and media against both the speaker and the prime minister, Netanyahu delivered a prophetic message as to what would occur in the erupting Middle East should the administration continue its hand-wringing negotiations with Iran. Point blank, he warned that Iran, under the leadership of the mullahs, would do as they please, and March 4, 2015, it comes to light that Quds Force commander, Major General Qasem Suleimani, has shown up with 30,000 troops at the battle against Isis (Sunni) for Tikrit to support the frail Iraqi government (Shia). Obviously, Iran has no compunction about wading into the swamp created by U.S. troops abandoning a weak central Iraqi government to their own devices. They purpose to set-up a satellite state much as they have done in Yemen, Lebanon and Libya, and fighting ISIS to solidify regional influence is part and parcel to the overall plan, which includes continued development of nuclear capacity. President Obama’s sideline-sitting instead of properly arming the Kurdish Peshmerga has also left the valiant minority vulnerable to the eventual subjugation and likely decimation by Shia Iran. Oh yes, Netanyahu pegged it.

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What does this have to do with Congress doing its own hand-sitting? By not pressing the issue of its separate but equal power to restrain the executive branch from overstepping its authority, Congress has allowed U.S. influence, and its subsequent security at home, to dissolve amid the collapsing nations spanning the Arab world. Every time Congress decides to let the president have his way by not standing on principle, it lessens the world’s opinion of America’s strength. In effect, when one man is handed the reins due to timidity (fear of being called names like ‘racist’), power and standing are diminished. The outcome is the same whether Congress allows Obama to keep his unconstitutional memos exonerating millions of illegal entrants into the country or if it fails to override a veto that eviscerates economic growth, i.e. Keystone. Congress is allowing the president to emasculate their branch of government by assuming that going along with his agenda will deliver better PR for future elections, such as capitulating to the erroneous hype that DHS would shutdown without full funding. Yielding does nothing of the kind. If members of Congress want to keep their power, not one must submit to the administration. In doing so, they show more weakness than the president, who appears to be a bystander on the world stage rather than authoritatively engaging the other, mostly bad, actors. When legislatures become nothing but petrified statues or rubber stamps, depending on which party they represent, dictatorships are born. Read history to see the truth of it, that is if accounts can still be found that haven’t been rewritten to serve the statist agenda. Netanyahu’s willingness to spearhead his nation’s allegiance to liberty should be echoed within our own chambers of government. Every member of Congress must be aware that by allowing executive privilege to overtake representation of the Constituency they are nullifying their own power and influence. With each concession to the president’s wishes, most of which are blatantly unconstitutional, even the democrat senators and representatives lose their voice. This is not a matter of supporting one’s party, it is a dire matter of representing the People against a hostile government takeover, the same as Netanyahu warned would occur in the Middle East… one force that will pressure the less secure to buckle, losing not only their sovereignty but their livelihood and, ultimately, their lives.