{"id":46274,"date":"2014-08-08T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46274"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:37:53","slug":"our-president-misses-the-concept-of-democratic-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46274","title":{"rendered":"Our President Misses The Concept Of &#8220;Democratic&#8221; Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightworker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-defends-his-use-of-executive-power-2014-8#ixzz39k1nRVGU\">on his penchant <\/a>for trampling the separation of powers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The American people don&#8217;t want me just standing around twiddling my thumbs and waiting for Congress to get something done,&#8221; Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes, Mr. President; if Congress doesn&#8217;t pass legislation, those of us who understand the Constitution, especially the bit about &#8220;separation of powers&#8221;, most certainly <em>do <\/em>want you to go golfing, rather than usurp the role of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Head for the golf course, Mr. Lightworker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightworker, on his penchant for trampling the separation of powers: &#8220;The American people don&#8217;t want me just standing around twiddling my thumbs and waiting for Congress to get something done,&#8221; Obama said. Well, yes, Mr. President; if Congress doesn&#8217;t pass legislation, those of us who understand the Constitution, especially the bit about &#8220;separation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46291,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274\/revisions\/46291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}