When Obama doesn’t get his way he has a tool chest full of deceit and he’s become an expert at using these tools. He uses the infamous pen and phone, the AutoPen, Executive Orders, the media AND a little something he likes to call Presidential Memoranda.

The truth about Obama is that he cannot work with people that have opposing views. Right now, that’s pretty much everyone in Congress. He has taken on the power of a monarch and his powers remain unchecked.

This is a problem.

Let’s talk lawlessness for a moment and the new face that it represents. When we elect people to represent us, that is our minimum expectation. That they will pass laws that protect, not impugn us. That they will not insult or blame us and not have a different set of expectations that they themselves are not willing to follow. We expect them not to act as a Dictator. We expect them to hold our interests, our families, our economy, our military, our foreign policies and our nation in their best interest.

We’ve all heard about Obama’s arrogant use of his pen and phone. Instead of working with Congress, he uses the power of his office to pass legislation that hasn’t been vetted, does not benefit our nation, and has proven to be unconstitutional. How does a Constitutional Lawyer get away with such lawlessness, and why does he still have his pen and phone?

In January 2014, Obama put on his serious face to pretend that he had “work to do”. That’s one of his most annoying quotes, that and the look of contempt on his face and those angrily clenched jaws. Obama was temporarily interested in the state of the economy, jobs and American families. He stated, “We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” Obama’s pretend focus on the economy typically lasts as long as his speech. He has never stuck around to work with Congress to get any real work done. Instead he circumvents Congress because he thinks he’s a king and he thinks that he has autonomy to do whatever he wants.

In that same lecture to the American people, he stated; “The belief that everybody’s got to take responsibility, everybody’s got to work hard, but if you do, that you can support a family and meet the kinds of obligations that you have to yourself and your family, but also to your communities and your neighbors.”

That’s all fine and good with one exception. Obama takes no responsibility for anything, and when something goes wrong, he blames someone else. When is President Obama going to take responsibility for his failures? When is he going to turn off ESPN and actually start working?

We also know about his Auto Pen. Why would we allow a President to sign legislation that is not even in front of him?

Did you know that Obama’s first use of the AutoPen was to extend the Patriot Act? It’s true. The Patriot Act was one of the issues Obama railed against President George Bush while he was campaigning. He warned about the abuse of this legislation in 2005, but once he took the oath of office, he extended the Patriot Act and he wasn’t even in the same state when it was signed. Oh no, he was off vacationing and simply couldn’t wait for the paperwork to be delivered.

How’s that for irony?

I have to admit that I was completely unaware of Presidential use of ‘Memoranda’ as a way to circumvent Congress. It is similar to Executive Orders and carries similar weight. According to USA Today, Obama has “already signed 33% more presidential memoranda in less than six years than Bush did in eight. He’s also issued 45% more than the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who assertively used memoranda to signal what kinds of regulations he wanted federal agencies to adopt.”

Why are we just now hearing about this little factoid?

Why has the media been silent about Obama’s Memoranda? Are they just a bunch of scaredy cats or are they complicit?

Why do We the People allow a President to continue his lawlessness, unchecked and with no accountability?

Does anyone really know what happens from day to day in our nation’s capital?

In the spirit of Obama’s lawlessness we have things like ObamaCare, Amnesty, IRS targeting of conservative groups, Fast and Furious and recess appointments – to name a few. This week a federal judge declared that portions of Obama’s Executive Order for Amnesty, to be unconstitutional.

Obama’s use of Executive Orders is not unconstitutional. What is unconstitutional is the stipulations that he includes in those orders. For example; AMNESTY.

Obama’s Amnesty ‘legislation’ is designed to PROTECT illegal aliens from deportation.

They came here illegally. In doing so, they broke the law.

So what does Obama do? He pens and Executive Order that is designed to protect illegals from deportation. Well, five million of them anyway. Yes, you read that correctly. The President of the United States is protecting law breakers…from the law they broke.

Voters used the power of the ballot in 2010 and again in 2014 to show our dislike for Congress. The Democrats were slaughtered in both elections and now the GOP has the House and the Senate.

But even with Republican control of Congress, there is still no control over Obama.

When will his tool chest be closed and his power removed? Do we seriously have to wait until January 2017?