Has The United States jumped the shark?

The president is YOUR employee. He is subject to law. While he has a great many perogatives he is subject BY LAW to oversight by the congress, who, by the way is you, by proxy.

So then, where does this president find the gall to say that he will ignore those constitutional strictures if the congress "votes wrong". Congress makes laws, which , by definition, are correct.

A law may be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, (by the way, another restraint on the president) but a president is not above established law. This president is creating a massive constitutional crisis. Whether the people, his boss, object to dishonesty, malfeasance, incredible ineptness and absolute disregard for the law of the land, remains to be seen. If we the people do not demand an end to this travesty, we have jumped the shark, and are well on our way to being a banana republic.

Cenk Uygur at Daily KOS

I can't imagine any other president saying he has the right to do what he pleases even if Congress makes it illegal. What does "if he thinks Congress has voted the wrong way" mean? Wrong, according to whom? The fact that it is a law makes it right by definition, by our democracy, by our constitution.

The president can veto laws he thinks Congress voted the wrong way on. But if they override his veto, it is not within his authority to ignore that law. This is so fundamental that it's unbelievable that it has to be spelled out.

If you asked whether a president could do this in an eighth grade civics class and anyone answered -- "Yes, a president can exercise his own authority if he thinks Congress voted the wrong way." -- you would unquestionably fail them. That is not the correct answer. At least not in our system of government.

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