Saturday, January 7, 2012

KNIGHT: Obama's inoperative Constitution - Washington Times

KNIGHT: Obama's inoperative Constitution - Washington Times: Back in 1973, when the Nixon administration was under fire for Watergate, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler uttered an unforgettable response when caught in a lie during a news conference: "This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative."

Well, the Obama administration just topped that by essentially declaring the U.S. Constitution "inoperative." President Obama did not use that term when making an illegal recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the new post of consumer czar on Wednesday, but he might as well have.


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