Source: townhall.com by Michael Ramirez.
How about that President Obama? After wallowing apologetically in US foreign affairs, after running up the national debt to obscene levels, after creating a score of new healthcare entitlements, and after equivocating on same sex marriage for two years, he suddenly decides that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1996 in the Clinton Administration is unconstitutional against states that have adopted same sex marriage and therefore should not be defended?
Here's a new brand of statist and leftist doctrine: If the executive branch doesn't agree with a law, it merely has to neglect to uphold the law in court. In another such instance, then California Attorney General Jerry Brown (now governor) refused to defend Proposition 8 - saying that California's constitutional amendment was unconstitutional. Now Obama's Attorney General, for the sake of identity politics and political expediency, declares that federal law will bow to the states when it comes to the topic of same sex marriage.
Both Obama's and Brown's precedent are dangerous, usurping the authority of the courts and using the executive branch to decide issues of constitutionality of law. Despite where you stand on the issue of same sex marriage, these tactics are dangerous extensions of executive power.
Just remember, when you cheer because "your" politician usurped power to benefit you, what happens when the next guy comes into power and uses the same political doctrine against you?
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