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Isn't it rich that today Democrats are talking about "the rule of law" after years of lauding Obama ruling by decree?

Obama has refused to enforce immigration law, then last year issued a decree (currently held up in litigation) to abrogate it on his own authority. He has unilaterally made dozens of changes to Obamacare without going to Congress. He has unilaterally repealed Congressionally-mandated work requirements for welfare. He has refused to submit the Iran nuclear capitulation ("deal") to the Senate as a treaty. He has thrown the Constitution into a bonfire, all with the Democrats' backing. He has ruled as a Hugo Chavez-style dictator. And now some hapless clerk nobody ever heard of is a "menace to the rule of law"?
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Xuan
I'm pretty sure most of what you said is bunk, just what you THINK is happening or what someone has told you.
I know darn well I'm talking about, and you don't, witnessed by you're being "pretty sure" rather than knowing the facts.
Xuan
Awww...."waaaa waaaa". So if he's broken the law so much, why hasn't anybody stopped him? He's got plenty of opposition. Why have none of them been able to call him out on it and hold in accountable in a court of law or by congressional authority? Is it because they don't have a real legal basis to do so? Or is the GOP just a bog full of incompetent, spineless, inbred, nitwit, demagogues that somehow manage to convince constituents to keep electing their worthless carcasses despite not being able to hold Obama accountable, not succeeding at repealing and replacing the ACA, gay marriage is legal, there is no freakin' wall (DC has had decades to work on that, hasn't happened), never delivered on a 20 weak abortion ban, won't lift a finger against ISIS, still no immigration reform (and that one was bipartisan even!). So which is it? No legal basis, or just a worthless GOP? Personally I don't think they're incompetent, I think they just lie a lot, particularly to their constituents. They want to seem like they're fighting for something, against someone, even if they're not. It's all show, but very little substance. After all, they did APPROVE fast-track authority for Obama on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. XD They gave him even more power. Majority in both chambers, and they gave Obama more power. They don't really oppose him, that's just what they say to make people who aren't paying close attention vote for them, because they don't think their constituents are smart enough to figure it out. And who's the in spotlight now? Donald Trump, yankee real estate investor with a New York accent, former democrat, friend of the Clintons, and still surprisingly on the left on some issues. Surged to the top of the polls did he? I know politically conservative people that I quite like, but as a whole, it seems like if they ever want to win again, not just an election, but a policy win, then conservative voters as a whole are going to have to open their eyes. They're being lied to for the gain of their "leaders".
There is some truth in what you say. The GOP leaders undoubtedly genuinely deplore Obama's departures from constitutional governance, but they misled their followers by pretending that they had the spine to stand up to the liberal press and establishment and do something about it when they didn't have the spine. Conservative voters have opened their eyes: that's why they're rejecting Jeb Bush (who offers more of the same as McConnell and Boehnert) and more than half are supporting candidates from outside politics.
"So if he's broken the law so much, why hasn't anybody stopped him? He's got plenty of opposition. Why have none of them been able to call him out on it and hold in accountable in a court of law or by congressional authority? Is it because they don't have a real legal basis to do so?" They have plenty of legal basis for it, but it is very difficult in an environment in which the rule of law is under vigorous assault from both the executive and judicial branches. There are multiple court cases in play, but you know how slow US federal courts are. As for congressional authority, weakness by GOP congressmen and the complete end of the long tradition of Democratic congressmen valuing Congress' constitutional prerogatives over partisan concerns have combined to make Congress impotent.