The Obama administration began subordinating the law to its personal and political predilections almost from the outset with the General Motors and Chrysler bailouts in which Mr. Obama still takes great pride.
Foremost among the multiple bailout transgressions was the roughshod disregard of the legal rights of the creditors of the recipients of the administration's largesse with public funds and the extralegal preferences given in the process to the unions that were prominent among the President's political supporters.
It is not possible to quantify the extent to which the lagging economy is due to the reluctance of investors and lenders to finance growth because of their recognition that their legal rights may be subordinated any time down the road to any entity favored by the nation's political leadership. However, the continuing impact of what transpired cannot be insignificant, and this is particularly true because of the precedent set by the judicial system's supine acceptance of the administration's flouting of established legal rights in the General Motors and Chrysler cases.
That early transgression set the pattern for:
* Channeling of bailout money to enterprises for which it was not appropriated but run by political cronies of the administration.
* Political allies being exempted from laws others must follow.
* Unilateral and arbitrary decisions by the administration of laws that it will and will not enforce.
* Numerous 'recess appointments' of radical political henchmen to lead powerful administrative agencies while Congress not in recess and without submission of such appointments to Congress for legally required confirmation.
* Arming Mexican drug gangs.
* Campaign against state measures to protect their citizens from illegal immigrants.
* Unilateral and arbitrary exemption of illegal immigrants from deportation.
* Campaign against state measures designed to protect the integrity of the election process (to facilitate fraudulent illegal voting and the casting of multiple ballots by felons and aliens and other supporters of the administration).
* Channeling of bailout money to enterprises for which it was not appropriated but run by political cronies of the administration.
* Political allies being exempted from laws others must follow.
* Unilateral and arbitrary decisions by the administration of laws that it will and will not enforce.
* Numerous 'recess appointments' of radical political henchmen to lead powerful administrative agencies while Congress not in recess and without submission of such appointments to Congress for legally required confirmation.
* Arming Mexican drug gangs.
* Campaign against state measures to protect their citizens from illegal immigrants.
* Unilateral and arbitrary exemption of illegal immigrants from deportation.
* Campaign against state measures designed to protect the integrity of the election process (to facilitate fraudulent illegal voting and the casting of multiple ballots by felons and aliens and other supporters of the administration).
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