Here's how Turley answered Goodlatte...RUSH: Jonathan Turley was testifying Tuesday before a House Judiciary Committee on the constitutionality of some of Obama's uses of executive branch power.
Turley is a leftist "moderate," so he's at George Washington University law school, and Bob Goodlatte, Republican from Virginia, was questioning him... So Goodlatte is asking Turley here, a constitutional professor: How does the president's unilateral modification -- just acting willy-nilly, acting like a dictator, you know, pretending to play dictator -- affect the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty interests of the American people?
"The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. We have what many once called an imperial presidency model."Holy CRAP!
RUSH: Did you hear that? Jonathan Turley, otherwise a close associate of Obama's and one inclined to hope Obama would succeed, actually said the president of the United States is becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. Amen. That is exactly right. The Constitution was written in order to prevent this kind of coalescing of power by one man or by one branch.If only all of these leftists, particularly those among the political class, were compelled to be this blatantly honest with the American people. Of course, that might negatively affect the vast majority of their reelection efforts, so don't hold your breath on them going there.
It was designed to prevent this and stop it. But if you've got a doormat Congress or a doormat court system that's not gonna stand up for themselves and their branch, then he's gonna get away with it. It's exactly what's happening... This is the guy who is becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.
H/t: RCP
