CONGRESS: When duty calls

Mr. Obama has attacked the rights of Americans through his disregard for the Constitution. He has spied on Congress and committed any number of misdemeanors throughout his time in office, many of which have been in the form of lawless executive orders. Sadly, the refusal of Congress to formally challenge these actions has been deplorable.

Congress has done little or nothing to defend the Constitution they swore to uphold. They have done nothing to take this quasi-dictator out of office. Frankly, since his term is finally on the wane, now I can only wonder and fear what Congress might do if we were ever deceived into voting for someone even more corrupt and treacherous than Obama.

Have the characters of those of you who represent us in Congress diminished to the level where you would just join and relinquish the power available to you to fight back and do the right thing? You have abandoned the people who have entrusted you with the task of defending them and protecting them from the very kind of politics that you have been practicing.

Your most recent and hateful disregard for the people is allowing a corrupted budget to go through that will burden the American people even more than they have been, by the disregard for the task you were entrusted to perform when you were voted into office.

The numerous offenses inflicted on the American people are blatant and dismissive of our well-being and erode our freedoms with the passing of each day. Any caring guardian of the people would have taken serious action to halt our forced journey onto this dangerous path.

I am not a legal scholar, but I don’t think it takes one to analyze the insidious behavior of a President who has demonstrated his hate of America, aided by the complicity of those too weak and feckless to stand up for what is right to the point at which he seeks to dis-arm citizens, resulting in their inability to defend themselves against a tyranny more dangerous than his. It is my understanding that Congress has the power to void any executive order that is unlawful, unconstitutional, or out of the President’s authority to make. We the people are once again betrayed by Congress.

TONY MANGAN

Kootenai County