As of Tuesday, 2 December 2008, BHO and Dean's DNC have ignored a Monday deadline for responding to Philadelphia attorney Philip J. Berg's October 30th petition for a U.S. Supreme Court "writ of certiorari" demanding that BHO produce independently verifiable documentation of his eligibility to serve as U.S. Chief Executive.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) officials charged with protecting citizens' public interests in such cases (there have been many) "dodged questions" concerning the status of Berg's writ. True to bureaucratic form, Federal authorities in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office and the U.S. Supreme Court referred inquiries back to the FEC.
"This reeks of collusion," writes Jeff Schreiber, legal correspondent for various right-leaning "public interest" non-profit organizations. "Perhaps the FEC and other respondents feel they can get away with not taking (Berg's) allegations seriously." Of course as non-partisan Federal agencies the FEC, Solicitor General's Office, and Supreme Court staff are prohibited by statute from favoring --nevermind effectively representing-- private parties such as BHO, his campaign organization, and the DNC. Try this as a Republican and see what happens.
This sets a template for a Banana Administration approach to bureaucratic and judicial challenges from any quarter: Ignore deadlines, treat legal policies and procedures with contempt, act without regard for disinterested, impartial rulings in the --apparently justified-- expectation that no-one (certainly no mere private citizen) will ever bring you to account.
Such run-arounds, in violation of every established code and precedent, will sound a knell for Governance in every constructive sense. What we see here, months before a feckless and malfeasant BHO smirks as he takes his Oath, is but a precursor of the next four years. If U.S. Courts and all-powerful bureaucratic entities such as the FEC and Solicitor General's Office, so quick to rule-or-ruin in most cases, cannot bring themselves to address ultimately simple issues regarding BHO's Hawaiian Birth Certificate, they will compensate by mounting crack downs only in politically safe contexts, meaning against BHO opponents (boy, are we tough!).
Thus perishes American democracy. Having elected this bizarro fraud, who's to say it isn't well-deserved?
Federal Election Commission (FEC) officials charged with protecting citizens' public interests in such cases (there have been many) "dodged questions" concerning the status of Berg's writ. True to bureaucratic form, Federal authorities in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office and the U.S. Supreme Court referred inquiries back to the FEC.
"This reeks of collusion," writes Jeff Schreiber, legal correspondent for various right-leaning "public interest" non-profit organizations. "Perhaps the FEC and other respondents feel they can get away with not taking (Berg's) allegations seriously." Of course as non-partisan Federal agencies the FEC, Solicitor General's Office, and Supreme Court staff are prohibited by statute from favoring --nevermind effectively representing-- private parties such as BHO, his campaign organization, and the DNC. Try this as a Republican and see what happens.
This sets a template for a Banana Administration approach to bureaucratic and judicial challenges from any quarter: Ignore deadlines, treat legal policies and procedures with contempt, act without regard for disinterested, impartial rulings in the --apparently justified-- expectation that no-one (certainly no mere private citizen) will ever bring you to account.
Such run-arounds, in violation of every established code and precedent, will sound a knell for Governance in every constructive sense. What we see here, months before a feckless and malfeasant BHO smirks as he takes his Oath, is but a precursor of the next four years. If U.S. Courts and all-powerful bureaucratic entities such as the FEC and Solicitor General's Office, so quick to rule-or-ruin in most cases, cannot bring themselves to address ultimately simple issues regarding BHO's Hawaiian Birth Certificate, they will compensate by mounting crack downs only in politically safe contexts, meaning against BHO opponents (boy, are we tough!).
Thus perishes American democracy. Having elected this bizarro fraud, who's to say it isn't well-deserved?
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